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Richard Allen Davis (born June 2, 1954) is an American convicted murderer whose criminal record fueled support for the passage of California's "three-strikes law" for repeat offenders and the involuntary civil commitment act for sex offenders and predators.
After a long and tumultuous trial, Davis was convicted on June 18, 1996, of first-degree murder with four special circumstances (robbery, burglary, kidnapping, and attempted lewd act on a child) in Klaas's death. [5] A San Jose Superior Court jury returned a verdict of death.
A California judge will consider Friday whether to recall the death sentence against Richard Allen Davis, who in 1993 killed 12-year-old Polly Klaas after kidnapping her from her bedroom at ...
On May 12, 1979, Davis and Holman robbed and murdered 84-year-old John Oertel in his trailer. Oertel was shot and stabbed. Davis was the triggerman for this murder. [4] On July 13, 1979, Davis and Holman shot 83-year-old Esther Sepmeyer, a blind woman, execution-style as she was kneeling in front of her bed, praying for her life.
Pasco school bus driver Richard Lenhart’s widow, Nancy, is comforted during a 2021 arraignment of Joshua Dian Davis, the man charged with stabbing him in front of a busload of elementary ...
Allen now faces four charges: two counts of murder; and two counts of felony murder. State vs. Richard M. Allen: When and where is the trial? Richard Allen's trial was initially scheduled for ...
Richard William Davis (November 7, 1941 – August 24, 2012) was an American child murderer, rapist and possible serial killer who was posthumously linked via DNA to the abduction and murder of 5-year-old Siobhan McGuinness, who was found raped and stabbed near Turah, Montana on February 7, 1974. Davis had never been convicted or considered a ...
The former UC Davis student is accused of killing two men and wounding a homeless woman during a spree that rocked the Northern California town. Trial date set for ex-student accused in California ...