- Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks; First Edition edition (Dec 27 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0312960417
- ISBN-13: 978-0312960414
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.7 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 136 g
- Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,087,507 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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For eleven years, Randolph Franklin Dial was one of the most sought after fugitives in America. Brilliant, cunning and enigmatic, Dial had murdered a man so expertly that the case was only solved when he inexplicably turned himself in.
Dial escaped from his Oklahoma prison after serving ten years of a life sentence, taking with him the assistant warden's beautiful young wife Bobbi Parker. But was she Dial's hostage for ten years--or was the story more complicated?
Charles Sasser reveals the inside story of his escape, capture, and bizarre relationship with Bobbi Parker. The shocking true account of a successful artist turned killer and then fugitive, AT LARGE also chronicles a chilling link between a writer and his subject. When Dial was finally captured--watching a pro golf tournament on television with a pistol by his side--investigators found a copy of this book on his nightstand? Somewhere in America at a book signing, Dial had gotten his book signed by the author himself...
Dial escaped from his Oklahoma prison after serving ten years of a life sentence, taking with him the assistant warden's beautiful young wife Bobbi Parker. But was she Dial's hostage for ten years--or was the story more complicated?
Charles Sasser reveals the inside story of his escape, capture, and bizarre relationship with Bobbi Parker. The shocking true account of a successful artist turned killer and then fugitive, AT LARGE also chronicles a chilling link between a writer and his subject. When Dial was finally captured--watching a pro golf tournament on television with a pistol by his side--investigators found a copy of this book on his nightstand? Somewhere in America at a book signing, Dial had gotten his book signed by the author himself...
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Randolph Franklin Dial was the darling of the Heartland art scene. He was also a cold-blooded murderer. While doing time for murder, he escaped from prison in broad daylight--taking with him the deputy warden's gorgeous young wife who to this day is still missing. Here, former Tulsa homicide detective Charles Sasser gets the inside story from the investigators who are still hunting Dial down, and probes the many unanswered questions surrounding the deadly double life of this famous artist turned convicted killer on the lam. Photo insert.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
At Large, The Life and Crimes of Randolph Franklin Dial,
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This review is from: At Large: The Life and Crimes of Randolph Franklin Dial (Mass Market Paperback)
I very seldom read a true crime book and have more questions at the end then before I started. There appears to be missing information that the author could have included unless he is protecting someone. More background on all key players would have been helpful. I had to laugh, when learning that the reporter's true name wasn't used. That has to be a first.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Will we ever know?,
By Linda (USA~ the question is:WHERE IS DIAL?) - See all my reviews
This review is from: At Large: The Life and Crimes of Randolph Franklin Dial (Mass Market Paperback)
This book was captivating, easy reading, but yet confusing. It almost seems like a few of the "badges" were tainted, and that's why they stopped pressing to find out who paid Dial to kill Hogan. Could the warden's wife really have made "almost identical" calls? Or was it the same, maybe taped, message? There are too many unanswered questions. If Dial is still alive, I am sure of this; He has a copy of this book to add to his collection of his personal accompishments, and, He is an artist that is proud of his work, and he will surface again,with more of his creations, and stories to tell.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Can't blame the author, really,
By A Customer
This review is from: At Large: The Life and Crimes of Randolph Franklin Dial (Mass Market Paperback)
The amount of information is thinly stretched out in this...thin book! The writing is good but the stories are recycled over and over and not much is discovered. Dial, to me, came off as a big B.S.er. I didn't find his philosophy or effette personality to be remotely interesting. Keep this book in a glass case---read only in the event of an emergency(nothing else to read!)
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