A retired Alabama Sheriff – who oversaw a manhunt for Casey White and Vicky White – has published a book about the 2022 ordeal.
Rick Singleton – who retired earlier this year as the Sheriff of Lauderdale County – chronicled the 11-day search in “Manhunt: The Search for Vicky and Casey White: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly.”
That paperback book was published on Amazon on December 15th – and is ranked the #1 new release in the Criminal Procedure Law category.
Casey White, age 40 was in state prison when he confessed in 2020 to the 2015 death of Connie Ridgeway, of Rogersville. While in the Lauderdale County Jail awaiting trial, White met Vicky White, the jail officer who was not related to him. On April 29th, of 2022, she had slipped him out of jail touching off a dramatic manhunt. Singleton stated that Casey White and Vicky White had a jailhouse romance.
The manhunt ended after the couple was stopped by law enforcement on May 9th, 2022, in Evansville, Indiana.
Vicky White died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound that had occurred during the stop. In May, 2023, Casey White pleaded guilty to first-degree escape in exchange for a deal that dropped a felony murder charge for the death of Vicky White against him. He was sentenced to life in prison.
In July 2023, a judge granted a request by prosecutors to drop the capital murder charge against White in Ridgeway’s death.
