Parker Found Guilty

MANGUM, Okla. (AP) – The jury has reached a guilty verdict in the trial of a former Oklahoma prison warden’s wife charged with helping an inmate escape. The jury returned earlier Wednesday to the Greer County Courthouse for deliberations after visiting the prison from which she and the inmate disappeared in 1994. The jury spent about 15 minutes Wednesday morning at the Oklahoma State Reformatory in Granite where the group looked at the area around the home where Bobbi Parker lived with her family on the prison grounds. Prosecutors said Parker fell in love with Dial while working with him in a prison pottery program and helped him escape in August 1994. Defense attorneys said Dial kidnapped Parker and held her hostage until they were found at a chicken ranch in Campti, Texas, in 2005.