'Clearly a suicide': Casey White asks judge to drop felony Vicky White murder charge
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LAUDERDALE COUNTY, ALABAMA: Casey White, 38, the inmate who escaped from an Alabama jail for 11 days with the help of his lover, corrections officer Vicky White, 56, on April 29, 2022, has urged a judge to drop the murder charge against him as the officer’s death was “clearly a suicide.”
Casey, who was hiding at a motel in Evansville, Indiana, with the corrections officer and was caught after a dramatic car chase, was charged with felony murder on July 12, 2022, in connection with the death of the officer, who shot herself in the head shortly after they were found by cops. Four handguns and several semi-automatic weapons, including an AR-15, were recovered from the couple's car. Authorities said the officer was involved in a two-year relationship with the inmate, who was facing capital murder charges in the stabbing death of Connie Ridgeway, 58. Casey was already serving time in state prison on other convictions when he was indicted in the 2015 killing.
