The first automated alert notification system to notify nearby communities about abducted...
Donna Williams — whose last name was Whitson at the time — holds a picture in January 1996 of her 9-year old daughter, Amber Hagerman, who was taken from a parking lot in Arlington.The abduction and murder of a Texas child that inspired the creation of the Amber Alert system, the national warning network to help find abducted children, remains unsolved 27 years later.
Within minutes, Ricky decided to return to the house, but 9-year-old Amber wanted to stay longer so Ricky went home alone. When his mother saw Ricky come back without his sister, she sent him to retrieve Amber, but when he returned to the parking lot, all he found was her pink bicycle. Amber was nowhere to be found.When Ricky informed his parents of Amber’s disappearance, they immediately alerted the police and FBI and started a search.
Her body was bloodied and bruised. She had severe lacerations on her neck, and her throat had been slit.Donna Williams — right, Amber Hagerman’s mother, whose last name was Whitson at the time of her daughter’s abduction in 1996 — shakes hands in August 2002 with then-U.S. Rep. Martin Frost, left, as then-U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison looks on.
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