Nearly 30 years ago, in January of 1996, Arlington, Texas, was the site of a tragic abduction that would change the way kidnappings are handled in Texas forever. On January 13, 1996, 9-year-old Amber Hagerman and her little brother went for a bike ride. Sadly, though, this ride ended in tragedy.

Amber and her 5-year-old brother wanted to go for a ride; they were only supposed to go around the block, but according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children , the young siblings took a detour to the parking lot of an abandoned Winn-Dixie with a "cool ramp."

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As the tragic story goes, her brother decided to leave first; he headed back to their grandparents. It was at some point after he left that Amber was abducted. Acc

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