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ANNOUNCER: This program is
about unsolved mysteries.

Whenever possible, the
actual family members

and police officials
have participated

in recreating the events.

What you are about to see
is not a news broadcast.

ROBERT STACK:
Christmas Eve 1983.

A freak snowstorm
in Mexico spells

disaster for a vacationing
family from Atlanta, Georgia.

Fortunately, an American
couple, both apparently doctors,

happened upon the scene
and helped save the lives

of at least five people.

Perhaps you can help find
these unknown good Samaritans.

All around the world,
hundreds of people

say they are being
tormented 24 hours a day

by a loud rumbling sound that
almost no one else can detect.

Could the source be a high tech
radio system used by the Navy

to communicate with
our submarine fleet?

Meet Randolph Dial, sculptor,
artist, convicted murder.

For eight years, Dial did his
time quietly and peaceably

in Oklahoma's prison system.

He became a model prisoner,
and even started an inmate arts

program with a woman
named Bobbi Parker,

a wife of a deputy warden.

Then last August, Bobbi
Barker left her husband a note

saying she had gone shopping.

She never came home.

Later that night,
authorities discovered

that Randolph Dial had somehow
slipped away from the prison

and vanished.

Join me for this exciting
and intriguing edition

of "Unsolved Mysteries."

In addition, later
in the show, we'll

bring you a dramatic new
update of a poignant case

of lost love, solved
thanks to you, our viewers.

[theme music]

Imagine being plagued by this
sound, a loud, annoying hum

that grinds away
incessantly, day after day,

night after night.

Incredibly, more than 1,000
people throughout the world

are reporting just
such a phenomenon

and it's driving
them to distraction.

The thing I noticed about
it was it didn't change.

The sound didn't
change like it was

getting closer or further away
or slowing down or speeding up.

It was just a steady
droning sound.

There is a little bit
of a whine somewhere

in the background here.

And it's kind of like
the air is sizzling.

I've been hearing the
hum for about five years.

It sounds like a diesel
engine running parked away,

but yet it has a
physical effect.

It seems to make a sound
resonance in our sternum,

in our thorax area.

It causes a vibration
in the temporal lobe

and actually causes ear pain at
times and pain on the earlobes.

ROBERT STACK: Hal Runniano
moved from Detroit

to Michigan's
Northern Peninsula,

hoping to escape the hustle
and bustle of suburban living.

But instead of peace
and tranquility,

Hal soon found himself
tormented by the hum.

It began as a minor
annoyance while Hal

was studying for a trade
school entrance exam.

HAL: I noticed it a few
times before I was studying,

but thinking that
it was a motor,

it wouldn't bother me that much.

[humming]

But then I noticed it
affecting how I could focus

and how I could concentrate.

That's when it really
started agitating me.

So I was able to ignore it maybe
for the first month or two.

But after a while,
when I got closer

to the deadline of
this entrance exam,

I started noticing
this thing is really

affecting how I'm studying.

It's really affecting my
thought process and how

I'm taking in information.

And it got to where I
couldn't tolerate it anymore

and I had to know what it was.

The first few nights I
went out looking for it,

I went to the natural
places that you would

think a hum was coming from.

I checked out the sewage
pumping stations, the airport,

the ventilation systems
on top of Michigan

Tech University, any place
that would generate a sound.

Finally, I was
driving like 100 miles

a night in one direction
looking for it.

No matter where I went, the
intensity was always the same.

OK, I have a tuning
fork and I'm just

going to sort of get an idea
of how well your ears line up

with each other.
So the first.

ROBERT STACK: We brought
here to Los Angeles

to visit Dr. Eugene Flaum, one
of the nation's leading ear,

nose, and throat specialist.

In middle of the head,
where do you hear it?

Airplane.

Airplane.

Cowboy.

Cowboy.

ROBERT STACK: Hal was found to
be suffering some hearing loss,

but there was
nothing specific that

might explain the bizarre hum.

Airplane.

I don't know, I lost you.

EUGENE FLAUM: From
what we learned today,

we can't prove one
way or the other

whether there are extraneous
sounds in the environment

or within him.

Those sounds in the environment
might be perceived by him

differently than they
really are because of things

going on in his system.

I'm certain that
I'm feeling something

from an outside source.

I'm a yoga teacher, massage
therapist, a [inaudible],,

I've studied acupuncture.

I'm very aware of the
sounds that my body makes

and I know this isn't
my body producing this.

Many people have
suggested that I

might be picking up
the electrical fields

from the local power grid.

So what I'd like to do
is go down into the caves

and get completely underneath
it and see if I can get away

from the electrical fields.

