-an urgent manhunt underway for 38-year-old casey white. an urgent manhunt underway for 38-year-old casey white. >> a corrections officer and a maximum-security inmate walk out of a county jail and disappear into thin air. >> i received a phone call from my lieutenant.

he tells me vicky and casey is missing. >> what are your first thoughts? >> who the heck is casey? >> casey white is a very dangerous person capable of anything. >> he's not afraid to kill you. he's not afraid to make you suffer. >> that law enforcement officer was in serious jeopardy. >> a massive inter-agency manhunt is launched. >> they threw everything at this. >> state, local and federal law enforcement agencies. >> authorities are urging anyone who spots the 6'9" inmate to contact law enforcement. >> casey white is a big man. that's got to be somebody who's going to stick out. >> somebody's going to pick him out, right? >> but days go by with no sign of either one of them. >> every day that goes by, the anxiety, the apprehension definitely goes up. >> now authorities say they have no clue as to where the pair might be. >> i'm running every scenario through my head, and none of the scenarios are good. >> but as investigators dig deeper, they learn that things

are not as they appear. >> a number of red flags popped up during this investigation. >> you got 50 billion things going through your head. >> what was her relationship with this guy? [ birds chirping ] ♪ -this isn't the typical backdrop for a festive occasion -- this isn't the typical backdrop for a festive occasion. the lauderdale county detention centre in florence, alabama. yet on the morning of april 29th, 2022, a small, impromptu celebration was happening right here. after a 17-year career as a corrections officer in this jail, 56-year-old vicky white surprises her coworkers a day earlier when she turns in her retirement papers. just quietly said goodbye, ve liked to he turned in her keys and her badge, and walked out.

-the small party gives vicky's coworkers a chance to wish her well and hear about her plans. -she decided to seize the latter part of her 50s and go have maybe another life, a whole 'nother career if she wanted one. -but instead, vicky's name would soon be known >> she had decided to seize the latter part of her 50s, and go have maybe another life, a whole other career if she wanted one. >> but instead, vicky's name would soon be known across the country and the world for a very different reason. >> breaking news at five, the lauderdale county sheriff's office says one of its employees and an inmate are missing. >> a mysterious jail break in the united states. [ speaking in a global language ] >> here are the two individuals. the employee, her name is vicky white. as well as inmate casey white. >> despite the same last name, we're told the two are not related. both of these two individuals are missing. >> it all started at 9:40 this morning when those two left the lauderdale county detention center to come here, to the courthouse.

>> on her last morning as a corrections officer, vicky white had been undertaking a seemingly routine inmate transfer, escorting 6'9" casey white to a mental health evaluation. >> but six hours later, neither the corrections officer nor the inmate have been seen. and alarm bells are now going off. >> i received a phone call from the lieutenant over investigations. he said vicky is missing. i could hear the panic in his voice. and then i found out it was casey white. i immediately become fearful. >> why? >> i know casey's past. i know casey is a violent person. >> news of a violent felon on the loose is terrifying for the local community and most especially for vicky's friends. when you hear that there had

been an inmate who had escaped from the jail, what are you thinking? >> we had feared the worst. i was concerned he had overpowered her and she was a hostage. >> i thought surely she was kidnapped. this was just a big thing for our whole community. >> a jailhouse break sparking a national manhunt isn't the kind of thing that happens in florence. it's normally a pretty quiet town in northern alabama. >> florence is such a great community. one of those communities where everybody knows everybody. >> it's a beautiful region. and we're right here on the tennessee river. the people are hardworking, god-fearing. >> people love it here. they come stay, stay a few days and see what we've got. >> florence made a big name for itself back in the '60s as home

of the blues. artists from all over the world would come to lay down their tracks at the town's legendary recording studios. >> but the peace of this close knit community is now shattered by news of an escaped violent felon. >> we were terrified. a shockwave went through everyone. >> i thought he's going to kill her. i was just so -- stunned. >> as community fears grow, authorities under a lot of pressure to recapture this escaped inmate, make their first discovery. >> my partner and i located vicky's patrol car parked in the academy shopping center there. >> sheriff's investigators are canvassing the shopping center where the patrol car was found in hopes of finding the two. >> we knew there had to be another car involved. but at that time we didn't know what it is. >> with no idea where the pair

might be. a decision is made to call in reinforcements. >> the marshals were called in pretty quickly. we needed all the help we can get. they hunt fugitives. that's their bread and butter, they specialize in that. >> heading up operations on the ground is the u.s. marshal for northern alabama, martin keely. how do you jump into a case like this once you're notified? >> well, we responded and went to the area, met with the sheriff and his command staff. our assumption was, is that that law enforcement officer was in serious jeopardy. >> the first thing the marshals want to know is who they're dealing with. >> we've got to immediately start doing some research. what kind of connections does he have to the area? does he have resources that can help him within a couple of miles or 20 miles of the facility? >> we start looking at his profile. it didn't take very long to understand that he was a violent individual and had a violent

criminal history. >> casey white's convictions go back two decades, and now he's escaped just four years into a 75-year sentence that was handed down to him as a result of a violent crime spree. >> he was convicted of attempted murder for shooting at his girlfriend several times. he was convicted of two counts of kidnapping her and a roommate. he shot the dog, commandeered a vehicle, and took off to tennessee. >> during that crime spree back in 2015, having stolen several vehicles at gunpoint, casey white was pursued by police through tennessee and alabama at speeds up to 120 miles an hour before he crashed off the road and ended up in an armed standoff with police. >> casey, you calm down. we're going to back up a little bit, okay? >> we ain't going to shoot you. >> yeah, you are. >> no, no. just wanna talk to you.

