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this is "nightline." >> tonight, deadly capture. the dramatic end to the nationwide manhunt for fugitives vicky white and casey white. the former corrections officer taking her own life. >> it was a self-inflicted gunshot wound. >> what we're now learning about their final days on the run. >> we got a dangerous man off the street today. plus, baby is back. jennifer gray reprizing her role in "dirty dancing." >> i am playing baby. i hope they don't call me bubby at this point. >> what she's now saying about her tense relationship with patrick swayze. what it took to convince him to say that iconic line. >> famous movie line.
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good evening. thank you for joining us. their names and faces were everywhere. so it's not surprising that a tip from the public led authorities to vicky white and casey white, the unlikely fugitive pair, a corrections officer and accused murderer, who evaded authorities for more than a week. >> this is the end of a very long and challenging week and a half. >> the manhunt for two alabama fugitives spanned several states and multiple law enforcement agent sis, coming to an end in indiana tonight. the sheriff's deppy, 56-year-old vicky white, who helped plot the escape of 38-year-old inmate casey white, has died. shortly after the pair was taken into custody. >> i don't know where she was shot. but it was a self-inflicted gunshot wound. >> reporter: it was the tip that led authorities to the pair, who share the same last name but not related. security cameras capture what
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appears to be casey at a car wash, placing the pair in the area three states away from where this story started. this afternoon, the couple was spotted near the local sheriff's office, fleeing and leading police in a pursuit that would end in a car crash. it all started 11 days ago, with an escape here in the quiet town of florence, alabama. in in video, deputy white, a 25-year veteran of the sheriff's department at the corrections facility, can be escorting inmate casey white, serving a 75-year prison sentence. the pair exited the detention center unaccompanied. >> she was alone, which is a strict violation of policy. our policy is, any inmate under those charges are to have two sworn deputies escort them. >> reporter: deputy white, who was also in charge of coordinating inmate transportation, telling her colleagues she was taking the inmate to the courthouse for a
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mental health evaluation. my colleague has been on the ground, covering the story. >> right behind this is where the now former corrections officer was seen opening the door for casey white. he was in handcuffs as he got into the back of her patrol car under the dwiguise of going to court appointment that never existed. >> reporter: this video shows the patrol car minutes later in an intersection that was off the route to the courthouse. >> the patrol car was ditched here in this parking lot at this shopping center. it was spotted around 11:00 a.m., but it wasn't until hours late they are authorities realized the two were missing. >> reporter: almost immediately, federal agencies became involved in the search, issuing a $10,000 reward for inmate white. >> casey white is considered armed and dangerous. so right now, we hope we get him before somebody gets hurt. >> reporter: by monday, as deputy white's involvement in
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escape became incriminates, a warrant for her arrest was released. the timing of her disappearance catching many close to her off guard. >> i worked with vicky white for years. this is not the vicky white we know. by any stretch of the imagination. >> reporter: a little more than a week prior, she had sold her home for just over $95,000, in cash. >> i don't think she over had a speeding ticket. she's always been what i say a good person, and like i say, this is all a shock. >> reporter: her mother says she spoke to her daughter the morning she disappeared. >> it's just not her. this is like total day and night. >> reporter: vickey's former mother-in-law also shocked. >> she was not that kind of person. she was nice to everybody. i can't understand. >> reporter: sherry brown, a fellow corrections officer, says
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she is stunned by the event. >> it's hard for us women corrections officer to keep these people in control and in line. >> i think vicky white looks like she had done a pretty good job of secreting her relationship with casey white. probably both whatever interaction they may have had when he was in the state prison, and clearly once he got to lauderdale county, alabama, where she basically was in charge of the jail, she could probably more easily talk to him or walk down to his cell and had communication with him. >> reporter: casey white was serving time for a violent 2015 crime spree, including a home invasion, carjacking and police chase. his arrest seen in this dash cam video. he was also waiting trial for capital murder, the stabbing of a 58-year-old woman. as the search for the missing pair intensified, authorities continued to share information.
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by day four, the u.s. marshals tweeted this info graphic, highlighting the significant high difference between the 6'9" casey and the 5'5" vicky white. law enforcement also releasing bulletins with pictures of the inmate's distinctive tattoos, suggesting an affiliation with the alabama based white supremacist prison gang, the southern brotherhood. police publicizing of what vivicky white might look like if she dyed her hair. >> i'm assuming she ditched those ail uses, and probably has some new identities now. >> reporter: by friday, one week after their escape, a major development. authorities found their getaway car abandoned in tennessee. >> there had been an attempt to spray paint it. it's a botched up job. >> reporter: but there was still one big lingering question, where was the couple? >> on that issue, we're back to square one.
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did they steal another car, hitch a ride with somebody? we don't know. >> this isn't the first time a version of this has happened. i mean, if you look at the state -- new york state prison, where you didn't have a correctional office, but you had a woman that worked full-time inside the prison who developed a relationship with two inmates. >> reporter: upstate new york in 2015. both convicted murderers at maximum security clinton correctional facility. one night, they're gone without a trace. hacksaw blades used in that escape, supplied by this woman, joyce mitchell, after striking up close relationships with both men. >> they have this ability to target people who are vulnerable, and basically almost like cast a spell over them. you're the only thing in the
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world that matters me. let's face it, inmates have an endless amount of time to develop these relationships while incarcerated. >> reporter: the manhunt span 2g 2 days and hundreds of miles, involving thousands of officers combing dense woods along the canadian border. david sweat was captured after being shot and wounded. his accomplice, richard, was shot and killed. with the hunt for the alabama fugitives now over, the casey white in custody, the mystery behind the duo's escape endures. >> i think i've learned, and everybody has learned, you don't know who young trust. i had every bit of trust in vicky white. she's been an exemplary employee. what in the world prompted her to pull a student like this, i don't know. i don't know if we'll ever know. i've learned that we just don't know people sometimes. you think you do and you don't know who they are.
