Bobbi parker biography

Sept. 21, 2011 — -- An Oklahoma jury today found a prison warden's wife guilty of helping a convicted killer escape jail 17 years ago.

The jury spent less than three days deliberating whether Bobbi Parker, 49, had fallen in love with an inmate and helped him escape to run away with her or whether he had drugged and kidnapped her.

The decision came hours after the jurors had visited the home Parker used to share with her husband, Randy Parker, on the prison grounds.

The jurors recommended that Parker spend one year in prison on her felony-charge conviction of assisting a prisoner to escape. She was facing a maximum sentence of 10 years.

The jurors' visit stemmed from another inmate's trial testimony that he saw Bobbi Parker get into her family van in 1994 with convicted murderer Randolph Franklin Dial and drive away from the prison while he was pulling weeds nearby.

The jurors were granted