Hostage 911

Harrowing recorded conversations between criminals and hostage negotiators.

Episodes

1. Get Her Out Alive

Negotiators plead with a man, who's holding his wife hostage, to let her go, but have no idea there is another plan going on inside the house.

2. He’s Wearing a Bomb!

An ex-felon with an axe to grind takes his former lawyer hostage and threatens to detonate a bomb if he does not get justice.

3. Call Me When the Priest Comes

When a ten-year-old girl reports being held hostage by a family friend, negotiator Mike Newlin must earn the suspect's trust.

4. The Hostage Fights Back

A vicious bank robber takes a father and his twin sons' hostage; a crazed man holds his wife and son captive in an apartment complex.

5. Crisis at the Campsite

It's nightfall in a dark forest when officers locate a suspect who has taken his three children hostage.

6. Who Rescues the Rescuers?

An elderly man faking chest pains takes five EMT firefighters hostage at gunpoint; with a house full of firearms and an unwillingness to negotiate.

7. We Can't Guarantee Your Safety

Negotiators work via text to get a baby to safety, and they draw on their own parenting experience to convince a suspect to give himself up.

8. My Husband’s Coming to Kill Us

A dance teacher receives a message from her ex-husband, who is holding a gun to his head.