In 1996, a 9-year-old was kidnapped off her pink bicycle and found murdered. One month later, Amber’s mother, Donna Williams, went to her daughter’s elementary school in Arlington, Texas, to present a new playground in Amber’s name and comfort her young classmates who didn’t understand why she died.
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Her eyes immediately went to Amber’s empty desk and the “Amber Museum” that the third-grade class had decorated with hearts and ribbons and a huge class photo of their brown-haired, blue-eyed classmate and friend.