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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 wasn't comfortable. >> with him? >> yes. it's 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 ok'd by 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 parker's life turned upside down...

>> isaacs told jurors the state's case was built faulty speculation, outright fabrication, and the suspicious testimony of convicted felons. for instance, that inmate who claimed he'd seen bobbi drive dial off the prison grounds, the defense showed he changed his story multiple times. and the inmate who claimed he'd had an affair with bobbi, the defense proved he was mentally ill, his story, a complete fantasy. >> this most outrageous case that i've ever been involved in. it's a great miscarriage of justice. >> the defense couldn't call randolph dial to the stand. dial had died behind bars bef...

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 wasn't 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 didn't 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 cowley's attention, randolph dial. >> he was an unforgettable character. intelligent, manipulative, ...

♪ there's no place likargh!e ♪ i'm trying... ♪ yippiekiyay. ♪ mom. ♪ there's a certain story line that develops at many of the prisons we visited that we have difficulty ignoring. it's the relationship between inmates and cats. sometimes they're 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 parker's 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. he was there holding me up, then my legs went out from under me. >> the next thing bobbi says she re...