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Associated Press - November 26, 2009 1:34 AM ET
KELSEYVILLE, Calif. (AP) - The lead investigator in the 1993 Polly Klaas kidnapping and murder case has died.
The family of Mike Meese says he died of complications from pancreatic cancer in his home in Kelseyville on Monday. He was 55.
Meese was a sergeant with the Petaluma Police Department when he and an FBI agent obtained a videotaped statement from Richard Allen Davis confessing that he had abducted and strangled the 12-year-old Polly.
Davis later led Meese and other officers to a field outside Cloverdale where he revealed the location of the girl's body.
Meese had worked for more than 30 years in law enforcement, 15 with the Petaluma Police Department.
Davis has been on death row at San Quentin State Prison since being convicted of first-degree murder with special circumstances and other charges in the case in 1996.
Information from: The Press Democrat, http://www.pressdemo.com
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