Bobbi Parker to face charge of assisting escaped fugitive

[Informer]

MANGUM -- Bobbi Parker, a former deputy warden's wife who vanished with an escaped killer and wasn't heard from for nearly 11 years, has been charged with aiding the convict's escape.

The charge was filed three years after the woman and escapee were found and just three days before the statute of limitations in the case against her was to expire.

Parker, 45, was charged with helping and providing transportation to Randolph Dial during his Aug. 30, 1994, escape from the Oklahoma State Reformatory in Granite.

Authorities said Parker became "romantically involved" with Dial, who was a trusty at the prison.

Parker's husband, Randy Parker, was the deputy warden there at the time. He now is a security manager for the Department of Corrections in McAlester, where the reunited couple now live.

The couple would not comment on the charge against Bobbi Parker, according to Jerry Massie, a spokesman for the Department of Corrections.

Bobbi Parker and Dial were found April 4, 2005, living on a poultry ranch in Campti, Texas. They were living under the aliases of Richard and Samantha Deahl, officials said.

A tip from a person watching the "America's Most Wanted" television show led authorities to the Campti mobile home.

Parker claimed that Dial had kidnapped her and that he had threatened her life and the lives of her family during the whole time he was on the lam, officials said.

Dial backed up her story, despite reports from people in Campti who said they often saw Parker shopping alone and that she helped Dial regain his health after he suffered a heart attack.

Dial, who has since died, was still in ill health in January 2007 when he received an additional seven years in prison for the 1994 escape.

He had been serving a life term for the 1981 Tulsa murder of Kelly Dean Hogan, 28, of Broken Arrow.

Dial died in June at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. He was 62.

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation conducted a lengthy probe into his es- cape and Parker's disappearance.

In June 2006, the OSBI turned over its report to Greer County District Attorney John Wampler for possible action.

After reviewing the report for 20 months, Wampler filed the charge against Parker on Friday but didn't announce the filing until Tuesday.

He said he delayed the announcement to let the Parkers know of his decision. They were notified Monday, he said.

Even though Parker was found April 4, 2005, Wampler said the clock on the statute of limitations didn't start ticking until she returned to Oklahoma three days later, thus making his deadline to file a charge Monday.

Wampler said Tuesday that he feels confident about his case against Parker, despite Dial's repeated claims of hav ing kidnapped her.

Dial "backed up her story," he said, "but his accounts were always a little different. The versions tended to change over time."

Wampler would not elaborate on the discrepancies.

If convicted of aiding an escape, a felony, Parker faces as much as 10 years in prison.

Wampler said he doesn't know when Parker will surrender to authorities, "but it won't be this week."

Bail for Parker has been set at $10,000.

At the time of his escape, Dial, a noted sculptor, was running an inmate pottery program with Bobbi Parker's assistance.

Dial also did yard work for the Parkers, who lived just outside the prison walls. He al so used their garage for an art studio.

Dial claimed that he abducted Parker at knifepoint and then brainwashed her into believing that he would harm her family, her two young daughters in particular, if she left him.

On the morning of her disappearance, Parker left word with her husband that she was going shopping in Altus, 25 miles south of Granite.

After it was discovered that day that she and Dial were missing, authorities found the Parkers' minivan parked in Wichita Falls, Texas, about 90 miles southeast of Granite.

Bobbi Parker's family and friends told FBI agents that they had received three phone calls from her in the week after her disappearance.

They said she sounded distraught and was said to be choking back tears.

That was the last anyone heard from her until she resurfaced three years ago.

[PapaBear]

I'm sure glad you guys know every thing. I worked for Randy Parker and knew Bobbie Parker very well. SHE DID NOT go with Dial by choice. SHE WAS KIDNAPPED!!

The person that allowed this to happen was that HUG A THUG warden jack calley. Why would you let a murder outside the wall of one of the worst prisons in Oklahoma??

I was there. I have the utmost respect for Mr. and Mrs. Parker.

If you weren't there keep your opinions to your selves.

The Hell with all that bull crap you have put on this site.

[Crosstimbers Okie]

No doubt Jack Cowley bears great responsibility for the situation.

Well, we'll see what the court decides this month on her. In the meantime, Dial is still talking about it even though he's been dead for over a year...

Altus Times > Archives > News > Writings of convicted killer and Granite prison escapee Randolph Dial made public in book

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Writings of convicted killer and Granite prison escapee Randolph Dial made public in book
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Monday, September 22, 2008 7:39 AM CDT
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The writings of the late Randolph Franklin Dial, who eluded police for more than a decade with a deputy warden’s wife, have been made public in a newly released book.