>> when he had that crime spree, he didn't care about anybody else but himself. you know, i think he's a dangerous guy. that's why when he escaped we were so worried about vicky. we were worried that he would kill her. >> but when investigators turn their attention to that moment of the escape, one telling detail discovered in the jail security footage changes the way they see the case of the convict and the corrections officer. i told myself i was ok with my moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis symptoms. with my psoriatic arthritis symptoms. but just ok isn't ok. and i was done settling. if you still have symptoms after a tnf blocker like humira or enbrel, rinvoq is different and may help. rinvoq is a once-daily pill that can dramatically relieve ra and psa symptoms, including fatigue for some. it can stop joint damage. and in psa, can leave skin clear or almost clear. rinvoq can lower your ability to fight infections,

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missing corrections official vicky white. >> state, local and federal law enforcement agencies are right now searching for a state inmate and a lauderdale county corrections officer. >> we're assuming at this point she was taken against her will. right now our hope and prayer is that we get him before somebody gets hurt. >> from the very start of the search, the task force is at a disadvantage. >> they left the jail at 9:40 that morning. we did not get up on scene until 3:00 to 5:00 that afternoon. and we had to start looking at not only who casey white was, but who did he take? >> it doesn't take investigators long to learn that 56-year-old vicky white is very much loved in her community. >> i don't know anybody that didn't like vicky white. everybody loved her. >> she was hilarious and silly and fun. >> to us, vicky, you know, hung

the moon. >> vicky's divorced, but she had remained close to her ex-husband tommy since their split back in 2006. he had sadly died only a few months before the escape. >> she still loved him. she would still call. she would still check on him, stayed in contact with his family. that's just the type of person that vicky was. >> she always just made sure that everyone was taken care of and gave her all. >> one thing everybody seems to agree on is that vicky white is extremely dedicated to her job as a corrections officer at the lauderdale county sheriff's office. >> every person that we came in contact with had a similar message about vicky. she was a hard worker, had an impeccable service record. she was well liked. >> vicky was a woman of integrity and devoted to her job as a government employee, and i respected her so much for that. >> vicky had worked for the lauderdale county sheriff's office since 2005, and she'd

become a friend and respected colleague of judge carole medley while supervising inmates in her courtroom. >> every day i felt like she had my back. she would have stepped in to protect us, that's what she's trained to do. >> and this is something that vicky proved to be true on a day in february of 2017. >> there was a situation where an inmate, while in my courtroom, got out of his shackles and started towards the bench to an open window to end his life. he was very distressed. >> before that inmate could throw himself from the window, vicky got involved. >> she got to him. she and another deputy, and grabbed him, but he grabbed her gun. >> with an inmate in possession of a firearm, an emergency alert

is sounded. vicky's coworker and friend, candy allen, was among the first to respond. >> that day, i saw what i considered heroic behavior. my first view when i came through the side door of the courtroom was vicky and the other female officer laying on this inmate to protect judge medley. >> pinning him to the ground? >> yes. she was not moving until she knew that our judge was safe. i have no doubt vicky would have given her life for judge medley. >> she would have protected me to the end. i know that. >> vicky's colleagues and friends now worry that the life of this devoted officer is in the hands of a dangerous inmate.

>> she was in harm's way. and i wept. i was fearful for her life. >> with concerns for vicky's safety running high, investigators decide to refocus on the precise moment of the escape. >> we're really trying to figure out, where do our resources need to be focused in? >> so on on the night of the escape we would -- just kept looking at all the jail footage of vicky leading casey out of the jail. >> for investigators, footage from this surveillance camera became a key piece of evidence, it shows the very moment that vicky escorts casey white out of this jail unaccompanied. and the footage raises some troubling questions. let's take a look at them leaving. what do you notice here? >> just her nonchalantness. >> yeah, she looks very casual.

>> just holding the door like you would hold it for a friend. >> she's not even really watching him. >> no, no. completely turns her back to this individual. >> but it really made us wonder what was going on. it was just very -- you know, what was her relationship with this guy? >> when investigators examine the footage, two things really stand out. first, she is escorting the inmate on her own, which alone is a complete violation of jail policy. but also she is walking in front of casey with no clear view of him, which is something no corrections officer is supposed to do. >> by the evening of day one, the media is now reporting on this breach of protocol. >> when assistant corrections director vicky white and accused murderer casey white left the lauderdale county detention center they had already broken protocol.

>> she's not supposed to be transporting him by herself. she was breaching protocol. i'm stunned that she done that you know? >> but director white is in charge of coordinating transportation in the first place, so no one thought twice of this situation. >> it's worth noting that vicky white was the second most senior officer at the jail and highly experienced in dealing with inmates. so could this have just been a case of misguided overconfidence? >> i watched vicky interact with inmates on a daily basis. i never seen vicky intimidated by anyone. >> but a closer examination of that security footage reveals a further transgression, not immediately obvious but far more serious. >> when she walks into the jail, she's wearing a jacket. it was kind of warm that day. but also, she has a firearm. now jail policies throughout the

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there is her driver's license, her credit card, her checkbook. all her personal items are right there in her purse. >> her will and her life insurance policy was laying out on the dresser for us to easily find. and seeing that, i mean, my heart sank. >> so, you're thinking she is not expecting to come back? >> she is not expecting to come back alive. >> with the sun now rising on the second day of the search, investigators are grappling with a stunning discovery of vicky's last will and testament found at her parents' home. >> a number of red flags popped up during this investigation. that was the first big one. >> and there are other discoveries. remember, vicky was supposedly escorting casey white to a mental health evaluation, but it turns out that appointment

didn't even exist. investigators now have no choice but to take a second look at who vicky might be. >> next morning, i speak with the mother again. i ask some more questions, and that's when i discovered that there was a storage unit that we did not know about the previous evening. >> and what did you find in the storage unit? >> the one thing we did find was that she used a fake name. she had also listed a phone number that we did not know about. >> a burner phone? >> a burner phone. >> why does she need to give out a fake name and a secret phone number to rent out a storage unit? it doesn't seem to add up. >> and there's more to follow. when u.s. marshals request a background check on vicky white from the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms. >> we learned that she did purchase a gun from a gun store in huntsville. >> along with the shotgun she bought in huntsville, vicky also bought another weapon, an ar-15 assault rifle just weeks before the escape. day two, you discover that she's bought an ar-15.

