From the Archives: FBI Agent: Secret room where Katie Beers was kept 'Medieval'
Photo credit: AP | A 30-foot-high crane raises the bunker out of the earth from the property of John Esposito in Bay Shore on Jan. 18, 1993. The cement and wood bunker in which young Katie Beers was imprisoned measured 6 feet by 9 feet.
Katie Beers, a journey from victim to mother
This article was originally published Jan. 15, 1993
As a special agent with the FBI's Behavioral Sciences Unit, Clint Van Zandt has seen many secret rooms built to hide kidnap or sexual assault victims.
But what he saw yesterday when he descended below the concrete slab of John Esposito's garage apartment in Bay Shore, into the secret bunker where Esposito kept 10-year-old Katie Beers,...
