The murder suspect, who escaped from an Alabama jail on Friday, is a “dangerous monster” who has promised to kill his ex-girlfriend if he ever gets out.
Casey White, 38, broke into a home in Athens in December 2015 and ordered two men to be brought to the ground at gunpoint, according to court documents.
During the rampage, he fired multiple shots, leaving bullet holes in the wall, but his ex-girlfriend managed to escape.
Two young children were found hiding in the basement while a dog was found shot dead in a hallway, Fox News reports.
“He said he wanted to kill her and have the police kill her,” a police report said.
“His only regret was that none were successful. He stated that if he were released he would kill the victim.’
He was eventually found guilty of nine counts, including attempted murder, kidnapping and animal cruelty, and was sentenced to 75 years in prison.
While in prison, he confessed to having killed 59-year-old Connie Ridgeway in an assassination two months before the killing spree.
The 6ft 9in inmate was escorted out of the Lauderdale County Jail on Friday by a warden who had recently sold her home and filed for retirement.
MPs accused Vicky White, of no relationship, on Monday of “allowing or facilitating a first-degree escape.”
Authorities are still searching for the couple and are warning the public that Casey is “extremely dangerous”.
Ridgeway’s son Austin Williams says the convict is a “monster” who needs to be “back behind bars”.
Casey White, above in February 2019, was arrested in 2015 for a killing spree in which he shot his ex-girlfriend. He had previously told police he would kill them if he got out
While in detention in June 2020, he admitted killing a 59-year-old woman two months before his arrest
Connie Ridgeway, 59, was killed in her home at the Meadowland Apartments in Rogersville, Alabama, in 2015. Casey White said he was paid to kill her
Correctional Officer Vicky White (left) went missing Friday night after rescuing Casey White, no relatives, from the county jail alone, in violation of protocol
Casey’s arrest at the age of 32 finally came after he became involved in a crime spree that unfolded in December 2015 in two counties in Tennessee and Alabama.
One night he staged a home invasion and ambushed two vehicles at gunpoint, shooting one person in the arm, reports WHNT.
At home, he fired several shots and killed a dog.
Ridgeway’s son Austin Williams told Fox News: “He’s definitely a monster. We need to put this guy back behind bars.’
The crimes were followed by a chase where speeds reached more than 100 miles per hour.
It ended with a stolen car getting stuck in a field south of Huntsville and officers – who he obviously knew well – begged him to put down his gun and turn himself in.
He was charged with attempted murder, two counts of kidnapping, first-degree robbery, first-degree burglary, third-degree burglary, burglary and vehicle break-in, animal cruelty, shooting a dog, and attempted escape.
While incarcerated in June 2020, he wrote to Lauderdale County requesting a meeting with the sheriff’s office and confessed to killing Connie Ridgeway — and provided a detailed description of the crime scene.
According to WAFF, Ridgeway was killed in 2015 at her home at the Meadowland Apartments in Rogersville, Alabama.
He said he was paid to kill her, although no motive for hiring a hitman was ever revealed.
He pleaded not guilty to insanity and was temporarily transferred from prison to the Lauderdale County Jail to face trial.
He then escaped with the help of Deputy Correctional Director Vicky White.
Casey White was transferred from prison, where he was already serving a 75-year sentence, to the county jail to stand trial for the murder of Connie Ridgeway (pictured).
Police are pictured in December 2015 taking Casey into custody after a rampage rampage through Tennessee and Alabama that ended in a 100 mph chase and his stolen car became stuck in a field
“He’s definitely a monster,” Ridgeway’s son Austin Williams told Fox News. “We need to put this guy back behind bars.”
Chronicling the disappearance of Vicky White and Casey White
8:47 a.m. Friday: Transport Van 5 exits the Lauderdale County Jail with seven inmates, escorted by two deputies
8:56 am: Transport Van 2 leaves the prison with five inmates, also escorted by two deputies
9:20 a.m. Assistant Warden Vicky White orders a deputy to prepare inmate Casey White for transport to the courthouse. The deputy removes White from his cell, takes him to booking and handcuffs him and ties his legs.
