Marshals offer 10K reward for escaped Alabama inmate, missing officer

FLORENCE, Ala. — The U.S. Marshals Service stated Sunday that it’s providing as much as $10,000 for details about an escaped inmate and a “lacking and endangered” correctional officer who disappeared Friday after the 2 left a jail in north Alabama.

Casey Cole White, 38, had been jailed on a capital homicide cost within the Lauderdale County Detention Middle in Florence, Alabama, about 75 miles west of Huntsville.

The inmate and assistant director of corrections Vicky White, 56, left the Lauderdale County Detention Middle on Friday morning to go to a close-by courthouse, the sheriff’s workplace stated in a Fb publish Saturday. Investigators stated the 2 will not be associated.

“Casey White is believed to be a severe risk to the corrections officer and the general public,” the U.S. marshal for northern Alabama, Marty Keely, stated in a press release Sunday.

Whereas in state jail for different crimes in 2020, Casey confessed to the 2015 stabbing dying of Connie Ridgeway, WHNT-TV reported.

Vicky White has been with the division 16 years. At a information convention Friday, Singleton stated she was armed when she left the jail with the inmate and headed to the courthouse for what she stated was a psychological well being analysis for Casey White. She was alone with the inmate, which the sheriff stated violated division coverage.

“Our coverage is for any inmate with these sorts of prices to have two sworn deputies escort them. And that didn’t occur,” Singleton stated.

Singleton additionally stated there was no psychological well being analysis for the inmate scheduled on the courthouse.

The automobile the officer and the inmate had been in once they left the detention middle was discovered at a close-by buying middle parking zone, in accordance with the sheriff’s workplace.

Vicky White additionally advised co-workers she had a physician’s appointment scheduled, which was confirmed however the workplace stated the deputy by no means confirmed, the sheriff stated. Officers stated nobody realized the 2 had been lacking till about six hours after they left the jail. Deputies tried to contact Vicky White however her cellphone repeatedly went to voicemail.

Singleton stated his division was “aggressively investigating” the incident and can be trying into earlier interplay between the 2 to “see if one thing else was happening.” Singleton advised information shops that Vicky White had turned in her retirement papers the day earlier than she went lacking.

The sheriff advised AL.com on Sunday that there have been no new developments within the investigation. The Related Press known as the sheriff’s workplace, however a cellphone message there stated the workplace was closed Sunday.

The Marshals Service stated Casey is 6 ft, 9 inches tall and weighs about 260 kilos. He has brown hair and hazel eyes.

The Marshals Service stated folks with details about Casey White’s location or Vicky White’s disappearance can name the service at 1-800-336-0102. Nameless ideas can also be submitted via the U.S. Marshals Tip App.