Are the missing children that prompted an amber alert in nevada suspected to be murdered?
On March 2, 2009, the Yreka Police Department requested an AMBER Alert for a 3-year-old child who was abducted from her residence. The child was at home in bed, when a man entered the residence and kidnapped her. An AMBER Alert was activated in Northern and Central California. Additionally, the AMBER Alert extended into Oregon and parts of Nevada. The Yreka Police Department located the suspect and took him into custody; however, the victim and suspect vehicle were not found at the time. Yreka citizens assembled at a command post to assist with the search for the victim; they were given a Critical Reach flyer and a location to begin searching. Approximately one hour later, three of the volunteers–who were traveling together in the same vehicle–saw tire tracks in the mud and began walking along side the tracks looking for the suspect vehicle. They located the vehicle and then saw the victim walking down the road. A Yreka California Highway Patrol officer responded to the scene and too
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”,[1] Hawaii, where it is called a “Maile Amber Alert”,[2] and Arkansas, where it is called a “Morgan Nick Amber Alert”.[3] Those plans were named after children who went missing in those states. AMBER Alerts are distributed via commercial radio stations, satellite radio, television stations, and cable TV by the Emergency Alert System and NOAA Weather Radio[4][5] (where they are termed “Child Abduction Emergency” or “Amber Alerts”), as well as via e-mail, electronic traffic-condition signs, the LED billboards which are located outside of newer Walgreens locations,