9:41 a.m. Vicky leaves the detention center with Casey and goes to the courthouse for a “psychiatric evaluation.” She told the booking clerk that she was the only available deputy with a gun license and that she would take him to other deputies in the courthouse. Vicky says she then goes to Med Plus for an in-person appointment.
9.49am: Surveillance video shows Vicky’s police cruiser parked in the nearby Florence Square shopping center car park eight minutes after leaving prison. “They didn’t have enough time to even try to get to the courthouse,” Sheriff Rick Singleton said.
11:34 a.m. An officer from the Florence Police Department spots their squad car.
3:30pm: The bookings rep reports to management that they have tried to contact Vicky to check on her and her phone goes straight to voicemail. The officer also says Casey was not returned to the detention center with other inmates.
Source: WAAY-TV, Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office
In 2020, Casey’s request to be transferred from prison to the county jail was denied after authorities found a makeshift knife in the shower which they believed was intended to force someone to release him.
But he was still sent to prison to face charges in Ridgeway’s murder.
On Friday, Vicky White told a bookings officer that she would be accompanying Casey to county court for a mental health inquest. The move was against protocol for Casey, who was supposed to have at least two guards with him at all times.
No such assessment was scheduled that day.
She also said that she would go to a doctor’s appointment for herself, which was confirmed by the doctor’s office, but which she never showed up for.
Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton said Casey was “handcuffed and shackled” in the back of Vicky’s squad car when they both exited the county jail that morning.
From there we went straight to the parking lot of a nearby shopping center.
Surveillance footage shows Vicky’s police cruiser parked at the Florence Square shopping center eight minutes after leaving prison.
“They didn’t have enough time to even try to get to the courthouse,” Singleton said.
The car was spotted in the parking lot an hour and a half later.
Vicky had filed for retirement the day before she disappeared. She also lived with her mother, having recently sold her house.
On Monday morning, Singleton told NBC’s Today Show: “Everything indicates that she helped him escape. The question we’re trying to answer… is, well, did she do it voluntarily, or was someone outside threatening her?’
Friday was supposed to be her last day at work, Singleton said Monday afternoon, adding that she had “talked about going to the beach.”
Vicky may be flush with cash from the recent sale of her home, he said.
The sheriff warned, “Casey White is an extremely dangerous person. We need to find him and get him off the streets.”
Vicky is charged with “allowing or facilitating a first-degree escape,” a crime carrying a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.
Sheriff Rick Singleton on Monday announced charges against Vicky White for “allowing or facilitating a first-degree escape.” The crime carries a maximum prison sentence of 10 years
Vicky’s mother says her daughter, who was named “Employee of the Year” four times and lived with her after her house was sold five weeks ago, never mentioned an inmate
Those who knew Vicky say it would be out of character for the guard, who was voted “Employee of the Year” four times during her 17 years in the sheriff’s office, to help Casey.
“That’s not the Vicky White we know by any stretch of the imagination,” Sheriff Singleton said.
Friday was supposed to be her last day at work, he added, revealing that she was “talking about going to the beach.”
Vicky’s mother, Pat Davis, doesn’t think her daughter would willingly help an inmate she’s never spoken out about.
‘You know, I’ve never heard of him, never seen his picture, nothing. I didn’t know anything about him,” she told WAAY.
“We don’t know if she was abducted by force or if she was there voluntarily. But we just want her back, that’s all we want,” Davis said.
Frances White, Vicky’s former mother-in-law, told on Sunday that the allegations against Vicky were inconsistent with the “terribly good person” she knows.
“I can’t understand her dating a guy she knew was a killer,” said Frances, 88, who said she last spoke to Vicky about a month ago. “If he killed one person, he would kill another.”
The US Marshals Service announced Sunday that it is offering up to $10,000 for information on the escaped inmate and “missing and vulnerable” correctional officers.