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| Inmate who disappeared with warden's wife waives hearing |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 06/27/2005 |
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A convicted killer who disappeared from a southwestern Oklahoma prison with the wife of an assistant warden and was found with her in Texas nearly 11 years later waived his right to a preliminary hearing last Monday on an escape charge. Greer County Associate District Judge Mike Warren bound Randolph Franklin Dial over for trial on an amended charge of escaping from Department of Corrections custody and scheduled an Aug. 4 formal arraignment. Dial was mostly silent, answering "Yes" when addressed by the judge until he was informed of the amended charge. "I don't understand what the difference is between the two things," Dial said. "I don't understand what has happened." Prosecutors explained that the amended charge includes new information about aliases Dial used while he was on the lam, but that the punishment range of two to seven years was the same as the original charge. Warren read Dial his constitutional rights, and defense attorneys announced that Dial would waive his right to a preliminary hearing. His bond remains at $250,000. He was remanded into Department of Corrections custody. Clad in a blue inmate shirt and dark pants, Dial was escorted into the courthouse where Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers, sheriff's deputies, Mangum police officers and Department of Corrections officers lined the halls. A law enforcement officer sat behind Dial during the proceeding. Dial had been on the lam with Bobbi Parker, wife of former deputy warden Randy Parker, since Aug. 30, 1994, when FBI agents acting on a tip raided his home near Campti, Texas, on April 4 and arrested him. Bobbi Parker was found unharmed, working on a nearby chicken farm. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation continues to look at whether Dial abducted Bobbi Parker when he escaped from the Oklahoma State Reformatory in Granite and kept her captive by threatening to harm her family, or if the 42-year-old mother of two willingly helped him escape and avoid arrest. |
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