Posted on 04/05/2005 10:21:14 AM PDT by SmithL
OKLAHOMA CITY - The wife of a deputy prison warden who vanished 10 years ago with an escaped killer told authorities after she was found that he had held her captive the whole time, a federal agent said Tuesday.
A tip generated by the TV show "America's Most Wanted" led law enforcement to a mobile home in Campti, Texas, where escaped convict Randolph Dial was arrested Monday, said Salvador Hernandez, special agent in charge of the FBI in Oklahoma.
The assistant warden's wife, Bobbi Parker, 42, was found a short time later working at a chicken farm not far from Campti, agents said. They were living together in the same trailer and she had stayed with Dial out of fear for her family, Hernandez said.
She was later reunited with her husband, Randy, with FBI agents present who "said the reunion went well," he said. The couple have two daughters.
Dial, a sculptor and painter, was convicted of the 1981 murder of a karate instructor. He had obtained trusty status at the Oklahoma State Reformatory in Granite in southwestern Oklahoma, and he ran an inmate pottery program with Bobbi Parker and had access to their home, in staff housing on prison grounds, during the day.
The morning of Bobbi Parker's disappearance in August 1994, her husband saw Dial working in his garage, where there was a kiln for firing pottery, as he left.
When he returned for lunch, he found a note from his wife saying she went grocery shopping. When his wife had not returned home that evening, Randy Parker called the prison and discovered Dial also was missing.
Bobbi Parker's mother received a phone call from her later that night traced to Hurst, Texas. "I can't talk now," she said, crying. "I'm OK. Tell the kids I'll see them soon."
A day later, she made a second call, this time from Fort Worth to a friend. It was the last message her family got from her. "I've got 30 seconds to talk," she said. "I want you to call my home. Tell the kids I love them and I'll be home soon."
Randy Parker is now warden at the William S. Key Correctional Center at Fort Supply in northwestern Oklahoma. A spokesman at the prison said Parker did not want to comment.
Shelby County Sheriff Newton Johnson had said earlier that the woman wanted to stay on the farm in Texas, but Hernandez said this was a misinterpretation. Hernandez said he believes the sheriff's comment arose from comments she made thanking people as she was leaving the farm.
Hernandez said that while it is unusual for someone to be held against one's will for so long, it is not unprecedented.
"There have been cases of this kind and typically this will result when someone believes family members might be in danger," Hernandez said. They were living under the assumed names Richard and Samantha Deahl.
In 2000, Randy Parker said his wife was not afraid of Dial, but was not "overly friendly" toward him. Dial is "personable," yet conniving, he said then. "I always saw him as a coward, just an absolute coward," Parker said. "He always tried to run a con on people."
Oh yeah, he singlehandedly held her captive for ten years against her will. Mmm hmmm, sure he did.
There was a case years ago involving a young girl that was kidnapped while hitchhiking and she was held captive for years. I believe that her abductor even allowed her to visit her family briefly at one point. He had tortured and brainwashed her to the point where she believed that he was a member of some clandestine organization that could harm her family if she told anyone what he had done to her.
From Fox News/AP Story on another thread:
"The wife of a deputy prison warden who disappeared 10 years ago along with a convicted killer has been found unharmed in East Texas but doesn't appear to be in any hurry to return to her old life, authorities said.
A tip generated by the TV show "America's Most Wanted" led law enforcement to a mobile home in Campti, Texas, where escaped convict Randolph Dial (search) was arrested Monday, said Salvador Hernandez, special agent in charge of the FBI in Oklahoma.
The assistant warden's wife, Bobbi Parker (search), was found a short time later working at a chicken ranch elsewhere in the county, agents said. Once described by the FBI as an endangered missing person, Parker was not arrested.
"As far as I know, she has no intention of leaving," Shelby County Sheriff Newton Johnson told The Oklahoman late Monday. "She said she wants to stay on the farm and raise chickens."
She was not a "captive".
Looks to me like they were shacking up in the hen house. Ten years is a long time not to escape.
No way in HELL do I believe this 'lady's' story.
It says she has two daughters.........
I have one daughter, and I would crawl my way back to her if anyone tried to take me from her.....THROUGH HELL!!!
I guess they don't. :~D
Or a phone call to authorities. Or to her family. Or to a friend.
She ran off with the hippy-killer-pottery maker. Now she plans to play the victim and waltz back into the lives of her husband and kids.
This guy kept her captive for 10 years AND made her work?
They oughta hire this guy to revamp the entire prison system.
FREEPER POST OF THE MONTH!!
Definitely stinks. I saw this in prison several times. One woman divorced her husband, gave up her job with the BOP so she could move to where her inmate lover was transferred to so she could visit him.
Another case manager was caught when a guard went in to used the phone in her office to call in the count and found a note slipped under the door. He made copies and started looking for them, copying them and putting them back.
Then there were the inmate groupies. Female guards (all married) who would do blow job parties with select inmates usually numbering four or five at a time.
Liar, liar pants on fire!
Stockholm Syndrome may play a factor also. Any number of things could have happened that don't necessarily constitute willing accompaniment of the convict.
The phone calls to friends and family and particularly the promise to the children to "see them soon," as well as the rigidly-controlled duration of the phone calls implies something other than an affair gone awry.
She may have resisted at first and then grew to accept and empathize with her captor. On the other hand, she may have helped him escape, though granted an assistant warden's wife could be a valuable tool by a kidnapper to get off the prison grounds undetected.
If there's any fish in this story, the detectives interviewing both parties will ferret it out, and I'm sure it will be sold as a book or a magazine story in all of it's lurid details.
Hell, it's a story that will sell regardless of whether her story is true or not.
I think it's important to get more facts before passing judgment. Suspicion is natural, but if this woman really is a victim, she deserves sympathy rather than scorn. Long shot or not.
Sounds like a bad "Lifetime" women's network movie. Could star Valerie Bertinelli as the wife, Burt Reynolds as the wronged husband and George Clooney as the hunky convict sculpter..hmmmmmm.........
I agree, and I generally try to do that.
By the same token, though, she's claiming that she feared for her family-- not Stockholm syndrome. It seems to me that ten years is a LONG time to be afraid for your family, but not figure out a way to do something about it.
I'll wait for more facts before I condemn her, but my BS meter is buzzing at her story.
Captive for 10 years? Uh huh.
The SOB had to go to sleep sometime, one frying pan over the head about 2:00 am and the convict would have gone 'bye-bye' in his sleep. I hope the good Warden insists on an HIV test if he decides to welcome Mz. Bobbi back to the conjugal bed.
The FBI probably has the same suspicions, given that they were present at the "reunion."
Ummmmm... If they were having an affair, wouldn't that mean that "she's putting out"? ;-P
Ida Lupino as the wife. Edward G. Robinson as the Warden. Richard Conte as the escapee. Jimmy Stewart as the husband left behind.
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