Casey White was in state prison on Tuesday night after being arraigned in Lauderdale County Courthouse, the day after his arrest, following 11 days on the run with corrections officer Vicky White.
Vicky White, 56, died on Monday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the coroner ruled on Tuesday. She pulled the trigger as the car she and Casey White – no relation – were traveling in crashed into a ditch in Indiana, having been run off the road by police.
DailyMail.com was there to witness the 38-year-old shuffle into court shortly before 10pm. White was heavily shackled on his ankles and with chains wreathed around his waist and wrists.
He spoke only to assure Judge Ben Graves that he had received proper counsel as he was charged with escape in the first degree.
That charge is now added to his laundry list of felonies, the most pressing of which is a capital murder charge for which he is due to stand trial in June.
Dressed in Vanderburgh County Correctional Facility yellow shirt and pants, a raw wound was clearly visible in the back of White’s shorn head as he sat at the front of the small courtroom.
It was the only evidence of any injury sustained by White in the car crash that dramatically ended his 11 day stretch on the lam with co-conspirator, former assistant director of corrections Vicky White, 56.
White was walked into the back of Lauderdale County Courthouse by sheriff deputies. He refused to answer questions shouted by waiting press.
He did not react when asked if he felt any remorse for Vicky’s death and did not flinch when asked: ‘Casey did you shoot Vicky White?’
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