A prison boss who went on the run with her convict lover after breaking him out of prison the day she retired has died in hospital.
Vicky White and Casey Cole White - no relation - were apprehended following a police chase that ended in a car crash on Monday.
After being caught by the Evansville officers in Indiana, the assistant jail director made an attempt on her own life, according to the Mirror.
Dave Wedding, County Sheriff of Vanderburgh, confirmed Ms White died of her injuries in hospital on Monday evening.
Vanderburgh Coroner Steve Lockyear said: "The Vanderburgh County Coroner's Office, the Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office and the US Marshals Service are investigating the death of Vicky White, fugitive from Alabama."
She died just after 7pm at Deaconess Hospital and an autopsy was scheduled for Tuesday, reported Fox News.
Since their escape from Lauderdale County jail in Alabama on April 29, the pair had been on the run.
The pair had become secret lovers before Vicky created a bogus appointment for the murder suspect in order to be able to drive him from the jail.
The lovers led the FBI on a weeks-long manhunt that saw them travel across three states.
Vicky, 56, was captured on surveillance video holding the door open for a shackled White, 38, with a second angle showing them getting into a marked patrol car and driving away.
The sheriff's squad car seen in the surveillance video was found in a car park of a local shopping centre.
It later emerged she had secretly bought a second-hand car for them to escape in, but that was later found abandoned in Tennessee.
Vicky White was transported to a hospital for treatment. Sheriff Rick Singleton said he wasn’t sure if the wounds are from the wreck or not.
Sheriff Singleton said confessed killer White “will be brought back” to his prison in Florence, Alabama.
He said: “He’s not getting out of this jail again.”
Vicky White, due to retire after 25 years the day after her disappearance, had first met Casey in 2020.
He had been brought to Lauderdale County for questioning after he wrote a letter confessing to the 2015 murder of Connie Ridgeway.
The 59-year-old was found stabbed to death in her home at the Meadowland Apartments in Rogersville, Alabama.
White said he was a paid hitman, but when charged with murder pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
He was already serving a 75-year sentence for a one-night crime spree in December 2015.
His night of terror included a burglary, two carjackings and multiple shootings in North Alabama and South Tennessee.
The spree left a woman injured and dog dead.
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