His attorneys said he walked out of an Alabama jail in handcuffs with a corrections officer, leading to a bloody manhunt to an end in Indiana, when the woman “was taken care of” care and guardianship” during that time. to get rid of fees.
Casey White’s attorneys have filed a request for his release from the Lauderdale County jail in a series of motions filed Friday in a capitol murder case in which White could face charges death penalty if convicted. It was the defense’s first public explanation of what happened.
An attorney for White, Mark McDaniel, declined to comment Monday. But the defense proposed that warden Vicky White, 56, was controlling Casey White, 38, when they left prison in Florence, Alabama, on April 29 at the request of Casey White’s mother, Connie Moore, on April 29. .
“I doubt he even knew he was leaving when she got there to pick him up,” Moore told The Associated Press in an interview last month.
Casey White, who is not related to Vicky White, was serving a 75-year prison sentence for attempted murder and other charges and was awaiting trial for murder when he left prison with Vicky White, a longtime assistant year of the editing director at the time. Video shows her escorting White to a patrol car and leaving for an alleged psychiatric evaluation in court.
Officials said a review or hearing was never scheduled, and both are gone. They were eventually located in Evansville, Indiana, where the man surrendered and was arrested after Vicky White shot himself dead in the vehicle they were traveling in.
Authorities in Alabama said it appeared the two had a “prison romance.” Weeks before they escaped, Vicky White sold her home for $95,000, sold her car, and filed for retirement, effective the day she took the man out of prison.
The defense portrays Vicky White as being in control of events from the outset, noting that she placed Casey White in the back of the sheriff’s car.
“This prompted an 11-day manhunt for Vicky White and Defendant, who remained in her care and custody,” the defense said.
The defense argues that Casey White’s upcoming murder trial has been moved out of Lauderdale County because of the publicity it caused by the fugitive and manhunt.
While the court has not yet ruled on the request, a judge on Friday adjourned White’s trial over the death of Connie Ridgeway in 2015. Authorities say he confessed to the killings. person in 2020 while in state prison, but the defense asked a judge to make those statements.
White will not appear in court in the murder case earlier than December, a judge ruled in making an unapplied defense motion to adjourn the case. A hearing on the fugitive is scheduled for later this month.
