Fugitive inmate captured and ex-jail officer who helped him escape dead after manhunt

Casey White gave himself up and Vicky White shot herself and was taken to a hospital. Vanderburgh County Coroner Steve Lockyear said she died from her injuries

A former Alabama jail official has died and the murder suspect she is accused of helping escape from custody has been apprehended in Indiana after more than a week on the run (Denny Simmons/Evansville Courier & Press via AP)

A former Alabama jail official has died and the murder suspect she is accused of helping escape from custody has been apprehended in Indiana after more than a week on the run.

The death of Vicky White, 56, only deepened the mystery of why a respected jail official would leave everything to help free Casey White, 38, a hulking inmate with a violent and frightening history.