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SHOCKING PLEA DEAL for Casey White After Jailhouse Lovers Hole up in Hotel With Take-Out, Sex Toys · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
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Speaker 2: Love behind the prison bars turns deadly. I'm Nancy Grace,
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Speaker 2: this is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us
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Speaker 2: here at Fox Nation. And Sirius x sem one eleven
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Speaker 2: the infamous Alabama inmate Casey White, who stages a bizarre
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Speaker 2: and almost unbelievable breakout from jail with the help of
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Speaker 2: his female lover and now dead jail boss Vicky White
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Speaker 2: in the last hours a stunning turn of events, during
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Speaker 2: a routine courtroom hearing regarding the case of Casey White,
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Speaker 2: the convicted Ellen unexpectedly goes to a mic and apologizes
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Speaker 2: to jail boss Vicky White's family, admitting in open court
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Speaker 2: to the stunning escape that led to a wild, nearly
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Speaker 2: two week manhunt last spring. Then everything changes. In exchange
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Speaker 2: for a guilty plead to first degree escape, Casey White,
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Speaker 2: thirty nine years old, gets the sweetheart deal of prosecutors
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Speaker 2: dropping the murder charge he was facing in his lover,
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Speaker 2: Vicky White's death. This very unplanned plea deal hastily arranged
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Speaker 2: when Casey White appeared at the courthouse Thursday for a
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Speaker 2: routine status hearing. Now after the defense went to prosecutors
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Speaker 2: with a potential resolution, The DA's office went to Vicky
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Speaker 2: White's family. Now, according to what we have learned, Vicky's
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Speaker 2: family relieved that the entire ordeal is almost over and
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Speaker 2: that it's all behind them. Or is it what really happened?
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Speaker 2: A female jail guard apparently helps a killer a thirty
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Speaker 2: six escape and both have seemingly vanished off the face
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Speaker 2: of the earth. First of all, take a listen to
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Speaker 2: our friends at WVTM thirteen.
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Speaker 3: Happening now in North Alabama, the search continues for an
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Speaker 3: escaped inmate and missing suff deputy. A blue alert was
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Speaker 3: issued yesterday, hours after Deputy Vicky White failed to show
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Speaker 3: up with Casey White, who was not related to her.
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Speaker 3: The Lauderdale County Sheriff says the inmate was never scheduled
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Speaker 3: to be in court and says their disappearance comes with
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Speaker 3: plenty of unanswered questions.
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Speaker 4: Did she assist him in escaping? That Bob to say,
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Speaker 4: a possibility, So we're looking into that. At one angle
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Speaker 4: of the investigation, was she kidnapped and route to the
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Speaker 4: courthouse and you know, taking against her wheel.
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Speaker 3: Well, the inmate, Casey White, is currently facing capital murder charges.
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Speaker 3: He's considered to be armed and dangerous, as Deputy White
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Speaker 3: was armed at the.
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Speaker 2: Time, So now we believe they are armed to the hilt.
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Speaker 2: She has her service weapon and what does he have?
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Speaker 2: How do we think this happened to Kwan Lee?
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Speaker 5: Now, this situation is pretty remarkable. We have a lady
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Speaker 5: who recently just filed for retirement the day before this
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Speaker 5: escape happened, and just recently. So the situation and as
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Speaker 5: we start getting more details about it, it really bolkles
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Speaker 5: my mind. For one thing. It's another thing to see
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Speaker 5: how coordinated this attempt. Well, this escape has been from
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Speaker 5: top to bottom.
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Speaker 2: What do you mean by coordinating?
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Speaker 5: Well, I'm not necessarily saying that she is in a
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Speaker 5: breeding but when you look at too many circumstances that
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Speaker 5: seem so TV is.
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Speaker 2: Like TV is, You're right.
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Speaker 5: Go ahead, Now, imagine you're selling Netflix a TV series,
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Speaker 5: a mini series, a docu series, if you will, where
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Speaker 5: you have this correstional officer and you have this inmate
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Speaker 5: that's in accused with murder, and they escaped together. She
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Speaker 5: recently sold her house, she recently filed for retirement. Netflix
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Speaker 5: would eat this up. They would actually tell you it's
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Speaker 5: too so and too cheesy to actually put on their lineup.
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Speaker 5: But here we walk today and you have this situation
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Speaker 5: going out in front of us right here around ten o'clock.
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Speaker 5: They say they're getting rid of the head to a
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Speaker 5: mental health evaluation session that we now know is bogus.
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Speaker 5: And now we have two people on the run for
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Speaker 5: the past couple of days, and now we've got all
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Speaker 5: the big wigs involved trying to figure out where these
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Speaker 5: two could have possibly gone. It's absolutely lud.
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Speaker 2: This guy has already murdered a woman at least once
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Speaker 2: that we know of, and now he's alone with a woman.
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Speaker 2: Her life is in danger. I mean, there is no
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Speaker 2: two ways about it, Sheriff.
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Speaker 4: Oh exactly. And you know, talking about the way that
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Speaker 4: this would orchestra. Of course, we now know that she
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Speaker 4: obviously assisted him escape the facts that we've been able
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Speaker 4: to put together. Director White was the assistant director of
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Speaker 4: operations at the detention Center. Part of her responsibilities was
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Speaker 4: were to coordinate all transports, all inmate transport.
