Vicky White’s family buried the former prison boss on Saturday instead of celebrating his sixth award as Lauderdale County Correctional Staff of the Year.
White, 56, assistant commander of operations at the Lauderdale County Jail, walked out of a northern Alabama lockup on April 29 with capital murder suspect Casey White, claiming she was driving him to court, in a car officers from the road. Before colliding she says bought to run away.
The nation was trampled by an 11-day manhunt after Vicky White’s Ford Echo broke down in Tennessee, before an Indiana car wash manager called the police about an abandoned Ford F-150 truck. Casey White is captured again, but Vicky White shoots himself as the police stop. The two had nothing to do with each other.
The graveside service for Vicky White was held at Center Hill Cemetery, about 25 miles from the prison where she worked.
Her obituary only stated that she died on May 9 and served in prison.
She is survived by her parents, two brothers, a nephew and several aunts and uncles. Some comments expressed condolences to the family for the tribute. One of the posts read, “Praying for Vicky’s family and friends today.” Cherish your beautiful memories that will never fade away.
Friends and colleagues are still puzzled as to what happened to the model employee, who apparently fell in love with a man serving 75 years to a horrific rage where he tried to murder his ex-girlfriend, Shot another woman and held several others at gunpoint. Casey White, unrelated to Vicky, was awaiting trial for the capital murder of another woman, Connie Ridgeway.
Authorities said Vicky White gave the giant Casey, who stands 6-foot-7 and weighs more than 300 pounds, extra food and otherwise showed him the favor before fleeing, Fox News reported.
Casey White is now facing charges of escape in addition to charges related to Ridgeway’s murder in 2015. Meanwhile, a friend of Ridgeway has started GoFundMe to raise a prize money for the car wash manager, whose tip leads the police to the fugitive couple.
Casey White’s mother, Connie Moore, said the jailer also visited the prisoner’s 12-year-old son and 2-year-old grandson and sent them Christmas presents. His son is now mourning the woman he loved and considered his wife, he claimed. “Even when he was in jail, he was calling her his wife. I just went with it. I didn’t say, ‘You shouldn’t,’ or whatever. This made him happy. ,
“Vicki was really, really nice to him — just being there for him, talking to him. They had a real thing,” she said.