Richard
Allen Davis is an American convicted murderer and child molester
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. He was
convicted in 1996 of first-degree murder with special circumstances
(burglary, robbery, kidnapping, and an attempted lewd act upon a
child under the age of 14) of a 12-year-old girl named Polly Klaas. As of March
2022, he ...