Vicky White, jail official accused of helping Alabama murder suspect escape, died of self-inflicted gunshot wound, coroner says

Vicky White, the Alabama corrections official accused of helping capital murder suspect Casey White escape custody, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, the Vanderburgh County Coroners Office said Tuesday night. Vicky White, 56, died Monday night, hours after she and Casey White were apprehended in Evansville, Indiana, after a more than weeklong manhunt.

"The manner of death has been ruled a suicide," the coroner's office said.

According to authorities, Casey White told law enforcement officials who captured him that Vicky White had shot herself. The two are not related, but he did refer to her as his "wife," U.S. Marshals said.