“In the Wind: The Story of Randolph Dial and Bobbi Parker” purports to be a compilation of letters written by Dial between April and December 2005. The 537-page book was published by As Ever Media, LLC. an Arizona company created to promote Dial’s legacy of writings and artwork.

Publishers say the book ultimately answers the question that has remained a mystery since Dial’s notorious escape from Granite’s Oklahoma State Reformatory in 1994: Was Bobbi Louaine Parker, the warden’s wife, a willing accomplice or a hostage?

Parker, 46, faces a felony count for helping Dial escape. Her preliminary hearing begins Oct. 27 in Greer County. She could serve up to 10 years in prison.

“The reason we’re putting this story out there now is so people know the truth about what happened,” said Dan Ysais, a spokesman for As Ever Media. “Mr. Dial’s story hasn’t been told because of the media’s negative slant. We even debated whether this story should ever be told. But in light of what’s going on, we felt it would do more good than harm.”

The book is a narrative in which Dial portrays himself as a supreme intellectual, a master manipulator, and a God-fearing man who was divinely protected in his flight to freedom.

Dial, who died in prison on June 13, 2007, at age 62, was serving a life sentence for the 1981 murder of Broken Arrow karate instructor Kelly Dean Hogan. It’s a murder he coldly describes in the book’s foreword.

Dial claims he and Parker grew intimately close during his incarceration.

He goes into detail concerning how he drugged Parker with valium the day he escaped and then ordered her to drive them off prison property.

The story proceeds to take the reader through their alleged love affair and his control over her during the decade they were on the run.

The book concludes with federal authorities busting through the door of their east Texas home on a chicken farm. Dial records Parker’s alleged final words to him while standing handcuffed: “There’s something I want you to know. I ... I don’t plan to cooperate with the authorities, and I’m not going to go public with any of this in the media.”

District Attorney John Wampler, who filed the charge against Parker, could not be reached for comment.


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[Crosstimbers Okie]

Well, she appeared in court and an OSBI investigator has testified to some damning evidence:

Prison official's wife focus of prelim | AP Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

Prison official's wife focus of prelim
By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer © 2008 The Associated Press
Oct. 27, 2008, 3:35PM
MANGUM, Okla. — The wife of a deputy warden and a convicted killer she's accused of helping escape from prison lived together as man and wife in a small trailer on a chicken ranch in east Texas for more than a decade, an investigator testified Monday.
Robert Williams, an investigator with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, detailed the couple's life together during a preliminary hearing for Bobbi Parker, 46, who is accused of helping Randolph Dial escape from the Oklahoma State Reformatory in Granite on Aug. 30, 1994.
A search of the pair's trailer, which had only one bed, uncovered photographs, mail the pair received, cards they exchanged, a box of condoms, instructions that come with Viagra and a vibrating sex toy, Williams testified.
"We found items that appeared to us as a husband and wife relationship between a man and a woman," Williams said.
Parker's defense attorney maintains Dial, who is now deceased, kidnapped Parker at knifepoint and held her against her will by threatening to use supposed mafia connections to harm her and her family if he were ever caught.
"From the get-go, Dial was intimidating to her," said attorney Rick Cunningham. "He threatened her and her family, her two daughters ... and that became an oppressive part of that situation.
"She kind of resigned herself to her fate."
Parker also told investigators the couple never were intimate, that she wasn't attracted to Dial and that the sex toy was a gag gift from a friend, Williams said.
The couple were found living at the east Texas ranch on April 4, 2005, after their case was highlighted on the television show "America's Most Wanted."
Parker's husband, Randy Parker, testified Monday that Dial was an artist who had been allowed to start up a pottery program in the detached garage of the deputy warden's home, which was located on the prison grounds.
"I allowed him to set up a kiln and start doing pottery," Randy Parker said. "When she (Bobbi Parker) was at the house, she worked around Dial. Her interest was to learn how to do the clay, do the pottery."
Randy Parker said on Aug. 30, 1994, he believes his wife and Dial had been missing for close to eight hours before authorities realized Dial had escaped.
"They missed him on a count," Parker recalled.
Bobbi Parker told investigators she began to feel woozy on the day of the escape, possibly from being drugged, and that she recalls Dial carrying her to the van that the couple escaped in.
Williams, the OSBI investigator, said Parker had numerous opportunities to escape while living with Dial, including one time in which Dial suffered a massive heart attack and was near death. Instead, she wrote him a love letter authorities later found, Williams said.
"The first night I spent in this house without you was unbearable," Williams said, reading from the letter. "I want us to laugh, do things together, sleep together ... because I love you."
The charge against Parker carries a penalty of up to 10 years in prison. The preliminary hearing is to determine whether there is enough evidence to move the case to trial.
Dial died in prison on June 13, 2007, at age 62, He was serving a life sentence for the 1981 murder of Broken Arrow karate instructor Kelly Dean Hogan.
Parker claimed Dial abducted her and she stayed with him out of fear. But questions about a romantic involvement between the two lingered after she returned to her husband, now a state corrections administrator, and their daughters, now grown.
Prior to the hearing Monday in Greer County Courthouse in far western Oklahoma, prosecutor Eric Yarborough filed court documents detailing elements of the state's case.
He said Parker had previous relationships, including sex, with inmates before escaping with Dial and that she had said she was unhappy in her marriage. The court filing alleges she started up a relationship with Dial and fell in love with him.
It also says that during the decade they lived together she nursed him back to health after his heart attack.
After Parker and Dial were found in Texas, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation launched a lengthy probe into the case and submitted an 1,800-page report to District Attorney John Wampler in June 2006, but it took nearly two years for him to file charges.
Bobbi Parker, who appeared in court wearing a business suit, remains married to Randy Parker, who sat with other family members behind the defendant. She and her husband whispered to one another at times during the proceedings before Judge Brad Leverett.

