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The fbi focused its resources on that case. the hunt for randolph dial and bobbi parker long since cold was quietly back burnered. >> every time i'd hear of a body being found, you know, i'd hold my breath and wait. but i just wouldn't accept she was dead. >> by now, bobbi and dial were working on a small farm in east texas. dial calling himself richard deal and introducing bobbi as his wife samantha. >> to survive i became samantha. >> who was samantha deal? >> she was lonely, hurt. and trying to make it day by day, minute to minute. >> when you would approach another human being, did you wan...

>> yes, she was. >> it certainly teamed 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, i'm not cooperating, i'm not cooperating. >> not cooperating with the authorities? why would bobbi say that after being kidnapped, raped, and tortured by randolph dial for years? tell dial i'm not cooperating, but what did that mean? >> if it came out in the paper that i was cooperating, i felt like my family would still be in harm. >> so maybe bobbi was still afraid of dial. or maybe she had other reason for saying sh...

Being reunited with her family, bobbi parker went from help will hostage to alleged accomplice. she was charged with helping convicted murderer randolph dial break out of prison. >> i didn't know they were still investigating. so the day they brought charges, it was a shock. >> she faced up it ten years in prison. there was talk of a plea deal, but bobbi was adamant. >> i said no plea because i would have to plead guilty to something that i didn't do. >> the case didn't go to trial for another three years. in 2011, the state argued bobbi had plenty of chances over the years to leave dial but d...

And i -- i'll probably live to regret it. >> then the defense tried to put someone else on trial -- warden jack cowley. >> jack cowley's an incompetent warden. >> defense attorney isaacs showed the jury a psychological report written by 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 told jack cowley you need to read the psychological report, and cowley said to him, you mind your business, i'm running this sho...

Nothing made sense in the environment that i lived in, in the world that i lived in. in was insanity. >> august 30, 1994, bobbi parker, wife of the deputy warden at a prison in oklahoma, said she found herself in texas with a convicted killer. randolph dial, serving a life sentence, had broken out of prison and escaped in the parker van. and he took bobbi with him. she says she's not sure how it happened. that he may have drugged her. and he had a knife. >> i just respect remember -- i just remember at some point there was blood on me. blood on my arm, on my leg. and dial wanted to get those c...