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Speaker 2: Hold on, Sheriff. I don't think the rest of the
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Speaker 2: world knows how difficult a task that is. I remember
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Speaker 2: at the courthouse, Sheriff, I'd be pulling in at quarter
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Speaker 2: of eight and I see buses, four to five buses
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Speaker 2: coming in from the Fulton County Jail and all around.
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Speaker 2: If people have been extradited, going under guard underneath the
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Speaker 2: jail house, where then a giant gate would come down
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Speaker 2: behind them so they couldn't get out. They'd go under
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Speaker 2: the courthouse and then brought up to the courtrooms on
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Speaker 2: special secured elevators. So transporting, he just said, she was
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Speaker 2: in charge of all that transport. That is no easy thing.
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Speaker 2: So she had to be really responsible and really smart
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Speaker 2: to do all that exactly.
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Speaker 4: Just about a few minutes before she left the detention
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Speaker 4: center with inmate Casey White, two vans of inmates had
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Speaker 4: left the detention center. The first van had two deputies
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Speaker 4: and seven inmates. About ten minutes later, the second van
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Speaker 4: left with two deputies and five inmates, headed to the courthouse,
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Speaker 4: which is about four blocks up the street. Just minutes
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Speaker 4: after that second van left, Director White instructed one of
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Speaker 4: the correction deputies to bring Casey White up and prepare
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Speaker 4: him for transport. By that we mean that he was handcuffed,
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Speaker 4: leg shackles were put on him. She then advised the
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Speaker 4: booking officer that she was the only certified deputy firearm
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Speaker 4: certified depty available to carry him, and she was going
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Speaker 4: to carry him up but to the courthouse, turn him
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Speaker 4: over to other depties, and from there she was going
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Speaker 4: to get a medical check up because she wasn't feeling
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Speaker 4: them well.
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Speaker 2: So when you say he said something else, it's really critical.
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Speaker 2: Double shackle. He's got handcuffs and leg shackles. The only
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Speaker 2: other thing you could have done is put a chain
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Speaker 2: around his waist and put the leg shackles and the
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Speaker 2: handcuffs chain to the waist shackle, and that.
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Speaker 4: Was in place. He did have the waist chain on him.
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Speaker 2: Gosh, she had to help him. You can't get out
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Speaker 2: of a triple shackle like that, just like unless you've
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Speaker 2: got the key. I mean, maybe somebody that could get
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Speaker 2: a handcuffs like they do in the movies. That does happen.
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Speaker 2: You can actually wrangle around sometimes and get out of them,
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Speaker 2: but out of a waist and a leg shackle, which
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Speaker 2: was right. This guy's a convenient is a killer. Of
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Speaker 2: course he should be triple shackles, but to do.
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Speaker 4: That, he'd had to be in a Hootini. He's got
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Speaker 4: five minutes, less than five minutes a four block drive
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Speaker 4: to get out of a waist chain with handcuffs and egghackle,
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Speaker 4: somehow gets into the control of the vehicle in her
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Speaker 4: in a four block area that's very heavily traveled as
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Speaker 4: far as traffic goes, So there's just no way. They
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Speaker 4: never headed towards the courthouse. You went through the intersection
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Speaker 4: and instead of going left to go the courthouse, you
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Speaker 4: turned right and went to the shopping center where they
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Speaker 4: abandoned the car.
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Speaker 2: Joining me. Percy pittser a former federal warren, thirty year
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Speaker 2: career in corrections and founder of Creative Corrections Educational Foundation.
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Speaker 2: You can find them at CCEEF Scholarships dot org. Percy,
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Speaker 2: think so great to have you with us today. Well,
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Speaker 2: thank you for having me. What protocols are typically in
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Speaker 2: safe now you're a fed, But what protocols would typically
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Speaker 2: be in set in place? So a single warden as
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Speaker 2: I'm calling her, would not be tempted in any way
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Speaker 2: to help an inmate.
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Speaker 6: Well, you know, I think even more important is how
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Speaker 6: is she allowed to get out of that jail? You know,
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Speaker 6: it doesn't make sense. I was awarded and there's no
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Speaker 6: way a doiscrectional officer would not push that button to
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Speaker 6: let me out what it mean.
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Speaker 2: Well, I mean she had the indisha of reliability and authority.
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Speaker 2: And I'm going to pose your question to Sheriff Singleton.
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Speaker 2: Percy Pitcher is saying, no way would under optimal conditions
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Speaker 2: anyone buzzed them out. But this woman, Vicky White, was
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Speaker 2: in charge of transport. She had the guy triple shackled
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Speaker 2: in the back of the vehicle, which I assume is
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Speaker 2: an armored vehicle. In other words, it's scott the medal
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Speaker 2: between the driver and the passenger around the window so
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Speaker 2: they can't jump out of a window. Why not let
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Speaker 2: her out with him.
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Speaker 4: You know, assistant director. Of course she's also their supervisor.
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Speaker 4: And you know, the unfortunate thing about the correction profession
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Speaker 4: is it's hard to find people.
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Speaker 5: That take that job.
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Speaker 4: It's a very stressful job, a very challenging job, and
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Speaker 4: it's not a job that anyone can do. I hired
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Speaker 4: a correct in depty about a month ago. He came
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Speaker 4: into work at six o'clock in the morning, left for runch,
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Speaker 4: never came back and said he just couldn't handle it.
