True Crime Vault: Taken in the Night

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The last thing we set on our phone call was, she said, "I love you, Daddy." "And I said, "I love you, too, baby." "And those were the last words I spoke." Around 10.30, probably opened the door, and that's when there was a man standing in the hall. And he was holding a knife.

"You're convinced he was stalking her." Slowly. He said, "Who lives here?" "Police that I do." "And then he took Polly."

Bring your bat. Don't hurt her. Bring your bat.

But did a crucial decision back then,

make all the difference? New revelations. And an all-new look at the story that terrified the country. I hate this part of it. He came over to my car, I see. I'm sorry I'm sorry I was sightseeing Edmundite.

Edmundite. I would say he was panic-stricken at I smelled fear. I literally grabbed him and pulled him close. I said, "Mark, you need to be strong." For your doctor.

This was my test. Right here, right now. It was like a boogie man came in and stole her out of that house. For two weeks, the town of Petaluma,

virtually everyone, lived or worked here,

has been consumed by the kidnapping of 12-year-old Polly class. The Polly class case really changed everything. The case has generated enormous local and national publicity.

“I think it's so important that we just find her as soon as possible.”

Polly's case was huge. Because of how it happened, because of where it happened. It says a small town coming to grips with the idea that the problems of the world have come to the front door. We should tell a story.

Not only about the case itself about the crime itself, but the impact. Polly's legacy is that she changed how the FBI investigates crime. 12-year-old Polly and a class was in her own bedroom, having a swimmer class at night point from her bedroom.

Polly's kidnapping was a real wake-up call for a lot of parents. That were so old and too safety. The suspect died and gagged the girl while Polly's mother slept in another room. How could this happen?

When her mother was right there, how could this happen to her worst nightmare? It shocked the country. There's happened here in Petaluma.

“What was it like when right before the kidnapping happened?”

Just like this. A neighborhood community, people walking their kids and their dogs without any concern. It was just a typical American neighborhood, wholesome and robust.

So let's start by setting the scene a little bit. Tell me a little bit about Petaluma. Well, Petaluma is rather a small rural community that is so all-American it's morning again in America. It was featured in one of Ronald Reagan's campaign ads.

But that time was very roll-town. About 50,000 people. It was kind of an all-American town. You know, American graffiti had been filmed in Petaluma. I'll call you later.

Really? Small town in America. Absolutely. Nestled between wine, country, and San Francisco. Exactly. Yeah, 30 miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge.

But it's entirely different world. Known for its eggs, known for its agriculture, known for its cattle farms. I am Annette Nelson, and Pauli was my best friend. We all felt safe in Petaluma.

Everyone seemed to leave the doors unlocked before cell phones. So we all just kind of left notes for our parents. It must feel surreal that it's been 30 years. It feels very surreal. I have no idea where any of that time went.

I really don't.

I'm sure in many ways it feels like yesterday.

“Well, it does. I mean, just having, you know,”

these recurring thoughts that I'm having brings it even closer than yesterday. It all began in 1981 when Pauli was born to mark class and even nickel. Well, that was the greatest day of my life. The day that Pauli was born gave me new meaning in my life.

It taught me unconditional love. The day you became a dad? The day I became a dad. I was really good at that. She was daddy's little girl.

She was totally daddy's little girl. There's no question here about that. As parents, Mark and Eve were a great team. But as a married couple, not so much. Their marriage was faltering, and by 1984,

“when Pauli was just three, they decided to go their separate ways.”

Where my marriage was really a total disaster with Eve, our divorce was quite successful. Pauli, she lived with my ex-wife up in Petaluma. She adored her dad and saw him at least once a week. Her mother remarried and had a little girl named Annie.

They shared a room in a very small Victorian cottage in Petaluma. And you co-parented quite well. I believe we did, yes. I chose that area because I thought it was the most ideal place.

ABC News first spoke with Eve Nickelback in 1993.

Eve, tell me about Holly. She is an incredibly sweet and sensitive and charming kid. The lovely kid. Pauli was the girl who reminded everyone of someone they loved. Whether it was a daughter or a friend or a niece.

Polly was new at Cherry Valley in sixth grade. And she was in my class. And we met on the first day of school. And just instantly had a lot of fun together. Holly was on the cusp between child and adolescent.

She was 12 going on 13. She loved to play the clarinet and she loved to read. And most of all, she loved acting. She's very musical. She loves to play her piano and her clarinet.

She's really blossoming in terms of her friends. If you look at pictures of her, you'll see. She just sort of shines through the cell you want.

So in that morning, it was the first Friday in October.

And Polly was really excited because her mother had said she could have a friends in both her. The plan for October 1st was hatched at lunchtime that day. We're all going to ask our parents and we're going to have so much fun. And then I wasn't able to go that night. I was getting over it cold.

In the early evening around 6 o'clock or so, Polly and I had our daily conversation. We pretty much talked every day. She was very excited about her slumber party. She was having some girlfriends over. The last thing we set on our phone call was she said I love you daddy.

And I said I love you too, baby. And those were the last words I spoke. The two girls who ended up going to the sleepover were Polly's six-grade classmates. Kate McLean and Jillian Palam. When Kate and her mother pulled up in the car, Polly and Jillian were poised on either side of the porch like two stone lions.

Typical 12-year-old girls talking about no Halloween. And they were playing games and getting makeup on just enjoying the evening. Since it was a sleepover, Annie was going to sleep in her mom's room so that the big girls could kind of have their own privacy. And they were playing around their playing a board game. So Friday night, not terrible.

It was late, you know, eight, nine, ten o'clock and a warm October evening. A lot of people were out. Around 10-30, the girls were sitting or sprawled on the floor, playing a board game. Polly stood up to go get the sleeping bags from the family room. And she opened the door and that's when there was a man standing at home.

And he was holding a knife. It's impossible to imagine the utter fear and confusion. The 12-year-old Polly and her friends must have been feeling in those moments.

“But what happened next would terrify parents across the country and catapult this case into the national spotlight?”