ROBERT STACK: Hal has
tried just about everything

to escape the
auditory onslaught,

even braving the deep tunnels
of an old, abandoned copper

mine near his home.

Would Hal finally be at peace?

We soon had our answer.

Yeah.

I hear it.

CREW: What do you got?

I hear it louder.

It's more penetrating.

It's actually conducting
through my bones

more forcefully than
it does on the surface.

CREW: Disappointing?

It's very disappointing.

I thought I could get away from
it down under all this rock.

It's worse.

This is a tape I developed as
a simulation of the phenomenon

as I experience it.

I'm going to play it.

ROBERT STACK: Sarah
Ellen has been hearing

the hum for three years.

Higher volume than
I experience it at,

but just so that
you can you hear

kind of what it sounds like,
that's what I'm going to do.

[humming]

Now, the volume level
that I hear it at

is much more like this.

You bring it down to
the minimum and then

you turn it up until
you can just perceive

it, which is right there.

And that's how it's in my
environment all the time.

Whenever it's quiet, whenever
there's a quiet moment,

I'm in meditation
or something, I have

to share my space with this.

And it's not comfortable.

ROBERT STACK: Sarah Ellen lives
in Taos, New Mexico, which

literally hums with activity.

Since 1989, dozens
of local residents

claim to have heard
the irritating sound.

Sarah is a radio
broadcast engineer.

She first experienced
the hum in 1992,

after she'd been dispatched
to repair a transmitter.

It was Sarah's knowledge of
electronics that later enabled

her to recreate the noise so
that non sufferers would know

exactly what it sounded like.

[humming]

We played Sarah's tape
for Winona Witthead,

of nearby Santa Fe, New Mexico.

That's very close.

Very, very close.

CREW: Tell me about it.

That's very close.

It's a little-- it's
quite a lot more pleasant

than the jagged, grinding
glass sensation or sound

that would come through.

ROBERT STACK: For Winona,
five years of constant humming

has completely
disrupted her life.

She is currently on
disability leave from her job

with the National Park Service.

Like many sufferers, Winona
takes comfort in the knowledge

that she is not alone.

In no fewer than 10 countries
on five different continents,

people have been hearing
a similar low frequency

sound, most often described
as a truck laboring up a hill.

Today, many of the low
frequency sufferers

belong to an international
network dedicated to finding

the cause of the hum.

HAL: We call ourselves
hearers, but actually we don't

really feel like we're hearing.

We feel like we're sensing.

And none of us,
we're not protesters

or we're not activists.

It's not like we want to take
the day off of work and study

physics and
electromagnetic resonance,

but it's driving
us nuts and we have

the support and
exchange of information

that we need with each other.

And that's really been helpful.

We began to keep notes.

Not so much a log
book of every day,

because it's there every day.

You write in the log,
it's there today.

And that's about all
you can say about it.

What we did start
noticing was the intensity

increases, which seem to
track international events.

Mostly whenever
the United States

is involved
militarily somewhere,

the intensity seems to increase.

ROBERT STACK: The
hearers have come

to believe that the
hum may be caused

by a radio system known as ELF,
or Extremely Low Frequency.

The Navy developed ELF to better
communicate with the nation's

submarine fleet.

When a sub is
underwater, it cannot

receive standard radio waves.

However, low frequency signals
are capable of penetrating

through hundreds
of feet of water

to reach vessels
on the ocean floor.

Perhaps not
coincidentally, the system

has been in use
since the late 1980s,

around the time that
people in the US

first began to hear the hum.

I'm fairly convinced
that it is military,

not only because
of my own research

into it and my own reading
and my own theories,

but because of feedback
I've gotten from scientists,

from people in the
armed forces or who

have armed forces
connections, and other people

who I can't name, but who
have come forward to me

and who have pretty much
verified my theories,

at least in principle.

ROBERT STACK: Recently
a team of scientists

was commissioned to find
the source of the hum.

They traveled to Taos
with some of the most

sophisticated
sound and radiation

sensing equipment available.

In the end, the scientists
were unable to find

anything dramatic
or unusual at Taos

that might explain the hum.

However, they did conclude
that the hum is a quote,

"bonafide scientific
mystery that

deserves additional inquiry."

I'm hearing the hum now.

And we have days where it
oscillates on different sides

and today it seems to
be oscillating more

on the right side of my body.

I don't believe how
you can't hear it.

[humming]

ROBERT STACK: What is the
source of the mysterious hum?

Could it be ELF?

Or is it possible that more than
1,000 people around the world

are imagining the same thing?

It is interesting
to note that there

is an ELF transmitting
station just 80 miles from Hal

Runniana's house in Michigan.