how concerning was that to you to know they were armed? >> it was very concerning. we knew that her service weapon was unaccounted for. we knew that there was an ar-15. so immediately it adds an additional layer not only to law enforcement but to the public as well. >> it's telling us that there's a plan here. >> that she's going along with him. >> correct. >> this morning, an urgent manhunt underway in alabama. lauderdale county assistant director of corrections vicky white and inmate casey white vanished friday. >> there are new questions about whether that officer was involved in the escape. >> on day two, sheriff singleton publicly states that vicky white is involved in this escape. but he also suggested that vicky may not have been acting on her own free will. >> we're pretty well convinced that she assisted casey white to escape, so really the question we have lingering is

did she do that willingly? or was she somehow coerced or forced to help him? >> the sheriff in these early comments said there's no way she could have gone along willingly. is that what you were thinking, too? >> absolutely. i can't believe she willingly went along with anything. >> but how plausible is it that casey had forced vicky into aiding him in escaping from prison? well, it turns out that casey white has a long track record in intimidation. >> casey white is going to do what casey white wants to do. he's not afraid to inflict pain on somebody to get what he wants. >> he's not afraid to kill you. he's not afraid to make you suffer. >> my name is chace davis, and i was held up at gunpoint by casey white. >> chace davis was one of the people casey white targeted during his 2015 crime spree. >> i -- i need cops now. somebody just -- somebody just stole my car. dude came up to me with two pistols. >> with both his mother and infant son also in the house,

chace followed casey's demands and gave him the keys to his truck. >> he had me by gunpoint, came inside, took the car keys, told me don't call anybody for ten minutes, or he said he was going to run the car through the house. >> okay, so he held you at gunpoint and took your car? >> yes, ma'am. >> after casey white's multi state car chase, he fully admits to police that he had robbed chace davis at gunpoint. >> i said, look, i got guns right here. don't move. i ain't going to hurt you. i ain't going to do nothing. i just want your keys. i just want your keys. and i took his keys and drove and i wrecked it. >> in a chilling exchange with officers, he also admits what he claims he had hoped to do to his first victim from that night, a former partner, had he not been apprehended first. >> i went back by her house in another car, but the deputy was still there. >> you thought about coming back, trying to find her and kill her? >> if she'd have been there i would have killed her.

>> when casey white was charged, chace and his mother, charlotte, agreed to testify against him at trial. but it was only then that they became fully aware of just how intimidating casey white can be. >> he threatened vengeance on me, myself, my mother. >> i was afraid. i was afraid. >> casey white is a very dangerous person capable of anything. >> it was a sickening feeling to know that he possibly could come back and do some damage or kill us all. >> was there a part of you that was thinking maybe casey had coerced her? that maybe she didn't necessarily do this willingly? >> that thought may have crossed my mind. >> with the clock ticking, more clues emerge when investigators take a closer look at vicky's finances. >> we uncovered a lot of things that said she had been planning

for this for a number of months, weeks. she had recently cashed out her 401(k). she had sold her home. >> she goes and lists the house through an auction company, and she tells them, i just want it sold as quick as possible. i think she collected a check for $46,000 approximately. >> tens of thousands of dollars from the sale of her home. it's a serious amount of money. money that casey white now seems to have access to. >> and unfortunately, what we had in front of us was contrary to maybe some of the other things that people are saying about, you know, she was an unwilling participant. >> but whether vicky was a hostage or a participant, for u.s. marshals, their sole aim remains unchanged. >> we were still going to do everything within our power, every resource that we had available to -- to find both of them. whether she was on the fugitive side or the victim side was irrelevant to us, because we knew we had to find them. >> and later on the second day

of the search, the team finally gets its first major breakthrough, potentially identifying the car the fugitives are in. the police cruiser had been ditched? >> it was abandoned, you know, in a parking lot. >> we were able to obtain some video surveillance of that parking lot, and we were able to see another vehicle where the cruiser pulled up, which was the bright orange 2007 ford edge. >> so investigators finally have a lead with the orange ford edge. the brightly colored vehicle has to stand out among a crowd, right? >> investigators now uncover surveillance footage from a shopping center from three days before the escape, which shows the same car. >> so day two, we knew what kind of vehicle, so now we had something to go off, something to start looking for. >> for investigators, one of the

greatest advantages is casey white's distinctive appearance. >> casey white is a big man. 6'9," heavyset. that's got to be somebody who's going to stick out. >> i'd be lying if we didn't talk about, thank goodness he's 6'9" and close to 300 lbs, because somebody is gonna pick him out. but then we thought that he would not get out of the vehicle because he is such a large human being. so we were really focusing on, can we locate vicky? >> and there is nobody more desperate for vicky to be found than her own mother. >> he could hurt her easy, and that's what keeps me awake at night. >> speaking in an exclusive interview with abc affiliate waay 31, requesting that her face not be shown, vicky's mom mother pleads for her daughter to turn herself in.

>> come home. that's all. that's all she needs to do. just turn yourself in and come home. >> all davis wants now is for her daughter to return home, asking for the public's help to make that happen as soon as possible. >> her picture's out there and his picture and everybody sees them now. they got their phones and everything. if they see them, all they have to do is call. >> the task force release a number of images of vicky, including some that show how she might look if she attempted to change her appearance. >> and is this an idea of what she could possibly look like if she darkened her hair? >> yeah. and in the event that she was trying to dye that hair or wear some sort of wig. we're trying to give the public as much information, you know, visual information as we can to kind of help them. >> as investigators dig deeper, they make a discovery at the jail that reveals that the corrections officer and the inmate know each other a lot better than anyone could have imagined. >> it was certainly, without a doubt an abnormal relationship, one that she did not share with

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♪ -day 4, and lauderdale county sheriff rick singleton day four, and lauderdale county sheriff rick singleton calls a news conference to make a major announcement. >> we have had a warrant issued for director vicky white. the charges are permitting or facilitating escape in the first degree. >> for a man who had known and mentored vicky for more than 17 years, it's not easy news to break. >> those of us who worked with vicky white, this is not the vicky white we know by any stretch of the imagination. the employees are just devastated and they're concerned

for her, concern for her safety. casey white, as you have heard me say over and over, is an extremely dangerous person. >> media coverage of the manhunt is intense, and investigators are getting hundreds of tips, but they're still no closer to catching the fugitives. >> the tips were just coming in like crazy. we had tips from all over the world, some saying that they, you know, were in different countries, psychics calling in. >> every tip you receive is not going to be a legitimate tip. but we had to track it down to see if it was true or false. >> and a lot of them were false. >> a lot of them were false. yeah. >> every day that goes by and you don't get that piece of information, the anxiety, the apprehension that we have definitely goes up. >> and they outsmarted you for a few days there, too. they were able to get ahead. >> i wouldn't like to say outsmart, right? because -- >> they eluded you. >> they eluded is a better -- better word. >> where are they? >> authorities are also still trying to figure out the relationship between the two. now looking at security video of their interactions here at the jail. >> so, the jail footage was just crucial.