Not only were the eyes of volunteers at the center conducting the search for Pollyclap and riveted on the screen, I was across the country, we're focused on the missing child. You just don't think about someone coming into your home. I don't want that woman. The family is asking anyone with any information about this kidnapping.

To please contact the Petaluma Police.

Agents have no connection to anyone who might want to kidnap Polly.

They were really at a loss from where to even start.

“When you look at the boldness of this kidnapping, that's why this one is so rare.”

FBI agents and police spent today looking for evidence and canvassing the neighborhood. It was like a boogie man came in and stole her out of that house. Pollyclap is having a sleepover with two friends, Kate and Gillian, from her sixth grade class. That happens millions of times in this country on a Friday and Saturday night. It's like apple pie and baseball.

Around 1030 that night, her mother, Eve Nichol, is asleep with Polly's younger half sister Annie in another room. Shortly after I fell asleep, an intruder came into the house, appeared at the door to their room as Polly opened it to take the sleeping bags into the front room. He had a large knife. Initially, Kate and Gillian thought, is this a prank?

He said he would hurt them if they made a sound. They didn't. He said don't look at me, lie down on the floor. And so they lay down face down on the floor, like little dolls, one by one. He bound them and gagged them.

He used strips of white cloth and over them he tied what they could feel to be electrical cords. He said he was only there for the money, but it obviously had nothing to do with money. He said who lives here and Polly said I do. And then he took Polly. He told Kate and Gillian to count to 1,000 and said that by the time that they had gotten to 1,000, Polly would be back.

They never got to 1,000.

Gillian was a gymnast and she was flexible and she was able to get her feet through her arms so that her arms were in front of her.

And then she used her teeth to untie herself and then she untied Kate. And then they wake up your ex-wife. The bedrooms were separated by a Jack and Jill bathroom, one that connect both rooms. The girls said Polly's gone. Who took her?

The man. What man? So that's when he called 911. I don't know why I'm put on it. No.

It's a problem. It's a problem. It's a problem. It's a problem.

“You can tell when you hear it that she's very confused.”

She had a migraine and she had gone to bed and taken a sleeping pill. And so she is surfacing through sleep to wakefulness and realizing this horrific reality that her daughter is gone. It was hard to say the words but I said my daughter has been taken. "Where are you at?" "Yeah.

Which is all that your daughter is gone now."

At some point Kate got on the phone and she told them exactly what happened.

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I thought it would be a good meal. I thought it would be a good meal. I smelled fear. Poly class vanished from her home in Petaluma, California, on October 1, 1993. For the 30th anniversary of her disappearance, Kim Cross sat down

and told the story of the investigation from the inside for her book in light of all darkness. I am the daughter-in-law of Eddie Freyer, the FBI case agent in charge of the Poly class investigation. We do not gather as a family and not talk about Poly.

It's like part of our family DNA. So, is that what inspired the book? I realized that I could get access because of my relationship to people who would not talk to another journalist.

Detectives and FBI agents basically pull their bankers boxes out

of their garages and attic and just said, "Here you go." And one of the police reports details an incident that happened the very night Poly disappeared. About an hour after Poly was reported missing, a couple of deputies responded to a trespassing call on Pithian Road.

This was a woman's driveway in wine country, and the driveway is really, really steep and curved.

“That particular evening, it was a full moon, I remember,”

and it was cold. Dana Jaffee was a single mother who worked as a chef at one of Sonoma's celebrated restaurants, and she had just come home from working at the restaurant, and she had a 12-year-old little girl,

and her babysitter had left,

On the way out of the driveway,

she encountered a stranger.

And he was in a white pinto, and it was stuck in a ditch on the driveway. I very fear some scary character, somebody who looked like Charles Manson is the babysitter described.

And she kind of slowly pulls up, and this guy comes around and to a driver's side. She had her door locked, but she sort of cracked her window, and he came over,

and stuck his fingers in the crack of the window,

“and was saying, "Get out of the car, you need to help me."”

I think she cracked it this far, and she just rolled it right back up and took off. It frightened her. So she drove out and called you. The hair on the back of my neck stood up,

and I was aware that we were in a vulnerable situation. And you felt them? Well, no one had any business being up there at midnight.

My daughter joked and picked up the baseball bat in the face,

and I said, "Sure, why not?" And we were both dressed and out of the house, and probably under two minutes. I mean, I really pushed her. Get dressed now.

We need to get out now. It's gotten a car because I knew I could lock my doors, and we headed down the road to see what he was doing. And by the time I got here to the gate, and saw his car,

and saw that he wasn't in it. I became really concerned. And she goes down and calls the Sheriff's Office. I got a trespasser on my property. Late at night, it doesn't belong here.

“Two deputies showed up from the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office.”

They followed her up the hill to the gate inside which this car was abandoned. And the stranger, the trespasser, was sort of standing by his car casually. As if he was expecting them to show up.

At this point, it's been more than 45 minutes

since Dan is babysitter, first encountered him.

He came over to my car, I see. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I was sightseeing. Edmund died. Edmund died. And he was disheveled.

And he leaked. Just leaked. I would say he was panic-stricken. And he, I smelled fear. All right, that's told him I said,

"Well, these gentlemen behind you are going to take care of this." So I went ahead up to the house. Two deputies, I start trying to figure out who he is. What's he doing there? And they're asking him basic questions.

They get his driver's license. It checks out. They pat him down, and they notice his pants are wet. He's kind of sweating, you know? That's a cool night, you know?

It's like cool October evening. They noticed he got to bring his hair and his clothes or all kind of messed up a little bit. He said that he had been crawling around on the ground, trying to free his car by putting brush under the tires.

They didn't see any brush under the tires. Just things weren't adding up. When the babysitter came down, she saw him wearing a sweatshirt, and she noticed that it was inside out.

And when the deputies saw him, he was wearing a striped polo. They searched his car. He's got a duffel bag there. And they do a feels variety test.

They had no way of checking. When they're on the he had a record, and he knew it's a CV had a warrant out. That's all they could check. And he didn't.

At that point in time, there were issues with broadcasting, criminal history information over the radio, so they just ran in for once and once, which would be typical.

