WARDEN'S WIFE BOBBI PARKER GETS JUST A YEAR

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THE WIFE of a former prison warden who shacked up with a convicted killer after helping him escape has been sentenced to just a year in prison.
Bobbi Parker, now 49, fell for Franklin Dial while she was running a prison pottery program at the Oklahoma State Reformatory in 1994, where her husband was in charge. 
So in November 2001 they hatched an escape plot and the two of them disappeared, sparking a huge manhunt. 
But for four years the pair managed to evade justice until April 2005, when as we reported here the pair were found living together as man and wife in a cramped mobile home on a chicken ranch, surrounded by sex toys and love letters. 
Neighbors were astonished to find the quiet couple they knew as Richard and Samantha Deahl were in fact a fugitive and his moll.  
Parker, who throughout the trial was supported by her husband, Ray, claimed that he drugged and kidnapped her, then kept her from calling police or alerting people she knew by threatening to harm her family.
Dial, backed her version before his death in 2007, claiming he kept her hostage even while she nursed him back to health after a heart attack.   
In a letter he wrote from prison after he was recaptured, Dial said: "I'll do anything to see her in the clear of all this."
The Jury didn't agree and judge Gavin Issac's sentenced her to just a year behind bars.
She could have got 10.