Former Alabama corrections official Vicky White is dealing with two new costs in connection together with her alleged function in the escape of capital homicide suspect Casey Cole White, officers mentioned Monday. The pair, who should not associated, have been lacking for greater than every week, regardless of a large manhunt to find them that has now expanded to Indiana.
Vicky White, who had already been charged with allowing or facilitating escape within the first diploma, is now additionally charged with forgery within the second diploma and id theft, in accordance with a warrant shared with CBS Information by the Lauderdale County Sheriff's Workplace. A spokesperson for the sheriff's workplace informed CBS Information that the costs are associated to her alleged use of an alias to purchase a 2007 Ford Edge used within the pair's escape.
The brand new costs come greater than every week after the pair had been first reported lacking on April 29. Vicky White informed her colleagues that morning that she was taking Casey White to the courthouse for a psychological well being analysis. However her patrol car was present in a car parking zone hours later — and by 3:30 p.m., officers realized that each she and Casey White had been lacking.
Authorities later mentioned there had been no scheduled psychological well being analysis, including that it seems Vicky White — who was alleged to retire on the finish of the day — drove her patrol car to the car parking zone the place it was later discovered instantly after leaving the courthouse with Casey White.
Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton mentioned it seems Vicky White left the Ford Edge in that very same car parking zone the night time earlier than the escape. The pair was final seen within the car in Rogersville, Alabama, on the day they disappeared.
Singleton mentioned the pair had a "particular relationship" and that they had been involved over the cellphone for months earlier than Casey White's escape. Singleton mentioned there may be presently no proof that the connection was bodily or sexual.
Authorities spent a lot of final week looking for the Ford Edge earlier than saying on Friday that it had been towed by authorities in Tennessee the day the pair disappeared. It took the tow store a number of days to comprehend the automotive was the one sought by Alabama authorities.
Singleton mentioned the automotive was discovered "in the course of nowhere" at about 2 p.m. that day.
"They discovered the automotive earlier than we even knew [Vicky White and Casey White] had been gone," Singleton mentioned final Friday.
He added that as a result of automotive's location and the pace with which the pair deserted it, investigators consider the automotive had mechanical issues.
Additionally Monday, the U.S. Marshals Service mentioned investigators had traveled to Evansville, Indiana — about 175 miles from the place authorities discovered the Ford Edge — to observe up on a tip about one other deserted car the pair is believed to have used.
The Marshals Service mentioned it had been informed that a 2006 Ford F-150 had been discovered at a automotive wash in Evansville. It supplied surveillance digicam photos that present a person standing close to the automotive sporting a hat, sun shades, a pink shirt and tan pants, however the Marshals Service didn't definitively determine the person as Casey White.
Authorities didn't say in the event that they discovered something within the car, and didn't affirm the F-150 had been utilized by the pair.