parking lot for a while. When he returned with his grandfather, they only found Amber's bicycle. A neighbor who had witnessed the abduction called 911.

Upon hearing the news, Hagerman's father, Richard, called Marc Klaas, whose daughter, Polly, had been kidnapped and murdered in Petaluma, California, in 1993, and Amber's mother, Donna Whitson (now Donna Williams), called the news media and the FBI. They and their