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The woman who discovered the abandoned getaway car of fugitive prison guard Vicky White and convicted killer Casey White last week says she felt unease after finding the vehicle outside her Tennessee home - mere hours after the duo escaped an Alabama prison.
'It's eerie that they were here,' College Grove resident Jackie Adams told DailyMail.com Saturday after coming across the suspicious vehicle Friday night, roughly 100 miles from the jail the pair had fled earlier that day.
Adams, 41 who drives a school-bus in the rural town, said she was coming home from one of her other jobs when she saw the then unidentified SUV with tinted windows and no tags, which belongs to former corrections officer White.
'I went ahead and called the sheriff's office to have it towed. We know all of our neighbors and I immediately knew it wasn't anybody's car.'
The car - which contained contained Whites' jail radio, handcuffs and keys - was towed later that day, with sheriffs seemingly unaware of the vehicle's connection to then burgeoning manhunt.
For the past week, the car sat in a Tennessee tow lot.
The pair - who authorities say are romantically involved - have been on the run since, evading thousands of lawmen in the process.
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Jackie Adams - who discovered the abandoned getaway car of fugitive prison guard Vicky White and convicted killer Casey White last Friday - says she felt unease after finding the vehicle outside her Tennessee home, just hours after the duo had escaped an Alabama prison
Corrections officer Vicky White (left) fled with confessed murderer Casey White (right) from Lauderdale County prison 111 miles away hours earlier. The pair shared an intimate relationship dating back to 2020, cops say. The pair - whom are not related - are still at-large
Adams was coming home from one of her other jobs when she saw the then unidentified SUV parked outside the house. The car - which contained Whites' jail radio, handcuffs and keys - had no tags, so cops had it towed, not knowing it belonged to the at-large corrections officer
Aforce of at least 20 -25 officers with full SWAT gear and assault rifles then descended on Adams' home in small-town College Grove (pictured) to look for more clues, nearly a week after she had reported it to police
Friday morning, however, Tennessee cops made a breakthrough in their search after realizing the impounded vehicle was White's, spurring a force of US Marshals, Williamson County Sheriff's Officers, and SWAT members to circle back to Adam's property Friday morning - a week after she had reported the vehicle.
'It was pretty Intense yesterday,' the school bus driver recalled Saturday to DailyMail.com. She said officers searched her property, the properties around her home, and nearby woods relentlessly into the night, for any clues as to the location of the pair - whom police believe are romantically involved.
Speaking to DailyMail.com just hours after drones and helicopters descended on the home - where they remained for hours and into the evening, according to Adams - the homeowner said she hopes that by now the duo are long gone.
'I would hope that the people aren’t here but I hope that they find them soon so that people around here can sleep peacefully,' Adams said, adding that the car turning up in the usually quiet neighborhood left her and others feeling on edge.
'We know everybody on our road and we watch out for each other.'
She added 'We have children and we like to trust that our kids are safe in their yards but now we can't trust that.'
Cops say Vicky White, a 57-year-old prison guard at Lauderdale County Jail in Alabama with a spotless record, helped confessed murderer Casey White - no relation - escaped custody the morning of April 29, the day she was scheduled to retire.
White, who was an assistant director of corrections at Lauderdale County, used a police vehicle to ferry Casey out of the maximum-security facility, under the guise that she was taking the con to a scheduled mental health evaluation.
The pair then switched to Vicky's orange Ford Edge - the car Adams would discover on her property hour later.
Casey White, the convicted killer who remains on-the-run with a corrections officer after breaking out of an Alabama jail last week, is shown in new photos
The latest footage shows them driving through the intersection of Huntsville Road and Cox Creek Parkway at 9.49am on Friday
Authorities say the pair then drove 100 miles north to Tennessee, dumping the car outside Adam's domicile. Local officials then impounded the car, unaware of its importance to the case.
Inside the car, sheriffs Friday reportedly recovered Vicky's jail radio, handcuffs and keys, with A photo released by Lauderdale County Sheriff's Office showing an apparent attempt to spray paint part of the car green - details initially missed by deputies.
Jimmy Adams, Jackie's father-in-law, who has lived in College Grove since 1969, said Saturday that he and his family are worried that an escaped killer potentially has been hiding out in the community for the better part of a week.
Adams, 74, said that he was home
