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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.

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Speaker 2: Love behind the prison bars turns deadly. I'm Nancy Grace,

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Speaker 2: this is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us

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Speaker 2: here at Fox Nation. And Sirius x sem one eleven

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Speaker 2: the infamous Alabama inmate Casey White, who stages a bizarre

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Speaker 2: and almost unbelievable breakout from jail with the help of

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Speaker 2: his female lover and now dead jail boss Vicky White

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Speaker 2: in the last hours a stunning turn of events, during

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Speaker 2: a routine courtroom hearing regarding the case of Casey White,

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Speaker 2: the convicted Ellen unexpectedly goes to a mic and apologizes

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Speaker 2: to jail boss Vicky White's family, admitting in open court

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Speaker 2: to the stunning escape that led to a wild, nearly

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Speaker 2: two week manhunt last spring. Then everything changes. In exchange

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Speaker 2: for a guilty plead to first degree escape, Casey White,

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Speaker 2: thirty nine years old, gets the sweetheart deal of prosecutors

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Speaker 2: dropping the murder charge he was facing in his lover,

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Speaker 2: Vicky White's death. This very unplanned plea deal hastily arranged

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Speaker 2: when Casey White appeared at the courthouse Thursday for a

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Speaker 2: routine status hearing. Now after the defense went to prosecutors

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Speaker 2: with a potential resolution, The DA's office went to Vicky

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Speaker 2: White's family. Now, according to what we have learned, Vicky's

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Speaker 2: family relieved that the entire ordeal is almost over and

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Speaker 2: that it's all behind them. Or is it what really happened?

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Speaker 2: A female jail guard apparently helps a killer a thirty

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Speaker 2: six escape and both have seemingly vanished off the face

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Speaker 2: of the earth. First of all, take a listen to

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Speaker 2: our friends at WVTM thirteen.

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Speaker 3: Happening now in North Alabama, the search continues for an

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Speaker 3: escaped inmate and missing suff deputy. A blue alert was

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Speaker 3: issued yesterday, hours after Deputy Vicky White failed to show

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Speaker 3: up with Casey White, who was not related to her.

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Speaker 3: The Lauderdale County Sheriff says the inmate was never scheduled

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Speaker 3: to be in court and says their disappearance comes with

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Speaker 3: plenty of unanswered questions.

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Speaker 4: Did she assist him in escaping? That Bob to say,

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Speaker 4: a possibility, So we're looking into that. At one angle

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Speaker 4: of the investigation, was she kidnapped and route to the

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Speaker 4: courthouse and you know, taking against her wheel.

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Speaker 3: Well, the inmate, Casey White, is currently facing capital murder charges.

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Speaker 3: He's considered to be armed and dangerous, as Deputy White

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Speaker 3: was armed at the.

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Speaker 2: Time, So now we believe they are armed to the hilt.

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Speaker 2: She has her service weapon and what does he have?

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Speaker 2: How do we think this happened to Kwan Lee?

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Speaker 5: Now, this situation is pretty remarkable. We have a lady

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Speaker 5: who recently just filed for retirement the day before this

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Speaker 5: escape happened, and just recently. So the situation and as

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Speaker 5: we start getting more details about it, it really bolkles

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Speaker 5: my mind. For one thing. It's another thing to see

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Speaker 5: how coordinated this attempt. Well, this escape has been from

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Speaker 5: top to bottom.

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Speaker 2: What do you mean by coordinating?

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Speaker 5: Well, I'm not necessarily saying that she is in a

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Speaker 5: breeding but when you look at too many circumstances that

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Speaker 5: seem so TV is.

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Speaker 2: Like TV is, You're right.

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Speaker 5: Go ahead, Now, imagine you're selling Netflix a TV series,

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Speaker 5: a mini series, a docu series, if you will, where

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Speaker 5: you have this correstional officer and you have this inmate

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Speaker 5: that's in accused with murder, and they escaped together. She

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Speaker 5: recently sold her house, she recently filed for retirement. Netflix

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Speaker 5: would eat this up. They would actually tell you it's

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Speaker 5: too so and too cheesy to actually put on their lineup.

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Speaker 5: But here we walk today and you have this situation

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Speaker 5: going out in front of us right here around ten o'clock.

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Speaker 5: They say they're getting rid of the head to a

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Speaker 5: mental health evaluation session that we now know is bogus.

