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Arlington police say a man in a black pickup abducted her from the parking lot of an abandoned grocery store.
Her body was found four days later, several miles away near an apartment complex in northeast Arlington. Her killer has never been found. The Amber Alert system we use today was started in her honor.

**Lynden Blake** (1:21)
Picture a nine-year-old girl on a pink bicycle. She's holding up a Barbie doll for the camera, smiling, waving. It looks like footage any parent might have on a home video. But this is not a home video. It's the evening news. Somewhere in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, a woman is watching that footage from her living room, and something about it won't let her look away. She doesn't know it yet, but within moments, she's going to pick up the phone. And that phone call will set off a chain of events that saves more than 1,300 children over the next three decades. Before we tell you her name, you need to understand what she was watching and what happened to that little girl before the segment even aired.
I'm Lyndon Blake, and you're listening to That's So Criminal.
On January 13, 1996, 9-year-old Amber Hagerman and her brother Ricky went out to ride their bicycles around the block. That was the plan, just around the block. But kids being kids, they strayed a little further than that, into a parking lot of a nearby Winn-Dixie. Now, this particular Winn-Dixie parking lot had this brick ramp that children loved to ride on. And at some point, Ricky decided he was done and headed back home. Amber stayed behind for a little while longer on her bike.
She was alone for only a few minutes, but that's all it took. A man living across the street from that parking lot saw the whole thing happen. He told police he had seen the little girl riding her bike and then saw a man grab her and throw her into a truck. Amber kicked. She screamed, but it did no good. And then they were both gone. Eight minutes is all it took for Amber to never be seen by her family again. Eight minutes from the time she left on her bike till she was kidnapped. The witness immediately called 911 and within minutes police arrived on scene. He gave the police what he could. He said the suspect looked to be in his 20s or 30s, medium build, under six feet tall with brown or black hair. He was described as white or Hispanic. The truck was a black pickup truck, single cab, in good condition. Nothing seemed off about the man, except for what he did.
For four days, Amber's family waited. They searched. Arlington police scoured the area. The FBI assisted. Grassroots search efforts formed with hundreds of volunteers. Local news stations did what they could at the time to get the word out. And the family prayed. It was 96 hours of a family's worst nightmare. Where is Amber?
And on the fourth day, in a park near a playground, a man walking his dog found her body in a creek, just a few miles from that Winn-Dixie parking lot. Her throat had been cut. She was dumped, like a piece of garbage.
Police still believe someone saw something before she died. Authorities say Amber was kept alive for at least two days.
Amber Hagerman was just nine years old. She was a good student and a good friend. She loved Barbies and the color pink. And her favorite song was America the Beautiful. Her family says that she especially loved the line for Amber Waves of Grain, because of course, it had her name in it.