Man behind Alabama hostage standoff, Jimmy Lee Dykes: Paranoid, poor and particular

Rickey Stokes

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Date: Feb 05 2013 6:14 PM

Before Jimmy Lee Dykes dug a bunker, before he kidnapped 5-year-old Ethan and shot his bus driver dead, he liked to bet on dog races, according to his friend and former neighbor, George Arnold.

Dykes, who was 65 when he died, kept records of the races, boxes of them, sure that one day, if he studied them hard enough he would find a pattern in the results and get rich, Arnold said.

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