Corrections officer Vicky White (no relation) engineered and facilitated the escape by taking Casey in a car to what she claimed to her coworkers was a scheduled mental health evaluation at the courthouse.
[8] He was at the facility for pre-trial motions after having confessed two years earlier to the 2015 stabbing death of 59-year-old Connie Ridgeway.
[8] Vicky told fellow officers she was taking Casey to the county courthouse in Florence for a psychological evaluation, then going to see her personal physician since she was not feeling well that day.
The Lauderdale County Sheriff's Department was given a surveillance video, taken at a local gas station, of Vicky White's patrol car 8 minutes after the pair left the detention center.
[12] Officers soon discovered that Vicky had been giving Casey special treatment, including extra food and privileges.
After this discovery, authorities terminated her employment and issued arrest warrants for her on May 2 and May 6, 2022, respectively, for helping Casey escape.
The couple had switched to a blue 2006 Ford F-150 Pickup Truck heading north, checking in and out of several motels along the way.
[16] Law enforcement personnel were advised to approach White with caution due to his history of violence.
[20] As law enforcement converged on the vehicle, Casey White surrendered to authorities without incident, but Vicky was suffering from a gunshot wound to the head.
[21] The State of Alabama eventually gave a person who chose to remain anonymous a $5,000 reward for information leading up to the capture.
[23] In 2020, while at the William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility, he allegedly confessed to an investigator to the 2015 stabbing death of Connie Ridgeway, a 59-year-old resident of Rogersville, Alabama, and was charged with two counts of capital murder.
The conferring of the fifth award was rejected due to her role in helping Casey White escape and her subsequent death.
After the Vanderburgh County coroner ruled Vicky White's death to have been the result of a suicide, her body was returned to Alabama.
[31] His motion for a preliminary hearing on the escape charge was denied on June 13, with the judge referring the case to grand jury.
[35] In 2023, Lifetime released a movie about this prison escape called Bad Romance: The Vicky White Story as part of its "Ripped from the Headlines" feature films.
[36] On September 25, 2024, Netflix released a documentary about the prison escape titled Jailbreak: Love on the Run.