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The majority of missing persons cases are solved, yet many families and friends who continue to wait, day after day, for their loved ones to be located.
After news broke of two murder charges against David Misch, we spoke with Midsi Sanchez who was kidnapped in Vallejo as a child, and Marc Klaas, whose daughter Polly was kidnapped in Petaluma. Misch is already in Santa Rita Jail serving a prior murder conviction and is awaiting trial for a double murder committed in Fremont in 1986 of friends Jennifer Duey and Michelle Xavier. Now, other law enforcement agencies including Dublin Police Services, are revisiting their kidnapping cold cases. Ilene Misheloff was last seen walking home from school in Dublin on Jan. 30, 1989. "Definitely piqued our interest and sparked us to look into this individual to see if there's any links to our case as well," said Nate Schmidt, Captain with Dublin Police Services.
Michaela Garecht's mother reacts to arrest of suspect in 1988 Hayward kidnapping of 9-year-old daughter FacebookTwitterEmail 1of7 Sharon Murch at the Hayward police station in Hayward, Calif., at a press conference about her missing daughter, Michaela Joy Garecht, on Thursday, October 11, 2012. Her daughter was abducted November 19. 1988 at the age of nine. Hayward police were recently given a bone from the Shermantine/Herzog case which is being tested for mitochondrial DNA, which is passed from mother to child, to identify if it might be Michaela.Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle 2012Show MoreShow Less 2of7 Michaela Garecht (right) in an undated family photo with younger sister, Libby and younger brother, Alex.Courtesy Sharon Nemeth MurchShow MoreShow Less
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DA charges man with murder in 1988 kidnapping of Michaela Garecht Published Henry Lee reports. HAYWARD, Calif. - A man has been arrested and charged with murder in the 1988 kidnapping of 9-year-old Michaela Garecht, who vanished from a supermarket parking lot more than three decades ago. David Misch, 59, a convicted killer already held by Fremont police and charged in the 1986 slayings of two women, has now also been charged by the Alameda County District Attorney in Michaela's case. Court records show that he has been charged with murder with special circumstances, which means he could face the death penalty. Misch is being held at Santa Rita Jail.
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.
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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.”