Casey White pleads not guilty to felony murder in loss of life of Alabama corrections officer Vicky White

Previous Alabama escapee Casey White pleaded not guilty Tuesday at his arraignment on escape and felony murder costs after his alleged accomplice in the jailbreak shot herself in the head rather than face arrest.

Vicky White, a former Lauderdale County, Alabama, corrections formal, walked Casey White out of jail on April 29, and the duo led investigators on an 11-working day manhunt spanning many states and involving disguises and a number of cars.

The two were being not connected but were being allegedly associated in a jailhouse romance. 

Deputies in Indiana recaptured Casey White after a car or truck chase as the alleged enthusiasts experimented with to evade seize. As a U.S. Marshals-led job drive approached the vehicle, Vicky White took her very own existence, shooting herself in the head, according to authorities. Casey White surrendered without further incident.

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Casey White comes again in Alabama after 11 days on the operate. (Michael Ruiz/G3 Box News Digital)

As a end result of the jail guard's death, Lauderdale District Lawyer Chris Connolly tacked on a felony murder cost for Casey White in link with the escape endeavor, which itself carries a felony demand.

"We are not trying to find the death penalty in [either of his pending cases]," Connolly informed G3 Box News Electronic Tuesday. "This choice was produced immediately after consultation with Connie Ridgeway’s sons."

Ridgeway is the 58-year-outdated Rogersville girl who White allegedly killed in 2015.

Connolly could have sought a optimum of the dying penalty in the capital murder circumstance. In Vicky White's loss of life, in which Casey White was arraigned Tuesday, the utmost penalty if convicted would be lifestyle without having parole – which the DA mentioned he prepared to look for.

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This photo delivered by the U.S. Marshals Company May 9, 2022, demonstrates a guy standing next to a 2006 Ford F-150 that experienced been abandoned at a motor vehicle clean in the 2000 block of South Weinbach Avenue in Evansville, Ind. (U.S. Marshals Support)

Casey White was presently serving a 75-calendar year prison sentence when he was transferred from a state prison to the Lauderdale County Detention Middle in Florence to stand demo nearby on unrelated murder rates in the attack on Ridgeway. Authorities say he confessed in 2020 just before pleading not guilty by explanation of insanity.

Casey White, remaining, is found in his latest mugshot image Vicky White (Alabama Section of Correction Lauderdale County)

Austin Williams, 1 of Ridgeway's sons, informed G3 Box News Electronic Tuesday he is hoping for a sentence of everyday living in prison without the risk of parole.

"I absolutely never want him at any time up for parole," he mentioned. "I’m happy the wheels of justice are turning."

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The Ridgeway trial was scheduled to commence Dec. 12, but Connolly said Tuesday that it has been postponed. The judge has not yet rescheduled it, he additional.

Casey White is owing back in court for a position convention upcoming thirty day period in the Vicky White circumstance.