About this episode

This episode discusses the abduction and murder of Amber Hagerman and the resulting AMBER Alert system.

In this week's episode, Ashley discusses the abduction and murder of Amber Hagerman, a 9 year old child from Arlington, TX in 1996. Her case led to the creation of the AMBER Alert system as well as the national sex offenders registry list amongst many other positive law changes involving how we treat child abductions. We discuss some of the laws plus international variations of the AMBER alert system. Amber's case is considered a cold case. If you have any information please contact the...

People in this episode

Host: Ashley

Topics covered

• child abduction
• AMBER Alert system
• law changes
• cold case
• Amber Hagerman

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AMBER Alert, national sex offenders registry

Places: Arlington, TX

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