Casey Cole White, facing a pending capital murder trial in Alabama and already serving a 75-year sentence on attempted murder and kidnappings charges, escaped …
Casey Cole White, facing a pending capital murder trial in Alabama and already serving a 75-year sentence on attempted murder and kidnappings charges, escaped custody on April 29, sparking a nationwide manhunt. The Lauderdale County Detention Center’s assistant director of corrections, Vicky White, allegedly helped the convicted felon and murder suspect walk out of the county jail Friday in broad daylight, according to the local sheriff. Casey White,38, stands at an imposing 6 feet,9 inches tall and weighs somewhere between 260 and 330 pounds, according to authorities and prison records. He was a football player at West Limestone High School, according to former classmates, and grew up in rural Lester, Alabama. Neighbors who knew him said he was quiet and often polite – but had “no moral checkpoint.” Court records show he pleaded guilty to a 2010 domestic assault for attacking a male relative with an ax handle and received a sentence of six years in state prison. Then in 2015, in a jealous rage over an ex-girlfriend, he rushed into her house armed with two handguns, according to court documents. Suspecting she was sleeping with one of the residents, he broke into the back bedroom and found her two roommates holding hands with one another and realized they were not involved with his ex, according to police documents. He ordered the roommates onto the floor at gunpoint, then turned his anger toward the ex-girlfriend.
