Lawyers for Casey Cole White have requested eight-year-old phone records prior to his capital murder trial next month.

White, 39, faces a capital murder trial set for Aug. 14 for the brutal slaying of Connie Jane Ridgeway in Rogersville on Oct. 23, 2015.

According to court records, White’s lawyers, in a three-page motion filed last week, want T-Mobile phone records and tower locations for the three-days leading up to Ridgeway’s death.

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

In May, White entered a guilty plea to escape charges in exchange for the felony murder charge involving Vicky White, the Lauderdale County jailer who facilitated his 11-day 2022 escape, being dropped. Vicky White, who was not related to him, shot herself as authorities closed in following a traffic chase in Indiana.

Casey White was in jail last year awaiting trial for Ridgeway’s death when he and Vicky White staged their daring escape.

Ridgeway, 59, was found dead in her home at the Meadowland Apartments on Prince Drive in Rogersville, located across the street from Lauderdale County High School’s football field.

Rogersville police were called to Ridgeway’s apartment around 6 p.m. that Friday by a neighbor requesting a welfare check. She was found slain in her living room.

White’s 2020 arrest came, District Attorney Chris Connolly said at the time, after an investigator with the Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office received a letter in June 2020 from White.

During an interview at the prison, Casey White confessed to the crime, and his statements matched certain evidence at the scene that was not released, Connolly said.

White indicated he was paid to kill Ridgeway. Connolly said at a 2020 news conference that he did not know why White decided to come forward and talk with investigators. Last year, Connolly said the state’s case is not based solely on his statement.