What do you have in common with a serial killer? 0:56 (CNN) — The Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office and the FBI say the search is continuing for Deputy Director of Corrections Vicki White and inmate Casey White, who went missing on Friday. The inmate and the corrections officer are not related. Casey White, 38, was serving a 75-year prison sentence on various charges when he confessed in 2020 to killing Connie Ridgeway, according to Lauderdale County District Attorney Chris Connolly. However, White pleaded not guilty. White was being held at the Lauderdale County Detention Center for hearings related to the Ridgeway case. Ridgeway’s son, Austin Williams, told CNN his murder was “a total shock” to the family. For years, Austin and his brother Cameron worked to keep Ridgeway’s memory alive by offering a reward for any information leading to the arrest of her killer. “We were more or less her world. She was a very nice person, kind of a friend to everybody,” Austin Williams said. Williams says White’s trial had been rescheduled due to COVID-19 delays. In 2020, authorities discovered White planned to escape and take a hostage, but sheriff’s deputies foiled those plans.”I see a very troubled person. I see someone who is really, like, you want someone to be able to be rehabilitated, but at this point it’s someone who is very, very conflicted and he just needs to be removed from humane society,” Williams said. On Friday morning, Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Director of Corrections Vicki White told a detention center guard that she would release White at the courthouse and would later seek medical attention because he wasn’t feeling well.Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton told CNN that although Casey White was allegedly being transported for a salt assessment mental health in court, they have since learned that no evaluation or other court hearing was scheduled for him on Friday. Inmate Casey White and Deputy Director of Corrections Vicki White (the two are not related). Authorities said Casey White was being held on murder charges and that two sworn officers should have been with him at all times, including during transport to court. The sheriff said Casey White and Vicki White never made it to court. Authorities did not realize they were missing until several hours later. “She knew politics. She knew that she shouldn’t leave here alone with him. So that tells us that something was going on. She took him out of the detention center to a scheduled court appearance that did not exist. So we don’t know if she was coerced, threatened to go through with that plan or if she did it willingly or indeed if he somehow overpowered her in the four blocks from the detention center to the courthouse and took control of the vehicle. and hers,” Singleton said.