2013 Alabama bunker hostage crisis

Jimmy Lee Dykes, a 65-year-old Vietnam War-era veteran, boarded a Dale County school bus, killed the driver, and took a five- year-old boy hostage. After the shooting, Dykes took the boy to a 6-foot by 8-foot underground bunker on his property. The bunker contained homemade bombs and was equipped with a PVC ventilation pipe. On February 4, 2013, the FBI’s...