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

Review by Breanna Gardner, from SRHS, Raleigh nc :), on 12-Feb-2011Amber Rene Hagermann was a young girl who became a victim of an abduction and murder. She was riding her bike near her grandparents home in Arlington, Texas and was kidnapped. The murder of amber was the inspiration for the creation of the AMBER Alert system. On January 13, 1996 a white man in a black pickup truck abducted Amber. A witness was able to provide police with a good description of both the abductor and his vehicle...Read Full Story

The Ohio AMBER Alert Plan is a critical missing child response program that uses the resources of law enforcement and media to notify the public when children have been abducted or kidnapped. Its goal is to promptly involve entire communities in the search and safe return of abducted children. Ohio AMBER Alert Plan began November 2002 and was officially established by the Legislature in January 2003. From 2002 to December 2008, Ohio has issued 105 AMBER Alerts which aided in the safe recovery...Read Full Story

Since its inception in 2002, there have been 136 Amber Alerts activated rustling in the recovery of 176 children nationwide, officials said. The California Highway Patrol and law enforcement agencies throughout the country observed the National Amber Alert Awareness Day this week, CHP officials said. In California alone, there were 24 alerts activated in 2008, which helped recover 34 children, according to officials. The CHP is responsible for administration of the California Child Safety...Read Full Story

Did you know that every forty seconds a child is reported missing in the United States? 800,000 children are reported missing every year. Half of those children are between the ages of 4 and 11 years old. The AMBER Alert Program ( A merica's M issing B roadcast E mergency R esponse) is named after 9-year-old Amber Hagerman, who was abducted in 1996 in Arlington, TX. The Amber Alert is a broadcast message sent through several media outlets in cooperation with law enforcement when a child is...Read Full Story

JEFFERSON CITY - The nation remembers the young girl whose case started it all. The nation recognizes Tuesday, this week, as Amber Alert Awareness day. The Amber Alert short for: America's Missing Broadcasting Emergency Response Alert started in 1996. Officials created the alert in honor of nine year old, Amber Hagerman, who was kidnapped and murdered in Arlington, Texas. "A group of broadcasters and a local law enforcement agency there got together following that to develop some type of...Read Full Story