Sheriff Singleton began his law enforcement career in 1972 as a reserve deputy with the Lauderdale County Sheriff's Office. He became a corrections officer and was sworn in as a Deputy Sheriff in 1973. At twenty-six, he ran unsuccessfully for sheriff in 1978, becoming the youngest candidate in the county's history. He later joined the Florence, Alabama Police Department, where he rose to Chief of Police by 1996, retiring in 2012 after over thirty-two years. In 2014, he won the sheriff's election by a significant margin and ran unopposed for a second term, a first for the office. He retired in January 2023, concluding a career spanning five decades. Singleton earned a master's degree in criminal justice from the University of Alabama in 1982 and graduated from the FBI National Academy, the Law Enforcement Executive Development Seminar, and the National Sheriff's Institute. He and his wife, Peggy, married in 1976 and have two daughters. On April 29, 2022, Vicky White, a veteran of the Lauderdale County Detention Center, escorted convicted felon Casey White out of the facility. The escape shocked her colleagues and family. For eleven days, the manhunt garnered national and international media attention. With a six-hour head start, the Lauderdale County Sheriff's Office and the U.S. Marshals Service launched a search. The couple was captured on May 9 in Evansville, Indiana. Vicky White died the next day from a self-inflicted guns
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