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The FOX True Crime Podcast w/ Emily Compagno

Inside The AMBER Alert System

The FOX True Crime Podcast w/ Emily Compagno

Fox News

True Crime

4.8708 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

On January 13th, 1996, nine-year-old Amber Hagerman was last seen alive while riding her brand-new pink bike in Arlington, Texas. Witnesses reported seeing a man in a black pickup truck abduct the young girl before driving away. Four days later, her body was found in a nearby creek. To this day, her murder remains unsolved. Her case shocked the country and ultimately led to the creation of the AMBER Alert.   Vice President of the Missing Children's Division at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children John Bischoff explains how the AMBER Alert system works and shares how it plays a crucial role in aiding investigations of missing and abducted children. Follow Emily on Instagram: @realemilycompagno If you have a story or topic we should feature on the FOX True Crime Podcast, send us an email at: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I'm Emily Campaniel, and this is the Fox True Crime podcast.

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Thank you. True Crime Podcast. January 13, 1996 was the last day that 9-year-old Amber Hagerman was seen alive.

0:53.4

Just after 3 p.m. that Saturday afternoon,

0:56.4

Amber was abducted in Arlington, Texas, while riding a pink bike that she had just received for

1:01.7

Christmas. Witnesses reported seeing a man in a black pickup truck grab young Amber before driving

1:08.6

away. Four days after her kidnapping, Amber's body was found. She was

1:14.2

lying in a creek just four miles away from the site of her abduction. She had been brutally

1:19.4

murdered. Almost 28 years later, the person responsible for the heinous crime has never been

1:25.4

found. Amber's case shocked the country and ultimately led to the creation of the Amber Alert,

1:32.3

a system used for broadcasting emergency alerts pertaining to missing and abducted children.

1:37.3

John Bischoff is the vice president of the Missing Children's Division at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

1:45.1

Today, he joins me to explain how the Amber Alert system works,

1:49.4

and why that tool is still so crucial for solving these cases to this day.

1:56.2

Amber Alert as a whole, you know, it was a system built out of tragedy.

2:01.7

The Amber Alert system is named after a young girl, a young nine-year-old girl named

2:07.2

Amber Hagerman.

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