UPDATE: April 31, 2005: (confidential to media eyes only)
The OSBI (Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation) apparently is getting close to drawing up papers charging Bobbi Parker with aiding and abetting Dial's escape and life on the lam, according to a low-level secretary who works in the building. Stay tuned to this website for the official announcement. Film at 11!

Way back in 1998, before the turn of the millennium, crime reporter extraordinaire Charles Sasser wrote a book about a convicted murderer who had escaped from a rather "open" prison setup in Oklahoma and was on the lam. The book, still in print today in 2005, [check out www.amazon.com or Google the title or names Sasser and Dial to see reviews] was titled

"At Large: The Life And Crimes
Of Randolph Franklin Dial"

[FBI WEBSITE: "In August 1994, convicted murderer Randolph Franklin Dial escaped from the Oklahoma State Reformatory in Granite, Oklahoma, ... The FBI was at one time offering a reward of up to US$25,000 for information leading to his arrest."]

NOTE: Dial was re-captured on April 5, 2005................................ end of story? No way!

(see news sites below, scroll down)

[Convicted killer Dial is now being held in a maximum-security penitentiary in Oklahoma.
A preliminary hearing will be held June 13. Dial is being held in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.]

This website is about literary history being made, crime literature annals and autograph signing parties involving escaped convicts. [The blogmaster has no connection with any of the people mentioned on this site, and created it solely for the reading pleasure of book industry insiders, Hollywood screenwriters and future film directors.]

TV ALERT: SONY TV is on the fast track to making a TV movie of the week about Dial's life, before, during and after. Should be out soon. Based on the book AT LARGE, according to our Tinseltown sources. Sony's on the ball. Don't drop it!

In additon, we heard -- via the prison grapevine -- that Dial has sort of, kind of, more or less, indirectly, intimated to the media (if you read between the lines, that is!) that he and Bobbi were lovers and that she helped him escaped. Yikes! This is just hearsay, but hearsay is not always just idle talk. Might even be true. Stay tuned.

Only two people know the truth at this point. Their names are Dial and Parker. This blogsite knows nothing. Just a blogger out here in the Blogosphere....

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St. Martin's ''True Crime Library'' published the book nationally as a paperback back then, weighing in at 338 pages, and ..........................................guess what?

While the book was making its bookstore debut, and while the author was signing copies one day for fans at a bookstore that summer, the escaped convict, Mr. Dial himself, perhaps in disguise, perhaps not, left his hideout in the countryside, where he was living with the jail warden's wife... {let's not even go there!} ...and appeared at the book signing event. He stood in line, asked the author of the book about him for his signature, Mr. Sasser obliged, not knowing that the man his was giving his autograph to was Dial! This might be the first time in the history of literature, crime literature or otherwise, that an escaped convict attended a book signing about a book about his own crime and escape and life on the lam -- while on the lam -- without anyone knowing about this!

Later, Dial telephoned Sasser and told him that he had read the book and that it was a pretty good read!

Here's a product review, from that time frame of 1998: "Randolph Franklin Dial was the darling of the Heartland art scene. He was also a cold-blooded murderer. While doing time for murder, he escaped from prison in broad daylight-- taking with him the deputy warden's gorgeous young wife who to this day is still missing. Here, former Tulsa homicide detective Charles Sasser gets the inside story from the investigators who are still hunting Dial down, and probes the many unanswered questions surrounding the deadly double life of this famous artist turned convicted killer on the lam. To this day, the woman's distraught husband and two children hope for her return. Last seen in Texas, Dial remains at large."

Fast forward >>> to April 5, 2005: Randolph Franklin Dial is re-captured by police, and his "hostage", the wife of the warden, is returned to her husband.

According to news reports after his arrest in February 2005, "Dial travelled to Oklahoma several times to sell his artwork while on the lam after his escape and to attend the launch of a book that a former homicide detective hadwritten about his escape. Dial drives up to Tulsa, buys a book and has the author sign it. He drives home, reads the book, calls the author and tells him he got it right."

Amazing stuff. These things only happen in the movies, right?

But this really happened. The book has been re-issued by St. Martins in New York City, following the national publicity about Dial's capture and the return of the warden's wife to her hubby, reunited with her children again after ten years living with Dial. Did she and Dial have sexual relations during this time? She says no, and Dial says no. Who knows? We'll have to wait for a new book to tell the truth about this story.

Meanwhile, Dial is now in a maxium security prison. Charles Sasser, the author of AT LARGE, might even get a chance to visit Dial in prison later on this summer of 2005, for a chat. Face to face. At long last. Maybe for an updated and revised final chapter for his 1998 book for 2005-and-beyond readers?

According to news reports, Dial had a copy of AT LARGE with him in his trailer when he was arrested, signed by Sasser, but not signed ''to'' him, of course. It was just signed "Charles Sasser."

The author once said: "If Dial came to one of my book signings, I would have recognized him for sure, unless, possibly, he disguised himself as the ugliest woman in history. "

Charles Sasser tells this website: "Dial is now in Big Mac, max security, and is now wanting to talk to me. So I'll drop in on him after August 1 sometime, when he can finally have visitors, out of curiosity more than anything else."

