Randolph Dial/Missing Wife of Jail Guard on Dateline this Saturday

[johnnyangel]

Seems they were found, check it out this saturday at 7central NBC

[hollowmoll]

Originally Posted by johnnyangel

Seems they were found, check it out this saturday at 7central NBC

Woah, thanks for the post! I hadn't heard and I was just wondering about her. -It was exciting when they were both found alive but that was quite a while ago and it seemed to evade much media coverage since...I'll definately be watching!

[PrettyinPink55]

Hmm....that will be interesting to watch! Thanks!
And I agree, when they were found, there wasn't much media coverage on it at all.

[george ramos]

Does anyone watch the news? They were found in 2005. It was all over the news. Even Convicted Watergate felon George Gordon Battle Libby mentioned it.

[hollowmoll]

[QUOTE=george ramos]Does anyone watch the news? They were found in 2005. It was all over the news. Even Convicted Watergate felon George Gordon Battle Libby mentioned it.[/QUOTE
I personally don't recall it being "all over" the news; I don't doubt that there was significant mentioning of the case and that they were found but nothing that I heard about really seemed to interview any major players (Bobbie, the husband, Dial, etc..) or reveal much more besides the fact that they spent their time on a chicken ranch and that she would be returning to her husband and they'd appreciate their privacy. I anxiously awaited something like this upcoming Dateline interview but it never came! -And yes, I watch a fair amount of news but by no means religiously. I very well could just missed the media frenzy. Anyway, do you know if she's still with her husband? Have kidnapping, false imprisonment or any related charges against Dial (obviously aside from his escape charges) been applied to him? -Or for Bobbie, for that matter? If you know, please share; otherwise I'll just find out on Saturday!

[PrettyinPink55]

I watch the news and didn't see it all over the news either.

[george ramos]

It was mentioned in Fox News Channel and Hannity and Colmes.

[hollowmoll]

Originally Posted by wiseguy182

Those aren't news programs, silly

I was gonna say... if watching FOXNEWS and Hannity & Combs has me "all over the news" then I am proudly almost all the way out of the loop!! Sorry.

[Awsi Dooger]

Originally Posted by wiseguy182

Those aren't news programs, silly

I was going to say, they don't exactly make my lineup. The only time I see that network is when I'm called to jury duty. Last year I cracked up when the people running the place wouldn't allow me to turn the channel in the lounge of the Las Vegas courthouse.

BTW, I was glad to see him accurately described, but let's not botch his name. It's convicted Watergate felon Gordon Liddy, not Libby.

[Kane]

Originally Posted by wiseguy182

Those aren't news programs, silly

In any case, the capture of Dial and Bobbi's safe return were covered on all the news channels. This includes Fox News and CNN.

[george ramos]

I imagine it was on CNN and MSNBC also. I'm not a fan of FOX news but I watch it sometimes.

[crystaldawn]

I'm probably in the minority but I like Fox News. Greta's program every weeknight is pretty good (when it doesn't solely focus on Anna Nicole or Natalee Holloway). To answer an earlier question Bobbi Parker is back with her husband. Last I knew they were still trying to decide whether to file any charges against her but I certainly don't think any are warranted.

[PrettyinPink55]

I don't HATE Fox News, I just primarily turn to CNN and MSNBC...

[wiseguy182]

Originally Posted by Awsi Dooger

I was going to say, they don't exactly make my lineup. The only time I see that network is when I'm called to jury duty. Last year I cracked up when the people running the place wouldn't allow me to turn the channel in the lounge of the Las Vegas courthouse.

Man, as if jury duty wasn't bad enough!

My one experience with it was horrible. Forcing me to work a Saturday so I wouldn't lose wages. Then I had to drive to some out of the way place I wasn't familiar with, and then find a parking spot in their tiny little lot. Then get there, sit around for two hours and be told to go home. Their $6 check for all my troubles was the final insult.

My boss at the time told me a good way to make sure you don't get selected for jury duty: sit there with your arms folded and yell out loud: "when I make up my mind, I stick to it!" They'll pick somebody else.