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Speaker 4: It's a very stressful job. And so we have a
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Speaker 4: lot of colonel, a lot of our staff are young, inexperienced,
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Speaker 4: and it also is not uncommon for us to get
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Speaker 4: a van to court and a judge say, oh, by
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Speaker 4: the way, I need this inmate. And that's primarily what
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Speaker 4: Director of White would do. If that happened, then she
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Speaker 4: would typically take that one inmate in her patrol car
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Speaker 4: because she couldn't getmultiple inmates in there and drum the
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Speaker 4: courthouse and turnel over to other deputies. Now, in this
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Speaker 4: case where you got a capital murder suspect that was
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Speaker 4: strictly against policy, you know she knew the policies.
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Speaker 2: She's the assistant director du Kwan Lee. Isn't true? This woman,
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Speaker 2: this woman now we think on the run with an
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Speaker 2: accused killer. Well, there's no doubt he did it. He confessed.
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Speaker 2: She filed for retirement. She started early in this business,
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Speaker 2: and she had been employee of the Year. I don't
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Speaker 2: mean of the month over at Walmart where they changed
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Speaker 2: the peak they just slide your picture in. I'm talking
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Speaker 2: about of the year.
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Speaker 5: That's correct, like.
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Speaker 2: Four times in a row. She had medals of commendation.
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Speaker 2: This woman was wethought pure, is the driven snow? I
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Speaker 2: mean that I've looked into her record. That's the one
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Speaker 2: you would trust.
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Speaker 5: And Sheriff Singleton can confirm this. She was highly touted
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Speaker 5: amongst her coworkers. She never was suspected to be a
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Speaker 5: person that could aid in a criminal rule. It's actually
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Speaker 5: out of the blue.
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Speaker 2: When you are with the worst of the worst day in,
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Speaker 2: day out, you have got to have nerves, a steal
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Speaker 2: to stay in it. You have got to have nerves
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Speaker 2: a steal to do it.
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Speaker 4: Sheriff absolutely, and Vicky White was with the department almost
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Speaker 4: seventeen years. She'd had an unblemished record, not a single
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Speaker 4: disciplinary action in her file. She was I've been sheriff
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Speaker 4: seven years. For those seven years she was voted by
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Speaker 4: her peers and coworkers as a supervisor or employee of
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Speaker 4: the year. In our correcting division. Everyone had the highest
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Speaker 4: regard and respect for the director told me Friday night
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Speaker 4: that it was like a funeral week at the detention center.
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Speaker 4: Her co workers were so upset about what had happened.
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Speaker 4: And you know, people, do you know you just have
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Speaker 4: to have been part of this family, this Sheriff's Office,
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Speaker 4: Correction Division family to understand how devastating this has been
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Speaker 4: to our employees. I mean, she was highly respected I
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Speaker 4: was told the judge that had to sign the wart
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Speaker 4: or pride. When she signed the warmth, she was all
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Speaker 4: by the judges.
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Speaker 1: Nation Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
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Speaker 2: For those of you just joining us in the Last
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Speaker 2: Day Infamous Alabama convicted felon gets a sweetheart deal, pleading
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Speaker 2: guilty to a prison escape in exchange for prosecutors dropping
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Speaker 2: a murder charge in Vicky White's death. Now, this was
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Speaker 2: a textbook felony murder charge in the death of jail
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Speaker 2: boss Vicky White. This is how it works. Felony murder
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Speaker 2: simply means that during the commission of a felony, any felony,
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Speaker 2: a death occurs. That's felony murder. The purp may not
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Speaker 2: intend for any death to occur. I always give this
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Speaker 2: great example. Let's just say Jackie and I decide to
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Speaker 2: rob a bank, and we make it very clear, nobody
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Speaker 2: gets hurt. We go into the bank, and all of
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Speaker 2: a sudden, Jackie gets a wild hair and starts shooting
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Speaker 2: an oozy and kills a bank teller.
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Speaker 1: I look at her like what you lost your mind?
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Speaker 2: Well, long story short after we're caught racing away like
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Speaker 2: Felma and Luise.
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Speaker 1: I'm busted for felony murder.
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Speaker 2: I was committing a felony and a death occurred, whether
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Speaker 2: I wanted it to or not. I'm on the hook
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Speaker 2: for felony murder in this case, during the escape a
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Speaker 2: prison jail bust, Vicky White ends up dead. As it
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Speaker 2: turns out it was by her own gun, shooting herself
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Speaker 2: dead as authorities closed in on the two. Even so,
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Speaker 2: that's textbook felony murder. So in exchange for the guilty
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Speaker 2: plea on escape, he has his murder charge dropped. Well,
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Speaker 2: I will never forget the course of events that unfolded
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Speaker 2: when those two broke out of jail. Take a listen
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Speaker 2: to our friends at WAA Y thirty one.
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Speaker 7: We start with new details in the nationwide man hunt
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Speaker 7: for an escaped Lauderdale County inmate and corrections a supervisor
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Speaker 7: who the Sheriff's office, it says, helped him. New video
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Speaker 7: from the Lauderdale County Sheriff's Office. It shows former corrections
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Speaker 7: supervisor Vicky White. She was checking out of the quality
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Speaker 7: in in Florence in this video. This is the same
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Speaker 7: day she disappeared with capital murder suspect Casey White. The
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Speaker 7: hotel is located near where the pair got into their
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Speaker 7: getaway vehicle. The car was found in Tennessee, just south
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Speaker 7: of Nashville.