However, there is
not a known station

within 1,500 miles of Taos.

For now, the hum remains
a mystery for those who

cannot hear it, and a
major source of aggravation

for those who can.

On a previous broadcast,
we brought you

the poignant story
of the Stallings

family of Tipton, Oklahoma.

A family so poor that in 1948,
Lela Stallings, her husband,

and their six
children were forced

to live in an old school bus.

In spite of the
terrible hardships,

Lela valiantly struggled
to maintain a home life

that was as normal as possible.

Thank you.

We always had something to do.

And we had toys to play with
and each other to play with.

So we didn't think of
ourselves as being different.

ROBERT STACK: However, the
authorities felt otherwise.

Lela and her husband
were eventually

charged with child neglect.

The charges would
later be dropped,

but not before all of
the Stallings children

were placed in foster homes.

Two of them, Mary and Joe,
were reunited in 1959.

Since then, they
have done everything

possible to find their
brothers and sister,

only to be thwarted
time after time.

I have tried
every avenue that I

have came before me
to try and locate

these brothers and sister.

And I'll never quit until
the last day of my life.

"Unsolved Mysteries"
appeared to be the last hope.

And happily, the day
after our broadcast,

35 years of frustration came
to an end for Joe and Mary.

A man named Lee
Shulien of Owassa,

Oklahoma called
our phone center.

He identified
himself as Ernest Lee

Stallings, who
was only five when

the family was split apart.

Lee was thrilled to
hear that his brother

and sister were looking for him
and was anxious to meet them.

Three weeks later, Lee arrived
at a hotel in Tulsa, Oklahoma

to be reunited with Joe.

Hello.

ROBERT STACK: The two brothers
had not seen each other

in nearly half a century.

Been talking to you on
the phone quite a bit.

I've been waiting for this
moment for so many years.

I know.

That's what I heard.

JOE DILLAHUNTY: I don't even
know how to describe it.

It's such a wonderful feeling.

It's about time.

It definitely is.

Walking in this morning,
he walked in and we met,

hugged each other.

Nobody can realize the feeling.

We were separated
too many years.

Yeah, about 40.

47 years.

LEE SHULIEN: I really didn't
know how I was going to react.

We've been separated
for 46 years.

I feel a lot better than
what I thought I might.

It felt real good to hug him.

We've already started
making some plans

to get together and go fishing.

So we got a future
ahead of us to be

together and enjoy each other.

This here is you and I.

ROBERT STACK: Sadly, Joe
and Lee's sister Mary was

unable to attend the reunion.

However, she has spoken
with Lee on the phone

and they plan to get together
in the very near future.

Our dad.

Right, yeah.

ROBERT STACK: When
we return, a family

is rescued from a
terrifying accident

by two anonymous strangers.

[theme music]

It is a traveler's
worst nightmare.

You're in a foreign country,
driving along a dark,

winding road with
almost no visibility,

and suddenly lose
control of your car.

That exact scenario
came horribly

true for the Dover family
of Atlanta, Georgia

some 12 years ago.

They were in Mexico on their
way to celebrate Christmas

with relatives when
the journey was cut

short by an unexpected
disaster, a disaster the Dovers

miraculously survived, thanks
to the selfless heroism

of two anonymous strangers.

The adventure began two days
before Christmas in 1983.

Along for the trip were
Joe Dover, his son Vance,

his father-in-law
James, cousin Tommy,

Tommy's 7-year-old son
David, and a close family

friend Mary Ann Prudenti.

Turn around.

Sit down please.

JOE DOVER: There was a
real warm atmosphere.

Of course, we were all
related, we were all friends.

We talked and we ate
in the van coming down,

we played games,
and just really had

a real warm time coming down.

I think dad ate them all.

You're kidding.

[laughter]

You want something
to drink, grandpa?

You got some water?
Oh, here you go.

Hey Tommy, how about
something to drink?

VANCE DOVER: We had just
purchased a new customized van,

and it was loaded
with everything.

We had a television and
we had a refrigerator.

So we were stocked up and just
making extremely good time

and having a good time.

ROBERT STACK: The
drive from Atlanta

to the city of Ciudad Victoria,
Mexico was about 1,200 miles.

The Dovers hoped to complete
the trip in 48 hours

and arrive by Christmas Day.

To save time, they stopped
only for gas and the adults

took turns driving.

JOE DOVER: Now, we left
on Friday afternoon

and we drove all
day and all night.

We got into Laredo,
Texas Saturday

morning, which was Christmas
Eve, and crossed the border.

The further along we
got in the afternoon,

it really began to get
cold and began to snow.

The weather was
getting really bad.

