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You know what's crazy? There's actually bread, pastries, even noodles out there that you can enjoy and you don't have that guilt trip of eating junk food. And they're honestly not that bad for you. I'm actually traveling right now, but I have a hero bread box waiting for me back in Nashville, and I am genuinely looking forward to getting home and trying everything from their white bread to their everything bagels. Herobred makes products that look delicious while focusing on high quality ingredients, including prebiotic fibers that are good for your gut. Why do you think it's so important to go with your gut? Your gut has to be healthy. Herobred is a breath of fresh air. Their products contain zero grams of sugar and are sweetened with alternatives to traditional sugar. One thing that actually really caught my attention is their seeded bread. It has just 60 calories per serving compared to other brands that have around 110 calories per serving. If you're like me and have to be mindful of nuts, I'm allergic to quite a few. Herobred also offers products like their white bread, spinach and herb tortillas and croissants without nuts. And they don't stop at just bread. They have pasta too. So I can already tell you one of the first things I'm making when I get home is penne al arrabbiata. And if you've got a little sweet tooth, Herobread has options there as well, including treats like their pain au chocolate. If you're looking for a smarter way to enjoy bread, pastries and pasta without sacrificing the taste, join me on this better bread journey. I'll keep you posted on what I like after I open my box. Herobred is offering 10% off your order, so go to Hero Co and use code dwcrime at checkout. That's dwcrimehero Co. You know what's crazy? There's actually bread, pastries, even noodles out there that you can enjoy and you don't have that guilt trip of eating junk food. And they're honestly not that bad for you. I'm actually traveling right now, but I have a hero bread box waiting for me back in Nashville, and I am genuinely looking forward to getting home and trying everything from their white bread to their everything bagels. Herobred makes products that look delicious while focusing on high quality ingredients, including prebiotic fibers that are good for your gut. Why do you think it's so important to go with your gut? Your gut has to be healthy. Herobred is a breath of fresh air. Their products contain 0 grams of sugar and are sweetened with alternatives to traditional sugar. One thing that actually really caught my attention is their seeded bread. It has just 60 calories per serving compared to other brands that have around 110 calories per serving. If you're like me and have to be mindful of nuts, I'm allergic to quite a few. Herobred also offers products like their white bread, spinach and herb tortillas and croissants without nuts. And they don't stop at just bread. They have pasta too. So I can already tell you one of the first things I'm making when I get home is penne al arrabbiata. And if you've got a little sweet tooth, Herobread has options there as well, including treats like their pain au chocolate. If you're looking for a smarter way to enjoy bread, pastries and pasta without sacrificing the taste, join me on this better Bread journey. I'll keep you posted on what I like after I open my box. Herobred is offering 10% off your order, so go to Hero Co and use code dwcrime at checkout. That's D W CrimeHero co. Arlington Police
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say a man in a black pickup abducted her from the parking lot of an abandoned grocery store. Her body was found four days later, several miles away near an apartment complex in northeast Arlington. Her killer has never been found. The Amber Alert system we use today was started in her honor. That's so criminal.
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Picture a 9 year old girl on a pink bicycle. She's holding up a Barbie doll for the camera, smiling, waving. It looks like footage any parent might have on a home video. But this is not a home video. It's the evening news. Somewhere in the Dallas Fort Worth area, a woman is watching that footage from her living room. And something about it won't let her look away. She doesn't know it yet, but within moments she's going to pick up the phone. And that phone call will set off a chain of events that saves more than 1,300 children over the next three decades. Before we tell you her name, you need to understand what she was watching and what happened to that little girl before the segment even aired. I'm Lyndon Blake and you're listening to that's so criminal.
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That's so Criminal.
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On January 13, 1996, nine year old Amber Hagerman and her brother Ricky went out to ride their bicycles around the block. That was the plan. Just around the block, but kids being Kids, they strayed a little further than that into a parking lot of a nearby Winn Dixie. Now this particular Winn Dixie parking lot had this brick ramp that children love to ride on. And at some point, Ricky decided he was done and headed back home. Amber stayed behind for a little while longer on her bike. She was alone for only a few minutes, but that's all it took. A man living across the street from that parking lot saw the whole thing happen. He told police he had seen the little girl riding her bike and then saw a man grab her and throw her into a truck. Amber kicked, she screamed, but it did no good. And then they were both gone. Eight minutes is all it took for Amber to never be seen by her family again. Eight minutes from the time she left on her bike till she was kidnapped. The Witness immediately called 911 and within minutes police arrived on scene. He gave the police what he could. He said the suspect looked to be in his 20s or 30s, medium build, under 6ft tall, with brown or black hair. He was described as white or Hispanic. The truck was a black pickup truck, single cab, in good condition. Nothing seemed off about the man except for what he did. For four days, Amber's family waited. They searched Arlington. Police scoured the area. The FBI assisted. Grassroots search efforts formed with hundreds of volunteers. Local news stations did what they could at the time to get the word out. And the family prayed. It was 96 hours of a family's worst nightmare. Where is Amber? And on the fourth day, in a park near a playground, a man walking his dog found her body in a creek just a few miles from that Winn Dixie parking lot. Her throat had been cut. She was dumped like a piece of garbage. Police still believe someone saw something before she died. Authorities say Amber was kept alive for at least two days. Amber Hagerman was just nine years old. She was a good student and a good friend. She loved