It's a Friday night. They're getting other calls, backing up on the radio, you know? Other hot calls. And what they have right now,

as far as they know, is a trespasser. At some point, when they could not unfree the car, they drove up to Dana's house and asked for a roger a chain. They asked me if I wanted to press charges. And I said, you know,

I was thinking about it, and they said, well,

“it'll mean that he has to come back for his car, you know?”

And it's like, no, no, just get him out of here. I want him out of here. When they pulled him out, they came back up at the house

to drop off the chain. And they said they had followed him down to Highway 12 and watched him turn off. And I thanked them for their service, and we went to bed talking about while that was weird.

This moment, this night, will hunt everyone for years to come. They were completely unaware that a child had been kidnapped. When the two deputies were with this trespasser,

if that APB went out, it was not broadcast over their radio, and so they did not know. So you have to ask yourself, if they had known,

would it have made a difference? 24 hours later, we had a call into Mark Clash's film.

It was a girl's voice,

and she said, it's poly. And we were just like, oh my god, we found her.

There you go, man.

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Plus for Bundle subscribers, Terms Apply. Worst nightmare in Petaluma. A child is missing, snatched from her bed last night. We used to joke,

that if you walked out of the front door of the police department, and you had a bunch of sad-like threats and out there, you were having a bad day. That became a reality. When I showed up that morning at the police department,

they were there in mass. It was intense. The family is asking anyone with any information about this kidnapping to please contact the Petaluma police.

It shook the town to its core, but it also brought them out in great numbers to bring polyhomes. I care. I got great kids at him.

I can help. Deli Boyz owned a pep printing. And he said, "Guys, give me a picture. Give me some information on what you want on a flyer." And he said, "I got 150 people down there.

I'll get some flyers made up, and we'll wallpaper snoma county." People just start showing up, and he starts giving them stacks of flyers and kids and college students and doctors

and parents are putting them all over town. One of these posters is going to work. We don't know which one. We've played a bad. It's not the one sitting in the box.

We've written for a 29-cent stamp. People wanted to help in any way they can. There were improper search parties all over town. We could form a big line and move along like this. So we don't miss any large areas.

The news report was that if anybody wants to come and volunteer because there's going to be searches, you can come to this print shop. I just literally said, "Honey, we got to go." And loaded my daughter in the car.

And she happened to have some skills. And she knew how to deal with the media. So she sort of put her own life in her work aside and started typing up press releases. This doesn't happen here.

“And I think because this doesn't happen here,”

this is why we're all here. The someone called Marcus must wanted. My name is John Wolff. I was the host of America's most wanted for 25 years.

We would always get the first call.

Because the cops would say, "If you come, a big old white hot spotlight of MW is going to get right there and people are going to go this is serious." So we made it real serious. Now we need your help.

To bring Polly Class old. Walsh says that over 25 years, his show has helped recover 61 children who'd been abducted by strangers. The power of television and the power of a TV show

that's popular, why known a writer was from Petaluma. She watched America's most wanted and she jumped in action. Long before she was the mom on Stranger Things. We're known a writer was the star of 90s classics, like Edward Cisir Hans.

Somebody said, "We're known a writer online for." Okay, sorry to get in line for. And I said, "Hello." And I didn't hear anything from him. And then I started hearing crying.

And I said, "Oh honey, I know this is really hard."

And she just finally was able to speak and said,

"I'm from Petaluma." You know, she looks like me. What can I do? She came home with no entourage and showed up in jeans and a t-shirt.

I'm an actress. Tell me what I could do. She did every interview. She could. My greatest wish right now is to meet her and person

and to hug her. We're known a writer even put $200,000 of her own money

Up for the reward.

She was dating Dave Perner, who is the lead singer for Solacellum. By coincidence, Solacellum had just months before released their video for runaway train.

We're the ticket for runaway train.

“And he decided to make it about missing children.”

And they had all these kids faces in this music video that was running on MTV. I'm way on a one-day train. The goal of all this was to keep the media's attention. We needed the media to keep the pressure on the cops

so the cops would not step away from the case. Police were working tirelessly, but they needed help. So the FBI sent in their newest innovation, a quick response strike force of forensic experts

known as the evidence response team. Tony Maxwell, one of the air team members came in and he started dusting with fluorescent powder. Annie's mother, Eve, brought Annie to me, and she says she wants to help you look for her sister.

If you read any forensic science handbook, first thing they tell you is,

never letting anybody help you with the crime scene work.

But you can't say no to a little girl. You can't say no to a sister.

“She's going to have to live with this the rest of her life.”

This is okay. Here's the fingerprint tape. When I meet some, you pull some off the reel, and you give it to me and let some fingerprints. The FBI had technology that we didn't have. For example, was the alternate light source.

We had never even heard of that. We used an alternate light source, and we started dusting with this fluorescent powder, which is 100 times more sensitive than regular fingerprint powder. He lifted 48 prints that had been missed.

We found a partial pop print that appeared to be an adult print. On my log, I wrote the word "bingo." It came from an unknown person, so it was sent to the FBI crime lab to wait for a suspect to compare it to. The investigators did a trap and trace on Mark's phone,

and there was a call. And a little girl called, and she said she was poly, and she said that she was with the kidnapper, there you go, man.

It's going to be over in an hour. We got the trap trace, and it came back to a house in Hayward. We quickly called down to our FBI office in Hayward, get whoever you have sitting at a desk there,

get in some cars, here's the address, and get over there. They pushed it through the door, got everybody on the floor. It's like a normal family.

Now they got a house full of FBI agents with gun drawn.

We finally get the story from the young girl,

she called in personating poly, that she was dared by her friends to call. This was a hoax. As investigators dig in, they soon start to suspect that poly's sleepover friends

may have something to hide. These are two 12-year-old girls who had been through an unbelievable trauma who were being accused of being complicit in their own crime. Jogging the same questions over in your mind,

trying to trick you into saying something that's not true. I mean, who does that? Poly, we love you. We adore you,

and we're very confident that we'll see you again very soon. Mark was very visible before the media. Bring your back, don't hurt, bring your back. That caused a lot of people to call in,

and say, "I hope you guys are taking a look at Mark class, because I wash them on the news last night." I can't even tell you the strength and the outpouring of love that I get out of this. For sure, he's the one that's involved in his own daughter's disappearance.