the footage shows vicky is actually standing outside casey's cell, and she is passing in some commissary, some stuff the inmates have purchased. in that video, you see a yellow sheet of paper come out of the jail cell. vicky grabs it and she sticks it in your pocket. >> our investigators interviewed multiple inmates, people that had been cellmates with casey, people that had associated with him, to try to learn what they knew about them, him and her. >> so that's when we discover that, yes, they did have some kind of special relationship. >> it's crucial now that investigators determine how and when these unusual interactions had first begun. >> casey white's prison records reveal several stays at the lauderdale county jail, dating back to 2020. >> but he was supposed to be serving his 75-year prison sentence somewhere else, at the

high security donaldson prison more than 100 miles away. why was he in the lauderdale county jail to begin with? >> so in the summer of 2020, casey white ended up confessing to murder. >> in rogersville, alabama, just two months before casey white's 2015 crime spree, a mother of two, connie ridgeway, had been brutally stabbed to death in her own home. >> police found ridgeway dead inside her apartment. she's the first murder victim in decades, if not ever, within the city limits. >> the connie ridgway case -- brutally murdered in her home, exhausted all leads, and it just went cold. we didn't know who did it. >> the local community was just shocked. and for four years, connie's sons, austin and cameron, had no answer as to why their mother had been killed. >> she was my best friend. she was the one person i could count on.

>> for years and years we just >> for years and years we just had -- we really had no idea what was going on. why would anyone do this to -- an innocent person? it's just completely shocking. >> the mystery goes unsolved for years. then in june of 2020, a dramatic development. >> so we're sitting here dead in the water on that case. and out of the blue, really, casey white sent a note to the warden at the prison where he was at and he confessed. >> breaking news update. within the last two hours, waay 31 learned a man already serving time in prison confessed to an unsolved murder in lauderdale county. today, the d.a. charged casey white with capital murder for killing connie ridgeway in 2015. >> the d.a. said that white admitted to killing ridgeway in her rogersville apartment in october 2015 and said he was hired to do so. >> when he confessed, what we did do is we corroborated part of it, with, you know, things that he said that he knew that

you would think only the killer knew. because, i mean, people do falsely confess, so we want to make sure he's not, you know, trying to get some other secondary gain from confessing from this prison cell. >> casey white never explained why he made that confession. but one thing that did result was that he was soon moved out of donaldson prison to the lower security county jail in lauderdale. >> when she was killed, connie ridgeway lived in lauderdale county. so when casey white initially confessed to her murder, he was brought to the lauderdale county detention center to await prosecution. >> it's in lauderdale where he first meets vicky white. and soon after being transferred, he recants his murder confession, changing his plea to not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect. >> in lauderdale, casey gains a fearsome reputation among some of the inmates. >> he act like he was better than everybody else. he thought that he can whoop anybody.

supposedly. to tell you the truth, i was scared of casey. i mean, of course, you know, murder, you know, of course you're going to be scared of him. >> you know, there are some violent people in our county jail, but, i mean, it's not really set up for long-term housing of a some of these guys that you run into in prison. >> then in november of 2020, when a shank is found in his cell, casey is sent back to a maximum security prison. but investigators now suspect that he and vicky stayed in regular contact. >> they check the record of all of casey's prison phone calls for a connection to vicky white. and when they run the number for vicky's burner phone, they found in that secret storage unit, bingo. they get a hit. >> we did discover that casey and vicky had talked through the jail phone system numerous times. >> we knew there was some type, of relationship, intimate or

otherwise, that was not part of her official duties as a sheriff's office employee. >> we were able to determine that vicky was communicating dating back to november of 2020. >> so a full two years? >> yes. >> but it's only when investigators are able to get access to the prisoners' recordings of those phone calls that for the first time, the true nature of vicky's relationship with casey becomes painfully clear. did you get to hear those conversations? >> i've listened to most of those calls, yes. >> what was the nature of them? >> most of them were more personal in nature. a lot of them were phone sex. >> sexual in nature. >> sexual. before my doctor and i chose breztri for my copd, i had bad days, (cough, cough) flare-ups that could permanently damage my lungs. with breztri, things changed for me. breztri gave me better breathing. starting within 5 minutes, i noticed my lung function improved. it helped improve my symptoms,

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-this morning, abc station waay this morning, abc station waay reports that according to the lauderdale county sheriff, missing corrections officer vicky white and escaped inmate casey white were in a secret romantic relationship. >> that relationship allegedly sparked in 2020 while casey white awaited trial in the murder of connie ridgeway.

>> on may 3rd, authorities are not fully aware of how far that relationship had gone. >> do you think it was a romantic relationship? >> i think so, you know, but it was not physical. >> but eventually when authorities hear the recordings of the phone calls between the two, they realize the relationship is probably intimate after all. >> in total, there was approximately 1,100 phone calls between the two of them that we've discovered. >> what kind of things did they talk about? >> a lot of stuff sexual in nature, but, you know, the one thing i kind of learned through listening to a lot of these phone calls was casey would always compliment vicky, tell her how beautiful she was. and then soon thereafter -- i need money, i need this, call that. there was always something casey needed. >> and how did she sound on the other end as she's talking to him? >> well, she sounded like a

woman in love. >> so she was smitten with him? >> very. >> i just can't even fathom what she would see in casey white. he was a violent man. mayhem has followed this guy around his entire life, it seems. i don't know what she's seen in casey. >> the idea of a romantic relationship between the divorced corrections officer and one of her inmates is something that all who know her struggle to try to understand. >> for her to walk out with someone like mr. white was unthinkable. >> had she ever mentioned casey white to you? >> no, other than if he was just a transport. there was no mention of anything other than just routine information. >> so can the answers to why vicky might have been drawn to casey white be found in her past relationships? did she talk about love interests, whether she was lonely, whether she was dating anybody? >> she did not talk about any type of dating interest at the time. it was rare for vicky to open

up. >> her personal life was very personal. i asked her one time, i remember, do you not date? she didn't act like she wanted to talk about anything like that. >> sergeant matt burbank is one of the few colleagues vicky actually opened up to about her past. >> i knew a little bit of vicky's family, of her previous marriage and previous relationships. so, her husband at the time got into drugs and became addicted. by all accounts. as much as it broke vicky's heart, she left her husband. when she left her husband, her heart was broken, and i think she started building a wall up around her heart. >> eventually vicky does meet someone else, but this relationship, too, would end in tragedy.

