Money likely helped inmate, officer evade police for days

 

 

• Former U.S. Marshal Lenny DePaul said the more than $90,000 that Vicky White got from her home sale is likely coming in handy as they flee.
• Tracking Vicky White’s background and relying on public tips due to Casey White’s physical appearance will be key in this case, DePaul said.
• The U.S. Marshals arrested more than 84,000 fugitives in 2021.

An Alabama corrections officer and escaped inmate were taken into custody Tuesday after evading police for more than a week. But how did they elude authorities for so long?

Former corrections officer Vicky White, 56, and inmate Casey White, 38, vanished on April 29, and authorities have since said the couple had a “jailhouse romance” and were planning their escape. They were arrested Monday after a police chase and subsequent car wreck in Evansville, Indiana, Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton said.

The pair was likely able to go undetected for so long because of Vicky White’s more than $90,000 in cash from selling her home a month ago, said Lenny DePaul, the former chief inspector and commander of the U.S. Marshals’ New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force.

DePaul is not associated with the ongoing investigation.

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Vicky White, whom authorities have since called an accomplice, allegedly told coworkers she was taking Casey White to a courthouse appointment before the couple vanished. Surveillance footage shows Vicky White escorting Casey White out of the Lauderdale County Detention Center and into a patrol car, which was found abandoned in a shopping center later in the day.

Vicky White allegedly sold her home and was set to retire the day the couple fled, the U.S. Marshals Service said in a…