Casey White, the dangerous murder prisoner who escaped from Alabama jail with his jailer, told detectives that the birds in love had spent most of their time on the run, hiding in a cheap motel in Indiana and figuring out where to go. further.
Casey White, 38, and Lauderdale County Assistant Correctional Officer Vicki White, 56, were arrested Monday night after a dramatic police chase in Evansville, Indiana, just a five-hour drive from Florence Prison. hid 11 days earlier.
The couple originally drove 100 miles north through Tennessee, where they dumped Vicki’s rusty Ford Edge and switched to a black Ford pickup truck and headed further north. The truck was spotted on May 3, four days after they fled, abandoned in a car wash about 200 miles north of Evansville. A car wash surveillance video shows Casey White jumping into a gray Cadillac, which a sharp-eyed cop then spotted parked in front of Motel 41 in Evansville on Monday, police said.
The cops were waiting for the two to leave the motel, and when they finally did so on Monday afternoon, a chase ensued. Vicki White was fatally shot when cops approached, but Casey White surrendered without incident when their Cadillac crashed, authorities said.
While the medical examiner will have to confirm that she died of suicide, Vicky was found with a gun in her hand. She also called 911 during the chase, saying she had a gun to her head, Vanderburg County Sheriff Dave Widing told CNN.
Wedin, whose county includes Evansville, seemed skeptical that the fugitives had decided to camp in the small town of 110,000, located along the Ohio River.
“In six days [since the car wash sighting] it was just hard to believe they were here. “I wouldn’t think a fugitive would stay in a community like Evansville for six days,” he told a news briefing Tuesday morning.
He said detectives had since interviewed Casey White, who had told them he planned to have a shootout with law enforcement but was in trouble when a Cadillac hit a grass ditch and was hit by police.
Wedding said White also explained what they had spent on the run and what their plan was.
“He said he was just trying to find a place to hide and lie low, and they decided they had been driving long enough that they wanted to stop for a while, find their way around and then come up with the next place to travel, “he said.
Wedding said the couple paid for a 14-day stay at Motel 41, $ 50 a night with unflattering online reviews of bedbugs and moldy walls.
“[He] they said they were trying to think about where they could go and be discreetly out of the public eye, “he added.
Police show a photo of weapons found after the couple was captured.
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Cops found a number of red and blond wigs, which the couple used as camouflage, as well as a weapons cache and $ 29,000 in cash. They appear to have suffered money as Vicki White reportedly withdrew $ 90,000 in cash – the proceeds from the sale of her house – before fleeing. The two legally bought the Ford pickup, but it’s unclear how they got the Cadillac, Wedding said.
“Their plan was pretty wrong,” Weding said. “They are criminals, their plan was wrong and they failed, thank God.”
Casey White will be extradited back to Alabama under heavy security at an unknown time on Tuesday. In his interview with detectives, he did not express any remorse, nor did he reveal why Vicky shot herself. He also doesn’t seem to have brainwashed her into the plan.
“He wasn’t forcing her, it was a relationship,” Weding said.
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