Amber Hagerman

Most people are acutely aware of the Amber Alert and what it does for bringing quick responses for missing children, but many may not remember the case or the child for which the system was named. Amber Hagerman was abducted and murdered in Arlington, TX. She was quickly abducted by a man who jumped out of a truck, grabbed her and drove off. She was found 4 days later in a creek bed, just tossed away like trash. Her abductor and murderer has never been found nor charged and her case has...Read Full Story

Most people are acutely aware of the Amber Alert and what it does for bringing quick responses for missing children, but many may not remember the case or the child for which the system was named. Amber Hagerman was abducted and murdered in Arlington, TX. She was quickly abducted by a man who jumped out of a truck, grabbed her and drove off. She was found 4 days later in a creek bed, just tossed away like trash. Her abductor and murderer has never been found nor charged and her case has...Read Full Story

Every year for the past 13 years, Donna Norris has spent the night of Jan. 13 in the very same parking lot in downtown Arlington, Texas, where her then 9-year-old daughter Amber Hagerman was last seen before being abducted and brutally murdered. Donna Norris, the mother of Amber Hagerman, the 9-year-old girl who went missing in 1996 and was later found murdered, holds a candle vigil in her honor every year. Tonight's vigil will mark the 14th anniversary of the little girl's death...Read Full Story

AMBER Alert Program Expands to Facebook PR Newswire — January 12, 2011 ANNOUNCEMENT COMMEMORATES THE 15TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ABDUCTION AND MURDER OF 9-YEAR-OLD AMBER HAGERMAN ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Life-saving AMBER Alerts are now available to the millions of people on the social networking service Facebook. Effective today, Facebook users are able to sign up to receive AMBER Alert bulletins for their state which will be sent to them through the...Read Full Story

Today, Texas Center for the Missing is launching the statewide level of a national poster contest which focuses on the theme: Bring Our Missing Children Home. With over 400 children returning home safely since the AMBER Alert program began, we chose AMBER Alert Awareness Day to initiate conversations with students about safety and to involve them in a national competition for the National Missing Children's Day Poster Contest. The U.S. Department of Justice, through its Office of Juvenile...Read Full Story