>> meets this guy. shortly after getting engaged. he's killed in a car crash. so, and then the walls are back up and i think she kind of just swears off romance at this point and just takes her life and pours everything she has into her job. >> vicky's friends and co-workers are beginning to realize that despite the love and respect they have for her, there is a side to vicky they just didn't know. is it possible that you didn't really know vicky white? >> i think it's possible that there were things about vicky that she was guarded with. we were together every day at work, so we didn't socialize a lot outside of work. >> i don't know what she was like on the outside. i never spent no time with her. you know, we'd say, hey, we're going to go the logan's to eat. you want to come? no, i'm going home. >> all of us thought we knew her, all of us that had contact with her and relationship with her. but obviously we didn't know

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-we have had a warrant issued for director vicky white. the charges are permitting or facilitating an escape we have had a warrant issued for director vicky white. the charges are permitting or facilitating escape in the first degree. >> how many times do you see a respected jail guard help a guy escape? >> vicky white and escaped inmate casey white were in a

secret romantic relationship. >> there were a ton of calls that he made. every call ended up with phone sex. >> how was it that nobody caught that? >> vicky was the supervisor of the jail. she was able to, you know, pull guards away. >> she had the power in this situation. he didn't have no power. >> she would have never den that if she hadn't been manipulated by him. >> i think he was using her. >> if she is still alive, get the hell out. run, run, run as far as you can. >> but with each passing day, investigators are gaining ground. >> any human being that's on the run has to stop. we don't have to stop. we go 24 hours a day. >> with time running out, are they going to be captured dead or alive? >> as casey came out of the vehicle, he said, help my wife. >> help my wife?

>> now to the nationwide manhunt for that escaped murder suspect and a corrections officer in alabama. >> on april 29th, 2022, maximum security inmate casey white walks out of lauderdale county detention center with assistant director of corrections vicky white, and neither has been seen or heard from since. >> by day six, word of vicky and casey's intimate relationship pushes the story of the escape to the top of the news. >> her relationship with casey allegedly sparked in 2020 while casey awaited trial in the murder of connie ridgeway. >> this case just captivated people. >> the media attention to this case was greater than any case i've ever seen. >> so, she's an upstanding person and he's a criminal, and they fall madly in love. >> it seemed like everybody had an opinion about it. >> women love bad boys. >> people like a good love story. i just don't believe this is one. >> we've come to the lauderdale

county detention center to try to understand just how vicky white could have conducted an intimate physical relationship with an inmate here. the new director of the jail gives us access to the very cell where casey white was housed in april of 2022. casey would have been right in here. >> yes ma'am. with 8, 10, 12, sometimes 14 people sitting in this cell. >> 12 to 14 people sometimes in this cell? >> yes, ma'am. >> one of the inmates in that same cell with casey white is georginio lopez, who says that he too formed a close relationship with vicky white. >> i first met vicky in 2017, 2018. i could tell that she was one of them ladies that care for people, that had a heart. >> georginio says while he was incarcerated, vicky placed him in a cell closest to the guard room where she can keep a

protective eye on him. the same cell where she would later place casey white. >> but from the moment casey white arrived at lauderdale, georginio says he witnessed a dramatic change in vicky. >> at the beginning when i met her, she was by the books. but before the escape, she changed, literally, a lot. she wouldn't go down the hall like she used to, like talk to people. she would stand at that particular place. >> the place where vicky would stand is a spot with a direct view into casey's cell. director terry tells us that vicky used her authority to make an unusual alteration to the jail cell. this shower curtain was installed by vicky? >> yes, ma'am. >> okay. what was the point here? >> to give the inmates a little bit of privacy while going to the restroom. >> well because you got a window right here. >> you got the window here. that was the point given. >> but at the time, this was the only cell that vicky had a curtain installed in. and according to lopez, it was

apparently when just one inmate, casey white, would use the shower that she would stand where she could see him. >> you know, there's a shower, and the window, vicky was standing right there. he used to go in the shower and you know how tall he was. he could see over. you know, there's a pole. like a pole. he could see over that pole. he could see where vicky was standing there. she acted like she couldn't see him, but she knew what he was doing. >> georginio alleges that he witnessed casey freely engaging in behavior that would never normally be tolerated by a jailer. >> casey white was standing in the shower playing with himself while looking at vicky. >> and authorities would discover that the rules were different for casey white in yet another way. when the inmates had to vacate their cells for their daily yard break, vicky would allow one of them to stay behind. >> casey was the only one that could stay there. >> there's not no cameras in a cell, and that's when i guess they were having their private relationship in there.

>> we did discover that vicky was able to arrange casey to have some time alone in a cell by himself and that, you know, she could have been inside the cell with him at times. >> so they had a full blown romance. >> they had a full blown romance. >> how was it that nobody caught that? >> vicky was the supervisor of the jail. vicky, she managed manpower. she was able to, you know, pull guards away. and she had the authority to make that happen. >> investigators say it's now beginning to look like vicky has been the driving force from the very beginning, but not everybody agrees. who do you think was the mastermind behind this? >> oh, i absolutely think it was casey white. he was very good at catching her in a very bad stage in her life. >> casey is a manipulator. and when she's friendly with casey and telling casey all her problems, he's going to take advantage of that. >> i thought he will use her as

long as he needs her, and then when she is no longer of use to him, she will no longer be with us. >> but is vicky white really in danger as so many seem to believe? early in the manhunt, the u.s. marshal's behavioral analysis unit conducts a psychological evaluation of casey white, looking at the phone calls between him and vicky to establish the likelihood of whether he might harm her while on the run. on day six, they present a report which suggests a potentially unusual element regarding the couple's relationship. >> the opinion that we received is that -- that he looked at her as possibly a grandmother figure. >> there's some recorded calls to his mother where he refers to her as like, hey, it's kind of -- she's kind of like memaw. >> i know that sounds strange because they were obviously

