Jan 23, 2023
Retired agent Kyle Vowinkel reviews the 2013 Alabama bunker
child abduction case, known as the Boy in the Bunker, one of the
FBI's greatest hostage recovery operations. January 2023 marks the
10th anniversary of the crisis event, which took place from January
29, through February 4, 2013 in Midland City, Alabama, when a man
boarded a school bus, killed the driver, and took a five-year-old
boy hostage.
Having served for eight years on the FBI's elite Hostage
Rescue Team (HRT) and, at the time of the incident, the Crisis
Negotiation Unit (CNU), Kyle acted as a bridge between tactical
agents and negotiators' efforts to save the child. For his
contribution to the successful resolution, he received the Attorney
General's Award for Exceptional Heroism. Kyle Vowinkel served in
the FBI for 24 years.
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