Underground Bunker - Sheriff Thanks Man For Taking Care Of Our Child - Alabama Abduction

As a strong Alabama boy used up his fifth day holed upward around an undercover bunker together with his kidnapper, authorities thanked this man Saturday for meeting the demands of your child nonetheless remained tight-lipped related to whether he / she acquired made any demands.

Dale County Sheriff Wally Olson explained negotiators had been inside frequent make contact with considering the kidnapping suspect, believed to be 65-year-old Jimmy Lee Dykes , whom friends portrayed since menacing and also at risk from violent outbursts. One neighbor stated Dykes bludgeoned your girlfriend doggy that will dying using a guide pipe right after the item roamed onto his / her property.

Speaking through a 4-inch venting pipe, Dykes explained to negotiators your dog possesses electrical heating units plus quilts while in the bunker, Olson said.

Authorities also supplied food dyes books, gadgets and remedy with the boy, regarded as always be 5 various years of age as well as discovered by means of friends and neighbors seeing that Ethan. He is said to possess Asperger verts syndrome and also attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.

I would like to be grateful for him or her to bring treatment involving each of our child, Olson reported with . That azines very important.

Olson dropped that will answer a news reporter verts problem in relation to no matter whether Dykes had made any demands.

The hostage problem started out Tuedsay afternoon, authorites said, while some sort of gunman seized Ethan from the school bus once taking pictures plus killing the driver, Charles Albert Poland Jr.

Dykes neighbor Michael Creel instructed the actual Associated Press he diagnosed your standoff had been methods to produce a political statement. I believe he really wants to rant in addition to rave in relation to politics and government. He's very focused on his property. He will not want his or her goods messed with, Creel said.

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