280: Kyle Vowinkel – 2013 Alabama Bunker Negotiations

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

True Crime, Interviews, Fiction, History, Fbi, Government, Truecrime

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🗓️ 23 January 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 280 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams.
0:11.6	I'm a retired agent on a mission to show you who the FBI is and what the FBI does through
0:17.8	my books, my blog and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues.
0:22.7	Today we get to speak to retired agent Kyle Voinkel, who served in the FBI for 24 years.
0:30.4	In this episode, Kyle reviews the 2013 Alabama Bunker Child Abduction Case, known as the
0:38.6	Boy in the Bunker, one of the FBI's greatest hostage recovery operations.
0:44.4	January 2023 marks the 10th anniversary of the crisis event, which took place from January 29th
0:53.0	through February 4th, 2013, in Midland City, Alabama, near the FBI's Dothin resident agency.
1:01.0	Jimi Lee Dykes boarded a school bus, killed the bus driver, and took five-year-old Ethan
1:07.2	Gilman hostage.
1:09.3	Having served for eight years on the FBI's elite hostage rescue team, HRT, and at the time
1:16.9	of the incident, being a member of the crisis negotiations unit, CNU, Kyle Voinkel was
1:24.6	on the ground, walking up to the bunker three times a day, accompanying HRT and acting
1:31.6	as a bridge between tactical agents and negotiators efforts to save the abducted child.
1:38.9	Kyle was the architect and orchestrated the plan to save Ethan for his contributions to
1:45.5	the successful resolution of this case.
1:49.1	Kyle received the U.S. Attorney General's Award for Exceptional Heroism.
1:54.9	He has presented this case at dozens of tactical and negotiation conferences around the world.
2:02.6	During his time with CNU, Kyle negotiated with kidnappers, pirates, and one of the Boston
2:08.9	Marathon bombers, who he was able to persuade to surrender.
2:13.8	After his assignments on HRT and CNU, Kyle used his leadership experiences and supervised
2:21.4	repositions at multiple FBI offices and retired as Assistant Special Agent in Charge, ASAC,
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