And I had been to Mexico
several times in the past

and I'd never experienced
anything like this in my life.

It was extremely
cold, rainy, snowy.

It was just very
uncharacteristic for the area.

EUGENE FLAUM: By the time the
Dovers crossed the border,

Vance was behind the wheel.

They were now an hour outside of
Monterrey, the last major city

before their final destination.

VANCE DOVER: We
were supposed to go

over a mountain range
to get to the city

and then we were diverted.

There was a policeman
in the road.

Hi.

Bueno.

We need to go to Monterrey.

[speaking spanish]

ROBERT STACK: With his father
translating from the back seat,

Vance learned that the main
road through the mountains

had been closed.

VANCE DOVER: And we had to
circle around the mountains

and come into Monterrey from
a more easterly direction.

And the snow began
to really pick up

and it was a real driving snow.

It wasn't coming
just straight down.

And the sides of the
road began to be coated.

We could see it on the hills.

Vance.

Vance, why don't you slow
down a little bit here, buddy?

It's getting a little
bit slick out there.

VANCE DOVER: We were
trying to be extremely

cautious, because
the road conditions

were really getting pretty bad.

And my father had just told me
to even be extremely careful.

And just moments after
he had told me that,

I suddenly lost control.

I don't know how
much time elapsed.

I don't know how long I was out.

I have no idea if it was
five minutes or an hour.

But I woke up and it was
just a matter of moments

when someone opened the
door and pulled me out.

And the pain that
I felt at that time

was absolutely excruciating.

ROBERT STACK: As Vance was
pulled from the wreckage,

he was unaware of the
carnage surrounding him.

The four occupants
of the other vehicle

had been killed instantly.

Incredibly, the Dovers had
all survived, but most of them

were barely clinging to life.

By the time Vance's father
was pulled from the van,

the rescue effort
had been joined

by a passing
American couple, both

of them apparently doctors.

VANCE DOVER: My
father, he was taken

and put in the back
of the pickup truck,

as well as my grandfather.

My grandfather had received
just severe head injuries to

the point of his skull showing.

His head was just
cut really badly.

And the doctors
later told us that

by him being put in the back of
a pickup truck actually saved

his life because the cold
weather actually helped seal up

and clog the blood.

ROBERT STACK: Through a
haze of terrible pain,

Vance watched the
rescue effort unfold.

He gradually realized
that the two Americans had

taken charge of the operation.

VANCE DOVER: My cousin Tommy
was pulled from the van

and his vital signs
were taken and it

was assumed that he was dead.

And they were pulling
other people out

and trying to revive
the ones that they

thought were still alive.

[speaking spanish]

After a few minutes had
gone by, this doctor

went in and checked
Tommy's vital signs again

and found a very small pulse.

I'm getting a pulse here.

ROBERT STACK: Vance now
believes that if not

for the woman's attention, Tommy
would have died on the spot.

A few moments later, she
placed Tommy's son David,

apparently uninjured,
in the car with Vance.

VANCE DOVER: The lady then
got in the back seat with me

and she was talking to
me and comforting me

and I think she was trying
to tell me what all had

occurred, although
at that time I really

just couldn't make it out.

[speaking spanish]

ROBERT STACK: The nearest
clinic was an Monterrey,

approximately an hour away.

The unidentified American
woman stayed by Vance's side

during the trip.

VANCE DOVER: The
hospital I was taken into

was unlike anything
I've ever seen before.

It reminded me almost like
a MASH unit or something

out of a war movie.

There was this one
nurse there though.

She spoke really good English.

Her name was Alicia.

We are trying to help you.

Can you tell me--

[speaking spanish]

VANCE DOVER: She told me that
my leg was broken really bad.

We will have to put
a pin in your knee.

VANCE DOVER: She
told me that they

didn't have any anesthesia, but
they had to put in traction.

She said they were going to have
to put a pin through my knee.

Please calm down.

We're trying to do everything
we can to help you.

Where's everybody else?

Where are the others?

There is a man and a
woman and a child here.

ROBERT STACK: The
nurse was referring

to Vance's cousin Tommy,
his friend Mary Ann,

and Tommy's son David.

VANCE DOVER: The nurse told
me that they were injured

severely, they
had head injuries,

and she didn't think
that they would

make it through the night.

There appeared to be no sign
of my father and grandfather.

And I had all kind of
thoughts go through my head.

I mean, they weren't
at the hospital.

I didn't know.

Maybe they were
taken to a morgue.

I mean, I had no idea.

And no one in the hospital
knew where they were at.

ROBERT STACK: Christmas
morning dawned

with a Christmas miracle.