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-for 6 days, the case of the convict and the corrections officer dominates news headlines. but it's not the first time a correctional employee for six days, the case of the convict and the corrections

officer dominates news headlines. but it's not the first time a correctional employee has become entangled with an inmate. in 2015, joyce mitchell was sentenced to between two and seven years in prison for her role in the escape of two inmates from new york's clinton correctional facility after becoming intimately involved with the pair. the story was retold in the hit showtime series ben stiller directed called "escape at dannemora," with joyce mitchell played by patricia arquette. >> did you have sex with these two inmates? >> no. >> what is it that draws women like joyce mitchell and vicky white to violent felons. >> in interviews of women who have had these relationships with inmates, it's like this is like nothing they've ever experienced. it's almost like fantasy addiction driven. she's so attached and so in love with this guy that she's willing to do anything and give up her

entire life, financially and otherwise, to have this relationship. >> one woman who might have some idea about this kind of relationship is toby dorr. she was captivated by the escape involving vicky from the very first moment. >> i had no doubt whatsoever about the reason why vicky agreed to do this and how she was feeling. i saw so much of myself in vicky, so much of myself. >> back in 2004, toby dorr, then toby young, was running a dog training program in the lansing correctional facility in kansas. it's there that she began an illicit relationship with convicted murderer john manard. >> i'd been married for 28 years, and it got to the point where that wasn't enough for me. i wanted to be in a relationship that was closer and more intimate. he told me he'd fallen in love with me. i couldn't get enough of it.

>> and in 2006, she broke him out of prison. >> he came to me one day and said,you know, i could hide in a dog crate in your van when you come in to do a dog adoption. and i said, ah, that one would probably work. >> the two may have had a head start because officials didn't think at first that they were together. >> so there was a big part of me that was just excited and elated. because you're like, now we can really be together. this is going to be so beautiful. >> but toby's dream wouldn't last. the pair was captured after just 12 days on the run. >> john manard is behind bars in chattanooga, the longest and farthest the two have been apart since the february break. >> manard had 20 years added to his sentence, and toby also returned to prison, this time as an inmate.

serving the next 27 months behind bars. >> the prison trusted me unconditionally, and the biggest regret that i have is violating that trust. >> for a full week, investigators have been scouring months of vicky's financial records, and it's becoming even clearer how long she had been preparing for the escape. and it presents investigators with a potential new direction for their search. >> it became apparent that there was some type of prepping for this, and the items that were purchased would indicate that there may be some type of stay in the woods or camping or some remote, you know, living arrangements being made. we would uncover transactions that she would have at a walmart, for example, and it may be your normal grocery items -- detergent, cereal, milk, then a random, like, waterproof matches, and then it'd be, like, a tarp. >> by day seven, you're thinking they're headed to the woods. so your folks are all over the wooded area? >> absolutely. we really thought that they were hunkered down somewhere in the

woods in tennessee, north alabama. >> even with the extensive searches going on, there's still no sign of the fugitives. your folks are working day and night. how exhausting is this? >> i think it's very exhausting. but any human being that's on the run has to stop. they have to rest. they have to eat. the pressure is on the person that's the fugitive. and all they really have to make is one mistake. >> it turns out the big mistake the fugitives made was before the escape had even happened, when vicky bought that getaway car. why would they ever wind up in a bright orange car? i mean, she's a seasoned law enforcement person. >> why she chose a bright orange vehicle is beyond me. we had that orange ford edge plastered all over the media. >> authorities say this gas station surveillance video shows the pair en route to their getaway car. this newly purchased 2007 ford edge.

>> a tip came in to say, i think i've seen this vehicle in a tow yard up in tennessee. >> on may 6th, task force officers arrive at a tow yard in tennessee where that ford edge has been spotted. >> they confirm the car had been abandoned here on the first day of the escape, and also that there had been some attempt to disguise it. >> we believe that casey was questioning why she selected a vehicle like that, a small orange vehicle that was easy to spot. >> they bought spray paint, made an attempt to spray paint it, and that was a mistake. >> the fugitives had quickly abandoned their efforts and dumped the car. but crucially, they left behind receipts for the spray cans. >> soon marshals are in possession of surveillance

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♪ -for authorities, now hot on the trail of fugitives for authorities now hot on the trail of fugitives vicky white and inmate casey white, days might have seemed like weeks. but the rubber is starting to hit the road, literally. after the discovery of that first getaway car leaves a treasure trove of clues, investigators are now combing the area for leads on the next vehicle. and soon, a big lead. >> we determine that there's an individual who sells trucks out of his yard. he did admit, yes, in fact, he sold a tall guy a truck with a lady that was in an orange car.

so that was certainly a moment. that was a very important moment for us. >> the vehicle the fugitives have bought is a blue f-150 pickup truck. and with that information, the manhunt is in high gear. >> it was all hands on deck once we we knew about this blue f-150. >> now we have a new vehicle to pursue. >> but currently all investigators know is the model and color of the truck. it's going to take time to confirm the vehicle's registration details. >> we're still a few days behind at this point. we were very anxious at this point to get good information. >> we did a search through law enforcement databases, and that's kind of where we got our big, big break thing. >> we were able to figure out the exact vehicle, what tag it should have had on there, vin number and all of that. >> information from the police databases reveals the truck that they're looking for has already been found five days earlier and

180 miles north in evansville, indiana. >> we weren't sure why the vehicle ended up in indiana. >> we contacted our task force that covers that area. it's the great lakes regional fugitive task force, and we ultimately sent personnel up there. >> back on may 3rd, james stinson had discovered a blue f-150 pickup truck abandoned at the car wash that he manages. >> there's a truck been sitting in my bay since yesterday at 3:00, and it's got the keys in it. >> and what kind of vehicle is it? >> it's a ford f-150 four-door truck. its blue in color. it's got tennessee license plates on it. >> i looked at my cameras and the guy's kind of suspicious. >> we'll have an officer out, okay? >> as the marshals make their way up to indiana, down in lauderdale, sergeant matt burbank is in the middle of a digital search for any sightings of the truck that could determine how it ended up

in evansville. >> i'm back in the command center, and one of the things that we're able to do is look at license plate readers from different law enforcement agencies, and we were able to locate several pictures of the f-150. >> but when they study the images, it's a different vehicle that catches the investigators attention. >> we see this -- this cadillac, and we're like, man, this cadillac is always following this truck around. >> we zeroed in on the cadillac that's being driven. and we could actually see blond hair. >> you could see the driver of the cadillac was a female. we believed that it was vicky white. >> investigators can't prove this is vicky white, so they don't have what they call definitive proof of life, but maybe, the high-tech security system from a carwash in indiana can do just that.