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Speaker 5: And now we have two people on the run for

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Speaker 5: the past couple of days, and now we've got all

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Speaker 5: the big wigs involved trying to figure out where these

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Speaker 5: two could have possibly gone. It's absolutely lud.

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Speaker 2: This guy has already murdered a woman at least once

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Speaker 2: Her life is in danger. I mean, there is no

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Speaker 2: two ways about it, Sheriff.

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Speaker 4: Oh exactly. And you know, talking about the way that

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Speaker 4: this would orchestra. Of course, we now know that she

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Speaker 4: obviously assisted him escape the facts that we've been able

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Speaker 4: to put together. Director White was the assistant director of

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Speaker 4: were to coordinate all transports, all inmate transport.

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Speaker 2: Hold on, Sheriff. I don't think the rest of the

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Speaker 2: world knows how difficult a task that is. I remember

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Speaker 2: If people have been extradited, going under guard underneath the

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Speaker 2: to do all that exactly.

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Speaker 4: Just about a few minutes before she left the detention

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Speaker 4: center with inmate Casey White, two vans of inmates had

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Speaker 4: which is about four blocks up the street. Just minutes

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Speaker 4: after that second van left, Director White instructed one of

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Speaker 4: the correction deputies to bring Casey White up and prepare

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Speaker 4: him for transport. By that we mean that he was handcuffed,

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Speaker 4: leg shackles were put on him. She then advised the

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Speaker 4: certified depty available to carry him, and she was going

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Speaker 4: over to other depties, and from there she was going

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Speaker 4: to get a medical check up because she wasn't feeling

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Speaker 2: So when you say he said something else, it's really critical.

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Speaker 2: Double shackle. He's got handcuffs and leg shackles. The only

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Speaker 2: other thing you could have done is put a chain

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Speaker 2: handcuffs chain to the waist shackle, and that.

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Speaker 4: Was in place. He did have the waist chain on him.

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Speaker 2: Gosh, she had to help him. You can't get out

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Speaker 2: of a triple shackle like that, just like unless you've

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Speaker 2: got the key. I mean, maybe somebody that could get

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Speaker 2: a handcuffs like they do in the movies. That does happen.

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Speaker 2: You can actually wrangle around sometimes and get out of them,

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Speaker 2: but out of a waist and a leg shackle, which

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Speaker 2: was right. This guy's a convenient is a killer. Of

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Speaker 2: course he should be triple shackles, but to do.

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Speaker 4: That, he'd had to be in a Hootini. He's got

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Speaker 4: five minutes, less than five minutes a four block drive

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Speaker 4: in a four block area that's very heavily traveled as

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Speaker 4: far as traffic goes, So there's just no way. They

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Speaker 4: never headed towards the courthouse. You went through the intersection

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Speaker 4: turned right and went to the shopping center where they

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Speaker 2: Joining me. Percy pittser a former federal warren, thirty year

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Speaker 2: career in corrections and founder of Creative Corrections Educational Foundation.

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Speaker 2: You can find them at CCEEF Scholarships dot org. Percy,

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Speaker 2: think so great to have you with us today. Well,

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Speaker 2: thank you for having me. What protocols are typically in

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Speaker 2: safe now you're a fed, But what protocols would typically

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Speaker 2: be in set in place? So a single warden as

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Speaker 2: I'm calling her, would not be tempted in any way

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Speaker 6: Well, you know, I think even more important is how

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Speaker 6: is she allowed to get out of that jail? You know,

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Speaker 6: it doesn't make sense. I was awarded and there's no

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Speaker 6: way a doiscrectional officer would not push that button to

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Speaker 6: let me out what it mean.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean she had the indisha of reliability and authority.

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Speaker 2: And I'm going to pose your question to Sheriff Singleton.

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Speaker 2: Percy Pitcher is saying, no way would under optimal conditions

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Speaker 2: anyone buzzed them out. But this woman, Vicky White, was

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Speaker 2: in charge of transport. She had the guy triple shackled

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Speaker 2: an armored vehicle. In other words, it's scott the medal

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Speaker 2: they can't jump out of a window. Why not let

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Speaker 4: You know, assistant director. Of course she's also their supervisor.

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Speaker 4: And you know, the unfortunate thing about the correction profession

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Speaker 4: is it's hard to find people.

