Polly Klaas Scientific Theories Bring Justice to Light

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 ... Author Kim Cross annotates the lengthy proposal that landed a contract for the book that revisits the 1993 Polly Klaas kidnapping. 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 ... 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 ... Richard Allen Davis said he abducted Polly Klaas during a drug-induced haze and strangled her to "cover his tracks" because he knew a ... Eddie Freyer was the case agent who, working in conjunction with his partners from the Petaluma Police Department, worked countless hours ... The profiler in Polly's case worked side by side with the team to combine behavioral science with forensic science. A jury found defendant Richard Allen Davis guilty of the first degree murder of 12-year-old Polly Hannah Klaas. But they set aside the same shock and fear the community was experiencing to pursue a story that proved astonishing and human, delivering daily ... “Tony told me that Polly Klaas changed the way the FBI does business. It transformed the way they gather trace evidence. It was the first use of ...