Inmate Casey White claims he killed woman while on the run with his prison warden lover
Convicted felon Casey White has made big claims that he killed a woman and a baby girl while on the run with his prison guard lover, but police have dismissed the confession as a lie.
The 38-year-old was serving a 75-year sentence for attempted murder and other felonies at the time of his escape from the Lauderdale County Detention Center in Florence, Alabama, in April 2022.
He fled prison with his lover and prison warden Vicky White, 56, sparking a two-week manhunt, which led to Vicky pointing a gun at himself during a police chase.
The violent felon pleaded guilty to an escape charge after his charges of murdering his lover were dropped and will be sentenced later today.
But hours before he appeared in court, White’s claims that he killed a woman and a baby during the escape were broadcast by NewsNation’s Brian Entin – but police say it’s just a ploy to try and get a prison transfer as he faces a possible death penalty.
Casey White (pictured), who escaped the Lauderdale County Detention Center in Florence, Alabama in April 2022, now claims he killed a woman and a baby on the run
White had been serving a 75-year sentence for attempted murder and other crimes when he escaped with his beloved jailer Vicky White (pictured)
“I have a little confession to make. I buried a woman and a baby girl in Evansville, Indiana,” he said in the December recording.
“And I don’t want to talk to anyone except the FBI who handled my case that day. I don’t have details, but I know I’m alive and well.
‘I’m sober. I am clear thinking. I’m not suicidal. I’m not murderous. I had to get it off my chest. I had to do the right thing. Get it off me.’
White claims he killed the woman while he and his lover were hiding in an Indiana motel, saying the body was “not yet buried.”
But authorities say he is lying and has a history of making false confessions – with the Evansville Police Department saying there were no missing women.
White may be trying to muddy the waters ahead of his murder trial later this year, investigators say.
According to NewsNation, there are no missing persons that match Whites’ escape timeline with the prison guard.
Robert Tuten, one of White’s lawyers, told the broadcaster: “I think that’s highly unlikely.
The escaped prisoner, six feet tall, towers over the Indiana cops who arrested him after the car he was riding in ran off the road
Indiana sheriffs investigate the crumpled wreckage of the car in which Vicky White committed suicide
“We know of at least one other agency, maybe more, that has confessed to such things, we think, in hopes of being transferred out of prison.”
White and Vicky evaded authorities wearing wigs and other disguises for two weeks before being tracked down to an Evansville motel in May 2022.
Investigators believe the couple spent about six days in an Evansville motel after arriving on May 3 and discovered a variety of wigs as a way to disguise themselves.
Vandenburgh County Sheriff Dave Wedding said investigators do not believe the two had relatives or other contacts in the city of 120,000.
Authorities closed in after a car wash manager reported that a man closely resembling the six-foot-tall, 260-pound White had been caught on a surveillance camera getting out of a pickup truck.
Investigators said they found the pickup and then learned the pair may have switched to a Cadillac, which was then spotted outside a nearby motel.
Before the couple’s car is run off the road by police during the chase, Vicky can be heard saying on tape, “Airbags go off and kill us.”
Casey White, who could face the death penalty if convicted of a 2015 murder, has added additional charges of fleeing to his criminal record, as well as the murder charge
Here are all the guns the couple had in their Cadillac when they were rammed into a ditch by police before Vicky died
The couple only had $29,000 of the $90,000 Vicky withdrew when they were caught by cops
Airbags go off. Let’s get out and run,” she says to her partner.
She is then heard screaming during what sounds like a crash. Sirens wail in the background.
The rest of the file sounds like law enforcement is working on the crash site and on Vicky, still clutching her gun.
Someone is heard at the scene saying, ‘he’s got a gun in her hand and she’s breathing. She’s got her finger on the trigger.”
Investigators say Vicky turned a gun on herself, initially charging White with murder.
But the prosecution dropped the case in a plea deal last month, after White pleaded guilty to first-degree escape and faces life in prison.
At the time of his escape, White was being held at the Lauderdale County Detention Center for allegedly stabbing to death a woman named Connie Ridgeway in 2015.
He confessed to that murder, but later recanted and the trial will begin in August. If convicted, he could face the death penalty.