Richard Allen Davis was convicted of the kidnapping and murder of Polly Klaas in 1996 and was sentenced to death. On February 8, 2004, Investigation Discovery re-enacted the kidnapping and murder in Motives & Murder: Cracking the Case: Who Took Polly Klaas? . In 2023, Pollys body was recovered, and Davis was charged with first-degree murder with four special circumstances- robbery, burglary, kidnapping, and. In September 1996, Davis was condemned to death, and he enraged Polly's family with a wild claim that the 12-year-old girl told him before he. In 2019, Davis survived an opiate overdose on death row.