This website was created to track the Sasser-Dial talks, if they ever happen, since it is really quite an amazing thing for a convicted murderer out on th lam to brazenly make an appearance at a book signing event for a book about his own escape from jail and somehow manage to come away with a signed copy of that book! And to later call the author and tell him it was a might good read! And then to get captured a few years later with a copy of that book in his home! And for the re-arrested convict to ask the author to visit him in jail later on!

This is the outline of a wonderful Hollywood movie! Yes! Could be!

But let's keep in mind, of course, at all times, that we are talking about a cold-blooded murderer, Randolph Franklin Dial, a convicted murderer, an escaped convict who took the warden's wife with him as a hostage, a convict who is now back behind bars where he will remain for the rest of his life. This is not a pretty story, nor a funny story, and this website does not in any way pretend to think otherwise.

This is a sad tragic story, with certain literary overtones, especially the part about Dial going to a book signing event for a book about him while he was on the lam and coming away with an autographed book!

In all of world literature, this has never happened before! Is there any other example in the annals of crime or literature, where this kind of brazen thing happened? No. That's what this website is about, in its weird, strange, once in a lifetime way.

Okay, here's the NEWS:

Inmate, Warden's Wife Found 10 Years Later

By RICHARD GREEN

Associated Press Writer

OKLAHOMA CITY

A convicted murderer and a deputy warden's wife who disappeared nearly 11 years ago have been found living together and raising chickens in Texas. The woman said she was held captive the whole time, staying with the killer out of fear her family would be harmed if she fled. A high school teacher who once had Dial in her class was also connected to the incident, this blogsite has now learned. [GOOGLE]

Bobbi Parker, 42, was reunited with her husband Tuesday as authorities tried to piece together details of the strange case.

"It looked like a husband and wife who hadn't seen each other in 11 years," Texas RangerTom Davis of the emotional reunion.

A tip generated by the TV show "America's Most Wanted" led law enforcement to a mobile home in Campti, Texas, where escaped convict Randolph Dial was arrested Monday, said FBI agent Salvador Hernandez.

Parker was found a short time later working at a nearby chicken farm; the two were living under assumed names in the trailer outside Campti ,a tiny town near the Louisiana border. Parker and her husband Randy have two daughters, who were 8 and 10 at the time of the disappearance.

[The family still lives in Oklahoma, where the escape occurred. ]

Tanya Joy Parker, the sister of Randy Parker, said the two children did not make the trip to Texas.

"They are elated, but after 10 years you'd be a little stunned," she said. Sheriff Newton Johnson had said that Bobbi Parker wanted to stay on.

For the full report, GOOGLE it!

---Associated Press Writer Lisa Falkenberg contributed to this report from Campti.

ON THE WEB:

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amw.com Randolph Dial - Fugitive... Randolph Franklin Dial. Randolph Franklin Dial. Capture #835, Apr 05, 2005... Randolph Dial was serving a life sentence for the 1981 murder of Kelly Hoganin Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Dial confessed to the murder, which he claimed ...www.amw.com/fugitives/case.cfm?id=23521 - 31k - 頁庫存檔 - 類似網頁[ http://www.google.com/search?hl=zh-TW&lr=&q=+site:www.amw.com+franklin+randolph+dial ]

Randolph Franklin Dial has been captured and his alleged abductee ...... Fugitive Dial captured and "hostage" returns to Warden husband (07.04.2005).Randolph Franklin Dial, a convicted murderer who escaped from the Oklahoma StateReformatory in Granite almost 11 years ago, is now back in prison. ...www.profindpages.com/news/2005/04/07/MN867.htm - 15k - 頁庫存檔 - 類似網頁

Randolph Dial... RANDOLPH FRANKLIN DIAL, NCIC, NIC/W822651656. ALIAS:. RANDOLPH FRANKLIN. RACE:.CAUCASIAN, OK DOC#, 154935. SEX:. MALE, FBI#, 898867D000. DOB:. 09-26-44, OSBI#,362989. HGT:. 5'9". WGT:. 170 lbs. HAIR:. BROWN. EYES:. BLUE. SCARS: ...www.doc.state.ok.us/Fugitives/dial_randolph.htm - 8k - 頁庫存檔 - 類似網頁

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Randy and Bobbi Parker... Randolph Franklin Dial:. Randolph Franklin Dial was born on September 26, 1944in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He has had three marriages: ... Further Reading. "At Large:The Life and Crimes of Randolph Franklin Dial by Charles W. Sasser" ...marriage.about.com/od/ celebritymarriages/p/bobbiparker.htm - 34k - 頁庫存檔 - 類似網頁

The Kaitlyn Mae Book Blog: True Crime-Who is Randolph Dial?; Fish ...... Randolph Franklin Dial was born on September 26, 1944 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.Until the early 1990’s the world pretty much never heard of Randolph Dial.Though he had murdered Kelly Dean Hogan in 1981, Dial did not confess to his crime, ...patfish.blogspot.com/2005/04/ true-crime-who-is-randolph-dial-fish.html - 44k - 頁庫存檔 - 類似網頁

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RightNation.US > Escaped Convict, Warden's Wife Found... At Large: The Life and Crimes of Randolph Franklin Dial" "Dial (convicted murderer and supposed kidnapper) called the author at his home on 11-9-2001 and talked for roughly an hour and discussed the book. During the phone call Dial ...www.rightnation.us/forums/ lofiversion/index.php/t73779.html - 24k - 頁庫存檔 - 類似網頁

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