Casey White and Vicky White.Photo: U.S. Marshals Service via AP; Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office via AP)
Alabama corrections officerVicky Whiteis currently at large, accused of helping accused murderer Casey White escape prison. (The two are not related.)
The alleged motive? Investigators allege the guard and the inmate had a “special relationship,” and that Vicky White’s feelings for Casey White caused her to uproot her life.
If the allegations are true, Vicky White wouldn’t be the first woman in authority to fall for a man behind bars. Here are five women who have helped their lovers break out of prison.
Vicky White
A rendering Vicky White, with brown hair, because authorities say she may have dyed her hair.U.S. Marshal Service
Days before she vanished, Alabama corrections officer Vicky White, 56, put in for retirement and sold her house. Then, on April 29, her last scheduled work day at the Lauderdale County Detention Center, she left the jail, saying she was escorting an inmate to a mental health appointment.
But there was no appointment.
Instead, police allege White, a 25-year veteran of the Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office, helped accused killer Casey White escape. (The two are not related.) The motive? According to police, Casey White and Vicky Whitewere in a romantic relationship.
According to the U.S. Marshals Service, the two were last seen on the day of the escape in Rogersville, Ala.
The search for the pair continues.
Bobbi Parker
Bobbi Parker.Sue Ogrocki/AP/Shutterstock
Bobbi Parker, the deputy warden’s wife at the Oklahoma State Reformatory disappeared along with convicted murderer Randolph Dial on August 30, 1994.
Dial, a sculptor and painter, ran an inmate pottery program with Parker in the garage of the home Parker shared with her husband, which was on prison grounds. Dial maintained until his death in 2007 that he kidnapped Parker and held her hostage, forcing her to drive him away from the prison.
But at her trial, prosecutors said that the pair had fallen in love, and Parker helped him escape willingly.
She was found guiltyin 2011 of assisting a prisoner to escape and sentenced to a year in prison. She wasreleased after six months.
Lynette Barnett
Lynette Barnett, a prison guard at Crossroads Correctional Center in Missouri, fell in love with inmate Terry Banks, a convicted murderer doing life without parole. In 1999, Barnett snuck in a fake ID and an extra uniform — and walked Banks out of the maximum-security prison.
Nearly two months later, in December,the FBI arrested the pair in a trailer park in Victoria County, Texasin December 1999. The big break? Someone had seen them onAmerica’s Most Wanted.
Barnett was sentenced to five years in prisonfor helping Banks escape.
There,the married woman fell in lovewith a convicted murderer, John Manard, who was serving a life sentence. And in February 2006, she smuggled Manard out in a dog crate.
Dorr ultimately pleaded guilty to a state charge of aiding and abetting Manard’s escape, as well as a federal charge of knowingly providing a firearm to a felon. She served 27 months in prison.
Later, Dorr wrote a memoir titledLiving with Conviction, and her website says she’s now a true crime author.
Joyce Mitchell
Joyce “Tillie” Mitchell.New York State Police Dept.
At Clinton Correctional Facility in New York State, a love triangle formed between married prison seamstressJoyce “Tillie” Mitchelland two convicted murderers,Richard W. Matt and David Sweat.
Mitchell was ultimately convicted of providing material support to the prisoners, andserved four years in prisonbefore being released in 2020.
Why did she do it?
In court documents, Mitchell told authorities that Matt “treated me with respect and was nice to me. He made me feel special.”
source: people.com
