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Casey White, the harmful homicide inmate who bolted from an Alabama jail along with his jailer, has advised detectives that the lovebirds spent most of their time on the run holed up in an affordable Indiana motel and plotting the place to go subsequent.
Casey White, 38, and Lauderdale County assistant director of corrections Vicky White, 56, had been captured on Monday evening after a dramatic police chase in Evansville, Indiana, only a five-hour drive from the Florence jail they absconded from 11 days earlier.
The pair initially drove 100 miles north by way of Tennessee the place they dumped Vicky’s rust-colored Ford Edge and transferred right into a black Ford pickup truck and headed farther north. The truck was noticed on Might 3, 4 days after they escaped, deserted at a automotive wash one other 200 miles north in Evansville. Surveillance video from the automotive wash confirmed Casey White hopping into a gray Cadillac, which a sharp-eyed cop then noticed parked exterior Evansville’s Motel 41 on Monday, police mentioned.
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Cops lay in anticipate the pair to go away the motel and once they ultimately did on Monday afternoon, a chase started. Vicky White fatally shot herself as cops closed in however Casey White surrendered with out incident when their Cadillac crashed, authorities mentioned.
Whereas a coroner must affirm that she died by suicide, Vicky was discovered with a gun in her hand. She was additionally on the cellphone to 911 mid-chase, saying she had a gun to her head, Vanderburgh County Sheriff Dave Marriage ceremony advised CNN.
Marriage ceremony, whose county consists of Evansville, appeared incredulous that the fugitives determined to camp out within the small metropolis of 110,000 positioned alongside the Ohio River.
“After six days [since the car wash sighting] it was simply exhausting to consider that they had been right here. I wouldn’t suppose that anyone on the run would keep in a neighborhood like Evansville for six days,” he mentioned at a Tuesday morning briefing.
He mentioned detectives have since interviewed Casey White, who allegedly advised them he deliberate to get right into a shootout with regulation enforcement however was stymied when the Cadillac hit a grass ditch and was rammed by police.
Marriage ceremony mentioned White additionally defined what that they had spent their time on the run doing, and what their plan was.
“He mentioned he was simply looking for a spot to cover out and lay low and so they thought they’d pushed lengthy sufficient that they wished to cease for some time, get their bearings straight, after which work out the subsequent place to journey,” he mentioned.
Marriage ceremony mentioned the pair had paid for a 14-day keep on the Motel 41, a $50-a-night joint with unflattering on-line opinions about bedbugs and moldy partitions.
“[He] mentioned they had been attempting to ponder the place they may go and be discretely away from the general public eye,” he added.
Police show a photograph of weapons discovered after the pair’s seize.
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Cops discovered a number of crimson and blonde wigs the pair used as disguises in addition to a stash of weapons and $29,000 in money. They seem to have blown by way of cash as Vicky White reportedly withdrew $90,000 in money—the proceeds of promoting her home—earlier than they escaped. The pair legally bought the Ford pickup truck nevertheless it’s unclear how they obtained the Cadillac, Marriage ceremony mentioned.
“Their plan was fairly defective,” Marriage ceremony mentioned. “They’re criminals, their plan was defective and it failed, thank God.”
Casey White will likely be extradited again to Alabama underneath heavy safety at an undisclosed time on Tuesday. In his interview with detectives, he didn’t categorical any regret or reveal why Vicky shot herself. Whereas Vicky’s household initially advised The Each day Beast that Casey will need to have “brainwashed” her, Marriage ceremony mentioned there have been no indicators that she had been performing underneath duress.
“He was not forcing her, it was a mutual relationship,” Marriage ceremony mentioned.