Barbies and the color pink, and her favorite song was America the Beautiful. Her family says that she especially loved the line for Amber Waves of Grain, because of course, it had her name in it. That was Amber Hagerman back then. And still decades later, her killer has never been found. No facial sketch was ever made. All that's known is it's either a white or Hispanic man who would now be in his 50s or 60s. The Arlington Police Department still considers this an active, open murder investigation. The department has generated more than 7,000 leads. But the family is still waiting for someone to be brought to justice for what happened to their nine year old little Girl, that's so criminal. Coming up, we'll take you back to that phone call that started it all. How one woman's question turned into Amber's plan. And the eight week old baby whose kidnapping became the system's very first success story. You know what's crazy? There's actually bread, pastries, even noodles out there that you can enjoy and you don't have that guilt trip of eating junk food. And they're honestly not that bad for you. I'm actually traveling right now, but I have a hero bread box waiting for me back in Nashville, and I am genuinely looking forward to getting home and trying. Everything. From their white bread to their everything bagels. Herobred makes products that look delicious while focusing on high quality ingredients, including prebiotic fibers that are good for your gut. Why do you think it's so important to go with your gut? Your gut has to be healthy. Herobred is a breath of fresh air. Their products contain zero grams of sugar. Love that. And are sweetened with alternatives to traditional sugar. One thing that actually really caught my attention is their seeded bread. It has just 60 calories per serving compared to other brands that have around 110 calories per serving. If you're like me and have to be mindful of nuts, I'm allergic to quite a few. Herobred also offers products like their white bread, spinach and herb tortillas and croissants without nuts. And they don't stop at just bread. They have pasta, too. So I can already tell you one of the first things I'm making when I get home is penne al Arabiata. And if you've got a little sweet tooth, Herobread has options there as well, including treats like their pan au chocolate. If you're looking for a smarter way to enjoy bread, pastries and pasta without sacrificing the taste of. Join me on this better bread journey. I'll keep you posted on what I like after I open my box. Herobred is offering 10% off your order. So go to Hero Co and use code dwcrime at checkout. That's dwcrimehero Co. Now here's where we go back to that woman in front of her TV screen. Her name was Diane Simone. She had heard about what happened to Amber on the evening news, and she just couldn't shake it. So she picked up the phone and called a radio station in the Dallas Fort Worth area with a suggestion that seemed almost obvious now, but at the time, nobody had really discussed it out loud.
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And here I Was as a parent, watching every parent's worst nightmare unfold in front of my very eyes. So even though I didn't know her personally, I was still very deeply affected by this.
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We have alert systems for severe weather. We have alert systems for civil defense. Why don't we have one for missing children? That question, born out of grief and frustration over a case that had just ended in the worst possible way, Became the seed of what would come next. When Diane followed up with a letter laying out exactly how this could work, she made one request. If this idea ever became real, she wanted it named after the girl who had inspired it. Amber's plan. Diane Simone's idea moved fast. Local broadcasters and law enforcement in the Dallas Fort Worth area adopted what she proposed, and at her request, called it Amber's plan. But it didn't stay local. As other cities and states built their own versions, the name evolved into something bigger. Amber, which stands for America's missing broadcast emergency response. It's still built in Amber Hagerman's memory Exactly the way Diane wanted. But the name developed into a functional description of what the system actually does. One of the earliest cases tied to the system involves a baby girl named Rayleigh Bradbury. In 1998, eight week old Rayleigh was kidnapped by her babysitter. Once that alert went out, describing the kidnapper's turquoise truck, that vehicle was spotted and recognized within 90 minutes. Raelee was thankfully found safe, and her rescue is remembered as the first true success story to come out of Amber's plan. She didn't just survive the kidnapping. She grew up to become an advocate for the very system that helped bring her home. The first child ever rescued was in 1998, an eight week old in Arlington
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taken by her babysitter 15 minutes after it went out. Guys driving down the road and says, I see her in the truck. We pull them over, get Rayleigh back, Boom, you know, first success story. And that launched it.
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Up next. The strict criteria now in place that decide when an amber alert can and can't be sent and why, that's not always the answer grieving families want to hear. But a system like this only works if it's used correctly. And that's created some tension over the years. If every missing person's case triggered an amber alert, the alerts would lose their power. People would just tune them out. So today there are strict criteria that have to be met before one can be activated. The child has to be under 17. There has to be a reason to believe they're in danger of immediate physical harm. It isn't designed for runaway cases or custody disputes. And there has to be enough descriptive information about the child, the abductor, or the vehicle that law enforcement can reasonably expect someone might recognize them. This criteria, as necessary as it is, creates real heartbreak. Families in the middle of the worst moment of their lives sometimes want an Amber Alert issued and they're told their case doesn't qualify. This doesn't mean law enforcement isn't looking. It means the system has to stay narrow enough to keep working the way it was designed to. As of December 31, 2025, 1,312 children have been successfully recovered because an Amber Alert was activated on their behalf. 1,312 children who are alive today because a woman in Texas picked up the phone and asked a question. Amber Hagerman's case hasn't been solved. Her killer was never identified, but her name and her story live on. Every single time your phone buzzes with an alert that says a missing child needs help. I'm Lyndon Blake and you've been listening to that's so Criminal.
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