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Richard Allen Davis (born June 2, 1954) is an American convicted murderer whose criminal record fueled support for the passage of California's "three-strikes law" for repeat offenders and the involuntary civil commitment act for sex offenders and predators.
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 ...
On December 30, 1969, [3] [4] Dixie Davis died of a heart attack in his home in Bel-Air, California after a break-in. Two masked gunmen had bound his wife and grandson and had stolen jewels, furs, and cash. Davis fell unconscious after he and his son learned of the robbery. [1] The character Tommy Farrell in the 1958 film Party Girl is loosely ...
[1] [2] [3] The son of two US Army veterans, Lanny and Remy Davis, he was born on an Army base in Germany. [1] Davis enlisted in the Army in 1998 and served in Operation Joint Forge in Bosnia and later in the Iraq War, where he and his comrades participated in the April 11, 2003, "Midtown Massacre," a five-hour firefight in downtown Baghdad. [4]
Richard William Davis (November 7, 1941 – August 24, 2012) was an American child murderer, rapist and possible serial killer who was posthumously linked via DNA to the abduction and murder of 5-year-old Siobhan McGuinness, who was found raped and stabbed near Turah, Montana on February 7, 1974. Davis had never been convicted or considered a ...
Girvies L. Davis (January 20, 1958 – May 17, 1995) and Richard "Ricky" Holman (born August 20, 1961) [1] were American serial killers who killed at least four people during robberies in Illinois between 1978 and 1979. Davis, the older of the two, told an investigator that shooting witnesses was "easier" than wearing a mask.
Richard Ramirez and wife Doreen Lioy. Eight years after the proposal, then-41-year-old Lioy married then-36-year-old Ramirez in 1996 in a ceremony at San Quentin Prison. The pair were allowed to ...
Davies saw a job advertisement for a medical officer in the Falkland Islands, and in July 1996 he and his wife sailed from Britain on their 36-foot steel yacht, Cowrie. After visiting the Azores, the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, and Brazil, they arrived in the Falklands in February 1997, and settled in the capital, Stanley. Their first son was ...