For six days, residents of the small town of Midland City, Ala.,
could do nothing but pray for the 5-year-old boy taken hostage—and
nothing could have proved more powerful. On Monday evening, after
nearly a week of negotiations and citywide nightly prayer vigils,
officers decided it was time to end the hostage drama that captured
national media attention. Ethan, the young boy snatched by
65-year-old Jimmy Lee Dykes from a school bus on Jan. 29 and held
captive in an underground bunker,
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