Son of Casey White’s alleged murder victim starts GoFundMe for tipster who spotted inmate, corrections officer

Casey White was awaiting trial for a 2015 murder-for-hire when he and corrections officer Vicky White made a run for it. Now, the son of his alleged victim is raising money for the man who turned them in.

Austin Williams and Mark White, a friend of the family unrelated to either Casey or Vicky, have raised more than $3,000 as of Sunday for James Stinson, the car wash employee in Evansville, Ind., who spotted the fugitive friends and turned them in.

“We’re not waiting around to see if Mr. Stinson receives reward money elsewhere,” the pair wrote on the GoFundMe page. “We’re going to do it right here, right now.”

Stinson spotted the abandoned Ford F-150 truck on May 3, unlocked and with the keys still in the ignition, he previously told AL.com. Police checked it out but found nothing suspect.

Days later, U.S. Marshals announced that they were looking for the same car, which had been bought in cash the day Casey and Vicky White fled Alabama.

Casey White, left, and Vicky White were spotted by a car wash employee in Evansville, Ind.

On his security footage, Mark White found Casey White, dressed in a hat and sunglasses, with his tattoos clearly visible.

Officials eventually closed in on Vicky and Casey White and, after a car chase, rammed their vehicle, causing it to flip. When police got to the car, Vicky had already shot herself in the head; she would later die at the hospital.

Casey White was taken into custody and has since been extradited back to Alabama. He now faces a charge of first-degree escape on top of the capital murder charge for the 2015 stabbing death of Connie Ridgeway, Mark White’s friend.

Ridgeway, 59, was found dead at home in Rogersville, Ala., after a neighbor requested a welfare check, according to AL.com. Her murder went unsolved until 2020, when Casey White, who was serving a 75-year sentence for a multi-state crime spree during which he threatened to kill his ex-girlfriend, shot another woman and killed a dog, wrote a letter to the Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office.

During an interview with investigators, White allegedly confessed to killing Ridgeway and provided details about the crime that had not been publicly released.