Polly Klaas The Power of Forensic Evidence

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 ... Polly Hannah Klaas (January 3, 1981 – October 1, 1993) was an American murder victim whose case garnered national media attention. On October 1, 1993, ... Eddie Freyer was the case agent who, working in conjunction with his partners from the Petaluma Police Department, worked countless hours ... “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 ... A jury found defendant Richard Allen Davis guilty of the first degree murder of 12-year-old Polly Hannah Klaas. 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 ... 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 ... This is just one example of new technology and new organizational processes that were proven successful by the FBI's work throughout the Polly Klaas case. Author Kim Cross annotates the lengthy proposal that landed a contract for the book that revisits the 1993 Polly Klaas kidnapping. Polly Klaas was kidnapped from her home in Petaluma, California. Richard Allen Davis was arrested and sentenced to death for her murder.