Crime History: Crime History

Published September 25, 2012 4:00am ET



On this day, Sept. 26, in 1996, Richard Allen Davis, the killer of 12-year-old Polly Klaas, was sentenced to death in a dramatic courtroom scene in San Jose, Calif.

On Oct. 1, 1993, Davis kidnapped Polly at knifepoint from a slumber party in her bedroom, killed her and left her body off the highway.

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