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Speaker 5: That take that job.

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Speaker 4: It's a very stressful job, a very challenging job, and

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Speaker 4: it's not a job that anyone can do. I hired

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Speaker 4: never came back and said he just couldn't handle it.

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Speaker 4: It's a very stressful job. And so we have a

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Speaker 4: and it also is not uncommon for us to get

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Speaker 4: the way, I need this inmate. And that's primarily what

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Speaker 4: Director of White would do. If that happened, then she

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Speaker 4: would typically take that one inmate in her patrol car

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Speaker 4: courthouse and turnel over to other deputies. Now, in this

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Speaker 4: case where you got a capital murder suspect that was

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Speaker 2: She's the assistant director du Kwan Lee. Isn't true? This woman,

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Speaker 2: accused killer. Well, there's no doubt he did it. He confessed.

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Speaker 2: She filed for retirement. She started early in this business,

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Speaker 2: and she had been employee of the Year. I don't

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Speaker 2: mean of the month over at Walmart where they changed

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Speaker 2: about of the year.

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Speaker 5: That's correct, like.

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Speaker 2: Four times in a row. She had medals of commendation.

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Speaker 2: This woman was wethought pure, is the driven snow? I

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Speaker 2: mean that I've looked into her record. That's the one

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Speaker 5: And Sheriff Singleton can confirm this. She was highly touted

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Speaker 5: amongst her coworkers. She never was suspected to be a

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Speaker 5: person that could aid in a criminal rule. It's actually

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Speaker 5: out of the blue.

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Speaker 2: When you are with the worst of the worst day in,

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Speaker 2: day out, you have got to have nerves, a steal

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Speaker 2: a steal to do it.

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Speaker 4: Sheriff absolutely, and Vicky White was with the department almost

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Speaker 4: seventeen years. She'd had an unblemished record, not a single

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Speaker 4: disciplinary action in her file. She was I've been sheriff

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Speaker 4: seven years. For those seven years she was voted by

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Speaker 4: her peers and coworkers as a supervisor or employee of

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Speaker 4: the year. In our correcting division. Everyone had the highest

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Speaker 4: regard and respect for the director told me Friday night

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Speaker 4: that it was like a funeral week at the detention center.

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Speaker 4: Her co workers were so upset about what had happened.

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Speaker 4: And you know, people, do you know you just have

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Speaker 4: to have been part of this family, this Sheriff's Office,

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Speaker 4: Correction Division family to understand how devastating this has been

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Speaker 4: to our employees. I mean, she was highly respected I

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Speaker 4: by the judges.

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Speaker 2: disturbing similarities of evil between these horrible crimes. We speak

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Speaker 2: with two female Ted Bundy survivors, Karen Pryor and Cheryl Thomas,

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Speaker 2: defense attorney, John Henry Brown. We traveled to Moscow, Idaho,

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Speaker 2: For those of you just joining us in the Last

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Speaker 2: Day Infamous Alabama convicted felon gets a sweetheart deal, pleading

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Speaker 2: guilty to a prison escape in exchange for prosecutors dropping

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Speaker 2: a murder charge in Vicky White's death. Now, this was

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Speaker 2: a textbook felony murder charge in the death of jail

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Speaker 2: boss Vicky White. This is how it works. Felony murder

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Speaker 2: simply means that during the commission of a felony, any felony,

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Speaker 2: great example. Let's just say Jackie and I decide to

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Speaker 2: rob a bank, and we make it very clear, nobody

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Speaker 1: I look at her like what you lost your mind?

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Speaker 2: Well, long story short after we're caught racing away like

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Speaker 1: I'm busted for felony murder.

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Speaker 2: I was committing a felony and a death occurred, whether

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Speaker 2: I wanted it to or not. I'm on the hook

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Speaker 2: for felony murder in this case, during the escape a

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Speaker 2: prison jail bust, Vicky White ends up dead. As it

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Speaker 2: turns out it was by her own gun, shooting herself

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Speaker 2: that's textbook felony murder. So in exchange for the guilty

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Speaker 2: I will never forget the course of events that unfolded

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Speaker 7: We start with new details in the nationwide man hunt

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Speaker 7: for an escaped Lauderdale County inmate and corrections a supervisor

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Speaker 7: who the Sheriff's office, it says, helped him. New video