on the morning of may 9th, u.s. marshals arrive at that car wash in indiana to review security footage of the moment when that f-150 truck was abandoned, and what they find is a gold mine. >> i have a total of 16 cameras. i don't have no hidden spots at my carwash. everything is covered. i got good coverage. >> and there is casey. >> not only do stinson's cameras within the car wash clearly show casey white abandoning the truck, cameras pointing out to the street will reveal even more. >> those cameras show a second vehicle, a cadillac, driving through the car wash and then parking on the street corner. that same model and color as the one investigators believe vicky white has been driving. they made a plan there to ditch one car, and he's going to join

her in the cadillac. >> you'll see he gets out of the car and then you'll see him come out and walk to that cadillac. it just went to the fact that we knew that they were in concert, because she had an opportunity having her own vehicle. >> she could have peeled off from him. >> correct. and the footage offers up even more vital information. >> casey is well dressed. he's got a cell phone in his back pocket. he's not disheveled. >> he hasn't been in the woods, camping. >> hasn't been in the woods. that would give the appearance that maybe they're in this area. if they're in the area, where are they likely to be? a hotel that's off the grid. >> we started tasking out our teams up there to canvas the area -- you know, rest stops, hotels, motels, whatever it is. >> and within hours, a potential sighting. >> there was a police officer who went through a motel parking lot and saw the vehicle that matched the description of the

escapees. this motel was probably less than a mile or so from our jail and sheriff's office. >> so, now you know where they are. >> we just know that we found the vehicle. at this point, we don't know if they're inside. >> i don't think anybody -- >> i don't think anybody -- >> i don't think anybody -- >> i don't think anybody -- them, me or anyone else -- thought they would still be in evansville, indiana, at that time. >> a team of local law officers, along with the u.s. marshals, set up a stakeout outside the motel. one of those local officers is deputy bryan bishop. >> so, we set up surveillance and we're all in the parking lot kind of talking about how they were probably already gone to another city. >> but even before all the teams are fully in place, there's news. >> we start to set up our surveillance, and vicky and casey come out of the room. >> one of our guys gets on the radio and said they just saw and i.d.'d casey walk off the hotel. >> after 11 days of searching,

casey and vicky white have been found. why don't they grab them right there? >> we wanted to have a tactical team because they had an ar-15, they had a shotgun, they had, you know, a pistol. so, when you have a tactical team, it just makes it a safer process for us. >> but before the tactical team can get in place, casey and vicky white get into their car and take off. >> once they got into the vehicle, they took off pretty quickly. >> deputy bishop follows the cadillac and attempts to make a traffic stop. >> we found a safe location. i turn my lights on, and he failed to stop. so, things changed quickly at that point. >> casey white peels off at a high rate of speed, and the chase is on. >> he knows that we're behind him, and they're evading capture. >> our immediate fear was, is that they were going to get out and shoot it out. >> i think they were ready to almost have a bonnie and clyde moment.

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>> our immediate fear was, is that they were going to get out and shoot it out. >> i noticed that vicky would turn around like she was looking for something, she was reaching. so i, you know, assumed she was probably trying to find a gun or something. >> i think they were ready to almost have a bonnie and clyde moment. >> with police dashcams and body cameras rolling the entire time, as officers close in, the cadillac suddenly veers off onto a stretch of grass. but officers stay in pursuit. >> there was a point where his vehicle started going sideways, so i took the opportunity to ram his vehicle with mine. >> at the time of the collision, an emergency call is somehow made from vicky white's cell phone. >> 911. >> stop. >> it's the first time vicky's voice has been heard since the manhunt began. >> please stop! the airbags are going to go off and kill us. >> then the fugitive's car crashes into a ditch.

>> let's get out and run. we should have stayed at the [ bleep ] hotel. >> then deputy bishop's vehicle crashes in behind them. >> hello? >> my first priority was to exit my vehicle give them both verbal commands to come out of the vehicle. that's when she discharged a firearm. [ gunshot ] >> suddenly casey white's hands are up in an act of surrender and the armed officers rush to put him under arrest. >> help my wife okay? please tend to my wife. >> as casey came out of the vehicle, he said, please help my wife. she's been shot." >> help my wife? >> help my wife. >> as casey white is being cuffed, officer jaylan hyneman approaches the side of the car where vicky is.

>> i run over to the car. i see a blond woman in the car. and she's kind of, like, laying up against the roof on top of the passenger front door. vicky was not conscious. she had a suspected gunshot wound to the head. >> it's not clear if vicky white is dead or alive, but then, a sign of life. the hunt for casey and vicky white is finally over. one is headed back to jail. the other to the hospital. was the thinking that he had shot her? what are your folks thinking at that moment? >> we don't know at this point in time. we've got him in custody, and vicky had suffered from a gunshot wound to her head. >> the dramatic capture after a chase and the nationwide manhunt. >> authorities say vicky white shot herself and is still alive

and in the hospital tonight. >> the first initial reports we received was vicky had been shot. they didn't think it was anything real major. so, you know, we're elated there for a few seconds. and then the marshal says, hey, you know, the wound is more serious than we thought. >> what had at first appeared to be a superficial wound had in fact turned out to be fatal. >> i didn't want her family finding out about all this on the news or in the media, so i immediately went to vicky's residence. her mom comes outside, and when she seen that look on my face, you know, she -- she knew. it was just heartbreaking. >> it was the next day we learned from the coroner that they they had ruled it a suicide. >> investigators say casey white surrendered, but vicky white died in the hospital after shooting herself.

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detail of casey white's capture and vicky's death. >> alabama jail official is dead, and the murder suspect she was accused of helping escape is back behind bars. but in vicky white's small community, there's a growing sense of deep sorrow. >> she would have been horrified by the media, the attention, the national press. she would not have wanted any of that. >> it was almost as if everything she had done, every accomplishment that she had made, had just been swept away in this wave. >> but a discovery of numerous letters in that getaway car raises more questions and more confusion about the level of vicky's culpability. he left a number of letters and said they would be read in the event of his death.

