One day in 2005, near a rural chicken farm in Texas, an American was watching a television program called "American Wanted", which mainly taught viewers how to catch criminals who are at large.
The American was very engaged, the picture on the TV was constantly changing, and suddenly he saw a person with beautiful blue eyes on the screen, and the TV host said the name of the person and said that it was a fugitive murderer. The more americans looked, the more familiar they became, and suddenly he shouted, "Isn't this criminal the owner of the chicken farm?" ”
Because this American lives near the chicken farm, he usually knows the owner of the chicken farm very well, of course, the owner of the chicken farm is named Richard Dale, which is different from the name of the wanted man. But television shows say that fugitives often change their names and lurk. This is not right, the owner of the chicken farm must have changed his name to lurk in the fugitive.
So the Americans immediately called the police. The police quickly approached the chicken farm, seized the owner of the farm, and took his wife. After interrogation, it was proved that this person was a fugitive who had escaped from prison for 11 years, and when he escaped from prison, he also kidnapped and took away the wife of the warden, and what was even more strange was that during the days of absconding, the fugitive and the warden's wife had been living together as husband and wife.
What is the name of the fugitive? How did he escape from prison? How could he live as a couple with the warden's wife for 11 years without being accused?
The fugitive, named Randolph Dale, was a sculptor with a pair of charming blue eyes and a slow, methodical and elegant speech. He treats people kindly, and no one will believe that such a polite artist can actually be a murderer.
And the person he killed was not a weak person, but a strong and powerful taekwondo instructor, and the ghost knew how he killed that coach. During the interrogation, when asked about Randolph's motives for killing, he only said that he had been instructed by the gang to kill people.
Randolph
In any case, killing someone was punishable by a sentence, and Randolph was sentenced to life in prison. Randolph was held in a prison in Oklahoma called Granit. The prison is heavily guarded, and it is harder to escape than to ascend to the sky.
In this prison, Randolph began his career in prison.
With a pair of charming blue eyes and a gentle demeanor, Randolph was trusted and even liked by the prison inmates and guards. He was always so gracious and kind that the prisoners of the prison would not guard him, and even the guards thought he was a cultured and not in the slightest danger.
Life in prison is of course monotonous, and the warden came up with an idea to make management more humane, and he called his wife, Bobby Parker, who was teaching craft classes in middle school, to the prison and asked her to teach the inmates craft crafts. The warden wanted to enrich the lives of the prisoners by holding a craft competition among the prisoners.
Bobby Parker
Bobby was 31 years old, with a charming face and blonde hair. She came to the prison and taught the inmates to make pottery. Almost all the prisoners had never learned the craft, so they were very clumsy in making pottery, but there was one exception, and that was Randolph, who was a sculptor, and making pottery was a breeze for him.
While teaching the prisoners to make pottery, Bobby soon discovered Randolph. She was not only amazed by Randolph's production talent, but also had a good feeling for Randolph's elegant temperament and elegant conversation, and Bobby even liked this elegant prisoner a little.
On August 30, 1994, Randolph waited for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity when the warden named him to go to his home to help Bobby with housework. This kind of thing is somewhat fake public and private factors, but the prisoners are idle, and it is not against the laws of the United States to let them help with some housework.
The reason why the warden chose Randolph to help him in his house was very simple, because Randolph had always performed well, and his distinctive temperament and cultivation made people look at him and would never be defensive against him.
But Randolph's heart didn't match his looks. You know, he's a man sentenced to life in prison, he doesn't want to spend his whole life in prison, he dreams of escaping from prison and living a free life outside. It's just that he hides his heart very deeply.
Randolph came to the house of the warden, whose house was in the prison compound and did not have any guards. When Randolph arrived at the warden's house, he carefully observed and actively looked for opportunities.
While honestly doing housework with Bobby, Randolph looked for the opportunity to be alone in the room, and finally he seized the opportunity and drugged Bobby's water cup. Bobby had no defensiveness at all against this cultured prisoner. Thirsty after work, she took the cup of water and drank it all.
Soon Bobby went into a drowsy state, and Randolph quickly got her into the car parked at the door and hid herself in it. Randolph hides behind Bobby and forces Bobby with a knife to drive her out of prison immediately.
Bobby drove toward the prison gates. The guards saw that it was the warden's wife, and neither obstructed nor interrogated, and smoothly opened the gate of the prison. Bobby drove the car out of prison, and Randolph was free.
Soon the prison found that Randolph had escaped, and Bobby was missing at the same time, so the prison side speculated that Randolph must have kidnapped Bobby. Police across the United States conducted a blanket manhunt for Randolph.
Randolph knew he couldn't ride in Bobby's car anymore, so he took Bobby on a bus, and he planned to flee to Mexico with Bobby.
Warden and wife Bobby
Bobby thinks of her two children and her husband, who she calls many times. When the warden asked her where she was, she didn't say anything, she just told her husband that she was fine now, so that he didn't have to worry, and told him to take good care of the children.
The reason Bobby is so cooperative with Randolph is simple: Randolph tells him that if she dares to betray herself, Randolph will tell his gangster brothers to kill Bobby's husband and children.
Randolph took Bobby hostage to Wichita Falls, Texas, and then took a bus to Houston. Of course he did not dare to stay there, so he took another taxi to Galveston, from where Randolph's plan was to take a boat to Mexico, and if his purpose could be achieved, he would escape the American police forever.
