didn t figure dial would let her. maybe randy wasn t suspicious, but plenty of others were including charles sasser, the former detective who d written a book on randolph dial. dial started off tending the warden s garden. he tended the warden s ceramics shop, and then apparently ended up tending the warden s wife. sasser recalled that night in 2001, seven years after the escape, when dial called him and offered to put bobbi on the telephone. i said, are you all right? and she says, yes, i m fine. i m happy. did she sound at all like she was saying she s happy because a kidnapper was standing next to her? she did not sound stressed to me at all. according to an oklahoma district attorney, john wampler, that conversation fit a pattern. there was just multiple opportunities that she had to make some effort to contact the authorities or to tell somebody that she needed help. how could you be gone from your children for 11 years and never
did you suspect bobbi parker had a hand in it right away? i was drawn to that conclusion. it was cowley, remember, who picked dial to run the pottery program out of the parkers garage. then one day he now says he was driving by the parker home and i saw dial and bobbi out on the front porch drinking coffee or tea or something. they looked a little bit too cozy? right. then there were the phone calls from bobbi just after the prison break. she called her mother, and she made two more calls soon after that to a friend and her sister-in-law. but none to her husband. what did you think about that? i first of all, i thought it was relief. i thought it was good that she was able to make a phone call. i didn t think that she would be calling home because i just didn t figure dial would let her. maybe randy wasn t suspicious, but plenty of others were including charles sasser, the former detective who d
kidnapper was next to her? she did not sound stressed at all. according to an oklahoma district attorney, john wampler, that conversation fit a pattern. there were just multiple opportunities that she had to make some effort to contact the authorities or to tell somebody that she needed help. how could you be gone from your children for 11 years and never contact them? never make an attempt to get away? and now as deputies searched the trailer where dial and bobbi had lived, they were finding evidence suggesting that maybe it took so long to find bobbi because she didn t want to be found. there were cards, valentine s day cards and thing like that that she had given randolph dial. they also developed a roll of film which showed photos of bobbi smiling. hardly the picture of an abused woman being held against her will. and they found this letter to dial in bobbi s handwriting. she talked about her love for randolph dial, how much they had enjoyed being together.
at the trial, the state called former detective and author charles sasser who told jurors his take on his 2001 phone call with dial and bobbi. she was with him willingly, and they were living this happy country life. you know, almost like idyllic that they re together and happy together. that former inmate from years earlier testified about his affair with bobbi. the other inmate in granite said he d seen bobbi driving during the escape. and randy s former boss, warden jack cowley, testified about his observations that bobbi and dial seemed too cozy. you took the stand for the prosecution. uh-huh. why? because i because i thought she s guilty. bobbi s attorney, garvin isaacs, put on an impassioned defense. i took this case because bobbi parker s an innocent woman who s wrongfully accused of a crime she didn t commit.
tied up. from there, dial and bobbi went to work on an industrial chicken farm owned by debra grace. she never doubted they were married, but she could see dial was abusive. he was like, i can beat her. she s my wife, i can beat her. i said, no, not on my farm, you can t. i tried to get her to come to the house. she kept saying no, he wouldn t like that. kbl. in 2000 they moved again to another bigger chicken farm. bobbi s daughters were teenagers now. she d missed five anniversaries with randy. there were times that the loneliness was so great that my body would physically ache. and she says dial never ceased his campaign of terror,