"Here is a book by a fellow named Charles Sasser. If you read that book, you get the impression if you cross me, you will rue the day."
--Randolph Franklin Dial, after his arrest, April 2005
A MURDEROUS FUGITIVE
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.
THE YOUNG WOMAN HE TOOK WITH HIM.
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?
THE STORY THAT CAN FINALLY BE TOLD...
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...