8 Million Flyers. 4,000 Volunteers. One Girl Who Vanished Without a Trace
On the night of October 1, 1993, a 12-year-old girl was kidnapped at knifepoint from her bedroom during a sleepover while her mother slept in the next room. It was a stranger abduction from the home—the rarest and most terrifying kind of kidnapping. What followed was one of the largest manhunts in FBI history.
Polly Klaas became a household name. Her face appeared on the cover of People magazine, on national news every night, and on more than 8 million flyers distributed as far as China. Thousands of volunteers joined the search. The FBI poured resources into the case, collecting fibers…
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