Polly Klaas was 12 years old when she was abducted on Oct. 1, 1993 from her home in Petaluma, Calif., where she was having a slumber party with two 12-year-old classmates. Her kidnapping sparked a ...

Ryder played Jo March in the 1994 film adaptation of the classic, which came a year after Klass was abducted. Ryder, who ...

Winona Ryder has opened up about a tragic event from her youth that deeply shaped her acting, including her role on Stranger ...

Twenty years later, the emotions still run strong. Speaker after speaker at Friday's commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Polly Klaas' kidnapping choked back tears in recalling the 64 long days ...

Winona Ryder is no stranger to the spotlight — or to grief. On Stranger Things, which premiered on Netflix in 2016, Ryder plays Joyce Byers, a grief-stricken suburban mother coping with the sudden ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Lawyers for one of California's most infamous convicted killers, Richard Allen Davis, asked a judge in Santa Clara County Superior Court on Friday to overturn his death sentence ...

A California judge on Friday rejected a request by the man convicted of killing Polly Klaas to vacate a death sentence imposed on him. Santa Clara County Judge Benjamin Williams declined to "vacate ...

Polly was having a sleepover with friends at her mother's home on Fourth Street in Petaluma on Oct. 1, 1993, when she was taken from her bedroom by a knife-wielding intruder. Her body was found two ...

Marc Klaas, Polly Klaas' father, described her convicted killer's bid to overturn his death sentence as a "travesty of justice." "I couldn't have been happier. … It was exactly what I wanted to hear," ...

SAUSALITO, Calif. — Polly Klaas's father, Marc Klaas, says he was blindsided over Gov. Gavin Newsom's decision to suspend executions in California. Klaas says Monday afternoon he was invited by the ...