Jimmy Lee Dykes

The 5-year-old Alabama boy who was held hostage in an underground bunker saw his kidnapper shot to death, his mother told TV personality Dr. Phil McGraw in an interview set to broadcast Wednesday. The exclusive interview deflates the last of the privacy...

For six days, the nation was gripped by the kidnapping ordeal of young Ethan, the 5-year-old Alabama boy held hostage in an underground bunker by a man who had killed his school bus driver. Only a handful of old family photos of the child -- who was...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A man who held a 5-year-old boy hostage in an underground bunker for nearly a week before dying in a shootout with the FBI received "multiple gunshot wounds" to his body, a county coroner said Thursday. Dale County...

The body of Jimmy Lee Dykes, killed during the rescue of a young boy from an underground bunker, has been taken to Montgomery, Ala., for an autopsy, officials said Thursday. The autopsy in a state facility is expected to take a couple of days, Trooper...

MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — As FBI and police negotiators sought for days to coax an Alabama man into freeing a kindergartner held hostage in an underground bunker, the captor was planning for violence, authorities say. He rigged the bunker with...

Officials on Monday rescued a 5-year-old boy who has been held hostage for nearly a week in an underground bunker in rural Alabama and they said his abductor was dead, ending a standoff that had gripped the nation. The boy, named Ethan, was taken to a...

The child who was held hostage in Alabama celebrated his sixth birthday at home on Wednesday, recuperating from his almost weeklong ordeal as a hostage. Ethan, who was freed from an underground bunker on Monday, was described by family and officials...

The man who kidnapped a 5-year-old Alabama boy and held him hostage reportedly died in a shootout with rescuers and had bombs in his bunker. CBS News, citing unidentified officials, reported Tuesday night that four rescuers entered Jimmy Lee Dykes'...

A day before his sixth birthday, the boy freed in a dramatic rescue by the FBI played with his toy dinosaur and was surrounded by his reunited with his family in an Alabama hospital on Tuesday, trying to shed the memory of being imprisoned for nearly a...

The Alabama boy held captive for nearly a week by an angry and volatile kidnapper seemed to be enjoying his newfound freedom Tuesday, according to relatives and the county sheriff in tiny Midland City, Ala. After FBI agents rescued him from a bunker,...

MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — For six anguished days, people in this small Alabama town asked just one question about the 5-year-old boy being held hostage in an underground bunker by a menacing, unpredictable neighbor: "Is he free yet?" After FBI...

A child being held hostage in a bunker buried beneath the red dirt of rural Alabama will turn 6 this week, even as his neighbors and friends hope the birthday celebration will take place somewhere other than in the small cell where he has been kept...