Amber Hagerman Part 6: More Bad Men

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Vincent Strange

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🗓️ 25 July 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In 1999, another abduction rocked North Texas when 6-year-old Opal Jo Jennings was snatched in broad daylight as she played with other children in a field next to her house. The similarities were striking, and police in Arlington thought they had their man. In 2007, in Tacoma Washington, a twisted child rapist was exposed when he murdered one of his victims, and his ties to Fort Worth, Texas put him on the persons of interest list in the Amber Hagerman case. The following year, police in Dickinson, Texas renew an investigation from 1990 in which the victim, left for dead, survived. In 2009, her would-be killer was identified and arrested. It’s unclear if this suspect was ever investigated for the 1996 murder of 9-year-old Amber Rene Hagerman, or if the survivor’s case was even compared at all. Part 6 of 7.

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0:00.0	The concollege podcast may contain violent or graphic subject matter, listener discretion
0:06.9	is advised.
0:10.0	Three years after the abduction and murder of nine-year-old Amber Hagerman, another crime
0:15.3	shook North Texans to their cause and gave detectives investigating Amber's case
0:21.3	an unfortunate and tragic new lead to follow.
0:26.2	It wasn't the kind of potential break police in Arlington wanted, but it was something
0:31.5	they could not move past until possible connections were exhaustively investigated.
0:39.9	Opal Joe Jennings was born on November 24, 1992 in Clarksville, Arkansas to 16-year-old
0:47.6	Leola, Sandreford, and a 28-year-old man who didn't want anything to do with her.
0:53.9	By the time Opal was four months old, in fact, Leola left Randall Crawford after a brief
1:00.9	marriage and moved to Corpus Christi, Texas.
1:04.3	There, the young mother had family, including her grandmother.
1:09.9	Opal and her mother stayed in Corpus Christi for a few years, but Leola began seeing
1:15.6	a man named Chris Chase and then left for North Dakota.
1:21.2	In 1996, Opal's little sister Courtney was born, but after Leola and Chris split up,
1:28.2	the single mother struggled to make time for her kids, let alone make ends meet working
1:33.5	as a split-shift waitress at a truck stop.
1:37.8	In September of 1998, upon the realization that she could not care for both girls, Leola
1:44.6	made a difficult decision.
1:47.2	Her parents, Robert and Audrey Sandreford flew to North Dakota and brought five-year-old
1:53.4	Opal back to live with them in Saginaw, Texas, a suburb of Fort Worth to the city's north.
2:00.8	Opal was given her own small bedroom in the Sandreford's modest home on the 200 block
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