FBI TRUE — Season 1, Episode 9: The Boy in the Bunker (1)

Episode synopsis

In 2013, Jimmy Lee Dykes shoots and kills a rural Alabama school bus driver and takes a five-year-old boy hostage in a carefully constructed bunker. The FBI discovers that the bunker is lined with explosives and Dykes is heavily armed. After a six day standoff, Dykes sets a deadline for the following day to broadcast his grievances on TV news, or he will kill the boy and himself.

About FBI TRUE

A real-life look into FBI agents’ high-pressure world with never-before-seen surveillance video, interrogations with hostage takers and terrorists, and personal photos from the agents’ collections.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1The Manhattan Bomber
• E2Horror in Yosemite
• E3Terror in Benghazi
• E4The Kidnapping of Hannah Anderson
• E5Waco (1)
• E6Waco (2)
• E7Hunting Whitey Bulger
• E8The Beltway Snipers
• E10The Boy in the Bunker (2)