CAPTURED: Bay Area Predator
When Michaela Garecht was abducted in 1988, no one was prepared for the heartbreaking investigation to drag on for over 30 years. But just when the case seems to be ice-cold forever, police make a stunning announcement.
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Episode Source Material
- 9-year-old girl abducted outside Hayward store
- 9-year-old’s adventure turns into a nightmare
- Mom of kidnapped girl still hopeful
- Hayward hills hunt for girl
- Kidnap probers mull cutback
- Kidnapping terror brings families together
- Morbid tastes of child abduction suspect
- FBI checks inmate’s story
- Haggard helping FBI investigation into 1988 murder
- Vanished: Missing Girls Mystery
- Killer seeks new trial; juror Timothy Bindner was suspect in girls’ disappearances
- Garrido a suspect in Michaela Garecht case
- Life never the same for kidnapped girl’s friend
- Police: Jaycee Dugard Questioned About Other Kidnappings
- Jaycee Update: Bones in Phillip Garrido’s Backyard Likely Native American, Says Anthropologist
- New lead in Michaela Garecht kidnapping case
- Convicted killer offers new lead in case of Michaela Garecht, missing since 1988
- Two Victims From Linden Well Identified In ‘Speed Freak Killers’ Case
- Linden Bones Not Michaela Garecht
- The WITNESSED abduction of Michaela Garecht | DECADES later and still no ANSWERS!
- A decade after emerging from captivity in the Bay Area, Jaycee Dugard reflects on the life she lost, and the one she’s gained
- The Charley Project – Michaela Joy Garecht
- The Charley Project – Amanda Nicole Eileen Campbell
- FBI – Michaela Joy Garecht
- Seeker’s Road | Sharon Murch (formerly Garecht) blog about her daughter’s kidnapping
- Abduction of 9-year-old Michaela Garecht haunts Hayward 20 years later
- Four-year-old Fairfield girl still missing
- In Serial Killers’ Graveyard, a Town’s Wounds Reopen
- A man already in prison has been charged with murder in the 1988 disappearance of a girl from a California supermarket
- Convicted Killer David Misch Charged With 1988 Kidnapping, Murder Of Missing 9-Year-Old Michaela Garecht
- Clues sought in Fremont teens’ death
- Convicted Killer Charged With 1986 Double Homicide Of East Bay Women
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