What did the murder of Amber Hagerman 14-years ago inspire the creation of?”
Every year for the past 13 years, Donna Norris has spent the night of Jan. 13 in the very same parking lot in downtown Arlington, Texas, where her then 9-year-old daughter Amber Hagerman was last seen before being abducted and brutally murdered. 14th anniversary of the amber alert Donna Norris, the mother of Amber Hagerman, the 9-year-old girl who went missing in 1996 and was later found murdered, holds a candle vigil in her honor every year. Tonight’s vigil will mark the 14th anniversary of the little girl’s death. (Michael Ainsworth/Dallas Morning News/MCT, via newscom.com) Tonight will be no different, said Norris, who plans to sing “Amazing Grace” by candlelight with family and friends in honor of Amber, whose death inspired the creation of the nationally known Amber Alert, now credited with safely locating nearly 500 children. “This day is always going to be filled with raw emotion,” Norris said on the eve of the 14-year anniversary of Amber’s killing. “Amber was a giant part of m
Today is National Amber Alert Awareness Day and law enforcement agencies across the country are encouraging the public to take part in the program. Nine-year-old Amber Hagerman was abducted and murdered in 1996. Her case spawned a voluntary law-enforcement partnership that activates an urgent bulletin during the most serious child abductions. “Once they are abducted, if there are indications that danger will occur normally it happens within only a few hours,” says Enterprise Police Captain Mike Lolley. In 2008, 194 Amber Alerts were issued across the country. The children in 85 percent of those cases were recovered. 40 of them were a direct result of the Amber Alert system.
