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. A witness reportedly observed a man grabbing her ...
AUSTIN, Texas — Amber Hagerman loved to ride her bike. On a Sunday afternoon in January 1996, Hagerman was riding in a grocery store parking lot in her Arlington neighborhood when a man grabbed her, ...
On Jan. 13, 1996, a 9-year-old girl from Arlington, Texas was abducted while she was riding her bike in a parking lot, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Twenty-nine ...
Donna Norris touches a photo of her daughter, Amber Hagerman, on January 12, 2006 at her home in Hurst, Texas. It’s been almost three decades since Amber Hagerman was abducted and killed in Arlington, ...
Jan. 13, 2026, marks three decades since Amber Hagerman was abducted and killed in North Texas, and the case that initiated the Amber Alert system remains unsolved. At the time of her kidnapping, ...
Tuesday marks 30 years since Texas 9-year-old Amber Hagerman disappeared while riding her bicycle in Arlington — a crime that not only devastated her family and community, but ultimately changed how ...
Thirty years after the abduction and killing of Amber Hagerman in Arlington led to the creation of the nation's first AMBER Alert, the emergency system named in her honor has grown into a statewide ...
That’s how long it took for 9-year-old Amber Hagerman to be abducted after leaving her grandmother’s home to ride her bike. The Texas girl’s body was found four days later in a creek bed a few miles ...