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>> time just ran together. i didn't know always what day of the week it was. it didn't matter. >> eight months after bobbi's disappearance, in april 1995, the federal building in oklahoma city was bombed. 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 wif...

They lived in texas under fake names, pretending to be a married couple, while bobbi's real husband, randy, raised their two young daughters who had grown into teenagers. randy never doubted that his wife was kidnapped and clung to hope that she was alive. now the cold case was about to take a turn. >> mr. dial had had a violent past. best opportunities of success is to hit hard and fast. >> it was april 4th, 2005. bobbi parker and randolph dial had been missing for ten years, seven months, and five days. bobbi was just finishing up work at a chicken farm near her home. she had no idea the pla...

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 w...

>> the parkers say they never saw the report before cowley put dial's pottery studio in their garage. you didn't have any qualms about randolph dial -- >> not one qualm whatsoever. >> it came out in trial that in the years after the escape, coly got two tips about where bobbi and dial were but never told the fbi. >> the way my philosophy was, he's not doing anything wrong in terms of committing other crimes. so they're -- they're living their lives. >> and you were okay with that? >> i was -- i was content with it. >> even though he's a convicted murderer and you're a warden and you get a call...

In 2011, the state argued bobbi had plenty of chances over the years to leave dial but didn't because she didn't want it. >> i think bobbi parker perhaps had a -- not a perfect marriage. maybe she was lonely. maybe she was susceptible to a nice looking, very smooth-talking con man like randolph dial. >> at the trial, the state called former detective and author charles sasser who told jurors his take on his 2001 phone call with dial and bobbi. >> she was with him willingly, and they were living this happy country life. you know, almost like idyllic that they're together and happy together. >> ...