All That's Interesting - On the morning of November 19, 1988, nine-year-old Michaela Garecht was riding her scooter along with her friend Katrina Rodriguez in her hometown of Hayward, California — when
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Michaela Garecht's mother reads heartbreaking letter after man charged in daughter's 1988 murder - YouTube
Sharon Murch at the Hayward police station in Hayward, Calif., at a... Photo d'actualité - Getty Images
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Contra Costa County Sheriff's spokesman Jimmy Lee displays a sketch of a suspect in the 1988 abduction of Michaela Joy Garecht next to a photograph of Phillip Garrido in Antioch, California September
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David Misch: The System Failed to Protect Michaela Garecht From a Serial Killer in the Making - Broke-Ass Stuart's Website
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