Mark class volunteered to be polygraphed. And I have to say that clinched it for me. He wasn't involved. Mark was just having a hard time, and was just emotionally done.

Poly class's father, Mark, was near collapse this morning. I was whimpering. I said, "I just can't do this anymore. This is too much for me." I literally grabbed him and pulled him close,

“and said, "Mark, you need to be strong."”

For your dog. He said, "You see everything all of these people are doing. You see how hard we're working. And you're ready to give up." He said, "You can't do that.

You've always told her you'll be there for her,

and she needs you now, more than she's ever needed you before in her life." How did that hit you? I realized that he was right, and this was my test right here right now.

Investigators have been focusing on Poly's girlfriends,

Jillian and Kate, who had been through that terrifying

kidnap or deal with her that night. They definitely felt it was possible

“that Poly and her girlfriends did this as a prank.”

And there was some discrepancies in the two-girls stories. One saw a yellow bandana. One would say I was laying here. The other would say, "No, it was there." We started to look at those inconsistencies

as a possible attempt of deception. And is it possible that the girls know something that they're telling us? It's now there are experts who are trained in child and adolescent forensic interviewing,

but at the time that didn't exist. So they just reached into their toolkit and brought out the hammer. They were accused of orchestrating Poly's disappearance with this theory

that Poly had run away with the boyfriend and that the girls were complicit in that whole act. I remember they threatened the girls to take them to juvenile hall. They were just jogging the same questions

over in your mind trying to trick you and to saying something that's not true. I mean, it's almost as if someone's saying

“you have to lie to me in order for me to leave you alone.”

We went back to the house. We had to walk through the whole crime scene. And the way you're grasping a straw and grab something that can maybe free up some of these memories. One key detail stood out

that the girls had been bound with power cords from Poly's Nintendo. What made me feel that this was a real kidnapping was the fact that the Nintendo cords were cut. These kids are going to cut their own cords.

They're not going to do that for a prank. But there was still some skepticism and that's when the decision was made to polygraph the girls. Gillian passed, but Kate's results were inconclusive.

The polygrapher noted she was clutching her teddy bear and appeared agitated beforehand, which of course could affect the results. There are things that you grew to regret. Yeah, absolutely.

When you get a call from our two primary witnesses

“their parents have said you can't talk to our kids anymore.”

You know, that's not handling young witness victims very well. Investigators soon realized that the girls were innocent. If I could say one thing to the girls, I would apologize for the way we treated them initially. And I just hope they know that we were trying to do the right thing for Poly.

In hindsight, we would not do that again. We should have handled them more tenderly. Everybody handles trauma differently. Just because somebody isn't crying and sad and shaking doesn't mean they weren't traumatized.

Poly's two friends had never been happy with the original

sketch the kidnapper, so please try something different. We learned about this forensic sketch artist who had a technique of getting detailed information from victims like this. Her name was Jeannie Boylan,

and she was hired by a show on ABC to work with Gillian and Kate. Please welcome Jeannie Boylan. [applause] My job was to go in and to see if we could not sort of pull out from memory what an eyewitness may have seen.

What she brought in was just a very calm and reassuring demeanor. They've been through other 12-year-olds. And they had high confidence in her approach that it wasn't going to traumatize the girls anymore. More than anything, these girls just needed to speak.

And they needed to be believed. I spent a total of nine hours on the first day with the two girls. It took a little time because they needed to be moved. And I happened to be a good listener, so I would listen to them.

How's the new sketch? You've got you waited ready to be released out of about 230 this morning. Within minutes of its release, the new sketch of the man believed to have kidnapped Poly class

was being printed for distribution. It's amazing. It's a face. It's a portrait. I mean, we have a definite person that we're looking for now.

A sketch is a sketch. She drew a picture.

And so when we released that second sketch on our flyers,

people now could actually see a person. And the FBI was working to come up with a profile for the kidnapper. Mary Ellen O'Toole believed it was likely an experienced criminal, comfortable taking big risks.

Especially a small house with thin walls, with a mother who was asleep in the bedroom adjacent to the victims bedroom. She also felt that this was not an impulsive kidnapping. This was someone that had likely targeted Poly.

It's hard to begin to think of anything else other than we're moving down the track of being a sexually motivated crime. And then 10 days in, a promising new lead now may prove her right. Lail PD calls and says Friday night,

we had a guy break into a house over here.

The house is occupied by a woman and her 12 year old daughter.

He had a rape kit with him.

“Bindings, blindfolds, duct tape, and we started focusing on him,”

you know, mid-devent, November, as possibly being our suspect. That was Xavier Garcia, correct criminal, a sex offender. We spent well over 10,000 investigative hours on him.

But we were never able to make the nexus

between his crimes in other cities and the city of Petaluma. But then, a walk in the woods changes everything. It was the pivotal moment in this case. Evidence is uncovered.

Could this be a clue to finding Poly? Almost made me sick to my stomach. Their jagged edges lined up like a puzzle. I said, you've got to get down here. This could be it.

Poly's case was huge. There's just no question about it. It was huge because of how it happened. It was huge because of where it happened. A lot of print, a lot of news media,

the frenzy was national. What did you find? There was a pair of little girls' tights that were red.

“How did it dawn on you that these dots connected to Poly?”

A brand new book now bringing every detail

of the Poly class case together for the first time.

My kept telling the cops, it's a repeat offender. It's a repeat offender with a wrap sheet this long. You better get down here. This could be it. The heroin, the back of my neck, went up.

You know where she is now? I just exploded. Describe that explosion for me? No, I had to be held down. Richard Allen Davis should be spinning on a spit

and held right now. It's not like she got to me. That she let me there. She won. The parents worst nightmare in Petaluma.

The middle-aged man slipped into this home and abducted 12-year-old Poly class at night point. If you're the man who has Poly, please just let somebody know that she's okay.

“Hundreds of volunteers comb the area for clues.”