[PapaBear]

You dumb muther ****ers I'm glad you bitches know all about it, when you don't at all. You uneducated sons a bitches, I do know her and Randy, I was there, and this is a crock of ****! Jack Cowley was a inmate loving coward and I see he still is. Guess this is his ****ing posse. Bobbi was a very innocent small town girl. Dail was a hardened con with outside sources. She wasn't afraid for her own life but for her girls lives. Tell me why a murdering son of a bitch was trusty anyway. My wife and kids lived in housing then too. I hate that ex warden son of a bitch. He should be the one on trial. You ever heard of stockholm syndrome? Bobbie and her family are the victims, redirect that anger where it belongs

[PapaBear]

One last thing that book about them was written by a "friend " of Randolph Dial's, don't quote his lies please.

[Crosstimbers Okie]

Originally Posted by PapaBear

You dumb muther ****ers I'm glad you bitches know all about it, when you don't at all. You uneducated sons a bitches, I do know her and Randy, I was there, and this is a crock of ****! Jack Cowley was a inmate loving coward and I see he still is. Guess this is his ****ing posse. Bobbi was a very innocent small town girl. Dail was a hardened con with outside sources. She wasn't afraid for her own life but for her girls lives. Tell me why a murdering son of a bitch was trusty anyway. My wife and kids lived in housing then too. I hate that ex warden son of a bitch. He should be the one on trial. You ever heard of stockholm syndrome? Bobbie and her family are the victims, redirect that anger where it belongs

I suppose the OSBI Agent who introduced the condoms, dildo, and love letters from her to Dial is part of the conspiracy too?

Sure Jack Cowley is responsible for letting Dial play outside the fence. But Jack Cowley didn't marry the thug... I knew Jack Cowley. He was my first warden at JHCC. Even Jack Cowley, even if Dial was one of his pet thugs, which he was. I still have no doubt that had Randy or Bobbi Parker objected to Dial using their garage as a pottery shop, or even having Dial outside the perimeter, Dial would have remained inside the walls where he belonged. Cowley would not have forced that situation on them or allowed a thug like Dial to work outside the walls over the objections of his deputy wardens. They were happy with the arrangement or else Dial would never have had the opportunities he did.

Stockholm Syndrome? Maybe. That's for a psychologist to determine. And it may help explain why she did what she did. But, she still made here choices and had many, many opportunities to get help or get away.

Had she committed a murder for Dial would the Stockholm Syndrome be the culprit?

[PapaBear]

Neither did she, she was kidnapped by him. Reread what her last words to him were “There’s something I want you to know. I ... I don’t plan to cooperate with the authorities, and I’m not going to go public with any of this in the media.”
To me this says "please don't hurt my family". Understand me I am no hug-a-thug, this is someone I know, both of them.

[Crosstimbers Okie]

I understand that. But, it's a criminal case and is being reported in the media. We will continue to discuss it here. That's what we do here. That's why this forum exists. And, others are as entitled to their opinions as you are to yours...

[PapaBear]

Most of what was being posted here was opinion. What I am posting is not. If it were my family member I would have wanted someone to defend her. So I do that, Jack Cowley wants it to be her fault, he has many friends and it lets him off the hook. Even Randy bears more blame than she does, he would not argue that.