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Found in her home on the prison grounds. >> the mother of the el paso walmart should a police just weeks before the deadly rampage, was worried about her son holding in a case ill weapon, given his age and lack of good experience. the officer told his mother he was allowed to legally own and by that weapon and the president travel to texas and dayton, ohio. >> iowa state fair begins with 2020 democratic hopefuls taking the stage. steve bullock and joe biden are the first to come so we will keep ...

Offered to help sell the inmates pottery, and dial was eager to teach her the art of making ceramics. >> he started in the garage. i told him i would prefer it out front. >> why did you not want to learn it in the garage? >> i wasnt comfortable. >> with him? >> yes. its never good to be one on one with an inmate. it never is. >> nevertheless, she once drove dial into town by herself to meet shopkeepers. a trip she says was okd by warden cowley. did it strike you as odd that you were given permis...

>> because i -- because i thought shes guilty. >> bobbis attorney, garvin isaacs, put on an impassioned defense. >> i took this case because bobbi parkers an innocent woman whos wrongfully accused of a crime she didnt commit. >> isaacs told jurors the states case was built on faulty speculation, outright fabrication, and the suspicious testimony of convicted felons. for instance, that inmate who claimed hed seen bobbi drive dial off the prison grounds, the defense showed he changed his story mul...

In 1992, he was named deputy warden at the oklahoma state retomorrow tor reformato reformatory. they lived on prison grounds, just outside the wall. what was life like in granite? >> it slowed down for me and my family a little bit, but it was good. >> if there wasnt much happening in granite, inside the prison it was the opposite. there was a new warden, determined to shake things up. his name, jack. >> i didnt sit behind my desk a lot. i was out in the yard with the guys. i let inmates call me...

Need everyone to step in right now. >> the relationship between staff and offenders is probably what makes this place special. it is a maximum security setting. and a lot of them are here for a very, very long time. and its a more mature level of relationship. we literally have inmates here that have been here for 30 years or more, the entire career of some of our staff. they came in here together. >> whats up, old guy? how you doing? >> as long standing as some of these relationships may be, th...

Helped sell pottery and learned ceramics. >> he started in the garage. i told him i would prefer it out front. >> why did you not want to learn it in the garage? >> i wasnt comfortable. >> with him? >> yes. its never good to be one on one with an inmate. it never is. >> nevertheless, she once drove dial into town by herself to meet shopkeepers. a trip she says was okd by warden cowley. did it strike you as odd that you were given permission to take a convicted murderer off the prison grounds? >>...

>> isaacs told jurors the states case was built faulty speculation, outright fabrication, and the suspicious testimony of convicted felons. for instance, that inmate who claimed hed seen bobbi drive dial off the prison grounds, the defense showed he changed his story multiple times. and the inmate who claimed hed had an affair with bobbi, the defense proved he was mentally ill, his story, a complete fantasy. >> this most outrageous case that ive ever been involved in. its a great miscarriage of ...

In a tiny town called granite. bobbi and randy lived on prison grounds, just outside the wall. what was life like in granite? >> it slowed down for me and my family a little bit. but it was -- it was good. >> if there wasnt much happening in granite, inside the prison it was the opposite. there was a new warden determined to shake things up. his name -- jack cowley. >> i didnt set behind my desk a lot. i was out in the yard with the guys. i let inmates call me jack. >> and one inmate that got co...

♪ theres no place likargh!e ♪ im trying... ♪ yippiekiyay. ♪ mom. ♪ theres a certain story line that develops at many of the prisons we visited that we have difficulty ignoring. its the relationship between inmates and cats. sometimes theyre strays that roam prison grounds and bond with inmates and other times

Warden cowley. did it strike you as odd that you were given permission to take a convicted murderer off the prison grounds? >> yes, yes. >> not long after that, one hot august morning, bobbi parkers life turned upside down. >> i just remember being woozy -- not feeling good. thinking i was going to be sick. then it was shortly later then dial was in front of me. >> dial, the convicted murderer, was in her home. >> i remember thinking what are you doing in here, but then it happened so quickly. h...