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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 show. >> the parkers say they never saw the report before cowley put dial's pottery studio in their garage. yo...

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 wife samantha. >> to survive i became samantha. >> who was saman...

>> but the deals had been farmhands here for 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 men were placed in handcuffs, a 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 mo...

And dial wanted to get those covered. 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 to get through the day. you know, make sure the girls are doing okay. >> the parker girls wer...

Welcome back. i'm craig melvin. convicted killer randolph dial was serving a life sentence in an oklahoma state prison. his security status had been lowered to allow him to run a unique art program. but it also allowed him to escape and take bobbi parker with him. now, their life together, posing as a married couple, was under a microscope. investigators were about to follow a trail of clues that led them to a surprising conclusion. 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 y...