Amber Hagerman was a 9 years old when she was abducted in Arlington, Texas, in 1996 R. Jeena Jacob/Star-Telegram via AP It’s been almost three decades since Amber Hagerman was abducted and ...

Amber Hagerman was just 9 years old when she was abducted and killed in 1996. Jan. 13, 2010 — -- Every year for the past 13 years, Donna Norris has spent the night of Jan. 13 in the very same ...

Amber Hagerman's parents listen in on then-Rep. Martin Frost's bill proposal on April 2, 1996, which was passed by Congress later that year (TF_Tom Fox / 89500) ...

The backstory. Amber Hagerman, 9, was kidnapped in Arlington, Texas, while riding her bike on Jan. 13, 1996. Four days later, she was found murdered in a creek a few miles from her home.

Amber Hagerman Police photos show the creek bed where the body of Amber Hagerman, 9, was found days after her Jan. 13, 1996, abduction as she rode her bicycle in a grocery store parking lot near ...

This is the kind of memory that comes to Curry’s mind when she sees an Amber Alert, the system that alerts people to missing and endangered children in the area. Because, as the new Peacock ...

But when Amber Hagerman went missing on Jan. 13, 1996 in Arlington, Tex., there was no such system of this kind yet. So, while police knew that Amber had reportedly been taken by a man driving a black ...

January 1996. It was a not-so-cold January day in Arlington, Texas, when 9-year-old Amber Hagerman and her little brother Ricky went for a bike ride around their family’s neighborhood.

Named after Amber Hagerman, the system started in 1996. By now, it's probably a familiar sound: jarring, ear-splitting tones that sound from your mobile device.

Amber Hagerman, 9, was found dead four days after she was kidnapped in 1996. Although her murder remains unsolved, the Amber Alert system she inspired has saved hundreds of children.

Amber Hagerman (Arlington Police Department). According to police reports, Amber was kidnapped on Jan. 13, 1996 while riding her bicycle in a parking lot of an abandoned grocery store in Arlington.

Amber Hagerman was born on Nov. 25, 1986, in Arlington, Texas, to Richard Hagerman and Donna Williams (at the time of Amber’s disappearance, Williams went by the name Whitson).