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Jailer Vicky White and inmate Casey White had a head start when they fled Alabama

Jailer Vicky White and inmate Casey White had a head start when they fled Alabama, law enforcement experts say. Unforced errors brought it to an end

By Dakin Andone and Michelle Krupa, CNN A horde of cash. A getaway car. An enormous world in which to hide. It seemed inmate Casey White and his jailer Vicky White had plenty of advantages when they walked out of an Alabama jail on April 29, the corrections officer allegedly helping facilitate her charge’s escape.

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As the search continues for a missing former Alabama corrections officer and an inmate charged with murder

More than a week after they disappeared, an Alabama inmate and former corrections officer have left few clues for investigators on their trail

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN As the search continues for a missing former Alabama corrections officer and an inmate charged with murder, authorities remain in the dark on where the pair may have gone after the SUV they used after leaving the jail turned up little new information in the case. The 2007 Ford SUV officials

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Cameron Williams and Connie Ridgeway celebrate their last Mother's Day together in 2015.

Before he escaped with his jailer, the Alabama fugitive stood accused of killing a sweet, patriotic mom who never forgot birthdays

By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN The last few Independence Days have been tough for Austin Williams. It’s not only that his mother, Connie Ridgeway, loved America and collected anything bearing its flag, but July 4 was her birthday. When the family was sorting through her Rogersville, Alabama, home after her fatal 2015 stabbing, “half the

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This undated photo provided by Yurok Tribal Government shows two California condors waiting for release in a designated staging enclosure

After a 100 year absence, California condors are released back into the Northern Redwoods

By Zoe Sottile, CNN The critically endangered California condor has been absent from Northern California redwood forests for over a century — until Tuesday, when the Yurok Tribe and Redwood National and State Parks reintroduced two birds to the woodland area, the culmination of a 15-year reintroduction project. California condors have been out of Northern

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