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Speaker 7: from the Lauderdale County Sheriff's Office. It shows former corrections

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Speaker 7: supervisor Vicky White. She was checking out of the quality

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Speaker 7: in in Florence in this video. This is the same

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Speaker 7: day she disappeared with capital murder suspect Casey White. The

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Speaker 7: hotel is located near where the pair got into their

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Speaker 7: getaway vehicle. The car was found in Tennessee, just south

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Speaker 2: Wow, so many questions with me an all star panel,

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Speaker 2: but the first person I want to go to is

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Speaker 2: special guest Sheriff Rick Singleton, the Lauderdale County Sheriff. Sheriff,

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Speaker 2: thank you for being with us. Sheriff. A couple of

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Speaker 2: quick things based on what we just heard. Where the

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Speaker 2: car was found in Florence, that is north of Lauderdale County.

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Speaker 4: It's lotually the county seat of Lauderdale County. The car

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Speaker 2: Okay, well you know what I got that half right?

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Speaker 2: Hold on, So that was in Bethesda and you're saying

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Speaker 2: it's two hours north, correct, yes, ma'am. Would that suggests

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Speaker 2: to you, Sheriff, that they are in fact headed north,

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Speaker 2: because no way would they go two hours north and

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Speaker 2: to get lost in Florida. They're definitely traveling north. Wouldn't

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Speaker 4: That's the indication from where the car was found. We

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Speaker 4: not We do not know how they left that area,

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Speaker 4: you know, where the car was abandoned, if they hitched

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Speaker 4: a ride, if they stole another vehicle. Through our knowledge,

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Speaker 4: we haven't gotten any reports of stolen vehicles in the area.

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Speaker 4: If they had a second car. You know, we're just

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Speaker 2: Let's analyze what you just said here. Rick Singleton said

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Speaker 2: they either walked away from the car. They either hitched

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Speaker 2: to analyze did they have another car ready? First question, Sheriff,

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Speaker 2: why did they ditch the car? Did they have car trouble?

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Speaker 4: Well, we're still not certain that that was the issue.

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Speaker 4: The car was abandoned in a rural area on a

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Speaker 4: two things. Either even ditched the vehicle there to throw

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Speaker 4: from the investigators if they checked the mechanics of the car.

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Speaker 4: It appeared from one photo I've seen, and I've not

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Speaker 2: This woman, Vicky White Karen Stark in this Vicky White

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Speaker 2: made elaborate plans, and Sheriff correct me if I'm wrong.

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Speaker 2: She planned down to the day of her retirement. She

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Speaker 2: the night before she bought the getaway car under an

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Speaker 2: She had everything planned. She'd been talking to her coworkers

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Speaker 2: why wouldn't there be a planned be Karen stark Well, hearing.

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Speaker 8: What everyone had to say, Nancy, it seems to me,

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Speaker 8: I mean, this is a very shrewd woman. She could

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Speaker 8: have been working on this, I suspect for years, and

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Speaker 8: so there had to be some kind of a backup plan.

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Speaker 8: If to me, if she painted it, they planned to

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Speaker 8: I have no doubt they found another vehicle so that

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Speaker 2: Do you think they had a plan B? Just boil

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Speaker 2: it down for me, okay, because I'm just a JD.

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Speaker 2: You're the shrink Plan B or no plan? By very

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Speaker 2: simple Yes, yes, you think there was a plan. B Okay,

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Speaker 2: Sheriff Singleton. You know what else I think was planned?

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Speaker 2: Something that his mother said, how she's talking about how

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Speaker 2: he's really not a bad guy. Okay, bs on that

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Speaker 2: she said, Sheriff, Oh, he didn't kill that woman. He

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Speaker 2: just confessed to it so he could get brought back

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Speaker 2: he killed Austin's mother, we know that. But did he

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Speaker 4: Well, I know that that theory is out there. I

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Speaker 4: Some other things about how calculating Vicky White was in

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Speaker 4: And uh, you know the the thing about the abandoned car,

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Speaker 4: we get amnification on the car sooner, it looked like

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Speaker 4: still a lot of questions will be answered to turning.

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Speaker 4: You know the car and where it was abandoned, and

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Speaker 4: how they left that area. We're looking at every possible.

