Cars, cash, wigs and guns: How the Alabama jailbreak came to a deadly end
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Their flight from justice spanned three states and grabbed national attention. It ended Monday evening in Evansville, Indiana, with Casey White in custody and Vicky White dead.
Around 9:30 a.m. on April 29, Vicky White, a 5-foot-5 blonde woman, was working her last day on the job as an assistant director of corrections in Lauderdale County, Alabama.
She ordered her subordinates to prepare Casey White, 38, for transport from the county jail in Florence to a courthouse for a mental evaluation. But no such evaluation was scheduled.
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