Vance awoke to find that his
young cousin David had in fact

escaped unharmed, and
that Mary Ann and Tommy

were going to pull through.

Vance was surprised to see
that the mysterious woman,

his guardian angel,
was still with him.

Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas.

VANCE DOVER: It
brought a lot of joy

to me knowing that
she was there.

And she brought us both a
little Christmas present

and she spent Christmas
morning with us there.

ROBERT STACK: The women raised
Vance's spirits even higher

when she assured
him that his father

and grandfather were still alive
and being treated elsewhere.

Gonna be fine.

They're at another clinic and my
husband is with them right now.

You remember anything
about last night?

I was driving.

VANCE DOVER: She told me
that her and her husband were

on vacation and happened
upon the accident

just moments after it occurred.

I'm getting a pulse.

You got a pulse?

I'm getting a pulse here.

VANCE DOVER: I've
always wondered

what would have
happened had they

not come upon the accident.

Because we were an
hour or so outside

of this major city and there
was nothing out there at all.

And these people just showed up.

Doctors showed up
out of nowhere.

And I believe they
were extremely

instrumental in
saving our lives.

ROBERT STACK: 12 years
later, the accident

has had a profound effect
on the entire Dover family.

Today they are all actively
involved in the church.

And in fact, Joe is a lay
pastor with his own congregation

of more than 300.

Perhaps the most thankful
of all is Joe's wife Linda.

She is convinced
that had it not been

for the two unknown
angels, she might

have lost her entire family.

I feel like it was a miracle.

Many times there's
an accident and we

just drive by an accident.

And they could have done that
that day, but they didn't.

They stopped.

And through their stopping, they
saved the lives of our family.

And we just want
to say thank you.

[music playing]

[theme music]

It is a prison
official's worst nightmare.

An inmate who can charm
the devil, who knows how

to play the system, who harbors
a deep but completely hidden

desire to escape.

Confessed murderer
Randolph Franklin

Dial was just such a man.

Last August, Dial escaped from
the Oklahoma State Reformatory

and he took 32-year-old Bobbi
Parker, the deputy warden's

wife, with him.

This is their story.

It began in 1986.

On videotape, Randolph
Dial voluntarily

confessed to
committing a contract

killing five years earlier.

Told me to get off of
his property and I pulled

the piece out and
fired once, hitting

him approximately right here.

ROBERT STACK: For nearly eight
years, Dial served hard time.

But Randolph Dial was not
your run of the mill lifer.

An artist of some
repute before prison,

he managed to hoodwink the
guards and wardens in prison.

Eventually, he was transferred
to a minimum security unit

at Oklahoma State Reformatory.

There Randolph Dial
became the very definition

of a model prisoner.

BOB RICKS: Randolph Dial
was given trustee status.

He was given full
run of the prison.

In fact, as a trustee, even
though he was under a murder

conviction, he was given access
to property outside the prison.

There was really no
supervision over Randolph Dial.

ROBERT STACK:
Dial's regular work

assignment was
caretaker at the home

of Deputy Warden Randy Parker.

Parker, his wife Bobbi, and
their two young daughters

lived right next
door to the prison.

Over the years, Bobbi Parker had
worked with a number of inmates

as a volunteer for various
rehabilitation programs.

She and Randolph
Dial were brought

together when money
was donated to start

up a prison arts project.

What's the big
push on it anyway?

Because we've got people
wanting to buy these, Dial.

ROBERT STACK: Dial often
spent time alone with Bobbi

in her garage, which
had been converted

into a ceramic studio.

Given the circumstances, it was
not unusual when Dial developed

something of a crush on Bobbi.

RANDY PARKER: I think
that he probably

read more into the
working relationship

than what was actually there.

You know, a man's locked
up for over eight years,

going on nine years.

He has a woman who is very
attractive, very cordial,

very compassionate, and caring.

Well, I tell you what Bobbi,
you just come right over here,

you work side by side with
me, we'll be on your schedule.

What do you think about that?

I think you do your
job and I will do mine

and we'll meet at my schedule.

ROBERT STACK: After a
few weeks, Randy Parker

began to feel that Dial
was spending too much time

with Bobbi at the house
and acting as if he

controlled the arts program.

You need help over there?

I had told him, you
screw up out here,

and I'll show you what
administrative power is all

about.

And he was very
much aware of that.

ROBERT STACK: August 30,
1994 began normally enough

for Randy and Bobbi Parker.

First breakfast with
their two daughters,

then Randy went to work
next door and the girls

headed off for school.

- I love you.
- Love you.

Have a good day.

ROBERT STACK: When Randy
Parker left his house,

Randolph Dial was already out
front working in the yard.

