Polly was having a sleepover with friends at her mother's home on Fourth Street in Petaluma on Oct. 1, 1993, when she was taken from her bedroom by a knife-wielding intruder. Her body was found two ...

Some 32 years later, the abduction and murder of Polly Klaas remains ingrained in the American psyche. Polly was 12 years old when she was kidnapped on Oct. 1, 1993, from her home in Petaluma, Calif., ...

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Petaluma, Calif. - October 1, 1993: the date Polly Klaas, 12, was kidnapped during a sleepover at her home in normally quiet Petaluma. She was found dead two months later. Her killer was sent to Death ...

Marc Klaas, Polly Klaas' father, described her convicted killer's bid to overturn his death sentence as a "travesty of justice." "I couldn't have been happier. … It was exactly what I wanted to hear," ...

When 12-year-old Polly Klaas was kidnapped by a stranger from her Petaluma home on Oct. 1, 1993, the efforts to find her drew worldwide attention. When Polly’s body was found 64 nights after her ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Polly Klaas, 12, was memorialized in December 1993 when her body was found more than two months after she was kidnapped from her ...

A California judge on Friday rejected a request by the man convicted of killing Polly Klaas to vacate a death sentence imposed on him. Santa Clara County Judge Benjamin Williams declined to "vacate ...

Polly Klaas’ killer wants to overturn his death sentence in the notorious 1993 case — and her father is furious. Richard Allen Davis was sentenced to death for abducting and then murdering 12-year-old ...

Attorneys for the man convicted in the 1993 kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas pleaded with a Santa Clara County judge on Friday to reconsider their client’s decades-old death sentence, ...