FBI Agent Testifies in Parker Trial

MANGUM, Okla. (AP/Staff) – An FBI agent says a convicted killer who escaped an Oklahoma prison — allegedly with the help of the wife of the prison’s deputy warden — told him that she did not assist his escape. Agent Terry Lane testified Friday in the trial of Bobbi Parker on a charge that she helped Randolph Dial escape the Oklahoma State Reformatory in Granite in 1994. Parker’s husband was the prison’s deputy warden. Dial and Parker were found living at a chicken farm in Campti, Texas — in Shelby County — in April 2005. He said Parker had to be repeatedly reassured that Dial would not escape and that Dial said Parker had been his hostage. Defense attorneys say Parker was kidnapped and stayed with Dial after he threatened to harm her family if she left him.