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Speaker 2: Scenario, a stunning plea deal. In the case of convicted

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Speaker 2: takes a plea deal, the plea deal life behind bars

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Speaker 2: for a string of felonies. And remember he was already

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Speaker 2: behind bars when he escaped. But how did the whole

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Speaker 2: thing unfold at the time? How was this possible? You

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Speaker 2: said that she had been shopping from men's clothing ahead

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Speaker 2: of the bus, right, yes, ma'am. Now, I think that's

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Speaker 2: where that rumor is circulating, that they stopped at some

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Speaker 4: Right, yes, ma'am. That was in the days leading up

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Speaker 2: Wow, you're doing a lot of background work. What about

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Speaker 4: Well, it was. It was a very obvious part spot.

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Speaker 4: It was right on the side of one of the

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Speaker 4: there are several other cars parked there that are for sale,

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Speaker 2: But what I'm getting at, Sheriff is if you could

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Speaker 2: see it on video, couldn't you see him? I mean,

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Speaker 4: No, ma'am. There was no video footage in the shop

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Speaker 4: He thought that was odd being it was parked there

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Speaker 2: Sale, and Sheriff, it didn't already have the green paint

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Speaker 2: Gotcha? Okay? You know, I want to serve one more thing,

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Speaker 2: Sheriff before I go to Austin and Xavier wheary, Sheriff,

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Speaker 2: what about his medication? Is it medication that he has

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Speaker 2: to have refilled?

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Speaker 4: He is on medication, and you know there's no medication

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Speaker 2: I'm just wondering if it's anything that he's going to

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Speaker 2: they're going to have to stop and get somehow or

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Speaker 2: he joining me from w A A Y TV. Xavier,

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Speaker 2: thanks for being with us, tell me the very latest.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, So, I mean really after speaking with Sheriff Singleton.

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Speaker 10: We're still just trying to make sure that we, you know,

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Speaker 2: Hey, Sheriff Rick Singleton joining me, the elected sheriff in

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Speaker 2: Lauderdale County, Sheriff, how far is it from where their

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Speaker 2: escape vehicle, the four Taurus Orange four Taurus was abandoned

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Speaker 2: to a major interstate It.

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Speaker 4: Was within about three miles the last sixty five just

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Speaker 4: south of Nashville and Franklin, Tennessee.

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, just south of Nashville or Franklin about Okay, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think I know what happened.

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Speaker 11: Nancy to interrupt jump in. But the interesting thing is,

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Speaker 11: for the last nine months, I've been dropping through BESDA

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Speaker 11: for a trilogy. Is working on to a spring Hill,

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Speaker 11: So I'm very familiar with that kind of like with

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Speaker 11: that route. It's a very rural area, but it is

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Speaker 11: close to the interstate spring Hill.

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Speaker 2: So what interstate was it? Sheriff I sixty five, and

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Speaker 2: that's just three miles south of Nashville and Franklin.

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Speaker 4: It was three miles east of ICE sixty five. It's

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Speaker 4: about twenty miles south of Nashville.

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Speaker 2: Where will I sixty five take you, Sheriff? If you

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Speaker 2: follow it, where will it go?

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Speaker 4: I sixty five originates in Mobile, Alabama on the southern end,

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Speaker 4: and it goes into Chicago.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I'm learning a lot right now. So here we

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Speaker 2: go I sixty five, three miles from I sixty five,

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Speaker 2: from where they dumped that car, he says. The sheriff

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Speaker 2: tells us it looks like it had a flat. Trying

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Speaker 2: to work the car over and see if there was

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Speaker 2: any other problem. It was not spray painted green before

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Speaker 2: it was left. They did that, So what is their thinking?

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Speaker 2: Where will they go to you? Bobby Chaconne joining me

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Speaker 2: twenty seven years FBI agent. If they only had three

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Speaker 2: miles to walk, and this is in a rural area,

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Speaker 2: they could stay under the cover of trees, got to

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Speaker 2: get I would get canines out there to follow their

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Speaker 2: sentenceee which way they were going, but obviously toward that

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Speaker 2: Interstate I sixty five. Once they get to I sixty five,

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Speaker 2: anybody could have picked them up. I mean, you're right

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Speaker 2: there at Nashville and Franklin. People from all over the

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Speaker 2: world are going to Nashville. How far north of Florence

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Speaker 2: were they? Was it two hours?

