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He took me to a store, bought a few items, and i was able to make a phone call. >> later, some would find it odd bobbi called her mother, not her husband at the prison. she says she was happy to be calling anyone. >> making a phone call to me was a good thing, because i was hoping it could be traced. >> back in granite, bobbi's husband randy was coming to terms with the fact that his wife was missing and so was a convicted murderer. >> it's just mind-numbing, just get through the day, you know. make sure the girls are doing okay. >> the parker girls were 8 and 11. >> i just told them the truth...

Farmhands here for five years until the law descended on their home. >> what did he say? >> i knew you were coming, i just didn't know when. >> agents found mrs. deal working on another farm just down the road. what shape was she in? >> she seemed to be fine. >> the man and woman were placed in handcuffs, routine arrest. it turned out the rest of the story was anything but. that's because richard and samantha deal were not husband and wife at all but instead the oddest of odd couples. his real name was randolph dial, an escaped convict and self-confessed hitman, claimed to have mob connections...

>> he didn't notice that she was drugged or acting funny. didn't see anything in randolph dial's hand, no big knifes or anything like that. he saw bobbi driving. he saw her look over at him and -- >> some funny look in her eye? >> yeah. you know, kind of a startled look. she looked at him for several seconds, you know, and then drove off. >> why was she in the van at all, the d.a. wondered. dial, he said, didn't need her. >> he had the freedom to roam the prison grounds without anyone checking on him. so all he had to do was walk away. >> if dial didn't need bobbi, maybe, d.a. wampler said, it...

Had lived, they were finding evidence suggesting that maybe it took so long to find bobbi because she didn't want to be found. >> there were cards, valentine's 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 letter to dial in bobbi's handwriting. >> she talked about her love for randolph dial, how much they had enjoyed being together. it certainly spoke volumes about the relationship that they had at that point. >> it...

Kidnapper was next to her? >> she did not sound stressed at all. >> according to an oklahoma district attorney, john wampler, that conversation fit a pattern. >> there were just multiple opportunities that she had to make some effort to contact the authorities or to tell somebody that she needed help. how could you be gone from your children for 11 years and never 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 didn't want to be...