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...movie role in a forgettable number called 1969 just to get out of town. She was 16, and her first hit had just opened: Beetlejuice, in which she plays a crape-draped kid obsessed with death. It was just a movie, but some of her classmates in Petaluma, California, taunted her mercilessly. "These hick school kids," she recalls, "they thought I was a witch...
...just played; between Winona Ryder and Jo March there are some spooky parallels. Both are bookworms and avid letter writers. Both grew up in a close family that lived in a house with no electricity or running water. The Marches of Concord, Massachusetts, were transcendentalists; the Horowitzes of Petaluma were part of an agreeable commune. Winona (named for the Minnesota town in which she was born) had Timothy Leary as her godfather. Her father is an archivist of counterculture magazines and books and runs a small publishing company...
...critic and short-story writer Fitz Hugh Ludlow. "My dad owns the Fitz Hugh Ludlow library," she says. One of Winona's treasured volumes is a red- bound children's book of Little Women. Inside the front cover are the words: THIS BOOK BELONGS TO POLLY KLAAS. Polly, the Petaluma child who in 1993 was kidnapped and brutally murdered, became a sacred preoccupation for Ryder; she put up a $200,000 reward for Polly's attacker and now supports the Polly Klaas Foundation. The Little Women film is dedicated to her memory...
...experts hope to complete a psychological profile of the typical snatch- and-slay perpetrator next year. In the one recent case where the murderer was caught, however -- the killing of 12-year-old Polly Klaas of Petaluma, California, by Richard Allen Davis, 39 -- there was less interest in Davis' psyche than in his rap sheet. First booked at age 12 for stealing checks, he escaped charges in the shotgun death of a girlfriend seven years later but served a total of eight years for a burglary and two assaults on other women, one involving kidnapping. Free again...
Local and federal officials last week arrested a man who may be linked to the Polly Klaas kidnapping case. Klaas, 12, was abducted from her home in Petaluma, California, during a slumber party two months ago. The suspect, an ex-convict arrested for a parole violation, resembles the description given to police by Klaas' friends. The girl has not yet been found...