Casey Cole White biography: 13 things about Anderson, Alabama man

Casey Cole White is an American prisoner from Anderson, Lauderdale County, Alabama, United States. His mother Connie Moore is based in Athens, Limestone County, Alabama.

White is 6’9″ tall. His registered weight is 330 pounds.

At around 10:00 p.m. on December 1, 2015, White went to his former girlfriend’s house in Athens, aimed his two handguns at two men inside, who were able to escape, and fired multiple shots that killed a dog. During the incident, two children were also inside the house but were not injured.

White then fled on foot, went to another house in Athens where he stole a man’s Ford Explorer and went to Giles County, Alabama where he tried to carjack a male driver of an 18-wheeler and repeatedly shot into a vehicle, leaving a woman inside with non-life-threatening injuries. He fled and robbed a man at gunpoint of the man’s white Lincoln MKZ at the Pilot Travel Center at Exit 22.

The late Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office assistant director Vicky Sue White was 18 years older than Casey. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. In 2012, he was sentenced to three years in jail for beating his brother in the face and head using an axe-sledgehammer’s handle.
2. He is accused of fatally stabbing Connie Jane Ridgeway, 59, who was found dead on October 23, 2015 in the living room of her home at the Meadowland Apartments on Prince Drive in Rogersville, Lauderdale County.
3. On December 1, 2015, he surrendered to Limestone County Sheriff’s Office deputies the car he stole and drove got stuck in a field near Huntsville-Brownsferry Road after committing several crimes earlier that day.
4.  In March 2016, he was sentenced to 75 years in prison for seven counts that included attempted murder and robbery.
5. In April 2019, he was convicted of two counts of first-degree kidnapping and attempted murder and sentenced to 75 years in prison.
6. In June 2020, he wrote to the Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office, requesting a meeting with the office, while he was serving a 75-year sentence at William Donaldson Correctional Facility in Bessemer, Jefferson County, Alabama for a multi-state crime spree in 2015. During an interview at the prison, he confessed to killing Ridgeway and his statements matched certain evidence at the crime scene. According to him, he was paid to kill her.
7. On September 1, 2020, he was charged with capital murder during a first-degree burglary and murder for pecuniary gain in Ridgeway’s murder.
8. On October 3, 2020, he appeared in court for an arraignment meeting and requested to stay at the Lauderdale County Jail in Florence, Lauderdale County, which was denied.
9. At 9:41 a.m. on April 29, 2022, he and Vicky left the Lauderdale County Jail bound for the courthouse. She told a booking officer that she was escorting him to a courthouse appointment, which turned out not to exist. At 11:34 a.m., her 2013 Ford Taurus patrol car was spotted in a shopping center parking lot. The fact that the two were missing was not realized until around 3:30 p.m.
10. On May 3, 2022, the Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office announced that investigators received information from Lauderdale County Detention Center inmates that he and Vicky had a “special relationship”. On May 9, 2022, he and Vicky were arrested in Evansville, Indiana, USA. She shot herself and was sent to the hospital where she later died. He was transferred to the maximum security William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility in Bessemer. On May 10, 2022, he wept openly on a prison call to his mother. He was devastated by Vicky’s death, according to her.
11. On July 11, 2022, he was charged with felony murder for the death of Vicky.
12. On May 4, 2023, he entered his plea to first-degree escape in exchange for the felony murder charge involving Vicky being dismissed.
13. He was 39 years old was sentenced on June 8, 2023 to life in prison.