She going to make
me do this all day

or she got some other
things lined up for me?

You should get
back to work, Dial.

Trade jobs with you.

Take it easy on them
all over there, sir.

ROBERT STACK: At noon, Randy
Parker came home for lunch,

but found the house empty.

There was a note
from Bobbi saying

that she had gone shopping
and that his sandwich

was in the refrigerator.

RANDY PARKER: It was not
anything out of the ordinary

at all to see a note there
letting me know where she was,

being concerned that I would
be worried or having my lunch

there for me.

ROBERT STACK: Back
at the prison,

Randy Parker's day
proceeded without incident.

Then at 4:45, he
received a troubling call

from his older daughter.

Mom's not here right now.

RANDY PARKER (ON
PHONE): She's not?

And I just came
in and Brandi was

sitting all alone on the floor.

Mommy's gone shopping.

She'll be home real soon.

Daddy'll be home
in a little bit.

OK, thanks dad.

Hi, sweetie.

Hi, daddy.

Mom still isn't home yet.

ROBERT STACK: Randy Parker
arrived at his house

30 minutes later.

Bobbi was still not there.

Soon Randy began
to fear the worst.

Well, I guess
she's still stopping.

ROBERT STACK: He contacted
the area hospitals,

but there was no word of Bobbi.

At a loss, Randy rehashed
the day in his mind.

Then I begin to
think back, I hadn't

seen Dial since this
morning, and usually

when I come home for lunch,
he's usually there hanging out.

Hello, Captain Randy.

Yeah, would you do me a favor?

Just clear Dial from his cell
and send him over here now.

202 to 201, be advised
inmate Dial is not in his cell.

Repeat, inmate Dial
is not in his cell.

I knew at that point
that Dial had escaped.

And the fear that
he had taken Bobbi.

But yet, I hadn't admitted
that to myself yet.

[phone ringing]

Hello?

BOBBI PARKER (ON
PHONE): Mom, it's me.

Hi, Bobbi.

BOBBI PARKER (ON
PHONE): Mom, listen,

I need you to do me a favor.

Yes?

BOBBI PARKER (ON PHONE): I
need you to call up Randy.

All right.

BOBBI PARKER (ON PHONE):
Tell him and the children

that I love them.

It's all going to
be over soon, mom.

Mom, I gotta go.

Bobbi, what are
you talking about?

Bobbi, what's wrong?

BOBBI PARKER (ON
PHONE): I love you, mom.

Bobbi?

Bobbi?

And she hung up.

And I knew immediately that
she probably had been abducted,

because my daughter
wouldn't talk like that.

She would have called her
own girls and everything.

She was not a crying person.

I didn't know what
Dial was going to do,

how he was going to harm her
or hurt her or threaten her.

And of course, I was
worried sick about her,

but then I was also worried, how
am I going to tell the girls?

ROBERT STACK: The next
day, Bobbi called her best

friend with the same message.

The friend also
felt that Bobbi was

being held against her will.

Then 24 hours later, Bobbi's
van was found abandoned

just across the Texas border.

The vehicle was
basically clean.

We found no indications
that a violent struggle

had taken place in the vehicle.

There were no blood
splatterings at all.

We did find cigarettes
there, Basic

cigarettes, which was the brand
that Randolph Dial smoked.

ROBERT STACK: In the
meantime, Randy Parker

had learned from an inmate
that for several months,

Dial had been actively
trying to barter for Valium

on the prison black market.

This fit with Randy
Parker's firm belief

that Dial had
kidnapped his wife.

RANDY PARKER: He could
have got some Valium to her

in a glass of tea or something.

Then he picked her up and
he walked her up to the van

and he laid her down in
there and he took off.

I believe that's what happened.

ROBERT STACK: But
the fact remained

that there was no concrete
evidence of a kidnapping.

The authorities began to
consider another possibility.

Perhaps Bobbi Parker had
run away with Randolph Dial.

BOB RICKS: It does
appear that there

was a certain
fascination that Randolph

Dial had for Bobbi Parker.

From interviews with other
inmates at an institution,

he made comments indicating
that he was romantically

attracted to Bobbi.

We don't know if that was
reciprocated in any fashion.

At this point, we are
under the assumption

that she was taken
against her will.

We have no information
to indicate otherwise.

My wife did not leave
voluntarily with Dial.

She did not fall
in love with him.

I believe that to the
very depths of my soul

that that is not even within
the realm of possibilities

that she would
abandon two children,

run off with an inmate
who's convicted for murder,

throw away everything
that she's ever had.

That's just not even possible.

That is absurd and ridiculous.

