Convicted Killer Charged In 32-Year-Old Cold-Case Kidnapping and Murder of 9-Year-Old in the East Bay
Gen Xers and older Millennials who grew up in the Bay Area — and their parents — may remember 1988 as a scary time to be a kid, with multiple child disappearances making headlines within a few months. One of those was the disappearance of nine-year-old Michaela Garecht, who was grabbed in a supermarket parking lot in Hayward a few days before Thanksgiving, never to be seen again.
Now, 32 years on, investigators in the East Bay say they've identified a suspect, and it's a man who's been in prison for another Hayward murder since 1989, and who's been charged in a double murder of two women in 1986 in Fremont. His name is David Misch, he's now 59 years old, and, as KRON4 reports, he is being arraigned in Alameda County court on Tuesday on Garecht's kidnapping and murder.