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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Sam Levin

Polly Klaas’s murder fueled the 90s crime panic. Her sisters fear ‘we’re repeating history’

Two women standing with their arms interlinked in an outdoor setting
Jess and Annie Nichol, sisters of Polly Klaas, a 12-year-old girl who was kidnapped and murdered in 1993. Photograph: Jovelle Tamayo/The Guardian

Annie Nichol was seven years old on 19 March 1994 when she was brought to the White House to talk to Bill Clinton.

With a stuffed dolphin by her side, the girl spoke to the president about her 12-year-old sister, Polly Klaas, who had been abducted five months earlier from the family’s home in Petaluma, California, while Annie was sleeping nearby.

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