Lauderdale County Sheriff's Workplace
The Alabama corrections official who died of a gunshot wound to the pinnacle after a dramatic police chase together with her escaped inmate lover could possibly be heard screaming in a determined name to 911 made in her closing moments.
In a seven-minute audio recording launched by Evansville Central Dispatch, Vicky White might be heard apparently panicking as cops in Indiana closed in Monday. The dramatic ending got here after she and Casey White, the homicide inmate who she allegedly sprung from an Alabama jail, spent 11 days on the run amid a frantic manhunt.
The 56-year-old assistant director of corrections was discovered with a gunshot wound to the pinnacle after the pair’s Cadillac crashed in Evansville, Indiana, with Casey White instantly leaping from the wrecked car to declare that she had shot herself.
“Oh my God,” she might be heard exclaiming within the first seconds of the 911 audio, earlier than screaming “Let’s get out and run!”
The recording captures the wail of sirens as police apparently swarmed the scene, adopted by a number of shrieks from Vicky White earlier than she instantly fell silent.
Cops arriving on the scene can then be heard shouting “She’s bought a gun in her hand!” adopted by “She’s respiration although!” and “She’s bought her finger on the set off!”
“She doesn’t look acutely aware,” an officer might be heard saying as officers lastly approached her within the flipped car.
“Yeah it appears prefer it exited on the highest of her head,” he stated.
After some hypothesis about whether or not or not White had actually taken her personal life, Vanderburgh County Coroner Steve Lockyear late Tuesday declared her method of demise a murder, saying she had died of a single gunshot wound to the pinnacle.
Her demise capped off a turbulent 11-day saga wherein the fugitive lovebirds seemed to be taking part in cat and mouse with authorities, usually swapping out automobiles that may later be discovered deserted as they headed additional and additional north from the jail in Florence, Alabama, the place that they had absconded on April 29.
Police in Evansville lastly bought a line on the pair at a close-by motel, the place officers laid in await the 2 to depart earlier than lastly closing in on them Monday afternoon. Vicky White was taken to a hospital after the doomed police chase, whereas Casey White was extradited again to Lauderdale County to face a June trial for his authentic homicide cost—the “brutal” 2015 stabbing of a 58-year-old lady.
Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton stated Tuesday that Casey White has proven “no regret” for his lover’s demise. The jail guard, who had labored on the jail for 25 years, signed the inmate out for a bogus courthouse appointment earlier than the 2 made a run for it collectively.
Authorities later stated that they had secretly engaged in a cellphone relationship for a minimum of two years.