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Speaker 10: Yes, it is about two hours.

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Speaker 2: Or was it three? Was it two or three hours north?

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Speaker 4: Sheriff it's about two hours. The vehicle was found neu

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Speaker 4: east of spring Hill, as the gentleman said, spring Hill, Tennessee.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, it's about two hours from Florence, Alabama to

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Speaker 4: that location.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, you know to Sheriffrick Singleton joining me, the

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Speaker 2: elected sheriff, they're in Lauderdale County again, especially to you

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Speaker 2: and Austin. I'm so grateful for you guys being with us,

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Speaker 2: you know, trying to figure out, Sheriff Singleton, what else

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Speaker 2: I can learn from that car that was abandoned. Obviously

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Speaker 2: they tried to spray painted green. That tells me they

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Speaker 2: wanted to stay in that car. That tells me they

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Speaker 2: did not have a plan for a second vehicle. Tell

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Speaker 2: me about you said and your press release in your

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Speaker 2: conference that they left it in a very obvious spot.

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Speaker 2: Do you believe that was by plan? I don't. What's

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Speaker 2: your thinking, Sheriff.

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Speaker 4: I don't perfectly think it was brand the reason it

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Speaker 4: attracted attention so soon. This car was reported spotted at

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Speaker 4: one fifty pm on Friday, April twenty ninth, the same

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Speaker 4: morning as they escaped. They left the Florent area of

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Speaker 4: approximately ten o'clock, so that's three hours and fifty minutes.

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Speaker 4: That's a two hour drive. Obviously, they are somewhere on

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Speaker 4: the raft and took the time to try to paint

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Speaker 4: the car. I don't really think it was because it

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Speaker 4: was part right in an intersection. And what attracted the

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Speaker 4: attention so soon was a homeowner right up the road

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Speaker 4: was out walking and saw the vehicle and she was

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Speaker 4: concerned the school bus would not be able to make

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Speaker 4: the turn because it was abandoned at an intersection, and

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Speaker 4: so she immediately called. This was just shortly before school

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Speaker 4: was to let out, so she immediately called the sheriff office.

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Speaker 4: They sent up dispatching the deputy. They had the car

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Speaker 4: told and it was told at two thirty seven, So

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Speaker 4: you know, I don't really think that was in their

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Speaker 4: plan personally. Again, I can't prove that. I wish I could.

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Speaker 4: I wish we had more. Fact, well, we knew exactly

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Speaker 4: why they abandoned the car, but my gut's telling me

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Speaker 4: that it threw them a curve, that they got caught

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Speaker 4: without transportation and took some kind of desperate means to

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Speaker 4: find transportation from there.

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Speaker 2: All right, now, you're telling me they abandoned the car.

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Speaker 2: How many hours after they left the show popping center.

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Speaker 4: Thetro car was spotted on video at nine forty nine

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Speaker 4: am at an intersection just two blocks from where the

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Speaker 4: car was abandoned and where they switched vehicles. So you know,

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Speaker 4: by the time they got it part got into the

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Speaker 4: other vehicle, they were leaving the Farest area or prossibly

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Speaker 4: ten o'clock that morning. The car was found at one fifty,

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Speaker 4: which was three hours and fifty minutes.

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Speaker 2: Prime Stories with Nancy Grace those of you just joining headline.

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Speaker 2: Infamous convicted felon Casey White takes a sweetheart plea deal

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Speaker 2: in an Alabama courtroom, never going to trial for the

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Speaker 2: death of his lover Vicky White reality. Maybe it was

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Speaker 2: a sweetheart deal for the state too. Would a jury

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Speaker 2: have actually convicted him when his lover, jail boss, Vicky White,

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Speaker 2: shot herself as authorities closed in after nearly two weeks

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Speaker 2: on the run, would they hold Casey White libel under

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Speaker 2: the strict letter of the law. Yes, but you never

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Speaker 2: know what a jury is going to do. But I

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Speaker 2: do know this, I know the fact surrounding this case.

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Speaker 2: Listen to what we have on record as the last

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Speaker 2: transmissions of hearing Vicky White on.

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Speaker 12: Radio He'll know.

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Speaker 8: Don We'll get out wrong hotel.

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Speaker 2: You are hearing the last utterances of Vicky White on

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Speaker 2: the run with their jailhouse lover six foot nine.

