Alabama prison escapee ‘a monster’ who warned cops in 2015 he’d kill ex-girlfriend if he ever got out

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Casey Cole White, the imposing murder suspect who escaped from an Alabama jail Friday morning with the alleged help of a prison official, warned cops in 2015 that he’d kill his ex-girlfriend if he got the chance, according to court documents.

He busted into a home in Athens, armed with two pistols. Inside, he encountered two men and ordered them down on the ground at gunpoint, then turned his attention to his ex-girlfriend, who fled amid a barrage of bullets.

Responding deputies found bullet holes in the wall and two you children hiding in the basement, as well the dog shot dead in a hallway. Just two months earlier, police allege, he also murdered Connie Ridgeway, a 59-year-old woman who White allegedly attacked in her home.Connie Ridgeway, 59, was murdered in her home in October 2015.Williams’ said his family hoped law enforcement would make a swift arrest.

"We have to get this guy back behind bars," he said, noting the 6 foot, 9 inch tall man brutally attacked his diminutive mother with a knife. White was already serving a 75-year sentence in connection with the armed home invasion when he confessed to killing Ridgeway in 2020, according to authorities. That case was pending at the time of his escape.Casey Cole White, 38 and Vicky White, 56, were last seen Friday morning on surveillance video ditching a marked vehicle at a parking lot on Florence, Alabama, about 70 miles west of Huntsville, according to authorities.

 

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