The Devil and Bobbi Parker

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🗓️ 31 March 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, convicted murderer Randolph Dial escapes from prison on a hot summer day in 1994, taking the deputy warden’s wife with him. But was she a kidnapped hostage or a willing accomplice? Edie Magnus reports. Originally aired on NBC on September 21, 2012.

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0:00.0	This was an insane world I was living in.
0:05.0	I did what I had to do.
0:07.0	What if you were ripped away from your family?
0:13.0	You live in fear. It changes you.
0:17.0	Kidnapped by a killer.
0:19.0	I came out of that just really messed up.
0:22.0	Held for years as a prisoner.
0:25.0	And what if prosecutors never believed you?
0:29.0	Bobby Parker was not the woman that she was portraying herself.
0:33.0	Absolutely not.
0:34.0	A mystery with a mind-boggling twist.
0:38.0	This wife and mom taken hostage.
0:41.0	Was she really a hostage at all?
0:43.0	Their relationship was not one of kidnapper and victim.
0:47.0	It was one of husband and wife.
0:49.0	His prisoner or his lover.
0:51.0	I really do love you.
0:54.0	Sounds like a pretty heartfelt love letter.
0:56.0	Now she breaks her silence to tell her own story.
1:00.0	Will you believe her?
1:01.0	I was fighting for my life.
1:03.0	The devil and Bobby Parker.
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