Jimmy Lee Dykes - The Alabama Abductor
Posted on the 02 February 2013 by Mikeb302000
Yahoo News reports
After four anxious
days, only the slimmest of details has come to light in a police
standoff with an Alabama man who is accused of holding a 5-year-old boy
hostage in a bunker, a sign of just how delicate the negotiations are.
Police have used a ventilation
pipe to the underground bunker to talk to the man and deliver the boy
medication for his emotional disorders, but they have not revealed how
often they are in touch or what the conversations have been about. And authorities
waited until Friday — four days after the siege began — to confirm what
was widely known in this age of instant communication: The man accused
of killing a school bus driver and abducting the boy Tuesday was
65-year-old Jimmy Lee Dykes, a Vietnam-era veteran who was known to neighbors as a menacing figure.