Corrections Officer and Murder Suspect Go Missing, Authorities on High Alert

Authorities in Lauderdale County, 🚀Alabama, are searching for a corrections officer and a capital murder suspect who both disappeared Friday morning.

Deputy Vicki White and inmate Casey Cole White were last seen leaving a local detention center at around 9:30 a.m. Friday.

The vehicle in which the two left the detention center was found in a shopping center parking lot in Florence at around 11 a.m., WVTM-TV reported.

Officials realized the pair were missing at about 3:30, according to the Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office.

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Despite sharing a last name, Vicki and Casy are not related to each other, the sheriff’s office said.

At a Friday evening news conference, Sheriff Rick Singleton said Vicki told her colleagues that she was taking Casey to the courthouse for a mental health evaluation. She also told a booking officer that she was going to seek medical attention for herself because she did not feel well.

The two never reached the courthouse. Furthermore, there was no mental health evaluation scheduled for Casey.

Vicki’s decision to transport Casey by herself constituted a policy violation, the sheriff said. Vicki was armed with a 9mm gun when they left the detention center, CBS News reported.

“Knowing the inmate, I think is in danger, whatever the circumstances,” Singleton said. “He was in jail for capital murder and, you know, he had nothing to lose.”