But Michaela’s body has never been found. Authorities reveal a major breakthrough in Michaela Garecht's case during a news conference at Hayward City Hall. “In the last year, I had to come to a place accepting that Michaela was probably no longer alive,” Michaela’s mother, Sharon Murch, wrote in a statement. “But somehow, that acceptance was far more wrapped up in the idea of Michaela sitting on a fluffy pink cloud walking streets of gold, dancing on grassy hills, soaring among the stars. What I did not envision was my daughter as a dead child. “It was only when I heard this news that this vision of reality appeared and I honestly have not figured out what to do with it.”