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Friday Early Edition: The Ballad of Polly Klaas

Friday Early Edition: The Ballad of Polly Klaas

Thirty years ago this week, Petaluma lost one of its own.

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Jennifer Kathleen Gibbons
Oct 06, 2023
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Thirty years ago this week, Polly Klass was kidnapped from her home and killed by Richard Allen Davis, who is serving a life sentence in San Quentin. In honor of her, I am excerpting a chapter of my non-fiction book centered on that time. Had Polly lived, she would’ve been forty-two years old.

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TW: This excerpt mentions kidnapping, possible sexual assault, and murder.

Her picture was everywhere that autumn: the girl with wavy, long brown hair.

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