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Speaker 10: Uh.

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Speaker 2: At the least what happened after that is very well documented.

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Speaker 2: Take a listen to our cut thirty six our friends

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Speaker 2: a w ev V Fox forty four.

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Speaker 13: We are right over here just off of Highway forty

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Speaker 13: one and Bert and you can kind of see the

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Speaker 13: scene is very chaotic. Right now, we are still learning details,

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Speaker 13: but we can confirm that both Casey and VICKI one

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Speaker 13: is in custody and one is in the hospital. The

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Speaker 13: females actually in the hospital. We know that they are

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Speaker 13: driving down here at least pursue about seventy miles per hour.

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Speaker 14: You can see that car flip over in the ditch.

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Speaker 2: Let's get out and run. The chilling nine to one

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Speaker 2: to one audio reveals on the run prison guard Vicky

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Speaker 2: White's last words to her escape belover Casey White special

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Speaker 2: guest joining us Sheriff Rick Singleton, the Lauderdale County elected sheriff. Sheriff,

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Speaker 2: thank you for being with us. I know that you're

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Speaker 2: going through a lot right now, from losing a trusted

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Speaker 2: jail house employee for many, many years, somebody that you respected,

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Speaker 2: a co worker, a friend, the betrayal of that, and

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Speaker 2: now her death.

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Speaker 4: It's been a roller coaster in the last couple of weeks. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I just don't really know how to explain it. I

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Speaker 4: may know. When we first got word that they had left,

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Speaker 4: our initial feeling was that he had somehow, you know,

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Speaker 4: overpowered her and taken her against her will. And it

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Speaker 4: wasn't too many hours into the investigation when we realized

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Speaker 4: that she had played a part in it. We were

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Speaker 4: still grasping straws, hoping that maybe someone from outside on

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Speaker 4: his behalf had threatened her, threatened her family coerced her

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Speaker 4: into helping him escape, but within a matter of a

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Speaker 4: few days it became obvious.

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Speaker 2: That she was very much involved in this plan, very

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Speaker 2: much involved in the plan, if not even the mastermind

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Speaker 2: of the plan. Guys, take a listen to our cut

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Speaker 2: forty our friends at WZTM thirteen.

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Speaker 14: Nicky White has died tonight.

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Speaker 15: Investigators say she shot herself following a cour chase with

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Speaker 15: law enforcement. It all came to an end today in Evansville, Indiana.

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Speaker 15: That's about a two hundred and twenty mile journey from Laterdale.

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Speaker 4: This is the press conference we've been talking about all

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Speaker 4: week that we wanted to call.

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Speaker 14: After days of searching across the country.

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Speaker 4: Kasey White and Vicky White are in custody.

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Speaker 14: The duo was hunted down in Indiana.

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Speaker 15: US Marshalls received a tip about a car this Catillanc

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Speaker 15: believed to be driven by Casey and Vicki and Evansville.

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Speaker 14: That led to a chase.

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Speaker 4: The Marshal's Task Force officers intercepted them, actually collided with

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Speaker 4: them to try to in the pursuit.

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Speaker 15: After the crash, According to law enforcements, Vicky shot herself

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Speaker 15: and later died in the hospital, Casey peacefully surrendered.

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Speaker 4: We got a dangerous man off the street today. He

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Speaker 4: is never going to see the light to day again.

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Speaker 2: Straight out to Brittany Harry joining us from WAA y

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Speaker 2: thirty one. You can find her on Facebook. Brittany Harry

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Speaker 2: needs Brittany, thank you for being with us. Explain how

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Speaker 2: the whole thing unfolded. And you know, everybody keeps saying,

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Speaker 2: we knew how it was going to end, we knew

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Speaker 2: how it was going to end. I felt all along

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Speaker 2: that there was a very high percentage if I was

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Speaker 2: a betting person that somehow Vicky Fhite would end up dead.

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Speaker 2: And you hear her last words, let's get out run,

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Speaker 2: And you hear her also saying, I knew we shouldn't

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Speaker 2: have left the hotel. We should never have left the hotel.

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Speaker 2: Tell me how the whole capture played out.

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Speaker 16: Here in Evansville. I have been in contact with the

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Speaker 16: sheriff here in police and local authorities, and what we know.

