An inmate who escaped from jail with the help of his prison guard lover has shared shocking new details about his nearly two-week run before a wild police chase ended in bloodshed.
Vicky White had worked at the Lauderdale County Jail for 17 years before the arrival of attempted murder convict Casey White in August 2020.
A new Netflix documentary, Jailbreak: Love on the Run, details the whirlwind romance the two embarked on before she decided to help him escape from prison.
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 got married in front of my in-laws,” Casey told filmmakers after his subsequent arrest. He was sentenced to life in prison for the stunt, in addition to the 75-year sentence he was already serving for trying to kill an ex-girlfriend.
“We did not marry according to the laws of faith… I was her husband and she was my wife,” he said.
Casey said that he and Vicky really believed they would never get caught.
Vicky White had worked at the Lauderdale County Jail for 17 years before the arrival of attempted murder convict Casey White in August 2020.
Casey said he and Vicky truly believed they would never be caught. Pictured after he was arrested and arraigned
“We thought we had enough cash,” he said, revealing that the plan was to find a “crappy trailer” and pay a year’s rent in advance to give them time to “entrench themselves.”
“When we got to Kentucky and got out of the shower she had all my new clothes laid out on the bed and that was the best night I’ve ever had there,” he said.
The documentary included never-before-heard calls between the couple from November 2020 to February 2022, just two months before the April 28 prison break.
Casey’s cellmate, Tyler Purser, who was aware of the affair and remained silent 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 about her dreams of “going out with a bang” after her retirement.
“I always asked her when she was going to retire and she said, ‘I’m going to retire with a bang.'”
O’Bryant thought that meant he intended to “curse them all on the way out the door.”
“Well, if she really wanted it that bad, I’m proud of her. I’m proud of her for doing exactly what she told me she was going to do and that was go out with a bang. Sis, she went out with a bang.
‘Maybe she was tired of being the good girl, of doing what everyone said, of following the rules, and when that caged bad girl was released, she knew no boundaries.’
Intimate calls
When Vicky’s colleagues searched her home after the daring escape, they realised she had a burner phone that had made more than 1,000 calls to Casey in prison.
“There was some phone sex… quite a bit of phone sex,” said Vicky’s boss, Matt Burbank.
Among those calls was one in which Casey asked Vicky to share her fantasies.
“You’re shy and reserved,” he told her 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 would be fun to dance on a pole and make thousands of dollars.
“If I was pretty enough, that’s what I’d like to be.”
Casey was stunned, first asking her why she would want to be a stripper and then telling her, “You were so pretty. You’re incredibly sexy.”
In another more explicit call, the pair moaned each other’s names as they discussed their ambitions to “have real sex one day.”
Vicky White had worked at the Lauderdale County Jail for 17 years before the arrival of attempted murder convict Casey White in August 2020.
Burbank said investigations suggest the couple had sex inside the jail on an unknown number of occasions.
He said Vicky, who was the deputy warden at the jail, would tell Casey’s cellmates that they were being given time in the yard, and Casey would make up some excuse to stay.
“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 declared their love for each other and fantasized about living together abroad.
He called her his “queen” and “cougar” because of their 18-year age difference (she was 56 and he was 38) and promised her that she would never be “too old” for him.
He said on another call, ‘After my first year away, will you promise me that you will marry me?
“Don’t pay attention to any other guys in front of me. As long as you don’t, I swear I can work with anything else.”
But there were other calls where, in retrospect, they were planning the daring escape.
Casey once told Vicky, “It’s chicken day, baby…we’re going to have fun on our adventure. We’ll never look back at little Alabama…around the world on a sailboat.”
She told him: “Shut up and change the subject.”
“Nobody knows anything unless you say something,” he said.
In another audio call, Casey was directing Vicky where to buy a .44 Magnum pistol.
“We’re going to Tennessee,” he said. “Somewhere remote. We’re not going to be around people for the rest of our lives. We’re going to go to a fucking wilderness and build a log cabin.”
“Anyone who comes within 300 yards will be shot,” he said.
Vicky replied, “I wish I could kiss you right now.”
Casey White appears in dashcam footage released by Indiana police as he is pulled over
The compliment that sparked the romance
Burbank believes that through his research he has narrowed down the interactions between Casey and Vicky to find the moment when their romance blossomed.
She said that one day in late 2020, Vicky was walking down the hallway that passed Casey’s cell, while Casey stood in the doorway, looking out the small window.
“You have a nice ass,” he said.
Burbank said: ‘Rather than Vicky turning him down, she was reportedly flattered by it.
“And that’s probably where it started.”
The duo would go on to discuss that moment in phone calls where Vicky confided that “I thought you were (sic) messing with me.”
But it was no secret to the other guards or Casey’s cellmates that he was a flirt.
Renee Lewis, who also worked at the jail, recalled an early interaction with Casey in which he told her, ‘Miss Renee, it’s been five long years since I touched a woman. Do you think you could use a hug? ‘
Casey White was serving a 75-year sentence for multiple felonies when he met Vicky
Casey White, wearing the white T-shirt, was serving a 75-year prison sentence for attempted murder and other crimes when he fled. He was also awaiting trial on charges of stabbing a woman to death during a robbery in 2015.
“I told her I couldn’t, that she had to be very strong-minded as a woman to work in a prison with male inmates.”
Another said: “I could definitely see a manipulative side to him, trying to size me up, see what he could do with me without me getting in trouble.”
Casey’s cellmate Tyler said, “Old Casey White is a, uh, romancer. I don’t want to call him a heartthrob.”
But she said Casey “lit up like a Christmas tree” when Vicky was around, insisting their love for each other was genuine.
“That woman was good to us. I never had much money, but I was never hungry… She treated everyone like they were somebody. She was like a mother figure that no one had there when I was growing up.”