Died in prison
Randolph Franklin Dial
Randolph Dial died on June 13, 2007, in the infirmary of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, according to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. He was 62 and had been in poor health for several years. Months earlier he had told a court he had a tumor on his lung, and he had been in the prison infirmary for about two weeks before he died. The department has not released an official cause of death, and neighbors in Granite spoke about his death and what they still wonder about his life.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The news report says he died after a lengthy illness in the prison infirmary, and the official cause of death had not been released.
Reported by: news reporting of the death.