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>> what if you were ripped away from your family? >> you live in fear, it changes you. >> kidnapped by a killer? >> i came out of the back, just really messed up. >> held for years as a prisoner. and what if prosecutors never believed you? >> bobbi parker was not the woman she was betraying as yourself. >> absolutely. >> it was a mystery, with a mind-boggling twist. this wife and mom, taken hostage. was she really a hostage at all? >> their relationship was not one of kidnap or and vic...

Had she been a prisoner as she told police? or did bobbi willingly go on the run? >> randolph dial, the convicted killer who busted out of prison was back behind bars. his hostage, bobbi parker, was reunited with her family after more than ten years as dials captive. it seemed like a happy ending to an incredible story. but from the day bobbi disappeared, some people had doubts about what really happened to her. one of them was her husbands former boss, warden jack cowley. did you suspect bobbi ...

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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 parker garage. then one day, he says he was driving by the parker home -- >> and i saw dial and bobbi on the front porch drinking coffee or tea, or something. >> and 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...

Shes gone. they were devastated. >> the community was devastated. yellow ribbons, prayer vigils, and a huge manhunt ensued. dial was on the fbis most wanted list. meanwhile, bobbi says she was in a texas motel at the mercy of randolph dial. >> he bound my wrist. he bound my ankles. and he beat me with a -- his belt. it was a very severe beating. very severe. what i remember him saying is, this is nothing compared to what the people i know can and will do to you. >> what did he say he would do if...

The year, and randy moved up the ranks quickly. in 1992 he was named deputy warden at the oklahoma state reformatory. 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 ...

Today and move forward. >> but he could see that bobbi was different. >> she would say, im going to get a coke, can i have one? im going to go to the bathroom, is that okay? >> she was still acting like a prisoner? >> yes, she was. >> it certainly seemed like a triumph of survival and love, except for something the sheriff remembered. >> the only thing that i heard her say to mr. dial was, im not cooperating, im not cooperating. >> not cooperating with the authorities? why would bobbi say that a...

I was the hostage-taker. and i -- ill probably live to regret it. >> then the defense tried to put someone else on trial -- warden jack cowley. >> jack cowleys an incompetent warden. >> defense attorney isaacs showed the jury a psychological report written about dial three years before the escape. it described dial as dangerous with an extreme talent for manipulation. the report warned against letting dial do his art around women as he would inevitably begin to scheme. >> the head of security to...

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 didnt want to be found. >> there were cards, valentines 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 l...

Visibility and heavy snow. its expected to continue into rush hour this morning as it moves east and south. now back to "dateline." welcome back to "dateline." im craig melvin. randy parker had reason to celebrate. his wife was back home. she claimed shed been kidnapped. but new details were beginning to emerge. had she been a prisoner as he told police or did bobbi willingly go on the run? >> randolph dial, the convicted killer who busted out of prison, was back behind bars. his hostage, bobb...