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Speaker 2: Wow, so many questions with me an all star panel,
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Speaker 2: but the first person I want to go to is
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Speaker 2: special guest Sheriff Rick Singleton, the Lauderdale County Sheriff. Sheriff,
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Speaker 2: thank you for being with us. Sheriff. A couple of
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Speaker 2: quick things based on what we just heard. Where the
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Speaker 2: car was found in Florence, that is north of Lauderdale County.
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Speaker 4: It's lotually the county seat of Lauderdale County. The car
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Speaker 4: was found in Tennessee, which is about a two hour
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Speaker 4: drive north of Florence.
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Speaker 2: Okay, well you know what I got that half right?
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Speaker 2: Hold on, So that was in Bethesda and you're saying
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Speaker 2: it's two hours north, correct, yes, ma'am. Would that suggests
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Speaker 2: to you, Sheriff, that they are in fact headed north,
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Speaker 2: because no way would they go two hours north and
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Speaker 2: then turned back and circle back down. Let's just say
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Speaker 2: to get lost in Florida. They're definitely traveling north. Wouldn't
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Speaker 2: you agree with that?
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Speaker 4: That's the indication from where the car was found. We
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Speaker 4: not We do not know how they left that area,
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Speaker 4: you know, where the car was abandoned, if they hitched
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Speaker 4: a ride, if they stole another vehicle. Through our knowledge,
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Speaker 4: we haven't gotten any reports of stolen vehicles in the area.
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Speaker 4: If they had a second car. You know, we're just
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Speaker 4: not sure.
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Speaker 2: Let's analyze what you just said here. Rick Singleton said
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Speaker 2: they either walked away from the car. They either hitched
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Speaker 2: your ride, or they had another car ready. I want
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Speaker 2: to analyze did they have another car ready? First question, Sheriff,
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Speaker 2: why did they ditch the car? Did they have car trouble?
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Speaker 4: Well, we're still not certain that that was the issue.
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Speaker 4: The car was abandoned in a rural area on a
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Speaker 4: county road where it would obviously be seen and it
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Speaker 4: would be reported. So you know, it's either one of
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Speaker 4: two things. Either even ditched the vehicle there to throw
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Speaker 4: us off, or they had car trouble. I've not heard
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Speaker 4: from the investigators if they checked the mechanics of the car.
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Speaker 4: It appeared from one photo I've seen, and I've not
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Speaker 4: personally seen the car. It is being brought back here
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Speaker 4: to Florence this morning. It appeared to have had a
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Speaker 4: flat tire.
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Speaker 2: This woman, Vicky White Karen Stark in this Vicky White
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Speaker 2: made elaborate plans, and Sheriff correct me if I'm wrong.
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Speaker 2: She planned down to the day of her retirement. She
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Speaker 2: sold her home ahead of time. She withdrew ninety thousand
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Speaker 2: dollars cash from multiple banks. She stayed in a hotel
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Speaker 2: the night before she bought the getaway car under an
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Speaker 2: assumed name, I think with cash. She parked that car
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Speaker 2: in a shopping center. She had a part in a
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Speaker 2: spot where it would not be observed by surveillance video.
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Speaker 2: She had everything planned. She'd been talking to her coworkers
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Speaker 2: about her retirement, that she was going to go to
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Speaker 2: sit on a beach somewhere. Everything was carefully planned. So
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Speaker 2: why wouldn't there be a planned be Karen stark Well, hearing.
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Speaker 8: What everyone had to say, Nancy, it seems to me,
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Speaker 8: I mean, this is a very shrewd woman. She could
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Speaker 8: have been working on this, I suspect for years, and
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Speaker 8: so there had to be some kind of a backup plan.
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Speaker 8: If to me, if she painted it, they planned to
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Speaker 8: paint it, they had a flat tire, or something happened.
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Speaker 8: I have no doubt they found another vehicle so that
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Speaker 8: they did something that got them to be able to
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Speaker 8: travel away.
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Speaker 2: Do you think they had a plan B? Just boil
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Speaker 2: it down for me, okay, because I'm just a JD.
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Speaker 2: You're the shrink Plan B or no plan? By very
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Speaker 2: simple Yes, yes, you think there was a plan. B Okay,
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Speaker 2: Sheriff Singleton. You know what else I think was planned?
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Speaker 2: Something that his mother said, how she's talking about how
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Speaker 2: he's really not a bad guy. Okay, bs on that
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Speaker 2: she said, Sheriff, Oh, he didn't kill that woman. He
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Speaker 2: just confessed to it so he could get brought back
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Speaker 2: to the local jail. So I'm wondering how long this
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Speaker 2: plan had been in the works. Did he of course,
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Speaker 2: he killed Austin's mother, we know that. But did he
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Speaker 2: give the confession in order to get back to the
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Speaker 2: local jail to hook back up with Vicky White? What
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Speaker 2: do you think about that?
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Speaker 4: Well, I know that that theory is out there. I
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Speaker 4: don't I know that he confessed to the homicide of
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Speaker 4: Connie Ridgeway and he was facing charges for that.
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Speaker 9: Uh.
