After 32 years of questions, arrest made in murder of Michaela Garecht FacebookTwitterEmail Michaela Garecht, 9, went missing from outside a Hayward shop in 1988.Wikimedia Commons Police have made an arrest in one of the Bay Area's most high-profile and terrifying kidnapping cases. Michaela Garecht was nine years old when she and a friend rode their scooters to Rainbow Market, two blocks from Michaela's home in Hayward, on Nov. 19, 1988. After making purchases of snacks and soda, the girls realized Michaela's scooter, left near the market door, was missing. Michaela spotted it lying in the parking lot and, when she went to retrieve it, a man waiting in the adjacent car leaped out, grabbed her and drove off. The only witness was her young friend, Katrina Rodriguez.