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Every Phone in America Knows Her Name: The Amber Hagerman Case

Every Phone in America Knows Her Name: The Amber Hagerman Case

On January 13, 1996, nine-year-old Amber Hagerman left her grandparents' house in Arlington, Texas, on her bicycle at 3:10 p.m. Eight minutes later, a neighbor watched a man in a black pickup truck grab her off the bike in an abandoned grocery store parking lot and drive away. Four days later she was found in a creek, and investigators concluded she had been kept alive for two days while the whole city searched. Her killer has never been identified. Yet her name is on every phone in the country: the AMBER Alert, credited with…

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