Casey White was in state jail on Tuesday evening after being arraigned in Lauderdale County Courthouse, the day after his arrest, following 11 days on the run with corrections officer Vicky White.
Vicky White, 56, died on Monday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the coroner dominated on Tuesday. She pulled the set off because the automotive she and Casey White – no relation – had been touring in crashed right into a ditch in Indiana, having been run off the highway by police.
DailyMail.com was there to witness the 38-year-old shuffle into court docket shortly earlier than 10pm. White was closely shackled on his ankles and with chains wreathed round his waist and wrists.
He spoke solely to guarantee Choose Ben Graves that he had acquired correct counsel as he was charged with escape within the first diploma.
That cost is now added to his laundry checklist of felonies, probably the most urgent of which is a capital homicide cost for which he is because of stand trial in June.
Wearing Vanderburgh County Correctional Facility yellow shirt and pants, a uncooked wound was clearly seen behind White’s shorn head as he sat on the entrance of the small courtroom.
It was the one proof of any damage sustained by White within the automotive crash that dramatically ended his 11 day stretch on the lam with co-conspirator, former assistant director of corrections Vicky White, 56.
White was walked into the again of Lauderdale County Courthouse by sheriff deputies. He refused to reply questions shouted by ready press.
He didn’t react when requested if he felt any regret for Vicky’s demise and didn’t flinch when requested: ‘Casey did you shoot Vicky White?’
Casey White is seen on Tuesday night in court docket in Florence, Alabama
The 38-year-old didn’t react on Tuesday evening when reporters shouted questions, asking him if he felt regret for Vicky’s demise
Casey White was serving a 75-year sentence for a number of crimes when he confessed to a 2015 homicide. Vicky White, who mentioned she was taking him for a psychological well being analysis, ran away with him on April 29
The couple’s days as fugitives got here to a tragic finish in Evansville, Indiana, on Monday, with Vicky’s demise from a gunshot wound moments after their automotive was rammed off the highway and right into a ditch.
Attorneys for White knowledgeable the court docket that they are going to be submitting a movement for a change of venue for White’s forthcoming trial for the homicide of 58-year-old Connie Ridgeway – allegedly stabbed to demise by White.
White has confessed the crime, claiming he was paid to commit the heinous act.
The trial stays scheduled for June with White’s legal professional saying his shopper wished the trial to go forward then in opposition to his recommendation.
His look got here as new dashboard and physique digital camera footage from Indiana confirmed the dramatic second that Alabama fugitive Casey White was taken into custody and the physique of his corrections officer confederate dragged dying from their automotive on Monday.
She died in hospital on Monday evening from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, however spoke to 911 dispatchers earlier than the crash.
As officers closed in on the couple’s automobile, Vicky White could possibly be heard saying: ‘Airbags are going off. Let’s get out and run.’
Then different officers arrive, and say she continues to be respiratory.
‘We may hear her on the road saying she had her finger on the set off,’ says a 911 dispatcher in audio launched by Indiana authorities.
Within the preliminary confusion, they believed that Casey White had shot himself, after which requested a negotiator. A second voice then says they don’t want a negotiator.
Casey White is dragged out of the crumpled automotive first, by his palms. Officers kneel on him to handcuff him, then carry him away from the wreck in the direction of one other cruiser.
His denim shirt is ripped, however he seems in any other case unhurt, together with his black sun shades nonetheless on his face. He’s checked over, then wrestled to the ground.
Officers then flip to Vicky White, who’s described as ‘unresponsive’.
As police method the automotive, one officer says: ‘We have to clear a few of this s***’ to get to her.’
He asks if somebody has a protracted stick.
One other officer, kneeling by the overturned automotive, says: ‘She’s nonetheless acquired the gun in her hand.’
One provides: ‘She’s nonetheless respiratory. I can see her chest rising. Finger nonetheless on the set off. She may pull that set off once more.’
After a number of minutes of debate, the officer leans in to retrieve the gun from Vicky White’s hand. They then pull her from the automotive by her palms. She is then lain on the highway.
Casey White, 38, is seen in dashboard digital camera footage launched by police in Indiana being taken into custody on Monday
A 3rd video launched by the police confirmed them looking out a Ford truck, which the couple deserted earlier than switching to their Cadillac.
An officer searches the automobile, then tells his colleague: ‘There’s no paperwork. A bit of little bit of trash and a charger and a Glock journal loader.’
He provides: ‘It’s bizarre.’
The pair had been carrying $29,000 in money, 4 handguns and an AR-15 rifle and had been ready for a shootout once they had been captured, an Indiana sheriff mentioned on Tuesday.
The top of the manhunt left authorities attempting to piece collectively what occurred through the 11 days that elapsed after Vicky White escorted Casey White from a Florence, Alabama, jail for what she falsely claimed was a psychological well being analysis.
