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Polly Hannah Klaas (January 3, 1981 – October 1, 1993) was an American murder victim whose case garnered national media attention. On October 1, 1993, at age 12, she was kidnapped at knifepoint during a slumber party at her mother's home in Petaluma, California , and strangled to death.
He was convicted in 1996 of first-degree murder with special circumstances (burglary, robbery, kidnapping, and an attempted lewd act upon a child under the age of 14) of 12-year-old Polly Klaas. As of January 2024, Davis remains on California's death row in the Adjustment Center at San Quentin State Prison.
Murder of Polly Klaas: Petaluma: 1993-10-01: 12-year-old kidnapped during a slumber party and later strangled by Richard Allen Davis [191] 41: Sara Kruzan: Riverside: 1994-03-09: Sexually trafficked at age 16, she shot and killed the surrogate father who was trafficking her, later became an anti-trafficking activist [192] [193] 42: Murder of ...
The Polly Klaas Foundation also provides kits for parents to teach abduction prevention in a way that they state is not frightening for children. [3] It distributes over 100,000 of these kits per year. [4] The Polly Klaas Foundation worked with Convio to send targeted letters to state and federal officials to implement Amber Alerts in all 50 ...
A California judge will consider Friday whether to recall the death sentence against Richard Allen Davis, who in 1993 killed 12-year-old Polly Klaas after kidnapping her from her bedroom at ...
Detectives grilled Polly Klaas' 12-year-old friends, who had witnessed the abduction. Was this some kind of prank? Did Polly have a boyfriend? Had she run off with him? Were they covering for her?
On May 6, 2009, the Utah State prosecutors dropped the murder charges against Christopher Neal Jeppson instead of seeking the death penalty. In court he pled no contest to obstruction related charges and ultimately signed an affidavit stating that he does not know the circumstances or cause of Kiplyn Davis's disappearance.
Polly Klaas: A 12-year-old girl who was found murdered. Her murderer was convicted and sentenced to death. [62] November 16, 1995 Linda Sobek A 27-year-old model and former Los Angeles Raiders cheerleader who disappeared while on assignment. Salacious details of the case were printed in the national media.