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Amber hagerman - the story
More than 10 years later, Glenda Whitson recalls each second of the 8 minutes that changed her family's life. It began with a visit from her grandchildren, Amber Hagerman, 9, and brother Ricky, 5. They stopped at Whitson's Arlington, Texas, home with their mother, Donna, at about 3 in the afternoon on Saturday, Jan. 12, 1996. Whitson's husband, Jimmie, was tinkering with a car out front. He paused to say hello to Amber, an auburn-haired cutie who loved Burger King, Barbie dolls and "America the Beautiful," for the line that mentioned her name: "Amber waves of grain." Jimmie Whitson kept two bicycles at the house for the grandkids, and Amber and Ricky asked if they could go for a quick ride on the sunny winter day. "My husband and my daughter said, 'OK, but just go once around the block,'" Glenda Whitson told Crime Library. They peddled around two corners to the parking lot of a Winn-Dixie grocery store that had been closed for some time. Neighborhood kids enjoyed riding on a ramp there. As the children went off, no adult gave it a second thought...
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