Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com After seven grueling days, negotiations between the FBI and a kidnapper had broken down in southern Alabama. Fears elevated when agents saw the kidnapper, Jimmy Lee Dykes, with a gun, NBC News reports. A decision had to be made. “Within the past 24 hours negotiations deteriorated and Mr. Dykes was observed holding…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com As a hostage standoff reaches a fourth day in Alabama, authorities are hoping the kidnapper grows tired and surrenders as a FBI hostage negotiator talks with the suspect through plastic ventilation pipes, CNN reports. On Tuesday afternoon the suspect boarded a bus stop, killed the bus driver and grabbed two children. One…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A 41-year-old man charged Wednesday with holding a hostage at knifepoint in a Salt Lake City office building that houses the FBI wanted to speak with the bureau’s forensic psychiatrist, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. Robert Joseph Hibbard was upset about his ex-wife’s death and what he considered to be a botched…
