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 ...

Kim Cross, who is releasing a new book on the tragedy of Polly Klaas, will lead a panel discussion in Petaluma with the investigators who caught the girl’s killer in 1993. What: A panel discussion on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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," ...

Polly Klaas, 12, was memorialized in December 1993 when her body was found more than two months after she was kidnapped from her home in Petaluma, Calif. (NewsBase / Associated Press) When 12-year-old ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Richard Allen Davis, one of California’s most notorious convicted killers whose 1993 kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas inspired a crackdown on serial offenders, will ...