Police perplexed after Alabama officer’s escape with inmate lover ends in death

What in the world provoked her?' police ask, after Vicky White fled with murder suspect Casey White, prompting massive manhunt

Vicky White spent 16 years developing a reputation as a model deputy in the sheriff's office that operates the jail in Lauderdale county, Alabama, according to her boss.

Authorities now say that makes it harder to come to grips with how she became the lover of a murder suspect incarcerated at her lockup, helped him escape from custody, and went on the run with him for more than a week, traveling nearly 300 miles before shooting herself dead as police closed in.