I really miss her. I'm so worried. Days and weeks go by. And some of it is a blur. Volunteers and police say they will leave no stone unturned

in the search for Poly class. We all prayed a lot. You always have hope. We will never stop.

You will never close until we have accomplished our mission

and we get my little girl back. Did you take a day off in those few months? No, no. We put everything into this case. I mean, everything.

We had worked pretty hard. And it was discouraging not to have a solid lead. And then came the phone on the 27th. Dana Jaffee was a woman that lived miles away two months after the kidnapping.

She discovers a scene on her mountain property. Her girlfriend had come up for a hike. And we went for a walk along the trails. What did you find? I found a man's sweatshirt.

It was turned inside out and laid out with the arms extended. There was a pair of little girls' tights that were red. And there was a piece of white cloth quite long that had been knotted in several places. We found a condom that was used.

And at that point, did you think? I thought this is maybe a crime scene. Oh, she called the sheriff's office. And I say nothing called. She says kids have an apartment on the other side

is what typically this stuff is. Still, police come out to investigate. And then, very pelton is sent in to take a look. His attention is quickly drawn to the strips of not in fabric. I almost made me sick to my stomach when I saw it

because I knew immediately that that is exactly the same stuff that I collected from police bedroom that were used on the other girls to tie them up. I get on the phone, Larry, says you better get down here. This could be it.

They're here on the back of my neck. What up? The question now is who left all this here? Dana Jaffee tells an officer that she had an encounter with that intimidating stranger nearby.

Just two months earlier. I realized that that was where the car had been parked. And I told him, I said, you know what? There was a trespasser on the property. And then he pulled the calls for service for that night

He found that there was indeed an encounter.

Finally, they have the name of a suspect.

Richard Allen Davis.

“There were striking similarities in his appearance”

to the sketch that had been done by Jeannie Voila. The characteristics were all there. The course hair, the width to the face, the bags were really eyes, the lines on the forehead. I got the full wrap sheet.

And everything you would think, an offender would have on his record for somebody or crime like that. And he only been out for about six months from his previous kidnapping charge.

Good night to me at our crime. In 1994, ABC Sam Donaldson spoke to three of Davis's previous victims. Selena Varage says Davis and a woman companion told her if she didn't withdraw $6,000 from her bank,

they would hud up her father and daughter and kill them. He hit me in the head with his gun. And he hit me in the head about five times. He was laughing and smiling. Marge Friedman was beaten by Davis

and her bedroom. I woke up with this man standing over me beating me with a poker. 30 suitors were required to close the laceration and my scalp.

Francis Mays says Davis forced her

“into a car at knife point and tried to rape her.”

I grabbed the knife by the blade and I hung on and he was trying to take it away from me. I unlocked the door and ran out. Davis later pled guilty to kidnapping and prosecutors dropped the other charges.

What he inflicted on the victims was indicative of someone that really had no empathy or remorse,

basically the traits of a psychopath.

They are pretty sure they have their man. But still, they need forensic proof. So the evidence is rushed to the FBI crime lab in D.C. The shards of cloth found on the end of Japanese property

matched conclusively the shards of cloth that were found in Pauli's bedroom. Their jagged edges lined up like a puzzle. When the fingerprint examiner

called me because I have a identical pomper and firmer bedroom that was collected by the FBI at the night of the kidnapping to Richard Allen Davis.

“I tell people I spent 30 years in the bureau”

and that was my best day. But there is no time to waste. Even as investigators worked to track down Davis, they quickly moved to search Dana Jaffee's property for Pauli.

They must have been the full force of federal state local file enforcement. We felt very certain that she was there. They throw everything they have into a desperate search

but come up empty. No human remains have been found. I feel like I brought her home. I felt like she called to me. That she let me there.

Still investigators haven't found Pauli but they are about to move in on Richard Allen Davis. We got our wars ready. That's what teams ready. They have three SWAT teams.

They have snipers. They've got surveillance. The whole New York's had a luma police so they have significant new information in the probably class kidnapping case.

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investigators now know who they're looking for. Richard Allen Davis. They just need to find him. We head found out where you staying at the Kyloody Valley Indian Reservation. Just north of Yucaya.

We developed different ways. We've found out where you staying at the Kyloody Valley Indian Reservation. Just north of Yucaya. We developed different ways. We've found out where you staying at the Kyloody Valley Indian Reservation.

Just north of Yucaya. We developed information that he was staying at his relative's house. It had SWAT teams ready. We had evidence for cover team ready.

We went and staged on a hill overlooking the area where we thought Davis was ...

I was in charge of our SWAT team at the time. My team secured part of the area. We needed perimeter control. We hadn't established that.

“So I said, "Hey, we got to put some guys on the perimeter here."”

So we hit the house. Three SWAT teams simultaneously hit. And so there's that moment of silence that I get in a little nervous because it's the moment of more than a minute or so.

And finally, it comes over to radio.

He's not there. And almost like, "Scream, what do you mean?" He wasn't there. But then we got that radio call from one of the deputies who had been on the perimeter control.

And he said, "He thought he may have our suspect." There we encountered Richard Allen and Davis in his van. It shaved his beard off, which we had harder to identify him. I actually then holed sired my weapon and tapped it to my side. But thought this guy could be armed.

And dangerous is certainly was dangerous. I asked him to step out of the car. And his hands complained view. And as I had holed sired up,

“then I handed him off to Mike Meese who handcuffed him.”

And then we put him back in that deputies car. We're seeing his pinto. We've shipped it down here to Petaloma for our evidence folks to go through it. We knew we wanted to talk to him, but we didn't want to alert him immediately.

Or other people in the area immediately and he was being arrested for potentially kidnapping polyclass. After Davis's arrest, I was actually the first person to interview Davis. A little bit sick of my stomach, butterflies, worrying about doing it right.

I did not want to screw up this case. I needed to get a story. No matter what that story is, I needed a story before. He invokes his Miranda rights. Davis's story initially is that he had nothing to do with it.

He's arrogant, almost cocky, you know, in his denials of being involved. In my mind, he's been thinking about this the whole time and coming up with an alibi. During the interview Richard Allen Davis made comments

that he's killed people like that and referring to child molesters and murders. He's killed people like that in prison.

