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Tuesday 3 May 2022
Arrest warrant issued in Alabama for missing jail official

FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) — convicted, he could face
Authorities issued an ar- the death penalty. The
rest warrant Monday for U.S. Marshals Service is of-
a jail official who they say fering up to $10,000 for in-
helped an inmate awaiting formation. The sheriff said
trial on a murder charge to they were shocked by the
escape from an Alabama events that transpired.
jail. A search was on for the “This is not the Vicky White
pair. Inmate Casey Cole we know, by any stretch of
White, 38, was shackled the imagination,” the sher-
and handcuffed when he iff said. Singleton said Vicky
and Vicky White, the facil- White had been an exem-
ity’s assistant director of plary employee and jail
corrections, left the Lau- employees are “just devas-
derdale County Detention tated.”
Center in Florence, Ala- Vicky White had planned
bama, on Friday morning. to retire and that Friday
They have not been seen was to be her last day. He
since, although the patrol said she had sold her home
vehicle that the pair used about a month ago and
when leaving the deten- “talked about going to the
tion center was found at beach.”
a nearby shopping center The sheriff said they had no
parking lot after their ab- This combination of photos provided by the U.S. Marshals Service and Lauderdale County Sheriff’s leads at this point on where
sence was discovered. Office in April 2022 shows Casey Cole White, left, and Assistant Director of Corrections Vicky White. the two are located.
Associated Press
Authorities have no idea “If we knew where they
where they are, although his appearance. ed, whether she did that over and over is an ex- were at, we would be there
the inmate should be rec- Lauderdale County Sheriff willingly or if she was co- tremely dangerous person and not here,” Singleton
ognizable by his size. He Rick Singleton said Monday erced, threatened some- and we need to get him lo- said.
stands 6 feet, 9 inches (2.06 that they had issued an ar- how to participate in the cated and get him off the As an assistant director for
meters) tall and weighs rest warrant for Vicky White, case, not really sure. We street,” Singleton said. corrections, Vicky White
about 260 pounds. Authori- 56, on charges of permit- know for sure she did par- White was already serving moved throughout the
ties warned that anyone ting or allowing an escape. ticipate,” Singleton said. a 75-year prison sentence county detention facility
seeing the pair should not She is not related to White. Vicky White told co-work- for attempted murder, rob- several times a day and
approach them. She violated a policy that ers she was taking him to bery and burglary when he had multiple opportunities
“We consider both of them required more than one of- the courthouse for a men- disappeared. He had been every day to be in contact
dangerous and in all prob- ficial to be involved in trans- tal health evaluation. But brought back to the jail be- with any given inmate, the
ability, both individuals are porting him, according to Singleton later said no such cause of his latest charge. sheriff said. Her job duties
armed,” U.S. Marshal Marty Singleton. The policy was evaluation was scheduled. He was set to go to trial also included coordinating
Keely said at a press con- put in place when White He said video showed the next month on a capital transport of inmates.
ference Monday. He not- was jailed two years ago pair left the jail and went murder charge accusing Vicky White’s mother, Pat
ed that Casey White “will and authorities believed he straight to that parking lot. him of stabbing a 58-year- Davis, told WAAY that she is
stand out” because of his was planning to escape. “Casey White, as you’ve old woman to death dur- in shock and scared for her
size even if he has changed “We know she participat- heard me say over and ing a burglary in 2015. If daughter.q

JonBenet Ramsey’s father wants

outside agency to test DNA

er called 911 to say her me.” The petition notes that technology to further inves-
daughter was missing and advancements in DNA and tigate this cold case and to
a ransom note had been the use of genetic geneal- identify JonBenet Ramsey’s
left behind. Her death was ogy is leading to the solving killer.” The statement did
ruled a homicide, but no- of more cold case around not address the involve-
body was ever prosecuted. the country. It criticizes the ment of Boulder police.
John Ramsey said wants Boulder Police Department Meanwhile, the Boulder
DNA evidence that was for not doing enough to Police Department said
never tested before to be use DNA to solve the case, it has been working with
transferred away from Boul- noting that the department state law enforcement
In this Jan. 3, 1997, file photo, a police officer sits in her cruiser der police to a different said at the time of the 25th agencies and the FBI, on
outside the home in which 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was agency, KUSA-TV reported anniversary of JonBenet’s the investigation and that
found murdered in Boulder, Colorado on Dec. 26, 1996. Sunday. “Somehow we’ve death that it was “actively DNA from the case is regu-
Associated Press
got to force the police, or reviewing genetic DNA larly checked for any new
DENVER (AP) — The father in charge of DNA testing in take it away from them, the testing processes” to see if matches. As of December,
of JonBenet Ramsey is sup- the case. ability to go ahead and test those could be applied to the Colorado Bureau of In-
porting an online petition The 6-year-old was found some of the crime scene the case. vestigation has updated
asking Colorado’s gover- dead in the basement of evidence that was never In a statement, a spokes- over 750 DNA samples from
nor to intervene in the in- her family’s home in Boul- tested for DNA,” he said. person for Polis said “The the investigation with the
vestigation into her death der on Dec. 26, 1996, blud- “Why that’s never been State will review the peti- latest DNA technology,
more than 25 years ago by geoned and strangled, sev- done and will never be tion and look into how the the department said in a
putting an outside agency eral hours after her moth- done by the police baffles state can assist in using new statement.q