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Speaker 16: According to the sheriff, as he mentioned in a press

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Speaker 16: conference yesterday, was Vicky and Casey were seen leaving that

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Speaker 16: motel forty one along Highway forty one here in Evansville, Indiana,

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Speaker 16: and not long after they left the parking lot, we

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Speaker 16: know that a pursuit ensued and not long after that

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Speaker 16: it ended with a crash. But Sheriff Day Wedding here

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Speaker 16: in Vanderberg County, Indiana said yesterday that US marshalls actually

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Speaker 16: rammed the vehicle, that Cadillac that.

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Speaker 8: They were into a ditch.

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Speaker 16: That's really how that crash happened and how all of

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Speaker 16: this ended. And Sheriff Wedding said yesterday that had that

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Speaker 16: not happened, this might have had a different ending because

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Speaker 16: he says that Casey told authorities that he planned to

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Speaker 16: have a shootout with law enforcement. So Sheriff Wedding obviously

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Speaker 16: said that he's very very grateful that that is not

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Speaker 16: what happened.

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Speaker 2: Here Sheriff Rick Singleton joining us, the elected Laurdal County

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Speaker 2: sheriff sheriff. How did they get the Caddy?

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Speaker 4: I understanding is they purchased it up. We found the

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Speaker 4: first vehicle that we were able to identify, the Ford

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Speaker 4: Edge abandoned in Tennessee actually a week after they left,

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Speaker 4: and it was actually abandoned the day they left. We

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Speaker 4: know that they purchased a black pickup truck in that

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Speaker 4: area that's the pickup truck that was found at the

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Speaker 4: car wash up in Indiana. The local police ran that vehicle.

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Speaker 4: It didn't come back to Goldham because it wasn't total them.

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Speaker 4: They purchased it, they abandoned it and apparently got the

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Speaker 4: Cadillac I'm assuming and they probably purchased it too. They

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Speaker 4: had the cash with them.

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Speaker 2: Were they down to about twenty nine grand?

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Speaker 4: That's my understanding. That was the proximal amount that was recovered.

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Speaker 2: So they ran through seventy thousand dollars, Is that right, sheriff?

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Speaker 4: You know, she had already purchased one vehicle here. She

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Speaker 4: had made several other purchases, clothes for him, you know,

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Speaker 4: that sort of thing, So they had a considerable sum

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Speaker 4: of money.

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Speaker 2: It's amazing to me that they managed to pull off

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Speaker 2: so many car purchases. Staying in a hotel, they had

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Speaker 2: to eat. How were they getting that? Were they going out?

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Speaker 2: Were they ordering in? How did they register into the

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Speaker 2: hotel without driver's licenses or without anyone identifying them. We

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Speaker 2: understand they may have paid a guy to register at

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Speaker 2: the hotel, But the buying of the multiple cars, the vehicles,

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Speaker 2: the hotel, the food, the car wash take a listen

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Speaker 2: hour cut thirty seven our friends at Waay.

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Speaker 9: Just today, Investigation released this photo of a two thousand

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Speaker 9: and six Ford F one to fifty pickup truck in

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Speaker 9: Evansville that authorities say the couple abandoned at a car

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Speaker 9: wash around May third. It wasn't until Sunday that authority's

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Speaker 9: got the tip. Turns out the two were still in

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Speaker 9: the area.

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Speaker 4: We got a dangerous man off the street today. He

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Speaker 4: is never going to see the line to day again.

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Speaker 9: For days, law enforcement had urged the public to be

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Speaker 9: on the lookout, hoping Casey White's six foot nine, three

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Speaker 9: hundred and forty pounds size would make him easy to spot.

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Speaker 9: Sheriff Singleton is anxious to have him back in custody

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Speaker 9: in North Alabama to face charges of capital murder from

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Speaker 9: the twenty fifteen stabbing of Connie Ridgeway.

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Speaker 4: We've already made arrangument for the Department of Correction. He

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Speaker 4: will be brought here for arrangement. If it's two o'clock

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Speaker 4: in the morning, it doesn't matter. The judge was agreed

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Speaker 4: to come out.

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Speaker 2: Another good feature of a guilty plea is that it

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Speaker 2: can very rarely be overturned. May an appellate court, unlike

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Speaker 2: a trial. Hopefully Vicki White's family finally getting peace. Nancy

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Speaker 2: Grace Crime Story signing off goodbye friend,