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| Woman: Convict Held Me Captive 11 Years |
| 2005-04-05 |
| 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 |
| #5 Elizabeth Smart was a LOT younger than this chick. This one definitely knew what she was doing. Bet she's on Oprah within the month. |
| Posted by: Desert Blondie 2005-04-05 9:14:55 PM |
| #4 Sounds completely insane, but if the offender can convince the captive of their supposed power to harm significant others in the victim's life, the victim (depending on the person) can succumb psychologically--especially if they have been violated by the attacker (which is so heinous, it serves as a type of "proof" of the agressor's "power"). Wonder if he kept her under lock and key, how far out in the country they were, etc. The fact that he had access to their family for so long, might lend some credence to the story. Ya gotta wonder, though . . . |
| Posted by: ex-lib 2005-04-05 8:58:29 PM |
| #3 I'm sure there's a good country song or two coming out of this tale... |
| Posted by: Raj 2005-04-05 8:21:49 PM |
| #2 I don't really buy it either, seems far fetched. Although, remember the Elizabeth Smart case, where she lived in hidding for several month's...she claimed in fear of her and her family well being?. I know I would run, escape, call someone FAST. Andrea Jackson |
| Posted by: Not so guliable 2005-04-05 8:02:10 PM |
| #1 Unless the 'little woman' had a choke chain on and 11 years of scars on her neck, I'd have a hard time buying her story. BTW, are those horns growing out of my head? |
| Posted by: Born last nite 2005-04-05 6:05:10 PM |