Polly Klaas was 12 years old when she was abducted on Oct. 1, 1993 from her home in Petaluma, Calif., where she was having a slumber party with two 12-year-old classmates. Her kidnapping sparked a ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A California judge on Friday denied a petition to recall the death sentence against Richard Allen Davis, who in 1993 killed 12-year-old Polly Klaas after kidnapping her from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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," ...

Twenty years later, the emotions still run strong. Speaker after speaker at Friday's commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Polly Klaas' kidnapping choked back tears in recalling the 64 long days ...