During a routine hearing in a Lauderdale County courtroom, White entered his plea to first-degree escape, in exchange for the felony murder charge involving Vicky White being dismissed.
White pled guilty to the charge and accepted the maximum penalty in exchange for the felony murder charge being dropped. Vicky White's family approved the deal.
By Sara Smart and Rebekah Riess, CNN Casey White, the inmate who famously escaped from an Alabama jail with corrections officer Vicky White, reached a plea deal in which he will not be tried in his lover’s death.
Casey White pleaded guilty to his jail escape, which precipitated a multiday manhunt that ended in the death of a corrections officer who authorities said helped him.
White pled guilty to the charge and accepted the maximum penalty in exchange for the felony murder charge being dropped. Vicky White's family approved the deal.
Casey White escaped from an Alabama jail with the help of Vicky White, a sheriff's official, last year. Vicky White died after an intense 11-day manhunt.
When Casey White escaped from Lauderdale County Detention Center with the help of Vicky White, the Assistant Director of Corrections, it captured the attention of Alabama and much of the country.