Make this quick.

ROBERT STACK: 10
days after Bobbi

disappeared, she made
one final phone call,

this one to her brother's wife.

Once again, Bobbi sounded upset.

She asked her sister-in-law to
tell the girls she loved them

and that everything
would be all right.

And that was the last
contact that anybody's

had that I know of.

And that's been September now.

That's been a long
time and I just

keep waiting for
another phone call,

keep waiting for something.

But Dial's not gonna
let her call again.

Well, I personally painted
all these ones you see here.

ROBERT STACK: There have
been several sightings

of Randolph Dial and a woman
who may be Bobbi Parker.

One of the most credible
occurred in September of 1994,

at an art sale in
Galveston, Texas.

If the woman with
Dial was indeed Bobbi,

she had either dyed her hair
blond or was wearing a wig.

Witnesses say she seemed
nervous and scared.

[music playing]

Next, a businessman suspected
of criminal activity

disappears during
a fishing trip.

A tragic accident or a
clever ruse to avoid arrest?

[theme music]

The muddy, turbulent waters
of the Colorado River

snake some 1,500 miles through
seven different states.

Over the centuries, the
Colorado's powerful currents

have carved out
hundreds of gorges,

including the Grand
Canyon in Arizona.

But hidden by the
river's majestic beauty

is a world of untold secrets.

Among them, the
puzzling fate of a man

named Robert Arcieri,
who disappeared

during a fishing
trip on the Colorado,

more than eight years ago.

To all appearances,
Bob Arcieri was

a jovial, fun loving
family man who made

friends at the drop of a hat.

He was also the
quintessential wheeler dealer.

I got a wonderful property
we just got north of Phoenix.

Would absolutely
suit you to a tee.

ROBERT STACK: In fact,
around Phoenix, Arcieri

was known as a man who could
get you almost anything

from soft pretzels
to camper shells.

Bill Reddick knew him
as well as anyone.

BILL REDDICK: The first time I
met Bob Arcieri was I went down

and bought a camper
shell from him.

And then he needed some work
done, I needed things done,

and we just traded on and off.

And then I sold him a
car that I had fixed.

And our relationship just
kind of rolled from there

from the rest of time on.

ROBERT STACK: Bill
Reddick and his wife Janet

hit it off with Bob Arcieri and
his wife right from the start.

Hey, check out
these little guys.

Oh, aren't those nice?

That's our kachina collection.

ROBERT STACK: Bob was
fascinated by Bill's

collection of rare Native
American kachina dolls,

worth $75,000.

You know, I also collect guns.

I've got a 1981
Smith and Wesson.

Would you like to see it?

Oh, I'd love to see that.

I'll go get it.

Great.

ROBERT STACK: Bill
was equally proud

of his priceless antique guns.

He left Bob in the
living room while he went

to retrieve them from the safe.

BILL REDDICK: I had opened up
my safe where they were at,

and then I turned
around and looked

and he was right behind me.

It seemed unordinary
to me because I

was going to get them out.

The ones that I
wanted to show him

were just easy to pick
up and bring in there,

and I didn't do that.

He was very calm and very
cool about the whole issue.

He didn't seem to be
interested in anything.

He just seemed to be more
like, oh, that's nice.

Sort of like nonchalant.

ROBERT STACK: On April 3, 1984,
Bill Reddick was out of town

on business.

At around 8:00 PM, his wife
Janet came home from work.

The house had been ransacked.

The valuable kachina dolls were
laid out on a sofa and table.

JANET REDDICK: I went to
leave to get out of the house.

From that point on, my
memory is kind of black

until I woke up in the hospital
a couple of days later.

ROBERT STACK: With
Janet unconscious,

the thieves made off with the
Reddicks' entire collection

of kachina dolls, all
of Bill's antique guns,

and Janet's jewelry.

Total value, more than $200,000.

Janet had been struck
five times in the head

with a ball peen hammer.

Miraculously, she would recover,
but only after major surgery

and months of rehabilitation.
- Did they get much?

They got the guns, they
got the kachina dolls.

ROBERT STACK: While
Janet was recuperating,

Bob Arcieri stopped by
to see how she was doing.

You're kidding.

ROBERT STACK: At the time,
the Reddicks just assumed

he was a concerned friend.

Perhaps a little too concerned.

I didn't see anything.

I don't remember.

He said to us that
he wished that he could

help us find the
guy and if he did,

he'd be glad to kill him for us.

There's three things
that Bob was involved in.

He was involved in drugs,
he was involved in murder,

and he was involved in robbery.

ROBERT STACK: Almost
two years later,

this man, an admitted contract
killer, went to the police

with an incredible story.

