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Woman: Convict Held Me Captive 11 Years
EFL:Another "Great Moment in White Trash History"...OKLAHOMA CITY - A convicted murderer and a deputy warden's wife who disappeared nearly 11 years ago have been found living together and raising chickens in Texas. The woman said she was held captive the whole time, staying with the killer out of fear her family would be harmed if she fled. Uh-huh. Prisoner and the Warden's wife, ya say? I've played that, but not for eleven years. Bobbi Parker, 42, has been reunited with her husband, who never remarried, and authorities were trying Tuesday to piece together details of the strange case. 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 FBI agent Salvador Hernandez. Parker was found a short time later working at a nearby chicken farm; the two were living in the trailer under assumed names. Working on a chicken farm and living in a trailer with an escaped convict. This has "Lifetime" written all over it. FBI agents present said the reunion between her and her husband, Randy, "went well." Oh, I'll bet! 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. Sorry, FBI man. I ain't buying it. 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, and he ran an inmate pottery program with Bobbi Parker and had access to their home during the day in staff housing on prison grounds. Sorry, FBI man. I definitely ain't buying it. Bobbi Parker's mother received a phone call from her the night of the 1994 disappearance 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. "Tell the kids I love them and I'll be home soon," she said. In a jailhouse interview Tuesday in Campti, Dial said he always expected he would be caught: "I thought about how it would be many times. I hoped I'd be luckier, see them coming. But I didn't." Dial declined to say whether he held Parker captive or threatened her family. I coulda went down with guns blazing. Or maybe not. Posted by: tu3031 2005-04-05 |
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