U.S. Marshals Service on Monday posted a $10,000 reward for information leading to the capture of an escaped Alabama inmate and the location of a “missing and endangered” corrections officer

Arrest warrant was issued for Vicky White, Asst. Dir of Corrections for Lauderdale County, Ala., for allegedly helping an inmate – who is also facing an upcoming murder trial – in his escape

Vicky White has been charged with ‘permitting or facilitating an escape’ for inmate Casey Cole white, 38, who is facing a possible death penalty, if convicted

Investigators are now probing any romantic links between veteran Corrections officer White, 56, and the 6′ 9″ inmate, who has admitted to a contract killing

The Class C Felony carries a maximum sentence of up to 10 years in prison

Prior to the confession, Casey Cole White was serving a 75-year sentence on separate, charges including attempted murder

Vicky White, an assistant director of corrections, was armed when she escorted him out of jail last week, for what proved to be a bogus medical evaluation

Her car was found deserted at a nearby shopping center, with both guard and inmate missing

The corrections officer had sold her house weeks earlier and filed for retirement a day before the alleged escape 

A judge earlier denied Casey Cole White’s request to be moved from prison to county jail, after it was discovered that he was planning a prison break

Authorities in Lauderdale County, Alabama, on Monday issued an arrest warrant for a missing senior corrections officer who disappeared with an inmate from a northern Alabama jail last week.
Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton said police know Vicky White, who disappeared with inmate Casey Cole White Friday morning from the Lauderdale County Detention Center in Florence, Alabama, “participated” in the escape, though it’s still unclear whether she did so willingly, or was coerced.
The charges against the officer include permitting or facilitating escape of the inmate, Singleton said at a news conference Monday.
Authorities investigating possible ‘romantic’ link between inmate and guard warn that both fugitives are armed
Sherriff Singleton said Casey White was handcuffed and shackled when he and the officer left the jail Friday. He described the officer as a “exemplary employee,” who had planned to retire before she disappeared.
The U.S. Marshals Service was offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the capture of the inmate and the location of the “missing and endangered” corrections officer.
The pair planned to travel to a local courthouse when they disappeared. Police say the two are not related.

Casey Cole White, 38, was serving time after being convicted on kidnapping and attempted murder charges. While being held, he also confessed to the 2015 killing of a woman who was stabbed to death in her home.
“Casey White, as you’ve heard me say over and over and over is an extremely dangerous person and we need to get him located and get him off the street,” Singleton said Monday. “Don’t take any chances with him. He’s extremely dangerous.
The fugitive status of the pair wasn’t discovered missing until 3:30 p.m. Friday afternoon, six hours after they left the jail. The police vehicle they left in was found in the parking lot of a nearby shopping center.
But no mental health evaluation was scheduled at the courthouse for Casey White that day, Singleton said, also noting the officer was alone with the inmate – a violation of department policy. The policy was instituted when White was jailed two years ago and authorities believed he was planning to escape. Deputies had attempted to contact the officer once they realized she and the inmate were missing, but her phone repeatedly went to voicemail.
Singleton said video showed the pair left the jail and went straight to the parking lot where the correction officer’s vehicle was found.
It is not clear whether the incident was an attempted escape, or if Vicky White was possibly overpowered and kidnapped, according to Singleton who said investigators are trying determine whether there were any previous significant interactions between the pair.

The fugitive status of the pair wasn’t discovered until 3:30 p.m. Friday afternoon, six hours after they left the jail.
The police vehicle they left in was found in the parking lot of a nearby shopping center.
But no mental health evaluation was scheduled at the courthouse for Casey White that day, Singleton said, also noting the officer was alone with the inmate – a violation of department policy. The policy was instituted when White was jailed two years ago and authorities believed he was planning to escape. Deputies had attempted to contact the officer once they realized she and the inmate were missing, but her phone repeatedly went to voicemail.
Singleton said video showed the pair left the jail and went straight to the parking lot where the officer’s vehicle was found.
It is not clear whether the incident was an attempted escape, or if Vicky White was possibly overpowered and kidnapped, according to Singleton. He said investigators are trying determine whether there were any previous significant interactions between the pair.
Vicky White worked as assistant director of corrections at the Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office and has been with the department for 17 years.
White was working her last day at the Sheriff’s office Friday, having turned in paperwork to retire, Singleton said Monday. He also said she had sold her home around a month ago and “talked about going to the beach.”

The Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office on Sunday released pictures of serving inmate and capital murder suspect, Casey Cole White, 38, as he walked the halls of the Lauderdale County Jail.
The photographs show Cole White tucking something under his right sleeve and looking around, as he is trailed by a prison guard.
The 6′ 9” career criminal was serving a 75-year sentence and facing the death penalty for a 2015 murder. He previously tried to escape and was supposed to always have two guards on him when Assistant Director of Corrections Vicky White, 56, picked him up from the jail at 9.41am on Friday.
She told a booking officer she was taking him to the county courthouse for a mental health evaluation, but no such evaluation was scheduled that day. She also said she was going to a medical appointment for herself, which was confirmed by the doctors’ office, but for which she never showed.

An hour and a half later, they were both missing and her patrol car was found abandoned at a nearby shopping center. 
The sheriff’s office has since revealed that Vicky – who had a clean record and had been named ’employee of the year’ four times – filed for retirement a day before she went missing. Her mother adds that the 56-year-old veteran Corrections Dept. employee had sold her house weeks earlier.
Lauderdale Sheriff Rick Singleton told NBC’s Today Show: ‘All indications are that she assisted him escape. The question we’re trying to answer … is, well did she do that willingly or was someone from outside threatening her?’
But Vicky White’s family maintain she is a ‘sweet person’ who never even spoke about inmate Casey Cole White – no relation.
A manhunt for the two is ongoing. The US Marshals Service is offering up to $10,000 for information about the fugitives. A news conference with more information is scheduled for Monday at 10.30am.

He was first arrested in 2015 after he engaged in a crime spree across Tennessee and Alabama.
In one night, he staged a home invasion, two carjackings and multiple shootings that left a dog dead and a woman injured.
He then led police on a 100 mile-per-hour chase that ended with a stolen car stuck in a field south of Huntsville, Alabama. 
Sheriff Singleton said that officers first became suspicious at around 3.30pm Friday, when officers at the jail realized Vicky had not returned. When repeated calls to her phone all went to voicemail it struck alerted them that she was missing with the inmate

On Friday, Singleton said that while the evidence points to Vicky helping Casey escape, her motivations are unclear: ‘We are trying to determine was that done willfully, or was she somehow coerced or threatened into participating?’ Singleton said, pointing to the various excuses she used to justify breaking protocol by taking Casey out of jail without other officers present.
The jail official was armed with a 9mm handgun when she claimed she was taking Casey for an evaluation that wasn’t ever scheduled. She said she would then head to a medical appointment for herself that also turned out to not take place. ‘It was all bogus,’ Singleton said. ‘That leads us to believe that she was involved.’
Casey should have always had two deputies with him, he added. 

It would be nearly impossible for Casey to get out of his handcuffs and free himself without any help the sheriff said, but he added that helping Casey would be out of character for Vicky, who had been named ’employee of the year’ four times.
‘I don’t think there’s any question she assisted, but to do it willingly would be so out of character for the Vicki White we all know,’ he said. 
Vicky White’s relatives have expressed disbelief that she would have willingly helped a ‘killer’ escape.