>> what kinds of things did he say? >> the first letter in the notebook was to law enforcement at large. it says, if you're reading this letter, i am dead, and i made vicky white get me out. later on he writes another letter -- me and my wife are all over the news. y'all are stupid. but my beautiful wife wants me to shoot her when and if y'all -- and he says an explicit word -- catch us. she wanted me to so we can go together. >> he called her his wife. did you get any indication that they had gotten married? >> no, no indication that they'd ever gotten married. >> in other letters, casey takes a very different tone. one that points to far darker intentions. >> tell all my family i couldn't take prison no more and thought i might as well for sure get a few sorry s.o.b.'s of the

system. so we think what he's referring to on that part was you know if he could kill a few cops, that type of thing, that's that's what he was implying right there. >> he was expecting a shootout. >> absolutely. >> on the one hand, he hints that he forced vicky to do this and sort of coerced her. then he talks about she asked him to shoot him. what is the truth here? >> who knows what the truth is? casey white only cares about one person, and that's casey white. >> authorities say casey white revealed to them that he was planning a shootout with officers. >> the fugitive was going to engage in a shootout with law enforcement. >> tonight, what was found in that car. >> for authorities that cache of weapons found raises some fresh questions about what vicky's intentions might have been. >> when law enforcement search the car, and they find multiple weapons in the car that vicky had purchased, it really tells you that they are expecting that they were both going to go out in a blaze of glory, because why would you have all those weapons

if, in fact, that wasn't going to be the case? >> she had devoted her career to protecting. but when you have that number of guns in the car, that sends a different message. >> the idea that this woman, a career law enforcement officer, was going to shoot it out with other law enforcement, what you make of that? >> that that was tough to swallow. it was it was tough to comprehend. >> after his arrest, casey is returned to prison to see out the rest of his original 75-year sentence and to await trial for his escape. >> "20/20" spoke to casey white's defense team who told us their client insists he never intended for vicky to die. >> casey told us that he loved vicky white. it breaks his heart to this day that vicky's not walking around. >> and casey's proclamations of love for vicky are in contrast

to the comments that he's alleged to have made to the police officer who first interrogated him right after his capture. >> major jason ashworth alleges that outside of the interview room and away from the cameras casey revealed the full extent of his plans, and vicky's place in them. >> he described her as a liability. he described her as someone who didn't have the criminal mind. >> casey made it very clear that vicky had no future with him. he had a certain destination that he was going to get to in the mountains. and it was clear by him that once they got to the mountains and felt like they made it, that he was going to kill her and get rid of her because she was a liability. >> casey white's lawyers tell 20/20 that there's no merit to any allegations of a plan by casey to kill vicky. but even though in the end vicky

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vicky white gather to pay their respects at the family burial plot in lexington, alabama. just 24 miles from the jail where she aided in the dramatic escape of inmate casey white that ultimately led to her death. >> it was a summer day in may. there were many, many people there surrounding her family. >> her mom and dad took it very hard. sad, sad, and really sad. >> the ending was not what any of us would have written for her, but we all chose to remember our vicky. >> vicky's former lover, casey white, is being held in solitary confinement in a

maximum-security prison. and it's there where he learns that, along with facing charges for the escape, he's also going to be charged with vicky white's murder. >> nobody was saying that casey physically killed vicky, but in alabama, they have a statute called felony murder. most states have some version of this law, which basically says that if a person such as casey white is in the process of committing a crime and then someone dies as a result, he can be held accountable and can be charged with murder. >> felony murder shouldn't even be on the books in america. i feel like that law was an unconstitutional law. and we were prepared to take the case if he was convicted, to take the case the united states supreme court, if necessary. that's how far we were going to fight that case. >> not only will casey be pleading not guilty to murder. he also plans to plead not guilty to escape, with his lawyers claiming that it was vicky who was responsible for that crime. >> who had the power in this situation? who had this power? she had the power in this

situation. he didn't have no power. some people might say that, you know, she had the keys to his freedom, he had the key to her heart. >> on may 4th, 2023, casey white and his lawyers arrive here at the county courthouse for a routine hearing. >> casey, do you have anything to say? >> but casey white sends his defense team with a message for the district attorney. >> they made that offer of a plea to escape first and take a life sentence. >> casey white surprises everyone by agreeing to a guilty plea for the escape so long as the felony murder charge against him in vicky's death is dropped. >> i made a call down to the prison system, and said, okay, before we pleads to escape one, when will he be eligible for

parole? 2081. he'll be 100 years old. >> and with that, the deal is made. a month later, casey returns to court for sentencing. >> cay say, casey, were you and vicky in love? >> but before he gets his sentence, he's given the opportunity to address the court and vicky's family. >> casey spoke in court and said he felt he was the most hated man in the world, but he and vicky had fallen in love. >> what he said at sentencing, how he said it, that's the real casey. i think casey white was in love and is in love, and love will make you do crazy things. >> whatever the truth may be, it's unlikely that casey white will see the outside of a prison cell again. >> life in prison. just hours ago -- >> casey is going to be in prison for the rest of his natural life. and that's just one step towards that healing process. brighter days are ahead.

>> meanwhile, law enforcement says it's been making changes to try to ensure that an escape like this never happens on their watch again. >> could a deputy director now casually walk out with an inmate? >> the policies that we have put into place prevents anyone from just walking in here and taking an inmate out of our jail. >> despite what the town of florence now knows about the former corrections officer, those who knew vicky white and used to see her every day continue to feel her loss and wrestle with her legacy. >> i hate that the world's going to know vicky now as this person who facilitated the escape of, you know, a monster. i wish they would have known the vicky that we all knew back

prior to all this happening, the superwoman. >> i loved her. i loved her dearly. she did wrong, but i loved her dearly. >> if i could say anything to her, i would tell her how much i loved her. because i did. but i miss her very much. and i'm not the only one. i trust she's in a better place. >> such mixed emotions about their friend. you have been covering this story for so long. and we should point out with casey white back behind bars, that murder charge, accusing him of killing connie ridgeway, was suspended. >> the lauderdale county da decided that white is already serving what amounts to life without parole. that's our program for tonight. thanks so much for watching.

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