He claimed Bob Arcieri
had masterminded

a series of robberies,
that the targets

were Arcieri's own friends
and business associates.

Would have dinner
with these guys,

have them over to their
house, play golf with them,

and then maybe two or
three years down the road,

he'd set them up.

We were initially a little
skeptical of this information.

However, as we began to
investigate the crimes,

the subject's story
seemed very credible.

ROBERT STACK: Phoenix
police sought to verify

the informant's allegations.

They arranged for him
to secretly tape record

a conversation with Arcieri.

OK, don't forget to
activate that thing

when you see him drive up.

Got you, man.

LARRY FLICK: The meeting
between the information

source and Robert Arcieri
took place in a parking lot.

I was able to view the
meeting through binoculars

from some distance away.

We already talked
about the job.

I told you it was off.

Let's go take a walk.

Come on.

Take a walk.

ROBERT STACK: In the
exchange, Arcieri

cancelled an alleged
hit he had hired

the informant to carry out.

Come on, Bob,
it's on, it's off.

I've been spending a lot
of time on this thing.

LARRY FLICK: After we retrieved
the recording device from him

and listened to
what was being said,

it left little
doubt that Arcieri

was in fact involved
in the crimes

that the information
source was alleging.

I brought some
property with me.

I'd like you to
take a look at it.

ROBERT STACK: The informant
gave Detective Flick

several items he said were
stolen by Arcieri's henchmen.

I never thought
I'd see these again.

ROBERT STACK: Some
of the valuables

belonged to Janet Reddick.

Let Let me know if any of
them are familiar to you.

Yeah.

Robert Arcieri.

Yeah.

Is he involved in this?

When I looked at
the slip of paper

and I saw Bob's name on
it, everything just hit.

This person is involved with
what happened at my house.

ROBERT STACK: Robert Arcieri
was charged with seven felony

counts, including
heading an organized

crime syndicate,
racketeering, and conspiracy

to commit murder.

But a few months later
in November of 1986,

those charges were
dropped while police

continued the investigation.

According to the
authorities, they

were gambling that they could
build an even stronger case.

Bob Arcieri was once again free
to come and go as he pleased.

In January of 1987, he
set off on a fishing trip

with his nephew and two friends.

They chose a spot
on the Colorado

River known as Lee's Ferry.

RAY BROWN: Bob called me and
he said he'd been exonerated

and he wanted to celebrate.

And that's why we
went to Lee's Ferry

was to kind of celebrate that
being all over and done with.

ROBERT STACK: Ray Brown
says that as darkness fell

on the first day of
the trip, Arcieri began

to complain about chest pains.

Yeah, it'll be fine.

ROBERT STACK: At
the dock, Arcieri

was the last man to disembark.

His nephew had to help
him from the boat.

Uncle Bob, you need a hand?

ROBERT STACK: The other
man on the fishing trip

has asked not to be identified.

I walked up the dock
and left the nephew

and Bob standing there.

And I went to the bathroom
and when I was leaving,

I heard a splash
down by the dock.

What happened?

- He fell in the water.
- Who did?

Uncle Bob.
I don't know where he is.

Uncle Bob?
What?

What happened?

He was walking and
fell in the water.

I don't know.

What did he do, hit
his head or something?

- I don't know.
- Well where?

In the water somewhere.

RAY BROWN: The water was over
a man's head at the boat dock.

And I backed the
truck up and shined

the lights out on the river
and we could see nothing.

And I knew he must be drowned.

ROBERT STACK: In the area
where Arcieri disappeared,

the river broadens out
almost into a lake.

Rescuers feared that
he may have floated

a half mile downstream towards
a set of powerful rapids.

But an intense four
day search yielded

no trace of Bob Arcieri.

I feel that if he were in
that upper section of the river

in the clear water, there's
a very high likelihood

that we would have
seen him in that area

and he would have been found.

ROBERT STACK: Did Bob Arcieri
suffer a heart attack,

fall into the Colorado
River, and drown?

Or was the entire
episode a clever ruse,

enabling Arcieri to escape
his impending legal troubles?

I feel that Bob
Arcieri is dead.

He was a family man
out of this world.

And going in that river,
I just can't see any way

he could have got out of it.

Bob probably didn't
even get his feet wet.

For all I know, the guys went
in and threw a rock overboard.

No, he's not dead.

It's my belief that knowing
that he was looking at spending

the rest of his life
behind bars resulted in him

making some hard choices.

And that was either facing
them or feigning his death.

And I believe he
took the latter.

Every indication I have
is that he did not drown

and he is alive today.

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Perhaps you may be able
to help solve a mystery.

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