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'''Extra Notes:''' The case was featured as a part of the March 17, 1995 episode.
 
'''Extra Notes:''' The case was featured as a part of the March 17, 1995 episode.
   
'''Results:''' Captured. In April 2005, Randolph Dial was arrested in East Texas on a chicken ranch. Bobbi Parker was found working on a farm soon after. Dial was returned to prison and Parker was reunited with her family, but also arraigned. The charges indicate that they were romantically involved and she helped Dial escape even though Dial claimed to have kidnapped her, meaning that Parker developed Stockholm Syndrome. Dial died in 2007 after a lengthy illness in Oklahoma at the age of 62. Parker is currently set for trial in May 2011.
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'''Results:''' Captured. In April 2005, Randolph Dial was arrested in East Texas on a chicken ranch. Bobbi Parker was found working on a farm soon after. Dial was returned to prison and Parker was reunited with her family, but also arraigned. The charges indicate that they were romantically involved and she helped Dial escape even though Dial claimed to have kidnapped her, meaning that Parker developed Stockholm Syndrome. Dial died in 2007 after a lengthy illness in Oklahoma at the age of 62. Parker is currently set for trial in May 2011.
   
On a sidenote, Alexis Franklin Osborn (b 1978), Dial's son from the first of his three marriages was charged in connection with the death of his live-in girlfriend in 1998.
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On a sidenote, Alexis Franklin Osborn (b 1978), Dial's son from the first of his three marriages was charged in connection with the death of his live-in girlfriend, Amanda McDade, 15, in 1998.
   
 
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Revision as of 04:59, 31 January 2011

Real Name: Randolph Dial and Bobbi Parker

Aliases: No Known Aliases

Wanted For: Escape

Missing Since: August 30, 1994


Case

Details: Randolph Dial (convicted for the 1981 murder of karate instructor Kelly Dean Hogan) escaped from the Oklahoma State Reformatory and the same day deputy warden Randy Parker's wife, Bobbi Parker, vanished. Police are not certain if Randolph abducted Bobbi, or if the two ran off with each other.

Extra Notes: The case was featured as a part of the March 17, 1995 episode.

Results: Captured. In April 2005, Randolph Dial was arrested in East Texas on a chicken ranch. Bobbi Parker was found working on a farm soon after. Dial was returned to prison and Parker was reunited with her family, but also arraigned. The charges indicate that they were romantically involved and she helped Dial escape even though Dial claimed to have kidnapped her, meaning that Parker developed Stockholm Syndrome. Dial died in 2007 after a lengthy illness in Oklahoma at the age of 62. Parker is currently set for trial in May 2011.

On a sidenote, Alexis Franklin Osborn (b 1978), Dial's son from the first of his three marriages was charged in connection with the death of his live-in girlfriend, Amanda McDade, 15, in 1998.

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