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♪ ♪ jennifer gray will always be known for the role that made her a household name in and a hollywood star and she's good with that. so much so that she's about to bring baby back, in the long awaited sequel "dirty dancing." abc's amy rowback got to meet her. ♪ ♪ ♪ the time of my life ♪
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♪ and i owe it all to you ♪ >> i'm known for two things in terms of the world. not my friends or my family. two things, nobody puts baby in the corner, and jennifer gray ruined her career, ruined her face, took away everything unique about her by being a slave to plastic surgery. but i never wanted a nose job. >> jennifer gray bearing it all in her new memoir, "out of the corner," starting with the role that changed it all, starring as baby opposite patrick swayze in the cult classic "dirty dancing." you write about when you heard they wanted patrick swayze to play the part of johnny castle, that you said "anybody else, please." why? >> i didn't know patrick. i found that his pranks and kind of his way, it just did not jive with my thing. and i didn't trust him. i felt like he wasn't serious.
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>> i'm curious, did that play a role in your fear from doing the iconic -- ♪ i had the time of my life ♪ >> he was a serious dancer. and the whole deal with ballet is lift. it was easy. for him it was just like, you know, nothing for him. it was me. it was my fear, my lack of trust that somebody would take care of me. >> nobody puts baby in a corner. >> you said he didn't want to say, nobody puts baby in a corner. >> the most famous movie line. he was adamant. >> how was he convinced? >> fortunately, they said let's do one with that, and something else, that old trick. >> you talk about all the things you would say to him if he was alive. one of them was, i wish i could tell him i'm sorry. >> i wish i could tell him a lot
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more than i'm sorry. i mean, i'm sorry is a thing that i would say like, i'm sorry, i was just young and scared and had some idea of how it was supposed to be and wishing you were on time. like, who cares? you were the best. you were the best johnny i could ever, ever have had. >> reporter: but after "dirty dancing" success, the parts didn't come pouring in. the young actress, told by some, it was her nose that was the problem. >> my dad had changed his nose. my mom changed her nose. my grandmother, my aunts. it was a thing. >> and you resisted, as you point out. then you write about why you finally decided. >> right. it was a jewish girl who was considered not pretty, who would never have been looked at twice by the patrick swayze character. so i get this part, and it's hugely successful. but i made $50,000 when i made the movie. and now i'm famous, and i can't support myself, and i thought,
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okay, maybe i just have to say uncle. i'll do it. >> for your career. >> for my career, for my ability to support myself. >> reporter: so she got the summary, but then needed a second operation to fix an issue caused by the first one. it left her unrecognizable to many. >> so the point you write about flight attendants not believing that you were the actress, jennifer gray. >> it was just the woman at the checkout counter at the airline, and she attacked me as if i was trying to get away with something. >> what did that feel about? >> surreal, dude. surreal. it was like being invisible. and in terms of my career, it was devastating. >> thank god. we've been worried sick about you. >> reporter: gray's star was on the rise when she landed her role in the 1986 film "ferris bueller's day off" where she met
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her boyfriend, matthew broderick. >> and then one of the other defining moments in your life happened in ireland, 1987. you were with matthew in a car, and that car struck another one, and it ended two lives. what were the days and weeks like for you after that accident? how did you cope? >> i was in shock, because i was the only living witness, and matthew was unconscious and had amnesia, and the other two women died. so i was the only one who everyone was looking to me for what happened? and i didn't have the answer. i was putting a cassette in the cassette player at the time. and i heard the scream and i looked up. it was devastating. and there's something about a near-death experience, being that close to death, and that curtain just goes up and just somehow i slipped through. >> reporter: gray also writes about her childhood growing up as the daughter of joan wilder
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and cabaret star joel gray. ♪ ♪ in 2015, her father revealed that he identified as a gay man. so when your father told the world that he was gay at the age of 82, how long had you known? >> i found out in my late 20s. when it initially came out, i was just so heart broken that he wasn't able to live his whole truth for all those years, for a lifetime. and that if he hadn't done it that way, then i wouldn't exist. and so my gratitude for him to sacrifice himself, so that he could have a family and i got to be his daughter. that to me is an enormous gift that he gave to me. >> you write about your remarkable childhood growing up,
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you know, in broadway, dressing rooms with your father, watching him on stage and your mother doing the same. >> i grew up knowing i was the luckiest girl in the world. there was no doubt in my mind. my parents loved me, still love me. i have two 90-year-old parents who i talk to every day. >> reporter: as she looks back on her life and career, gray is returning to her most iconic role, in a new sequel to "dirty dancing," gray will executive produce and star. >> and i am playing baby. and i hope they don't call me bubby. at this point. there will be dancing. there will be a lot of music and romance and, god, i hope this book will be a template for, you know, what happens to baby. >> what's the message, what's the reason behind the book? >> you don't get out unscathed. for me, the most painful moments, the most confounding
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situations are the ones for me that i've grown the most from, and that where i guess necessary, to get me to where i am today, which is happier than i have ever been, is the truth. >> our thanks to amy. when we come back, legend dare rockers bono and the edge deliver their message to stand by ukraine. ♪ darling, stand by ukraine ♪ before treating your chronic migraine— 15 or more headache days a month, each lasting 4 hours or more you're not the only one with questions about botox®. botox® prevents headaches in adults with chronic migraine before they even start—with about 10 minutes of treatment once every 3 months. so, ask your doctor if botox® is right for you, and if a sample is available. effects of botox® may spread hours to weeks after injection causing serious symptoms.
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