But we had never talked about anything about

possibly sexual assault of poly. It's like a TV scenario. Well, the witness says something in the police say, "Hey, how did you know that?" He was starting to get angry at the time

because of our questioning line had changed. And he wasn't feeling it's comfortable. So we got at least a little more interview out of him before he decided that he wasn't going to talk any longer without an attorney.

“Do you remember first hearing about Richard Allen Davis?”

They showed me a polaroid picture. Even I a polaroid picture of Richard Allen Davis and they said, "This is the guy we know it's the guy." They asked me, "Do you know him?" And I said, "I've never seen this guy.

I don't know who this guy is." And neither of us had ever seen him. In Petalima, California police say they now have a prime suspect in the kidnapping of 12-year-old poly class.

The man who has been arrested for parole violations who may be connected to the poly class kidnapping is Richard Allen Davis of San Francisco. He is 39. A lot of print, a lot of news media.

The frenzy was national. Richard Davis is what you would call a career criminal. Davis is raptured. For San Mateo County alone dates back 20 years

to when he was 19 years old. I kept telling the cops. It's a repeat offender with a rap sheet this long. And it was.

Richard Allen Davis should have never been out.

People in law enforcement who I've discussed this with were stunned to realize that we routinely let people these types of revolving or career criminals out long before their time is served.

He was not closely monitored. And so the system's failures were that there were opportunities to take him off the street. It turns out Davis has had

contact with law enforcement twice after police abduction. There was that encounter with police on Dana Jaffee's property. And he was arrested for DUI 18 days

after Polly went missing. Richard Allen Davis will be transported down here to be looked out by the two little girls

Who witnessed Polly's kidnapping.

Kate and Jillian are asked to come in to see if they can pick Davis out of a suspect lineup. We had a process of making the different suspects to read

from the script.

Basically some of the stuff

that was said to the girls in the bedroom that night just so they could hear their voices all so. But neither Kate nor Jillian

could positively identify Davis in that lineup. The girls only saw them for a couple seconds. It was a stretch

that they would actually pull them out of a lineup too much later. At the time I was deciding on the charges.

They started out first by saying "Can we prove this without Polly causes body being recovery?" While law enforcement is deciding exactly how to

proceed with Richard Allen Davis, they get a surprising message from the man himself. The jail said, "Yeah,

Davis wants to talk to you

and so they put Richard Allen Davis on the phone." And what he tells them

“changes the course of this investigation.”

She might be looking. Richard Davis was arrested for an investigation of parole violations. He's not been charged with kidnapping.

All they classified. The gentleman down at San Mateo County is reading the paper. Big paper. Davis is palm-print

discovered in Polly's bedroom. He goes, "I know that guy. He came to work for me after he got released out of prison about five months ago."

He jumps in his car and he books it up to Mendocino County jail. They put him into the glass in, you know, little room, visitor room,

they're all phone. He pointed to his palm and sort of mout the words, "They found your bread." Davis gets up and walks away.

He has a jailer. Get him on the phone and says, "Hey, I want to talk to you guys now." "Do you want to take that off?"

“"I'm telling you I'm going to try that."”

"How do you want me to get this thing back here?" I was in the room outside the interview room where I could watch on a TV screen the actual interview taking place

and listening to it to get information and take notes that might help us and locate in Polly.

"I look at you. I can't balance any other spot and now I'll have this balcony for this top." There's one thing

about that interview that to me is so striking. If you didn't know who was who, if you didn't know, that's an FBI agent,

that's a homicide detective and that's the offender. They were like three friends sitting around the table discussing this case

as though they were all equals. "Do you want to cut the coffee? Back then, people smoked. Can I get you a cigarette? So you want them to feel engaged with you.

You want them to feel like an equal because then they're going to contribute more." With Davis now comfortable

“investigators get right to the crucial question.”

"First time it's good for us.

She might. It's going to be a good dinner. She might. She might. His story was

he was in pedal and wanted to visit his mother and he couldn't get all the hurt." "I want you to tell me what happened that man." "So I was parked out of town or some bark along some nice streets.

I went over 7/11. Got a quarter beer. Went back. Sitting in the park. Had my car parked around the corner.

He said he gets a beer. He smokes a PCP cigarette. "He's kind of fuzzy up to that. What do you remember about that one?" "I'm just going to the window.

I'm just going to the window. There was no forced entry to the front doors. The back doors or appearance that anybody had come in or out of any of the windows." "Get someone to film all the lights down or whatever."

"All right, do it well." "Wait a minute." "You're in the park, guys." "I'm just feeling better with this." "I sat down with a number of investigators

and had kind of a director's cut. We watched the confession tape together and they said, "See that?" "Body language. This is how we interpret that."

"See how he suddenly can't remember any detail

Once he goes into Pauli's house.

"He's trying to distance himself from the crime."

"He's trying to get away from the idea was pre-meditated."

“"The next thing I've basically remembered”

is driving down a doe in my hair. And I'll see." "And..." "I got to bring out some road." "Davis tells investigators about the moment

he got stuck in the ditch at Dana Jaffee's property on Pithian Road." "She was still lying to everything. And I'm trying to figure out what the fuck I'm going to do with that one."

"And Carga stuck." "And a good car." "And we'll sit upon him back." "And try to get to car out." "It couldn't get out."

"That lady came down." "She was sitting upon you back." Had she been alive on that hillside? I don't have any doubt.

She would have made some noise.

I don't have any doubt. "Davis then tells the investigators that once he left Dana Jaffee's property, he went to a gas station where he claims Polly asked to use the bathroom."

"I was at the car." "And..." "Well..." "This man is trying more of us."

“"He's coming back far from here back in."”

"He's trying more." "What she used to is trying more." "He's called." "That's Davis' story of the night." But investigators say they believe there's far more to it

than what he's admitted to. "When I felt was supported by the evidence, was that Davis had... ...sinkled up Polly class, the kidnapper,

maybe up to two months beforehand.

