Doc Dial has Gone to the Big House in the Sky
It was very odd. I was setting up an internet forum for Correctional Officers at PrisonOfficer.Org and one of the members ask me about ol’ Doc Dial. If you don’t know who Doc Dial is, he is famous for kidnapping the Deputy Warden’s wife (actually, most think she helped him and they ran off together).
Randolph Franklin “Doc” Dial was serving a life sentence for murder when he escaped. He allegedly kidnapped the Deputy Warden’s wife, Bobbi Parker, from the Oklahoma State Reformatory in Granite, Oklahoma. He was gone 13 years and still swore till the day he died that she was not a willing participant in the escape.
The weird thing is, I had heard about him be never knew what he looked like. When one of the forum members asked me how he was doing I replied, “I am sure he is locked in his house enjoying life.” Boy was I wrong. Doc Dial actually passed away the SAME day he asked me about him. To make things weirder (is that a word?), I had to help in the infirmary a week before as there were no male officers present. While there we took vitals and we pulled this stinky, old, decrepit man out of one of the holding cells to get him showered. One of the orderlies took him and bathed him and when he came back he was lucid and smelling much better. He looked up at me with some tired eyes and thanked me for the shower. He said I just added some time on to his life as he was really in need of that.
I have discovered the meaning of life and immortality! A shower must add one week to your life as that is how long Dial lasted. One more week. The doctors hadn’t given him much time to live so he most likely just gave out while he slept. I did notice when we showered him that while he was off the oxygen for about 1-2 minutes he was struggling very hard to breathe. It is pure speculation but he might have rolled over and knocked his oxygen tube from his nose while he slept. They found him face down and gone in the morning.
He was well spoken and pleasant when I spoke to him. Funny that I didn’t know who he was or put two and two together until after the fact. I might have had a few questions of my own for him.
Adios Doc, Enjoy your new stint in that Big House in the Sky.
Link the the article on KFAQ Tulsa Talk Radio
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