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.

Still, he never seemed to be able to get ahead, and he remained poor, so poor that he lived in his truck for two years and later in a van with windows covered in tin foil. Dykes believed the pattern was there, but it never panned out because the government foiled him at every turn, according to Arnold...

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