Forensic Science Shines The Polly Klaas Case Solved

Eddie Freyer was the case agent who, working in conjunction with his partners from the Petaluma Police Department, worked countless hours ... A jury found defendant Richard Allen Davis guilty of the first degree murder of 12-year-old Polly Hannah Klaas. Polly Klaas was kidnapped from her home in Petaluma, California. Richard Allen Davis was arrested and sentenced to death for her murder. Through dozens of interviews, Cross dives into the nascent use of DNA as a means of identifying and ruling out suspects, and how the Klaas case informed ... Residents of Petaluma, CA were rocked in 1993 when 12 year old Polly Klaas was kidnapped from her home while having a sleepover with her ... Author Kim Cross annotates the lengthy proposal that landed a contract for the book that revisits the 1993 Polly Klaas kidnapping. When 12-year-old Polly Klaas was kidnapped in October of 1993, at first it looked like there would be little useful evidence, but FBI investigators got a ... 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 ... But they set aside the same shock and fear the community was experiencing to pursue a story that proved astonishing and human, delivering daily ... The profiler in Polly's case worked side by side with the team to combine behavioral science with forensic science.