241 - The Disappearance of Amber Barker

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Ten year old Amber Barker was riding her bike home from a friend's house. It wasn't a long distance, just over half a mile through neighborhood roads she was highly familiar with. Unfortunately, she never arrived.

Within hours, the Oklahoma City Police Department descended upon the neighborhood and began searching. The next day they were joined by more than 30 FBI agents. It was clear that something sinister had occurred.

While investigators maintained optimism in the beginning, the discovery of a disturbing trail of clues suggested the child was in grave danger. Closing in on a person of interest, detectives were devastated when the man died, taking everything he knew with him to the grave.

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0:28.0	See in store for T's and C's. When 10-year-old Amber Barker climbed aboard her blue 10-speed bike. She was expected to arrive home in 10 to 15 minutes.
0:47.8	Leaving the house of a friend, she had a ride of just over half a mile through her northwestern Oklahoma City neighborhood, but she never made it.
0:56.3	When her mother was unable to locate the child, she contacted police and a massive search
1:01.7	effort was launched.
1:03.0	Within 24 hours, dozens of police and more than 30 FBI agents were on the scene and working the case,
1:10.0	theorizing that Amber had been the victim of an abduction.
1:13.4	Over the course of the next 72 hours, they would find Amber's bike
1:17.9	and several pieces of her clothing strewn along the main roadway
1:22.2	she'd been riding on.
1:24.8	As evidence began paving the path forward, investigators turned their attention
1:29.2	towards a man closely associated with Amber's family.
1:33.0	However, he would disappear himself,
1:35.8	only to be found dead days later
1:38.2	hanging from a tree in a local park.
1:41.2	This act devastated the investigation, but years later, detectives
1:45.8	revealed they were now in possession of a partial DNA profile from some of
1:50.2	Amber's clothing. They have yet to find a match, but they have also made it clear that they know
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