Prisoner Casey White has been charged with murdering his lover and corrections officer Vicky White after she helped him escape and the pair led police on an 11-day hunt.
Authorities previously said that Vicky, 56, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
Casey, 38, has now been charged with Vicky’s murder, but the indictment does not say that he shot her.
Vicky helped the convicted felon escape on April 29 and the two used disguises and swapped vehicles across three states before being captured in Evansville, Indiana.
A 911 call from inside the Cadillac that Casey and Vicky used to flee backs reports that she shot herself after the car crashed and partially rolled over.
‘She’s got a gun in her hand, and she’s breathing,’ someone is heard saying at the scene. ‘She’s got her finger on the trigger.’
A coroner later ruled the cause of her death a suicide.
Casey has been charged with first-degree escape ‘and in the course and furtherance of committing escape in the first degree, caused the death of Vicky White, who died from a gunshot wound to the head’, court documents state.
A trial date for Casey has not yet been set.
Casey was previously convicted of attempted murder and robbery after attempting to kill his ex-girlfriend and kidnapping her roommates, and was serving a 75-year prison sentence at the time of the jail break.
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