And I feel very strongly that he knew

as she lived by the night of the crime. He stalked her. He prepared for the kidnapping. He went into the bedroom. He specifically wanted the girl

that lived there. "And investigators believe there is a very specific reason. He ended up stuck on Dana Jaffee's property." "He finds himself driving,

looking for some way to get around San Rosa. I think maybe he thought, if he enrolled was the way to get around the city

“and I get caught with a body in the car."”

"Somebody is being transported in the car and you don't want that person to be seen. The floor board is going to be the spot for him." "My theory at a case is he killed there

on the side of the hill. Because she was bound and gagged. And all these things have been untied in the found-up on the hillside." After the babysitter went down,

he could went up on the hill, salted, mulling, and killed her at that time. "He never confessed

to sexually assaulting her. Did I believe he didn't?" "No." "In prison, it's a big difference

between being a murderer versus someone that sexually assaulted a little girl and then murdered her.

In my opinion, he did not want to admit to that. "I don't know, he's a (beep) you.

You know, this is hard to understand that I appreciate you being mad enough to let that happen." Richard Allen Davis

should be spending a spit in hell right now. That's how I feel about that. "Did I get out of your chest?" "No."

Investigators now had Davis's story. They just didn't know how much of it was actually true, and they still didn't have poly. "My focus then was to

get closure for the parents by finding her body." So what Davis answer the one question that everyone wanted to know?

"You know what she is now? You can tell me." Richard Allen Davis is sitting in an interrogation room. He's admitted to being the person responsible

for polyclasses ofduction and murder. But to ensure this is going to hold up in court, investigators know they need to locate polys remains. "You need to tell me about where

and about where she is. I'll start. Over there, and I'll start pulling her down." "The Cloverdale is an odd place

for something like this. From Petalomus, a straight rib up, one-on-one. "You'll let her out for validation." "That's fine, I'll hold her down."

"Sure, somebody could walk up the binder." "Can I do this yet?"

"Sure.

And so they put them in the car,

and then they drove to Cloverdale. Dave Alford, Sergeant Veilbello, the three of us got in the car, and we headed up north, and we met at Cloverdale.

"I had mixed feelings. I don't trust suspects. And I don't trust information until I could verify it." "Shut up her in."

"Shut up her in." When Dave Alford and I walked out there and found the board, and lifted it up, and there's a body there.

I mean, it was a nasty composition. You got Richard Bell and Dave, who's sitting there,

leaning up against the car,

smoking a cigarette

“like he doesn't have a car in the world.”

In the darkness, his lane, poly-class. You have to suppress the rage that kind of builds up in your... "I started to kind of reach for my shoulder-thru.

I thought I just put him down. I just say he reached for somebody's gun, and we had to shoot him. And he kind of caught my eye. "I had to put my hand on his

that was going for his gun." "What a horrible place for such a beautiful girl to be put." You know, I was convinced it was poly-class,

so I called down and said, "Yeah, tell her parents we found poly-class." It was that moment. It was again, even I being called into the police station,

and they didn't have to tell us anything Christ. We walked in and there were tears in their eyes.

“You know, there were tears in their eyes,”

and I'll never forget this.

I remember that, that he started crying, the cops were crying, and I didn't cry. But we said,

"We need to tell our families." So I made a phone call, and I said, "You know, it's over." "She's dead."

"We're here to announce tonight that poly-class is dead." Marjorie Barling was one of the thousands who volunteered in the search for poly. "Catholuma is an innocent town. We don't have that witness anymore."

For the first time in two months, we went home, and it was there that I understood and realized and just exploded. To describe that explosion for me.

I started screaming, and I had to be held down, because I probably was on the verge of crashing my condo. It was really difficult. It's just the pain.

It just poured out. The pain just poured out. And I was like, "Thank God, our family was with us. Thank God."

What did you see in your husband's eyes in those moments? Pain. It was pain. On the night, poly-wet missing,

Eve lived a candle and put it in her window and said it would burn until poly was found. And then on the night that her body was discovered, it was extinguished. We were at my birthday party

on my birthday, and Jillian's aunt

“said you need to bring a net to Jillian's house.”

The whole way I was saying to my mom, she probably wants to see us before she does a news conference. And then I remember hearing Kate and Jillian crying inside the house.

And I was going around thanking my friends for being out there and this song, you know, long hours, just to guard the crime scene.

A friend of mine. He just looked at me and before I could say anything, he said, "I'm sorry, Ellie."

I'm happy to welcome the world to our parish church where tonight we continue to remember poly the massive turnout. You know,

there were people that weren't able to get into the church. So many people in peddleoma were invested in that whole case. We sat in the front row at the Linda Ron's step,

performed. Somewhere out there was polysbury favorite song. We were all sitting together

All up all his friends,

our family was nearby, which is deeply sad

that we wouldn't be able to make

any more memories together. After the outpouring of grief, the story wasn't over. Now the people of peddleoma wanted justice for poly class

and the trial ahead would once again transfix and shock the entire country. It was my opportunity to look him in the eye

and say what I felt and what I believed. This is the beginning of the end for Richard Allen Davis.

He was ten feet away from me, so I took my shot. Star Wars is back on the big screen with the Mandalorian and Grogo.

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“You may remember the murder of PolyClass.”

The man accused in her death goes on trial next month. The reason this case took almost three years to get to trial is not unusual in a capital case. I was amazed by how many people

had actually physically had gotten out, searching for PolyClass. I was convinced there's no way we could get away from it. I got to get away from it.

You may remember the murder of PolyClass. The man accused in her death goes on trial next month. The reason this case took almost three years to get to trial is not unusual in a capital case.

I was amazed by how many people had actually physically gotten out, searching for PolyClass. Today we could get a fair trial and sit on the counter.

They renew their motion to change venues and I said, "I agree." So the judge said, "Okay, Santa Clara." And at the same time, there was another high profile case

heading to trial in California. This came right on the heels if the OG Simpson trial. If it doesn't fit, you must equip.

It seemed like that everything that could go wrong with the case went wrong. Not guilty of the crime of murder. The trial was a disaster.

There will be no repeat of the OG case here. It's just being work harder. I'm most people here in Petaloma,

say they're glad the trial is finally underway.