She additionally advised her coworkers that she felt ailing and deliberate to see a physician afterward.
Nobody realized that the 2 had been lacking till round 3.30pm.
The inmate and Vicky White appeared to have had a ‘jailhouse romance,’ Alabama authorities mentioned final week. They weren’t associated.
As for her position within the escape, the sheriff mentioned: ‘He was not forcing her. It was a mutual relationship.’
Casey White could be seen wanting over his shoulder, as Vicky White lay dying within the automotive
Casey White, within the white t-shirt, was serving a 75-year jail sentence for tried homicide and different offenses when he fled. He was additionally awaiting trial on expenses of stabbing a lady to demise throughout a 2015 housebreaking
Casey White, together with his palms cuffed behind him, is marched in the direction of the police cruiser – his crashed black automotive within the ditch behind him
The escaped prisoner, standing 6ft 9 tall, towers over the Indiana officers
Each Casey and Vicky White had a number of adjustments of garments and wigs with them once they had been caught
The wished man is seen being wrestled to the bottom by Indiana legislation enforcement on Monday afternoon
Casey White is simply seen beneath the hood of the police automotive, as sheriffs wrestle him to the bottom
Vandenburgh County Sheriff Dave Wedding ceremony, proper, refers to {a photograph} throughout a press convention in Evansville, Indiana on Tuesday
These are the entire weapons the couple had of their Cadillac once they had been rammed right into a ditch by police on Monday
The couple had simply $29,000 of the $90,000 Vicky had withdrawn once they had been caught on Monday
On the time of the breakout, Casey White was serving a 75-year jail sentence for tried homicide and different offenses and was awaiting trial on expenses of stabbing a lady to demise throughout a 2015 housebreaking.
Casey White is seen in his mugshot, taken on Monday after he was recaptured
If convicted, he may get the demise penalty.
Investigators consider the pair spent about six days holed up at a motel in Evansville.
Authorities found wigs meant to cover their identities.
Dave Wedding ceremony, sheriff of Vandenburgh County, mentioned investigators don’t consider the 2 had kinfolk or different contacts within the metropolis of 120,000.
‘They thought they’d pushed lengthy sufficient. They wished to cease for some time, get their bearings straight after which work out the following place to journey,’ the sheriff mentioned.
Authorities closed in on them after the supervisor of a automotive wash reported {that a} man carefully resembling the 6-foot-9, 260-pound Casey White had been recorded by a surveillance digital camera getting out of a pickup truck.
Investigators mentioned they positioned the pickup, then realized that the pair might have switched to a Cadillac, which was then noticed exterior a motel close by.
They arrived in Evansville on Might 3 and acquired help by an area man whose identification stays unknown.
Talking solely to DailyMail.com, Motel 41 supervisor Paul Shaw mentioned: ‘They stayed in a room not of their identify. Any individual else rented the room and checked them in.
Motel 41 supervisor Paul Shaw advised DailyMail.com the runaway couple was staying in a room booked underneath a 3rd get together’s identify
‘An area man with an area ID checked in and signed the stub.
‘I by no means noticed them – I want I had – however they stayed within the room.’
In response to Shaw: ‘Individuals come and go right here, we don’t maintain observe.’
There have been few vehicles within the motel car parking zone when DailyMail.com visited the two-story facility on Tuesday.
Rooms are all accessed independently by exterior doorways and friends want by no means stroll by way of the small reception space besides to make use of the merchandising machine or to test in – a course of that White and Vicky averted.
‘The police have the entire info and the ID. They’ve been right here and spoken to all people,’ Shaw mentioned.
Shaw, {an electrical} engineer by commerce, mentioned that he works the morning shift and by no means noticed White or Vicky who, police say, tried to disguise herself with a wide range of crimson and blonde wigs.
When the couple left the motel, police chased them down, authorities mentioned.
The pair had been caught Monday afternoon after main US Marshals on a automotive chase that lasted ‘lower than a couple of minutes’. That they had been in Evansville, Indiana, since Might 3
Sheriffs in Indiana are seen investigating the crumpled wreck of the automotive, by which Vicky White killed herself
A police officer is seen reaching contained in the automobile, to prize the gun from Vicky White’s hand
Sheriffs are seen pulling Vicky White, 56, from the automotive
Vicky White was taken out of the automotive and laid on the grass beside the wreck
The 56-year-old corrections officer was attributable to retire on the day she absconded with the suspected assassin
The 2 had been discovered 219 miles away from the jail they left in Alabama on April 29. The manhunt spanned three totally different states
The pair had been staying in room 150 on the bottom degree of the motel, the place lodging prices about $44 an evening not together with a $25 money deposit required upon reserving
Casey White advised investigators after his seize that ‘he was most likely going to have a shootout on the stake of each of them dropping their lives,’ the sheriff mentioned.
