Is the movie Amber Alert a true story?
The true story behind the Amber Alert. After the kidnap and murder of her 9-year-old daughter Amber Hagerman, Donna Whitson campaigns for a nationwide alert to help authorities locate abducted children.
What happens at the end of Amber Alert movie?
Bittersweet Ending: Michael Muller is killed and Brooke Layton (the girl he kidnapped) survives the ordeal with no injuries and is returned to her parents, but Sam and Nathan are both killed by Michael and Caleb is left injured and without a sister.
What is the movie Amber Alert about?
When a group of friends decides to follow a car they've seen posted on an Amber Alert, things start to go very wrong.Amber Alert / Film synopsis
Who dies in Amber Alert?
Michael shoots and kills Sam. Nate arms himself with a handgun found in Michael's house and the two men die in a shootout with each other. Review: “Amber Alert” has taken some bruising lumps from bored critics and disappointed viewers, and I get it.
Did they find the kid from the Amber Alert?
Family speaks out after toddler found safe in stolen car that prompted Bay Area AMBER Alert. The toddler abducted in a stolen car in Sunnyvale early Sunday has been found safe, according to the CHP. SUNNYVALE, Calif. (KGO) -- The toddler abducted in Sunnyvale early Sunday has been found safe, according to the CHP.
Who came up with the name Amber Alert?
AMBER stands for America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response and was created as a legacy to 9-year-old Amber Hagerman, who was kidnapped while riding her bicycle in Arlington, Texas, and then brutally murdered. Other states and communities soon set up their own AMBER plans as the idea was adopted across the nation.
How old was AMBER when she got kidnapped?
The kidnapping and murder of Amber Hagerman Amber Hagerman, 9, was riding her bicycle in a parking lot of an abandoned grocery store in Arlington, Texas on Jan. 13, 1996, when she was kidnapped.
How old was Amber Hagerman when she died?
9 years (1986–1996)Amber Hagerman / Age at death
Who is the head of Amber Alert?
In conjunction with the conference, the President requested that the U.S. Attorney General appoint the first National AMBER Alert Coordinator. Deborah J. Daniels, Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs was appointed the first National AMBER Alert Coordinator.
Who murdered AMBER?
In 2009, Pinole police and the FBI announced that her killer was convicted murderer Curtis Dean Anderson, who died in prison in 2007 one month after confessing to her kidnapping and murder.
Who is Curtis Dean Anderson?
Anderson was convicted and sentenced to over 300 years in prison for the 1999 kidnapping and murder of 7-year-old Xiana Fairchild in Vallejo, California, and other crimes. He was captured after one of his kidnap victims was able to escape.
What was the first Amber Alert?
By October of 1996, the first AMBER (America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response) Alert plan—named in honor of Amber Hagerman—launched in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Now, 25 years later, at least 1,074 abducted children all around the country and world have been safely recovered as a direct result of AMBER Alerts.
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When a group of friends decides to follow a car they've seen posted on an Amber Alert, things start to go very wrong.
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And not in a good way. Overall, the story was good and efficient and the acting was not bad. But there was far too much of the two main characters screaming at each other.
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