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Speaker 4: Some other things about how calculating Vicky White was in
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Speaker 4: this plan. We also know now that prior to the
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Speaker 4: escape that she was shopping for clothes, men's clothes and
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Speaker 4: a local clothing store. She also shopped in an Annault store.
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Speaker 4: And uh, you know the the thing about the abandoned car,
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Speaker 4: you know, the thing that questioned me if they were
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Speaker 4: going to abandon it for a plan? B Why would
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Speaker 4: they riff driving it for two hours? I guess assuming
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Speaker 4: we get amnification on the car sooner, it looked like
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Speaker 4: they would have missed it a little closer. But there's
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Speaker 4: still a lot of questions will be answered to turning.
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Speaker 4: You know the car and where it was abandoned, and
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Speaker 4: how they left that area. We're looking at every possible.
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Speaker 2: Scenario, a stunning plea deal. In the case of convicted
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Speaker 2: felon Casey White, the inmate, towering over his lawyer in court,
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Speaker 2: takes a plea deal, the plea deal life behind bars
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Speaker 2: for a string of felonies. And remember he was already
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Speaker 2: behind bars when he escaped. But how did the whole
23:41
Speaker 2: thing unfold at the time? How was this possible? You
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Speaker 2: said that she had been shopping from men's clothing ahead
23:48
Speaker 2: of the bus, right, yes, ma'am. Now, I think that's
23:51
Speaker 2: where that rumor is circulating, that they stopped at some
23:54
Speaker 2: adult I guess a sex story shop. But that was
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Speaker 2: before she sprung him.
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Speaker 4: Right, yes, ma'am. That was in the days leading up
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Speaker 4: through the escape.
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Speaker 2: Wow, you're doing a lot of background work. What about
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Speaker 2: where she parked the getaway car, sheriff, Was it in
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Speaker 2: a spot in that shopping center where video would not
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Speaker 2: catch it.
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Speaker 4: Well, it was. It was a very obvious part spot.
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Speaker 4: It was right on the side of one of the
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Speaker 4: busiest streets here in Florence. The cover there was that
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Speaker 4: there are several other cars parked there that are for sale,
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Speaker 4: older cars, and so it sort of blended in because
24:30
Speaker 4: it's a low profile car as far as the light
24:33
Speaker 4: borrow on it and so forth, that the forward cars
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Speaker 4: sens a little lower, and you know, it didn't just
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Speaker 4: stand out, you know at someone that wasn't It wasn't
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Speaker 4: like a big suv or something.
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Speaker 2: But what I'm getting at, Sheriff is if you could
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Speaker 2: see it on video, couldn't you see him? I mean,
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Speaker 2: couldn't you see them getting into the car?
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Speaker 4: No, ma'am. There was no video footage in the shop
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Speaker 4: in the area that depicted that. But there again, that's
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Speaker 4: another reason I think she chose this location because we
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Speaker 4: did have a witness who saw the getaway car there
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Speaker 4: the night before I actually looked at it. He was
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Speaker 4: looking at the car that were for sale there, and
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Speaker 4: he looked at that specific car and went around the
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Speaker 4: front without the number to call about it. And there
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Speaker 4: was no for sale sign, no phone number on it.
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Speaker 4: He thought that was odd being it was parked there
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Speaker 4: among other cars for.
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Speaker 2: Sale, and Sheriff, it didn't already have the green paint
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Speaker 2: on it at that time? Did it? No?
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Speaker 4: Bad? It did not have the paint on it?
25:32
Speaker 2: Gotcha? Okay? You know, I want to serve one more thing,
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Speaker 2: Sheriff before I go to Austin and Xavier wheary, Sheriff,
25:39
Speaker 2: what about his medication? Is it medication that he has
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Speaker 2: to have refilled?
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Speaker 4: He is on medication, and you know there's no medication
25:53
Speaker 4: taken with them to our knowledge. I don't know. I'm
25:58
Speaker 4: not that familiar with his specific situation concerning his medical needs,
26:04
Speaker 4: but I do know that I've been told that he
26:07
Speaker 4: can get pretty violent if he's not on his meds.
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Speaker 2: I'm just wondering if it's anything that he's going to
26:13
Speaker 2: have to get, like, is he diabetic? Does he have
26:17
Speaker 2: a heart problem? Is there something he has to take
26:20
Speaker 2: they're going to have to stop and get somehow or
26:23
Speaker 2: did she get that pre ordered as well? Xavier? Where
26:27
Speaker 2: he joining me from w A A Y TV. Xavier,
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Speaker 2: thanks for being with us, tell me the very latest.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, So, I mean really after speaking with Sheriff Singleton.
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Speaker 10: We're still just trying to make sure that we, you know,
26:40
Speaker 10: push out the facts right. And the fact is that
26:44
Speaker 10: we really don't know where they are. Again, we know
26:47
Speaker 10: that the car was last located in Williamson County, Tennessee,
26:51
Speaker 10: a week after they actually get the vehicles. So I
26:54
Speaker 10: spoke with someone from the US Marshall Services and they
26:56
Speaker 10: told me that, you know, although it is a week later,
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Speaker 10: they are glad did they now have a sense of
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Speaker 10: direction as to where they are. But again, they could
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Speaker 10: really be going anywhere at this moment in time.
