Polly Klaas’ Father Reflects on the Pain of Waiting (Full Transcript)

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: It's triggering. I mean, it's triggering because there are so many similarities between what happened in our case and what's happening here. The fact that you're going days on end without any new information, without new suspects, what it does to you internally is it breaks you down.

[00:00:19] Speaker 2: In 1993, in a small city in northern California, his daughter, 12-year-old Polly Class, was kidnapped during a slumber party right in her own home. The intruder tied Polly's friends up and took her at knife point, and her abduction sparked a massive nationwide search that ended tragically two months later when her body was found. Her killer remains on death row tonight.

[00:00:39] Speaker 1: I got to a point where I really lost it. I mean, I was waiting for the police to come talk to me and I curled up into a little ball out in front of the Petaluma Police Department, and an FBI agent came and had to revitalize me. He had to give me a pep talk. He told me that I had to get up. I had to be ready. I had to be strong. I had to set an example for people, because if I couldn't do it, if I couldn't move forward, why should anybody else move forward? And I'm sure that similar things have happened with the Guthrie family. Like everybody else, I pray that Mrs. Guthrie is found and that she's alive.