An inmate who escaped jail with the help of his prison guard lover has shared stunning new details about their nearly two weeks on the run – before a wild police chase ended in bloodshed.
Vicky White had worked at Lauderdale County jail for 17 years prior to convicted attempted murderer Casey White’s arrival in August 2020.
A new Netflix documentary, Jailbreak: Love on the Run, details the tempestuous affair the two embarked on prior to her decision to help him escape jail.
The duo were on the run for 11 days before they were caught by police. Vicky shot herself in the head to avoid arrest.
‘We was married in my laws,’ Casey told the filmmakers following his subsequent arrest. He was sentenced to life in prison for the stunt, separate to the 75-year sentence he was already serving for attempting to kill a former girlfriend.
‘We weren’t married in faith laws… I was her husband and she was my wife,’ he said.
Casey said he and Vicky genuinely believed they’d never get caught.
Vicky White had worked at Lauderdale County jail for 17 years prior to convicted attempted murderer Casey White’s arrival in August 2020
Casey said he and Vicky genuinely believed they’d never get caught. Pictured after he was arrested and arraigned
‘We thought we had enough cash money,’ he said, revealing the plan was to find a ‘rinky dink trailer’ and pay a year’s rent up front to give them time to ‘hunker down.’
‘When we got to Kentucky and got out of the shower she had me all new clothes laid out on the bed and that was the best night right here,’ he said.
The documentary included never-before-heard calls between the couple from November 2020 up until February 2022 – just two months prior to the April 28 jail break.
Casey’s cellmate Tyler Purser, who was clued into the affair and said nothing in part because he enjoyed the benefits Vicky bestowed upon him, along with Vicky’s longtime colleagues broke their silence for the documentary.
Medical nurse Kylie O’Bryant said Vicky would boast of her dreams to ‘go out with a bang’ after her retirement.
‘I would always ask when she was going to retire and she would say ”I’m going out with a bang”.’
O’Bryant thought that meant she had intentions to ‘cuss em all out on the way out the door.’
‘Well if she really wanted him that bad, I am proud of her. I am proud of her for doing exactly what she told me she was going to do and that was go out with a bang. Sister, she went out with a bang.
‘Maybe she was tired of being the good girl, do what everyone says, follow the line, and when that caged bad girl was released it knew no bounds.’
Intimate calls
When Vicky’s colleagues checked her home after the daring escape, they realised she had a burner phone which had made over 1,000 calls to Casey in jail.
‘There was some phone sex… quite a bit of phone sex,’ Vicky’s boss Matt Burbank said.
Among those calls was one in which Casey asked Vicky to share her fantasies.
‘You’re just bashful and shy,’ he said when she tried to avoid answering. ‘I want you to tell me.’
She said: ‘I always wanted to be a stripper. Ever since I was young. I thought it’d be fun to dance on a pole and make thousands of dollars.
‘If I’d have been pretty enough, that’s what I’d want to be.’
Casey was flabbergasted, first asking ‘why she’d want’ to be a stripper, and then telling her ‘you was pretty. You’re f**kin’ smokin’ hot.’
In another, more explicit call, the pair moaned each others’ names while discussing their ambitions to ‘one day have real sex.’
Vicky White had worked at Lauderdale County jail for 17 years prior to convicted attempted murderer Casey White’s arrival in August 2020
Burbank said that investigations suggest the pair did have sex inside the jail on an unknown amount of occasions.
He said Vicky, who was the assistant director of the jail, would tell Casey’s cellmates they were being granted yard time, and Casey would make some excuse to stay behind.
‘We don’t know how many times they were allowed to have intimate contact with each other, but we do know that it happened,’ he said.
In an endless stream of calls, the duo would declare their love for one another and fantasize about life together on the outside.
He called her his ‘queen’ and ‘cougar’ due to the 18 year age gap – she was 56 and he 38 – promising she would never be ‘too old’ for him.
He said in another call: ‘After my first year being out, will you promise me you’ll marry me?
‘Don’t give no other guys no attention in front of me. As long as you never do that, I swear I can work with anything else.’
But there were other calls in which they were, in hindsight, plotting the daring escape.
On one occasion, Casey told Vicky, ‘it’s about chicken day babe… we’re gonna have fun on our adventure. Never looking back at little Alabama… around the world on a sailboat.’
She told him to ‘hush, change the subject.’
‘Nobody knows nothin’ unless you say somethin’,’ she said.
In another audio call, Casey was instructing Vicky where to buy a 44 Magnum gun.
‘We go up to Tennessee,’ he said. ‘In the backwoods. We ain’t ever gonna be around people the rest of our lives. We’re going to the f**king wilderness somewhere and build a log cabin.
‘Anyone gets within 300 yards they’re gonna be shot,’ he said.
Vicky responded: ‘I wish I could kiss you right now, so bad.’
Casey White seen in dashboard camera footage released by police in Indiana being taken into custody
The compliment that sparked romance
Burbank believes that through his investigation, he’s narrowed down the interactions between Casey and Vicky to find the moment the romance blossomed.
He said one day in late 2020, Vicky was walking through the corridor which passed by Casey’s cell, while Casey lingered at the door, peering through the little window.
‘You’ve got a nice a**,’ he said.
Burbank said: ‘Instead of Vicky shutting him down, from all accounts she was flattered by that.
‘And that’s probably where it started.’
The duo would go on to discuss that moment in phone calls in which Vicky confided she ‘thought you was [sic] just messing with me.’
But it was no secret to other guards or Casey’s cellmates that he was a flirt.
Renee Lewis, who also worked in the jail, recalled an early interaction with Casey in which he said: ‘Miss Renee, it’s been five long years since I’ve touched a woman. Do you think I could get a hug?
Casey White was serving a 75-year sentence for multiple crimes when he met Vicky
Casey White, in the white t-shirt, was serving a 75-year prison sentence for attempted murder and other offenses when he fled. He was also awaiting trial on charges of stabbing a woman to death during a 2015 burglary
‘I said hell no you can’t. You have to be very strong minded as a woman to work in a jail with male inmates.’
Another said: ‘I could definitely see a manipulation side to him where he was trying to size me up, see what he could get away with with me.’
Casey’s cellmate Tyler said: ‘Old Casey White is a, uh, a romancer. I don’t want to call him a stud muffin.’
But he said Casey would ‘light up like a Christmas tree’ when Vicky was around, insisting that their love for one another was genuine.
‘That woman was good to us. I never had much money but I was never hungry… She treated everybody like they were somebody. She was like a mother figure that everybody in there never had growing up.’