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Speaker 2: Hey, Sheriff Rick Singleton joining me, the elected sheriff in
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Speaker 2: Lauderdale County, Sheriff, how far is it from where their
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Speaker 2: escape vehicle, the four Taurus Orange four Taurus was abandoned
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Speaker 2: to a major interstate It.
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Speaker 4: Was within about three miles the last sixty five just
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Speaker 4: south of Nashville and Franklin, Tennessee.
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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, just south of Nashville or Franklin about Okay, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I think I know what happened.
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Speaker 11: Nancy to interrupt jump in. But the interesting thing is,
27:41
Speaker 11: for the last nine months, I've been dropping through BESDA
27:44
Speaker 11: for a trilogy. Is working on to a spring Hill,
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Speaker 11: So I'm very familiar with that kind of like with
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Speaker 11: that route. It's a very rural area, but it is
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Speaker 11: close to the interstate spring Hill.
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Speaker 2: So what interstate was it? Sheriff I sixty five, and
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Speaker 2: that's just three miles south of Nashville and Franklin.
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Speaker 4: It was three miles east of ICE sixty five. It's
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Speaker 4: about twenty miles south of Nashville.
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Speaker 2: Where will I sixty five take you, Sheriff? If you
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Speaker 2: follow it, where will it go?
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Speaker 4: I sixty five originates in Mobile, Alabama on the southern end,
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Speaker 4: and it goes into Chicago.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I'm learning a lot right now. So here we
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Speaker 2: go I sixty five, three miles from I sixty five,
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Speaker 2: from where they dumped that car, he says. The sheriff
28:32
Speaker 2: tells us it looks like it had a flat. Trying
28:36
Speaker 2: to work the car over and see if there was
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Speaker 2: any other problem. It was not spray painted green before
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Speaker 2: it was left. They did that, So what is their thinking?
28:46
Speaker 2: Where will they go to you? Bobby Chaconne joining me
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Speaker 2: twenty seven years FBI agent. If they only had three
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Speaker 2: miles to walk, and this is in a rural area,
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Speaker 2: they could stay under the cover of trees, got to
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Speaker 2: get I would get canines out there to follow their
29:03
Speaker 2: sentenceee which way they were going, but obviously toward that
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Speaker 2: Interstate I sixty five. Once they get to I sixty five,
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Speaker 2: anybody could have picked them up. I mean, you're right
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Speaker 2: there at Nashville and Franklin. People from all over the
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Speaker 2: world are going to Nashville. How far north of Florence
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Speaker 2: were they? Was it two hours?
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Speaker 10: Yes, it is about two hours.
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Speaker 2: Or was it three? Was it two or three hours north?
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Speaker 4: Sheriff it's about two hours. The vehicle was found neu
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Speaker 4: east of spring Hill, as the gentleman said, spring Hill, Tennessee.
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Speaker 4: So yeah, it's about two hours from Florence, Alabama to
29:44
Speaker 4: that location.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, you know to Sheriffrick Singleton joining me, the
29:49
Speaker 2: elected sheriff, they're in Lauderdale County again, especially to you
29:54
Speaker 2: and Austin. I'm so grateful for you guys being with us,
29:58
Speaker 2: you know, trying to figure out, Sheriff Singleton, what else
30:02
Speaker 2: I can learn from that car that was abandoned. Obviously
30:07
Speaker 2: they tried to spray painted green. That tells me they
30:10
Speaker 2: wanted to stay in that car. That tells me they
30:13
Speaker 2: did not have a plan for a second vehicle. Tell
30:18
Speaker 2: me about you said and your press release in your
30:22
Speaker 2: conference that they left it in a very obvious spot.
30:27
Speaker 2: Do you believe that was by plan? I don't. What's
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Speaker 2: your thinking, Sheriff.
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Speaker 4: I don't perfectly think it was brand the reason it
30:38
Speaker 4: attracted attention so soon. This car was reported spotted at
30:44
Speaker 4: one fifty pm on Friday, April twenty ninth, the same
30:48
Speaker 4: morning as they escaped. They left the Florent area of
30:51
Speaker 4: approximately ten o'clock, so that's three hours and fifty minutes.
30:56
Speaker 4: That's a two hour drive. Obviously, they are somewhere on
30:59
Speaker 4: the raft and took the time to try to paint
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Speaker 4: the car. I don't really think it was because it
31:05
Speaker 4: was part right in an intersection. And what attracted the
31:08
Speaker 4: attention so soon was a homeowner right up the road
31:12
Speaker 4: was out walking and saw the vehicle and she was
31:16
Speaker 4: concerned the school bus would not be able to make
31:18
Speaker 4: the turn because it was abandoned at an intersection, and
31:21
Speaker 4: so she immediately called. This was just shortly before school
31:24
Speaker 4: was to let out, so she immediately called the sheriff office.
31:27
Speaker 4: They sent up dispatching the deputy. They had the car
31:30
Speaker 4: told and it was told at two thirty seven, So
31:33
Speaker 4: you know, I don't really think that was in their
31:35
Speaker 4: plan personally. Again, I can't prove that. I wish I could.
31:39
Speaker 4: I wish we had more. Fact, well, we knew exactly
31:41
Speaker 4: why they abandoned the car, but my gut's telling me
31:45
Speaker 4: that it threw them a curve, that they got caught
31:49
Speaker 4: without transportation and took some kind of desperate means to
31:53
Speaker 4: find transportation from there.
