SLUMBER PARTY CHILD KILLER TO WALK FREE?
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 11 April 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Richard Allen Davis is an ex-con out on parole after serving 8 years of a 16-year sentence for kidnapping. Paroled to a halfway house for convicts with alcohol and drug addiction, he gets an overnight pass and drives his ford pinto 60 miles up the California coast to Petaluma. Davis goes to a park, smokes a joint and drinks beer, 2 blocks from the home of 12-year-old Polly Klaas, having a slumber party with two friends. Davis sneaks into the home, grabs a knife from the kitchen, and goes to the room where the girls are setting up sleeping bags. He threatens the girls with the knife, ties 2 of them up, gags them, and kidnaps Polly Klaas. It takes the girls 20 minutes to free themselves and they run to Polly's mother, Eve Nichols. who calls the police. The search for Polly Klaas begins.
90-minutes after kidnapping Polly Klaas, Richard Allen Davis gets his pinto stuck in a ditch. The owner of the secluded property, Dana Jaffe, gets spooked and calls the police. Police talk to Davis, help get his car out of the ditch, and send him on his way. Two months after Polly's disappearance, Jaffe calls the police again after finding a sweatshirt, girls' clothing, and other items on her property. Jaffe says she thought it looked like a crime scene and tells officers about the stranger from 2 months earlier. The search for Polly Klaas has been international news for the last two months and Investigators quickly pull up their records from the incident and find the name, Richard Allen Davis, and ex-con with a long rap sheet who most recently served time in prison for kidnapping.
Joining Nancy Grace Today:
- Marc Klaas – Polly’s father
- Eddie Freyer – Lead FBI Agent in Polly Klaas Case
- Sam Dordulian - Sexual Assault Attorney, Former Los Angeles County Sex Crimes Prosecutor, Founder of Dordulian Law group, www.dlawgroup.com, Twitter: @DordulianLaw
- Dr. Sara G West - Forensic Psychiatrist, Specializing in Sexually Deviant Behavior, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine forensicpsychiatryMD.com
- John Woolfolk, Reporter, San Jose Mercury News @JohnWoolfolk1
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| 0:00.0 | In the 90s, New York Detective Louis Scarcella locked up the worst criminals. |
| 0:04.7 | Putting bad guys away. |
| 0:06.3 | There's no feeling like it. |
| 0:08.0 | Then jailhouse lawyers took game led by Derek Hamilton. |
| 0:11.5 | Scracella took me to the precinct and alive. |
| 0:14.3 | 20 men eventually walked free. |
| 0:16.6 | Now, in the Burden Podcast, after a decade of silence, |
| 0:20.6 | Louis Scarsella finally tells his his story and so does Derek Hamilton. |
| 0:25.0 | Listen to the burden on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.0 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:33.0 | An infamous child killer. |
| 0:37.0 | A slumber party child killer who blindfolded a group of little girls about age |
| 0:49.4 | 12 drags one out and strangles for dead, set to walk free over my cold dead body. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm Nancy Grace. This is crime stories. |
| 1:09.0 | Thank you for being with us. This man succeeded in what he was trying to do, which was pierce my son through the heart and pierce the rest of the family. It was just plain despicable and it shows the |
| 1:39.1 | kind of people child molesters are. |
| 1:42.7 | Yes, it does, and I am referring specifically to a child killer, |
| 1:48.1 | Richard Allen Davis, sentenced to death in the brutal murder of a beautiful 12 year old |
| 1:56.1 | little girl Polly class. Listen. He broke the contract for that. |
| 2:03.0 | He must die. |
| 2:05.3 | And Mr. Davis, when you get to where you're going, |
| 2:08.8 | say hello to Hitler, say hello to Dahmer, |
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