Parker Trial Continues
Posted/updated on: July 7, 2011 at 2:21 am
MANGUM, Okla. (AP) – A defense attorney has asked a 12-member jury to find the wife of a former prison warden not guilty of helping a convicted killer escape almost 17 years ago. Defense attorney Garvin Isaacs made the request Wednesday as he wrapped up his opening statement in the Oklahoma trial of Bobbi Parker. Parker is accused of helping Randolph Dial escape from the Oklahoma State Reformatory in Granite in August 1994. Parker’s husband, Randy Parker, was deputy warden of the prison at the time. Isaacs says Bobbi Parker was drugged, kidnapped, beat and repeatedly raped by Dial while they lived in Texas for more than a decade. They were discovered at a Shelby County, Texas, chicken ranch in 2005. Prosecutors allege Bobbi Parker fell in love with Dial and helped him escape.