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Speaker 2: All right, now, you're telling me they abandoned the car.
31:57
Speaker 2: How many hours after they left the show popping center.
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Speaker 4: Thetro car was spotted on video at nine forty nine
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Speaker 4: am at an intersection just two blocks from where the
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Speaker 4: car was abandoned and where they switched vehicles. So you know,
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Speaker 4: by the time they got it part got into the
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Speaker 4: other vehicle, they were leaving the Farest area or prossibly
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Speaker 4: ten o'clock that morning. The car was found at one fifty,
32:23
Speaker 4: which was three hours and fifty minutes.
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Speaker 2: Prime Stories with Nancy Grace those of you just joining headline.
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Speaker 2: Infamous convicted felon Casey White takes a sweetheart plea deal
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Speaker 2: in an Alabama courtroom, never going to trial for the
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Speaker 2: death of his lover Vicky White reality. Maybe it was
33:15
Speaker 2: a sweetheart deal for the state too. Would a jury
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Speaker 2: have actually convicted him when his lover, jail boss, Vicky White,
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Speaker 2: shot herself as authorities closed in after nearly two weeks
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Speaker 2: on the run, would they hold Casey White libel under
33:33
Speaker 2: the strict letter of the law. Yes, but you never
33:38
Speaker 2: know what a jury is going to do. But I
33:39
Speaker 2: do know this, I know the fact surrounding this case.
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Speaker 2: Listen to what we have on record as the last
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Speaker 2: transmissions of hearing Vicky White on.
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Speaker 12: Radio He'll know.
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Speaker 8: Don We'll get out wrong hotel.
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Speaker 2: You are hearing the last utterances of Vicky White on
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Speaker 2: the run with their jailhouse lover six foot nine.
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Speaker 10: Uh.
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Speaker 2: At the least what happened after that is very well documented.
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Speaker 2: Take a listen to our cut thirty six our friends
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Speaker 2: a w ev V Fox forty four.
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Speaker 13: We are right over here just off of Highway forty
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Speaker 13: one and Bert and you can kind of see the
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Speaker 13: scene is very chaotic. Right now, we are still learning details,
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Speaker 13: but we can confirm that both Casey and VICKI one
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Speaker 13: is in custody and one is in the hospital. The
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Speaker 13: females actually in the hospital. We know that they are
34:59
Speaker 13: driving down here at least pursue about seventy miles per hour.
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Speaker 14: You can see that car flip over in the ditch.
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Speaker 2: Let's get out and run. The chilling nine to one
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Speaker 2: to one audio reveals on the run prison guard Vicky
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Speaker 2: White's last words to her escape belover Casey White special
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Speaker 2: guest joining us Sheriff Rick Singleton, the Lauderdale County elected sheriff. Sheriff,
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Speaker 2: thank you for being with us. I know that you're
35:27
Speaker 2: going through a lot right now, from losing a trusted
35:32
Speaker 2: jail house employee for many, many years, somebody that you respected,
35:38
Speaker 2: a co worker, a friend, the betrayal of that, and
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Speaker 2: now her death.
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Speaker 4: It's been a roller coaster in the last couple of weeks. Yeah,
35:52
Speaker 4: I just don't really know how to explain it. I
35:54
Speaker 4: may know. When we first got word that they had left,
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Speaker 4: our initial feeling was that he had somehow, you know,
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Speaker 4: overpowered her and taken her against her will. And it
36:10
Speaker 4: wasn't too many hours into the investigation when we realized
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Speaker 4: that she had played a part in it. We were
36:17
Speaker 4: still grasping straws, hoping that maybe someone from outside on
36:21
Speaker 4: his behalf had threatened her, threatened her family coerced her
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Speaker 4: into helping him escape, but within a matter of a
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Speaker 4: few days it became obvious.
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Speaker 2: That she was very much involved in this plan, very
36:35
Speaker 2: much involved in the plan, if not even the mastermind
36:38
Speaker 2: of the plan. Guys, take a listen to our cut
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Speaker 2: forty our friends at WZTM thirteen.
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Speaker 14: Nicky White has died tonight.
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Speaker 15: Investigators say she shot herself following a cour chase with
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Speaker 15: law enforcement. It all came to an end today in Evansville, Indiana.
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Speaker 15: That's about a two hundred and twenty mile journey from Laterdale.
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Speaker 4: This is the press conference we've been talking about all
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Speaker 4: week that we wanted to call.
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Speaker 14: After days of searching across the country.
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Speaker 4: Kasey White and Vicky White are in custody.
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Speaker 14: The duo was hunted down in Indiana.
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Speaker 15: US Marshalls received a tip about a car this Catillanc
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Speaker 15: believed to be driven by Casey and Vicki and Evansville.
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Speaker 14: That led to a chase.
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Speaker 4: The Marshal's Task Force officers intercepted them, actually collided with
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Speaker 4: them to try to in the pursuit.
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Speaker 15: After the crash, According to law enforcements, Vicky shot herself
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Speaker 15: and later died in the hospital, Casey peacefully surrendered.
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Speaker 4: We got a dangerous man off the street today. He
37:42
Speaker 4: is never going to see the light to day again.
