When a child is abducted, law enforcement sends an alert to radio and television stations, lottery systems, the Department of Transportation and the NCMEC. He was 5 years old in 1996, Jim Kevil Eyewitness to the abduction. Indeed, her shocking kidnapping inspired the creation of the system which has saved hundreds of children from a similar fate. Additionally, some men's and father's rights activists have pointed out that Amber Alerts are unfairly biased towards mothers and the Amber Alerts are only used to make sure that men return children on time from visitations. Ricky Hagerman- Amber's brother. As Ambers family mourned their loss, however, a Texas mother named Diane Simone had an idea. Now 25, he cried as he remembered the day his sister was abducted 20 years ago Wednesday . Law Enforcement, including the local police and the FBI (involved as a result of the pleas of Ambers distraught family), coupled with a mass of volunteers began a wide net search for the missing girl, but came up empty. Peddling as fast as he could Ricky returned home and yelled Sissys gone! Jimmie Whitson hopped in his truck and sped to the parking lot. Her body was found face down in a creek approximately 4 miles from her abduction site. Last week, 25 years to the day after Amber was taken, police in Arlington renewed their pleas to the public for answers about who took the freckle-faced little girl and why. But for the Arlington Police Department, it has never been listed as a cold case because weve never gone 180 days without having some lead come in, Gildon said. Jim Kevil would later state that the driver of the truck was either white or Hispanic and between the ages of 25-40, this unknown subject grabbed Amber, who let out a scream and began kicking her abductor. Sadly, the little girl would never return. 'A lasting legacy': Amber Hagerman's unsolved murder inspires AMBER Alert Amber Alert: 20 years after abduction, girl's family reflects on her Simone said that the media had been begging for any information regarding Ambers disappearance but it was a few hours too late. He may have been laid off, fired, divorced, or had some other stressful event occur before the abduction. Before long, the system was renamed AMBER (Americas Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response) Alert. Adhahn has been connected to (either directly as the known perpetrator or suspected) multiple offenses, both resolved or unresolved, against children throughout Washington State including rape, kidnapping, and murder. On May 31, 2000 an 11-year-old unnamed (for reasons of privacy) Spanaway County Girl was abducted on her way to school. Diane Simones idea, which she called Ambers plan stuck. A neighbor saw a black pickup truck pull up beside her and a man got out, grabbed Amber off of her bike, and put her inside . What happened next was not unlike in Ambers case, a large-scale search was launched for Opal led by her family and the local police department, it would not be for five years that Opal would be found. Where I differ is on why Amber was taken.