Alabama Jail Guard Vicky White Who Helped Convict Casey White Escape Prison To Receive Employee of the Year Award Next Week

Vicky White, a prison officer who appeared to have shot herself after allegedly assisting a dangerous criminal in escaping, was set to receive an "employee of the year" award next week, according to reports.

After pulling off an escape from the Lauderdale County Jail, the Alabama jail officer, a 56-year-old divorcee, spent ten days on the run with Casey Cole White (no related). An Indiana coroner said she died on Monday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Award For Alabama Jail Officer Vicky White Still Underway

Authorities apprehended her former charge alive. Vicky White's motivation for reportedly assisting the felon is unknown, with some speculating on a loving involvement while others fearing she was intimidated or blackmailed in some manner.

It's uncertain if the ceremony will continue as planned, with Vicky White receiving her award posthumously or, more likely, being removed from the category until authorities figure out exactly what role she had in Casey White's escape.

Following US Marshal Martin Keely's allegation that Casey White requested authorities to aid his wife after his capture, leading to suspicion that the two had married while on the run, Vicky White was awarded corrections employee of the year. They're not married to our knowledge, Keely added.

"Y'all assist my wife, she shot herself in the head and I didn't do it," Casey White said as he was detained, according to The Associated Press. Vicky White was previously married to a guy whom she divorced in 1991. This year, her spouse passed away.

Casey White was serving a 75-year sentence for a series of crimes committed in 2015, including a home invasion and a carjacking, and he also faces two counts of capital murder after slashing 59-year-old Connie Ridgeway in the same year, Newsweek via MSN reported.

Escape of Casey White With Vicky White Expected Not to Last Long

According to John Moriarty, a retired inspector general for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice who has examined other inmate escape cases, including ones in which an inmate was assisted by a correctional officer, escape plans normally don't extend far beyond the walls of a prison or jail.

Vicky White, the detention center's second-in-command, "arranged the van transport that morning, making sure all the other armed deputies were out of the facility and tied up in court," according to Singleton. When she informed the booking officer, the assistant director, that she was going to take him to court and hand him off with other staff, she knew she wouldn't be questioned.

A sheriff's office spokeswoman told CNN that the SUV was hauled to the property the day the couple vanished after the Williamson County Sheriff's Office discovered it abandoned and locked with no tags or identifying information. Singleton stated during a press briefing on Friday that the couple may have ditched the Ford Edge due to mechanical issues. There was nothing inside.

Whatever the motive for abandoning it, William Sorukas Jr., the retired chief of the US Marshals Service's Investigative Operations Division, told CNN that the vehicle's condition and location are revealing.

Before the duo was caught, he added that fugitives frequently abandon a vehicle at an airport or a huge shopping center parking lot, where it may not be detected for some time. Vicky and Casey White's SUV was abandoned in the middle of a remote location, implying that they had to "change whatever plans they had of where they were going or how they were going."

Vicky White and Casey White spent $6,000 on a Ford F-150 in Tennessee, according to US Marshals Commander Chad Hunt. Where they went next is unknown though Casey White has been very frank with detectives since his arrest, according to Dave Wedding, sheriff of Indiana's Vanderburgh County, as per CNN.