[Awsi Dooger]

Originally Posted by wiseguy182

Man, as if jury duty wasn't bad enough!

My one experience with it was horrible. Forcing me to work a Saturday so I wouldn't lose wages. Then I had to drive to some out of the way place I wasn't familiar with, and then find a parking spot in their tiny little lot. Then get there, sit around for two hours and be told to go home. Their $6 check for all my troubles was the final insult.

My boss at the time told me a good way to make sure you don't get selected for jury duty: sit there with your arms folded and yell out loud: "when I make up my mind, I stick to it!" They'll pick somebody else.

Last year was a farce. We were taken upstairs to the court room about 9 AM but never made it inside. They said there would be an hour delay so we went back to the main room downstairs. One hour became all day. They finally excused my group about 5 PM, never doing a thing. I read a golf book in the lounge all day with FOX News talking to me.

The previous time was much more fun. It was the California recall election day in late 2003. That was on TV in the lounge but we were hustled out of there to the court room. It was packed. I was seated on the jury of a major case with maybe a dozen felony charges including battery and assault. Two young Hispanic defendants. This case involved Nevada and California law enforcement. They must have read out 40 names of law enforcement personnel from the two states, saying they all were involved with the case and asking potential jurists if we knew any of them.

I did not, but one of the main questions the judge asked during voir doire was whether we had any problem with people in positions of authority. Everyone on the jury before me said no, everything was lovely. I decided I had to answer the question properly. I told about security guards in Las Vegas casinos, the so-called rent-a-cops, and all the ridiculous situations I had seen and occasionally been a part of. Misidentification. Abuse of authority. Unwarranted intimidation and exclusion of gamblers simply based on which machine they chose to play. I've mentioned the bonus machines before, the so-called Vision machines. In the late '90s and early this decade some floormen were so jealous of the profit on those machines they would sick the security guards on the locals who were playing them. Gamblers were kicked out and sometimes 86ed (permanently banned) from casinos simply because they chose to play those machines. On some occasions the security guards and slot floormen were vindictive cruel while doing it. Instead of kicking the person out immediately they would stand behind the machine and wait until the player was on the verge of the bonus, and then grab him off the machine and kick him out. The point of that was to get the person to lose as much money as possible on the machine and then wrest him from it just before the over-the-top bonus.

I was on a roll in that court room. The defendants loved it, and so did the defense attorneys. Laughter and eruptions from the gallery. Admittedly it had no direct relationship to their case, but I was answering a question which had been broad in scope.

Finally the prosecutors called a sidebar. They made a mistake of having the judge ask a question which they assumed they knew the answer to, but did not. It was whether Metro was ever involved in these instances. They thought the answer was no, and that made my info irrelevant, but they were dead wrong. I was witness to one instance at Circus Circus with blatant abuse by Metro. In fact, the Las Vegas Review Journal had done a lengthy article the summer before on the ACLU getting involved in those cases, defending gamblers who had been improperly charged and excluded. Turned out the paper had found evidence that Metro and even some judges had been in cohorts with the casinos, trumping up phony charges. Once the ACLU got involved the casinos backed down and even had to get new lawyers who told them the previous practices had been blatantly illegal. The defense lawyers in the case I was seated in were aware of that Review Journal article and the specifics and asked relevant questions when it was there turn to voir doire me, but the prosecutors apparently were not.

This was the crack up part. After I finished a woman who had already gone through voir doire raised her hand and said she also had some problems with people in positions of authority. Two of the other already-questioned jurists did the same. You could hear the laughter in the upper rows, the dozens of people who had not been seated on the jury. The guy to my right poked me in the side and said, "Now look what you started."

Anyway, when it came time for the challenges from both sides, one of the two female prosecutors stood up and matter-of-factly said my name. I was zapped and no one was surprised. It was kind of weird walking toward the burly bailiffs sitting in the back of the court room with their arms folded, when I had just spent about an hour detailing abuses by people wearing uniforms. They pointed me downstairs to get checked out. I walked out of the court house and drove straight to the golf course. It was the first day of the annual PGA tournament in Las Vegas.