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Speaker 2: Straight out to Brittany Harry joining us from WAA y
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Speaker 2: thirty one. You can find her on Facebook. Brittany Harry
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Speaker 2: needs Brittany, thank you for being with us. Explain how
37:55
Speaker 2: the whole thing unfolded. And you know, everybody keeps saying,
37:59
Speaker 2: we knew how it was going to end, we knew
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Speaker 2: how it was going to end. I felt all along
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Speaker 2: that there was a very high percentage if I was
38:08
Speaker 2: a betting person that somehow Vicky Fhite would end up dead.
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Speaker 2: And you hear her last words, let's get out run,
38:16
Speaker 2: And you hear her also saying, I knew we shouldn't
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Speaker 2: have left the hotel. We should never have left the hotel.
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Speaker 2: Tell me how the whole capture played out.
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Speaker 16: Here in Evansville. I have been in contact with the
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Speaker 16: sheriff here in police and local authorities, and what we know.
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Speaker 16: According to the sheriff, as he mentioned in a press
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Speaker 16: conference yesterday, was Vicky and Casey were seen leaving that
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Speaker 16: motel forty one along Highway forty one here in Evansville, Indiana,
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Speaker 16: and not long after they left the parking lot, we
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Speaker 16: know that a pursuit ensued and not long after that
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Speaker 16: it ended with a crash. But Sheriff Day Wedding here
38:51
Speaker 16: in Vanderberg County, Indiana said yesterday that US marshalls actually
38:55
Speaker 16: rammed the vehicle, that Cadillac that.
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Speaker 8: They were into a ditch.
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Speaker 16: That's really how that crash happened and how all of
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Speaker 16: this ended. And Sheriff Wedding said yesterday that had that
39:06
Speaker 16: not happened, this might have had a different ending because
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Speaker 16: he says that Casey told authorities that he planned to
39:13
Speaker 16: have a shootout with law enforcement. So Sheriff Wedding obviously
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Speaker 16: said that he's very very grateful that that is not
39:20
Speaker 16: what happened.
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Speaker 2: Here Sheriff Rick Singleton joining us, the elected Laurdal County
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Speaker 2: sheriff sheriff. How did they get the Caddy?
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Speaker 4: I understanding is they purchased it up. We found the
39:30
Speaker 4: first vehicle that we were able to identify, the Ford
39:33
Speaker 4: Edge abandoned in Tennessee actually a week after they left,
39:37
Speaker 4: and it was actually abandoned the day they left. We
39:42
Speaker 4: know that they purchased a black pickup truck in that
39:45
Speaker 4: area that's the pickup truck that was found at the
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Speaker 4: car wash up in Indiana. The local police ran that vehicle.
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Speaker 4: It didn't come back to Goldham because it wasn't total them.
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Speaker 4: They purchased it, they abandoned it and apparently got the
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Speaker 4: Cadillac I'm assuming and they probably purchased it too. They
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Speaker 4: had the cash with them.
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Speaker 2: Were they down to about twenty nine grand?
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Speaker 4: That's my understanding. That was the proximal amount that was recovered.
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Speaker 2: So they ran through seventy thousand dollars, Is that right, sheriff?
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Speaker 4: You know, she had already purchased one vehicle here. She
40:18
Speaker 4: had made several other purchases, clothes for him, you know,
40:23
Speaker 4: that sort of thing, So they had a considerable sum
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Speaker 4: of money.
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Speaker 2: It's amazing to me that they managed to pull off
40:29
Speaker 2: so many car purchases. Staying in a hotel, they had
40:33
Speaker 2: to eat. How were they getting that? Were they going out?
40:36
Speaker 2: Were they ordering in? How did they register into the
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Speaker 2: hotel without driver's licenses or without anyone identifying them. We
40:45
Speaker 2: understand they may have paid a guy to register at
40:48
Speaker 2: the hotel, But the buying of the multiple cars, the vehicles,
40:52
Speaker 2: the hotel, the food, the car wash take a listen
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Speaker 2: hour cut thirty seven our friends at Waay.
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Speaker 9: Just today, Investigation released this photo of a two thousand
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Speaker 9: and six Ford F one to fifty pickup truck in
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Speaker 9: Evansville that authorities say the couple abandoned at a car
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Speaker 9: wash around May third. It wasn't until Sunday that authority's
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Speaker 9: got the tip. Turns out the two were still in
41:15
Speaker 9: the area.
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Speaker 4: We got a dangerous man off the street today. He
41:19
Speaker 4: is never going to see the line to day again.
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Speaker 9: For days, law enforcement had urged the public to be
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Speaker 9: on the lookout, hoping Casey White's six foot nine, three
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Speaker 9: hundred and forty pounds size would make him easy to spot.
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Speaker 9: Sheriff Singleton is anxious to have him back in custody
41:33
Speaker 9: in North Alabama to face charges of capital murder from
41:36
Speaker 9: the twenty fifteen stabbing of Connie Ridgeway.
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Speaker 4: We've already made arrangument for the Department of Correction. He
41:42
Speaker 4: will be brought here for arrangement. If it's two o'clock
41:44
Speaker 4: in the morning, it doesn't matter. The judge was agreed
41:46
Speaker 4: to come out.
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Speaker 2: Another good feature of a guilty plea is that it
41:50
Speaker 2: can very rarely be overturned. May an appellate court, unlike
41:55
Speaker 2: a trial. Hopefully Vicki White's family finally getting peace. Nancy
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Speaker 2: Grace Crime Story signing off goodbye friend,