Toney Chaplin, Hayward Police Chief
A convicted killer has been arrested and charged with murder in the cold case of a 9-year-old San Francisco Bay Area girl abducted in 1988, law enforcement officials announced on Monday.
Posted: Dec 21, 2020 4:00 PM
Updated: Dec 21, 2020 4:42 PM
Posted By: KCRA
HAYWARD, California (KCRA) A convicted killer has been arrested and charged with murder in the cold case of a 9-year-old San Francisco Bay Area girl abducted in 1988, law enforcement officials announced on Monday.
Michaela Joy Garecht was kidnapped in a Rainbow Market parking lot in Hayward while trying to retrieve a friend’s scooter that the abductor had moved closer to his vehicle, according to the FBI. Her case was featured on the nationally televised crime shows “America’s Most Wanted” and “Unsolved Mysteries.”
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HAYWARD, Calif. Michaela Joy Garecht was last seen on Nov. 19, 1988, wearing jeans rolled over her knees and feather-shaped earrings. She hasn’t been seen since, but now the crime appears to be solved.
Michaela was nine-years-old when she was abducted by an unknown male assailant in the parking lot of the Rainbow Market in Hayward, California, on the November morning. She was attempting to retrieve her friend’s scooter that the abductor had moved closer to his vehicle while the girls were inside the market when she was grabbed by the assailant and pulled into a car, according to the FBI.
She also described her heartbreak and now she s still struggling to cope with the news of Misch s arrest, especially on the murder charge. I feel as though I am looking for Michaela but now I don t know where. I honestly feel lost in the dark, Murch wrote. When I received the news of the kidnapper having been identified, I asked the hard questions of Detective Purnell of what method this man used to kill his victims and received answers and they were not easy. The thoughts of her fear, her pain, her grief are overwhelming, Murch wrote.
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