Bonus Episode: The Capture Of The Boston Bomber

The FOX True Crime Podcast w/ Emily Compagno

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True Crime

4.8 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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In April of 2013, using his experience on both the Hostage Rescue Team and the Crisis Negotiation Unit, retired FBI Special Agent Kyle Vowinkel worked with the CNU in order to secure the peaceful surrender of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the two Boston Marathon bombers. On this bonus edition of The FOX True Crime Podcast, Emily takes a look at Kyle's illustrious career in law enforcement. Kyle Vowinkel served for 24 years as an FBI Special Agent is a former U.S. Army officer, and is a West Point graduate. Kyle served on both the FBI’s elite Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) and the Crisis Negotiation Unit (CNU). After his assignments on HRT and the CNU, he used his leadership experiences as a supervisor at multiple FBI offices and retired as Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) in the Miami Division. During his Bureau career, Kyle was deployed to over twenty countries, including China, Qatar, Kenya, South Korea, and Peru, and as a tactical operator on HRT on hundreds of high-risk missions domestically as well as overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan. While a member of CNU, he negotiated with kidnappers, pirates, and more. Kyle is a keynote inspirational speaker at events around the world for companies and institutions such as West Point, Cornell University, Google, hostage negotiation seminars, and FBI National Academy events. Later, in 2023, he plans to publish a book sharing stories from his career. Learn more about Kyle: https://www.apexriskconsulting.us/ Follow Emily on Instagram: @realemilycompagno Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.8	I'm Emily Campanio, and this is the Fox True Crime podcast.
1:15.1	Thank you. True Crime Podcast. Now, in our last episode, we spoke to retired FBI Special Agent Kyle Voinkle to discuss how he used his experience on both the hostage rescue team and the crisis negotiation unit to resolve the 2013 Alabama bunker hostage crisis. If you haven't listened to that episode yet,
1:17.0	go and listen to this incredible story told by Kyle himself
1:20.7	where you can watch the conversation on YouTube.
1:23.8	Only months after working on this case,
1:25.8	Kyle was involved in yet another high-profile crisis.
1:29.3	In April of 2013, Kyle would once again work with the crisis negotiation unit
1:34.3	in order to secure the peaceful surrender of Jokker Sharnayev, one of the two Boston Marathon Bombers.
1:41.3	Kyle's background is fascinating.
1:49.0	And today, in our bonus episode of the Fox True Crime podcast, we look at his illustrious career in law enforcement and the high-stakes negotiation with one of the Boston
1:53.7	Marathon terrorists.
1:55.7	Kyle, thank you for joining us again.
1:57.8	Before we get into the other cases you've worked on, tell us a little bit about yourself.
2:01.6	So I grew up in San Diego, a very patriotic town. My father was a Navy officer in Vietnam.
2:08.6	And so service to country kind of ran through, definitely ran through my family's blood.
2:13.6	My brother and I both went to West Point. I went and visited him when he was a freshman, and I thought, that's a cool place to go. So I applied and somehow slipped through the crack and was accepted. And I graduated in West Point, 1993. Then I spent five years in the Army. I was an officer most of the time in First Cavalry Division in Fort Hood, Texas.
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