Officials now suspect that an Alabama corrections officer willingly helped a murder suspect escape last week, according to a sheriff in comments published Wednesday morning.
“The pieces of the puzzle just came together,” Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton told ABC News in an interview.
Law enforcement officials said that Casey Cole White, 38, disappeared last week with prison official Vicky White, who officials said are not related. Casey White was currently serving a prison term for a number of charges, but he was still facing trial for capital murder and could face the death penalty.
Casey White was charged with two counts of murder in the slaying of 58-year-old Connie Ridgeway, while the U.S. Marshals Service said that he was facing a 75-year sentence for a separate crime spree that included a police chase, a home invasion, and a carjacking.
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