Prison escapee breaks his silence on scandalous affair with guard that captivated America before blaze of glory ending with tragic twist

An inmate who escaped from prison with the help of his beloved guard has shared shocking new details about their nearly two-week escape before a wild police chase ended in bloodshed.

Vicky White worked in the Lauderdale County Jail for 17 years before convicted attempted murderer Casey White arrived in August 2020.

A new Netflix documentary, Jailbreak: Love on the Run, chronicles the two’s stormy affair before she decided to help him escape from prison.

The duo were on the run for 11 days before being caught by police. Vicky shot herself in the head to avoid arrest.

“We were married in my in-laws,” Casey told the filmmakers after his arrest. He was sentenced to life in prison for the stunt, in addition to the 75 years he was already serving for the attempted murder of a former girlfriend.

“We were not married according to the laws of faith… I was her husband and she was my wife,” he said.

Casey said he and Vicky genuinely believed they would never get caught.

“We thought we had enough cash,” he said, revealing that the plan was to find a “ramshackle mobile home” and pay a year’s rent up front so they had time to “settle in.”

“When we got to Kentucky and got out of the shower, she had all new clothes laid out for me on the bed. That was the best night here,” he said.

The documentary features never-before-heard phone conversations between the couple from November 2020 to February 2022, just two months before their April 28 prison break.

Casey’s cellmate Tyler Purser, who knew about the affair but kept quiet about it, partly because he enjoyed the benefits Vicky offered him, broke his silence for the documentary, along with Vicky’s regular coworkers.

Medical nurse Kylie O’Bryant said Vicky would brag about her dream of ‘going out with a bang’ after retirement.

“I always asked when she was going to retire and she always said, ‘I’m going out with a bang.'”

O’Bryant took this to mean she planned to “swear at everything before she went out the door.”

“Well, if she really wanted him that bad, I’m proud of her. I’m proud of her for doing exactly what she told me she was going to do and that was leave with a bang. Sis, she was going to leave with a bang.

“Maybe she got tired of being the good girl, doing what everyone said, toeing the line, and when that locked up bad girl was released, she knew no bounds.”

Intimate conversations

When Vicky’s coworkers checked her house after the daring escape, they discovered she had a disposable phone that she had used to call Casey in prison more than 1,000 times.

“There was some phone sex… a lot of phone sex,” said Vicky’s boss Matt Burbank.

One of those calls was where Casey asked Vicky to share her fantasies with her.

“You’re just shy and timid,” he said when she tried to avoid answering. “I want you to tell me.”

She said, “I always wanted to be a stripper. Ever since I was young. I thought it would be fun to dance on a pole and make thousands of dollars.

“If I were pretty enough, I would want to be that.”

Casey was stunned, first asking “why” she wanted to be a stripper, then telling her “you were pretty. You’re f**kin’ smokin’ hot.”

In another, more explicit phone call, the two moaned each other’s names as they talked about their ambitions to “have real sex someday.”

According to Burbank, an investigation shows that the pair had sex in prison, but that is unknown.

He said Vicky, the prison’s assistant warden, would tell Casey’s cellmates they could spend time in the yard, and then Casey would make up an excuse to stay behind.

“We don’t know how often they were allowed to have intimate contact with each other, but we do know it happened,” he said.

In an endless stream of phone calls, the duo declared their love for each other and fantasized about a life together outside the home.

He called her his “queen” and “cougar” because of their 18-year age difference – she was 56 and he was 38 – and promised she would never be “too old” for him.

In another phone call he said, “Will you promise to marry me after I come out for the first year?

“Don’t give any other guests any attention to me. As long as you never do that, I swear I can work with anything else.”

But there were also other conversations in which, in retrospect, they planned a daring escape.

One time Casey said to Vicky, “It’s about chicken day, honey… we’re going to have fun on our adventure. Never look back at little Alabama… around the world on a sailboat.”

She said to him, “Hush, change the subject.”

“Nobody knows anything unless you tell them,” she said.

In another audio conversation, Casey explained to Vicky where she could purchase a 44 Magnum rifle.

“We’re going to Tennessee,” he said. “We’re going to the backwoods. We’re never going to see another human being for the rest of our lives. We’re going to go out in the f**king wilderness somewhere and build a log cabin.

“Anyone who comes within 300 meters will be shot,” he said.

Vicky replied, “I wish I could kiss you right now, so bad.”

The compliment that sparked romance

Burbank believes that through his research he has mapped out the interactions between Casey and Vicky and found the moment when their romance blossomed.

He said that one day in late 2020, Vicky was walking down the hallway that ran past Casey’s cell when Casey stood at the door, peering through the small window.

“You have a nice ass,” he said.

Burbank said, “Instead of shutting him down, Vicky was actually flattered by it.

‘And that’s probably where it started.’

The duo would later talk about that moment in phone conversations, in which Vicky confided that she “thought you… [sic] “He’s just joking with me.”

But it was no secret to the other guards and Casey’s cellmates that he was a flirt.

Renee Lewis, who also worked at the prison, recalled an early interaction with Casey in which he said, “Miss Renee, it’s been five long years since I’ve touched a woman. Do you think I could get a hug?

‘I said, hell no, that’s not possible. You have to be a very strong-minded woman to work in a prison with male prisoners.’

Another said: ‘I could definitely see a manipulative side to him. He was trying to size me up and see what he could do with me.’

Casey’s cellmate Tyler said, “Old Casey White is a, uh, romancer. I don’t want to call him a stud muffin.”

But he said Casey would “light up like a Christmas tree” when Vicky was around, and stressed that their love for each other was genuine.

“That woman was good to us. I never had much money, but I never went hungry… She treated everyone like they were somebody. She was like a mother figure that no one had there when she was growing up.”