The Kidnapping and Murder of Polly Klaas
When it comes to child abductions and murders, there are two that likely are first to come to mind to just about anyone who was alive and remembers them... Adam Walsh and Polly Klaas. Why is that? Well part of it surely is because they seemed to especially gruesome crimes but there is another reason. Both of the victim's fathers, John Walsh and Marc Klaas, not only fought for justice for their own children but they also proceeded to change policies in how abducted children are looked for as well as fought for justice in other missing/abducted/murdered children cases. When Adam Walsh was abducted and murdered in 1981 there was very little known in how to handle an abducted child and the Walsh family all but had to wing it. In 1993 when Polly Klaas was abducted from inside her home, things had come a long way since 1981, but not nearly far enough. To add to this, the Internet was now available and there were many more ways to contact and reach people than there were in...