What historical system was started after the abduction of Amber Hagerman?”
On January 13, 1996, nine-year-old Amber Hagerman was abducted while riding her bicycle in Arlington, Texas. A neighbor who witnessed the abduction, called police, and Hagerman’s brother Ricky went home to tell his mother and grandparents what had happened. On hearing the news, Hagerman’s father Richard called Marc Klaas, whose daughter Polly had been abducted and murdered in 1993. An AMBER Alert is a child abduction alert bulletin in the United States and Canada, as well as other countries, issued upon the suspected abduction of a child. AMBER is officially a backronym for “America’s Missing: Broadcasting Emergency Response” but was originally named for Amber Hagerman, a 9-year-old child who was abducted and murdered in Arlington, Texas in 1996. Exceptions are in Georgia, where it is called “Levi’s Call”, Hawaii, where it is called a “Maile Amber Alert”, and Arkansas, where it is called a “Morgan Nick Amber Alert”. Those plans were named after children who went missing in those states
Amber Hagerman (November 25, 1986 – January 15, 1996) was a young girl who became a victim of an abduction and murder. On January 13, 1996, she was riding her bike near her grandparents’ home in Arlington, Texas, and was kidnapped soon thereafter. Her murder would later inspire the creation of the AMBER Alert system. Abduction On January 13, 1996, a man in a black pickup truck abducted Amber, who was riding her bicycle in Arlington, TX. A witness, Jimmie Kevil, was able to provide police with a cursory description of both the abductor and his vehicle. According to Kevil, the man in the pickup stopped in the parking lot of the abandoned grocery store where Hagerman was playing, sprinted to Hagerman, and dragged her into his truck. As Kevil was relating his observations to the police, Hagerman’s grandfather, Jimmy Whitson, drove up, looking for the child. Hagerman was the second child in her family to have been kidnapped. Her father’s two-day-old-granddaughter was abducted in 1991 and re