But his luck was so bad that those days, when the wind was so strong that the ship could not leave the port at all, his plan to take the boat to Mexico was in vain.
Still
Randolph returned to Houston with Bobby, where he intended to stay for a long time. He and Bobby naturally want to survive, and to survive, they have to work. Randolph earned money from short-term work to support the two men. But in a big city like Houston, the goal was too big for Randolph to stay for a long time, so he changed places.
In order to avoid being hunted by the police, Randolph took Bobby to change places of residence. Eventually they came to a village in Texas, where they contracted a chicken farm. The two men, alias Richard Dale and Samantha Dale, called themselves a couple, and in fact, they did live as a couple.
There was a lot of rough work in the chicken farm, usually Bobbi, but Randolph never helped, he did his old business - the art of carving.
The two men slowly became acquainted with their neighbors, who were puzzled by the division of labor between the couple, and some even asked Bobby in person why he did not let her husband do the hard work. Bobby told the neighbor that her husband had a heart attack and that she was afraid that he was tired. Neighbors praised them for being such a good couple.
Randolph did a lot of carvings, and he took them to Oklahoma to sell and exchange some money for family support. Although he went to market his work many times, he was not recognized by the police once.
As time passed, although the police did not release Randolph's arrest, Randolph felt more and more safe.
One day in November 2001, Randolph heard that a retired detective, Charles, had written a book to sign a book in Tulsa, and Randolph drove to Tulsa without hesitation.
The reason why Randolph wanted to participate in this event was because charles wrote the book, and the protagonist was him Randolph. In the book, Charles details Randolph's behavior in prison and the escape from prison by holding the warden's wife hostage.
Randolph lined up with the other readers and then got Charles's autograph. No one knows that Randolph is the jailbreaker written about in this book.
Bobby
When he returned home, Randolph carefully read Charles's book, and he found that two things written in the book did not correspond to the actual situation, one saying that Bobby had been held hostage by Randolph, and the other saying that Bobby had been killed by Randolph. So Randolph dialed Charles's phone.
On the phone, Randolph said: "Bobby is not being held hostage, she is also an accomplice. Randolph added: "Bobby is not actually dead, she is alive and well now." ”
Charles argues with Randolph on the phone, believing that Bobby has been killed. But Randolph said, "Bobby is with me right now, and if you don't believe me, let her tell you personally." ”
Randolph actually got Bobby to talk to Charles on the phone. Charles persuaded Bobby to report the crime immediately, but Bobby said, "I won't report it, it would be worse." ”
Charles, an experienced veteran detective, felt that this was an important clue and immediately called the police. The police were unable to identify the source of the call, and the clue was interrupted.
By 2005, Randolph and Bobby had settled down on the chicken farm and mingled with their neighbors. A neighbor recognized Randolph when he watched the TV show "American Wanted." The police quickly went to Randolph's residence, arrested Randolph, and took Bobby with him.
It is unbelievable that the warden's wife has lived with an escaped prisoner for 11 years, and for those 11 years they have lived exactly like husband and wife.
During the interrogation, Bobby insisted that he had submitted to Randolph out of love for her husband and children. Because Randolph claims that if he doesn't cooperate with him, he will let the gangster brothers kill Bobby's husband and children. Bobby didn't want her husband and children to be in such danger.
But there is a big loophole in saying that, because they have lived together for 11 years, and during these 11 years, Bobby has many opportunities to escape the clutches of the devil, and she even has the opportunity to kill Randolph, because during this time, Randolph has been seriously ill, at least Bobby can escape during Randolph's serious illness.
According to Randolph, Bobby suffers from a Stockholm syndrome that makes the hostages become severely psychologically dependent on their captors. That's the real reason Bobby didn't run away.
Psychologists believe that at first Bobby was coerced by Randolph to escape from prison, but in the fugitive life, the two people gradually developed feelings, and even developed into love, although this love is deformed.
Bobby's control of Randolph not only ceased to feel fear, but later even became a kind of enjoyment, and she could only gain a sense of security if she was controlled by Randolph, and therefore felt that her husband and two children were also safe.
The police prosecuted Bobby under the law for accomplice. If convicted, Bobby would be sentenced to 10 years in prison. But the final verdict was that Bobby was only sentenced to 1 year in prison, because Randolph insisted that he had kidnapped Bobby against his will. This is contrary to what he said on the phone, and we may be able to guess why.
However, the warden was very understanding and sympathetic to his wife's approach, he did not think that there was anything wrong with his wife, and the warden's feelings for Bobby did not change in the slightest. In the end, Bobby returns to her husband and children, and the family is reunited.
Randolph would, of course, continue his prison life, and he was doomed to never leave prison again in this lifetime. Before he was thrown to prison, he made a request to see Bobby again. The police complied with his request.
Randolph said he spent 11 years with Bobby, which was an 11 years of great happiness for him, and he didn't regret it even after spending the rest of his life in prison.
Randolph also said to Bobby: "I used to feel guilty for holding you hostage, now, please don't be afraid, it's all over, please cherish yourself." ”
Randolph died in prison in 2007 at the age of 62. Although he was arrested again, he was regarded as one of the most cunning criminals in American history.