What an interesting story. Assistant Director of Corrections Vicki White worked for Lauderdale County for 17 years. The Sheriff is quite complimentary in the first article.
The next day the Sheriff announces a warrant has been issued for Vicki White. The articles explain how she used her trusted supervisor position to leave with inmate Casey Cole White. She was supposed to transfer custody to deputies at the court.
Vicki White obviously has planned this escape. She has money from the house sale. Probably had a 2nd car ready for the trip. She may have rented property out of state? All this for a 6’ 9" inmate facing a capital murder charge. He shouldn’t be hard to identify.
My thought is…IF she was a wiling accomplice did Mr. White decide to kill her as excess baggage once her usefulness was over and he’s now on the lam on his own?
Or are they really working as an actual pair? (Ms. White would stand out much less in public than the very, very tall Mr. White, so she could be the public face as they go wherever they’re trying to go, minimizing chances Mr. White would be recognized.)
I’m (perhaps overly) sensitive to the concept that he may be blamed for coercing her should there be a sexual component to this. In a traditional setting the corrections officer, being in a position of authority over the inmate, would be held accountable for abuse due to the imbalance of power.
It remains to be seen if such a concept holds true in this case when the corrections officer in the position of power is female.
