Casey Cole White is scheduled to be sentenced this afternoon following his guilty plea last month to escape charges related to his 11 days on the run last year with jailer Vicky White.

Last month, White pleaded guilty to escape during a routine hearing on motions in anticipation for his trial on felony murder charges.

White entered his plea in exchange for the felony murder charge involving Vicky White being dropped.

The sentencing hearing is scheduled for 1 p.m.

Following his guilty plea, Casey White said in court of the brutal end to the escape, “It wasn’t supposed to happen like that.”

White, 39, had been charged with murder in the May 9, 2022 death of Vicky White, the jail officer who walked out with Casey White on April 29, 2022.

Vicky White, who was not related to Casey, took her own life with a gunshot to the head as Evansville, Ind. police were closing in on them following an 11-day manhunt, after Vicky helped Casey escape from the Lauderdale County Jail. Casey White, who reportedly was also injured by Vicky’s fatal shot, faced murder charges because Vicky White’s death occurred during the commission of a felony.

Casey White also faces a capital murder trial set for Aug. 14 for the 2015 slaying of Connie Ridgeway in Rogersville. When he escaped from jail, White was being held for the trial, then just weeks away. That trial was delayed in the aftermath of the escape and White retaining a new team of attorneys.

White is currently serving a 75-year sentence for convictions stemming from an array of 2015 charges, including attempted murder.