The inmate appeared by video Tuesday in an Indiana courtroom, the place he waived extradition, and authorities mentioned he will likely be despatched again to Alabama.
An legal professional representing White within the homicide case, Jamy Poss, declined to remark.
Vicky White, assistant director of corrections on the Lauderdale County jail, had put in for retirement forward of the escape, and the day of the breakout, April 29, was her final day of labor.
A lady who labored along with her for 16 years may barely converse by way of tears on Tuesday.
‘I do know she did improper and made a horrible mistake, however she’s nonetheless your good friend,’ mentioned Sherry Sylvester, a longtime jail worker.
She mentioned that White usually tried to assist prisoners, significantly ones with out household.
However Sylvester mentioned she by no means noticed White do something that crossed the road.
‘She did every little thing by the ebook,’ Sylvester mentioned.
Connie Moore, Casey White’s mom, mentioned she final spoke with him by telephone the day earlier than the escape.
She mentioned her son might not have identified what was about to occur.
‘Every part was simply as regular because it could possibly be. I doubt he even knew he was leaving when she got here in there to get him,’ Moore mentioned.
A warrant was issued on Might 2 for Vicky White charging her with allowing or facilitating escape.
Authorities mentioned the plan appeared to have been within the works for a while.
She bought her home for about half its market worth and purchased an SUV that she stashed at a shopping mall with out license plates.
Requested the place the majority of the cash had gone, Sheriff Wedding ceremony advised DailyMail.com: ‘They spent it. They spent it on a number of automobiles, tools, a gun, resort, meals, garments.
‘$60,000 can go fairly fast in the event you’re spending $6,000 a pop.’
Vicky used a few of the money and an alias to buy the bronze 2007 Ford Edge by which they initially fled earlier than abandoning it on a rural highway in Tennessee about two hours north of the Florence, Alabama, jail from which White was sprung.
In response to US Marshalls the couple then spent $6,000 on a Ford F-150 which was noticed parked at an odd angle at an Evansville carwash the place White was additionally pictured on surveillance footage.
US Marshals Commander Chad Hunt mentioned at Tuesday’s press convention that the couple are believed to have bought one other automobile.
On Tuesday morning, Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton mentioned she was the ‘mastermind’ of their logistical escape plan – however it’s unclear who got here up with the thought to get Casey out.
‘To go from day one, pondering she’s been kidnapped and perhaps at risk then discovering out she took him out willingly, then attempting to find out was she threatened or coerced ultimately…then discovering out that she was principally the mastermind behind the entire plan. It’s been an emotional roller-coaster,’ Singleton mentioned.
‘Clearly, he was behind bars – he couldn’t have deliberate an excessive amount of behind bars.
‘Personally, I feel she was the one who put the plan collectively.
‘She was able of data. She made certain the opposite armed deputies had been out, she organized to buy the getaway automotive, she bought her home acquired her palms on money, went buying.
‘She clearly put the plan collectively,’ he advised CNN.
Singleton now believes that Casey and Vicky had been in a ‘romantic relationship’ and that Vicky was ‘simply as involved about coming again and dealing with her household and her co-workers as she was the fees.’
Vicky was a widow and had no youngsters.
Earlier than she died, Singleton mentioned of his worker: ‘I hope she survives this. She has some solutions to provide us.’
He continued: ‘You don’t know who you possibly can belief.
‘I had each little bit of belief in Vicky White. She has been an exemplary worker. What on the earth prompted her to drag off one thing like this, I don’t know.
‘I don’t know if we’ll ever know.’
Vicky was set to be put in a unique facility than the Lauderdale County jail the place she labored for 17 years and helped Casey escape.
Casey will likely be despatched again to state jail.
On Monday afternoon, Singleton thanked investigators from the assorted nationwide businesses that helped them seize the pair, together with the media for shedding mild on the story.
‘Most escapes – from a county jail particularly – they’re not deliberate. They’re simply form of spontaneous. There are not any assets out there, no plan in place,’ he mentioned throughout a press convention on Monday night.
‘This escape was clearly nicely deliberate and calculated. A number of preparation went into this. That they had loads of assets, had money,’ he mentioned, referring to the cash that Vicky had on her from the latest sale of her residence.
‘That they had every little thing they wanted to drag this off.
‘We had been ranging from floor zero, and never solely that, we began – they acquired a six-hour head begin on us.’
Singleton added: ‘We acquired a harmful man off the streets right now. He’s by no means gonna see the sunshine of day once more. That’s a superb factor.’
He promised to maintain Casey White shackled day and evening upon his return, in accordance with NewsNation’s Brian Entin.
‘I’ll most likely hear from a civil rights legal professional however I don’t care,’ Singleton mentioned.