What they say they'd like even more is to put all of this behind them for good. What was it like to watch

“Richard Allen Davis walk into that courtroom every day?”

Well, just being in that close proximity to that monster was kind of unbelievable. It's the devil that destroys your life. I mean, that's what he is.

He's a devil that destroyed our life. We figured out that it would be in Mr. Davis's best interest not to plead guilty. In this particular case,

there was robbery, burglary, kidnapping, attempted loot act on a child with four special circumstances. The jury had to find one

or more of those special circumstances true for it to become eligible for the death penalty. Perhaps the most compelling story today was told by 14-year-old Gillian Pelham. She in another girl

were with Polly for a sleepover the night Davis allegedly snatched Polly from her home. Kate and Gillian they were allowed to have one adult

of their choosing go up to the stand with them and they both chose Ginny Boylan. Ginny's an incredibly talented

and compassionate woman and there's a lot of love in Ginny's heart and I think she was able to quickly convey that

to both of the girls. Kate's long enough to be a part of the trial. I became extremely close especially with the girls.

I felt like I wanted to continue to be there in the event they needed me again. I think they liked her because she believed them.

She was just sort of quite support. I just remember sitting on the witness stand with them and having them grip my hand

and getting through that with each of the girls. After nearly a month and a half of the trial,

The case finally went to jury.

They deliberated for more than 20 hours before returning a verdict. We the jury in a bug and title action

find a defendant Richard Allen Davis was found guilty and the jury determined those four special circumstances

to be true. At the end of the guilt phase, he turned towards me and he looked at me and he flipped both middle fingers

up.

I always thought that was

an opportunity for people to see into his soul. The other incident happened after the penalty phase. Mr. Davis,

do you have any comment you would like to make at this time on the report or the recommendation? Judge Hastings

allowed the killer to make a statement. I would also like to state for the record that the main reason

I know I did not attempt any ludicrous because of a statement that the young girl made to me

when walking her up the impact. Just don't do me like my dad. I had to pay my dues

and social. When that happened, my mother who was sitting one person over

from me just I thought you would die. I really did. He was ten feet away

from me, so I took my shot. I got nowhere.

I was completely surrounded

by bailiffs within a moment. He made those statements to mark last just to be malicious and her fault.

To a father who just lost his daughter. That doesn't tell you he deserve the maximum penalty.

I don't know what what does. It is the order of this court. The usual suffer

the death penalty. Said penalty to be inflicted within the walls of the state prison

that sat quick in California. We found poly and we saw the case. That's

some gratification. Not a lot, but some. What made this case even more difficult is that it resulted

in the passage of the three strikes law. California enacted a three strikes sentencing law.

It sets mandatory punishments, including 25 years to light

for any three-time felony

offender. As basically says, if you commit your third violence, felony,

you are going to go to prison without the possibility of parole. You get three chances. There was such a

sense of public outrage of how could this person a repeat offender been let out to kidnap poly.

So that was used to rally support for the three strikes laws and get them passed.

Three strikes was about enhancement. The criminals were leaving California

because they didn't want to be faced with being accountable for their own

activities. Everyone felt an connection to her.

And over the last three decades those connections have multiplied into something

truly extraordinary. It's pretty nice legacy. You've

kept a candle burning in the window until poly was recovered. Detective Pat Parks

was so moved by the case that he wrote a poem for Polling.

We race the darkness of the night. Your face are only

guiding light. We knew your love by a mother's candle by a father's anguish

to tough the handle. We assured ourselves the faith alone would be enough to bring you home. When you died,

your love by millions multiplied. As we race the darkness of

the night, your face remains our guiding light. We will

run the race and endure each mile.

Encouraged by your chanting smile. So

that's the case. In a few words. ♪ ♪

Her body was found out in that field in Cloverdale. I live here in Snowman Canada. I drive by

going one place for another. Every time I do go by I stop either. It's my way to kind of

honor that hollow ground. Every time I go by there, there's a new addition to this area.

A new cross. A ribbon tied in a tree. Quite often teddy bears. Jory spread out.

And rocks.

Then people

place rocks. And people will paint a message on their remembering

some other missing child. Usually a date could be a birth date or a date missing.

Some notation about that case.

Everyone felt a connection

to her. When I see the candles and rocks with things on it. I appreciate

that she touched so many people. ♪ Polys case. Change to America.

She changed childhood in America. But she also changed how the FBI investigates crime.

So many of the procedures, technologies, protocols for kidnapping

that were used and tested

and proven in her case are now used today to improve how we not only find missing kids but investigate crime.

♪ Quite simply my dream is to save a child. And that the next family

that has this kind of tragedy that'll have a happy outcome. I love children. And if anything I can do

can help protect them and then I think polyburel crime. ♪ If you were to look back

on those 30 years now, what do you think is the lasting legacy? I think the legislation.

I think the attention that we brought to the case. And I think

that our very active proactive

work and search and rescue

I think of the work that we've done those are the lasting elements of her legacy.

It's pretty nice legacy. Well, I think her legacy is strong. I do. But still,

I mean, you know, I've traded for a hug. ♪ He would trade it all

for one more hug. Richard Allen Davis, the man convicted of murdering polyclass remains on death row at San Quentin

State Prison. In 2019, California's Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order

declaring a moratorium on all executions in that state. That is our program for tonight. Thanks for watching.

I'm David Nurel. And from all of us here at 2020 in ABC News. Goodnight. ♪

Thanks for listening to the 2020 True Crime Vault. We hope you'll join us Friday night at nine on ABC

for all new broadcast episodes. See you then.

Transcript

In the suburbs of D.

I really don't.

Agents have no connection to anyone who might want to kidnap Polly.

I thought it would be a good meal.

On the way out of the driveway,

It was a girl's voice,

Up for the reward.

Investigators have been focusing on Poly's girlfriends,

The house is occupied by a woman and her 12 year old daughter.

He found that there was indeed an encounter.

We went and staged on a hill overlooking the area where we thought Davis was ...

Who witnessed Polly's kidnapping.

Once he goes into Pauli's house.

"Sure.

All up all his friends,

The case finally went to jury.

Then people

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