Dear Michaela (formerly the Wondering Heart): Dear Michaela ... there is nothing that I would not do...

Please help us to find Michaela by asking your friends to post links to this blog on their social networking sites, especially those outside the United States.

Michaela you can call me from any country by dialing 00-1-510-701-5449. (This is for Michaela only, please, or to provide information about Michaela's current location. Everyone else please feel free to comment on this blog or email me at sharon.murch@gmail.com, and I will answer you. Thanks.)

Love you forever ... mom

ميخاييلا خطفت بالتاسعة من العمر في عام ١٩٨٨. أنا اكون أمها وما زلت
ابحث عنها. رجاء التراسل علا هاد الأميل إذ لديك خبر عنها.
missingmichaela@gmail.com
ميخاييلا احبكِ كثيرا!! ارجعي الا البيت!

Michaela was the victim of a witnessed stranger abduction, on November 19, 1988, at age nine. (Her story is below.) If you have any information about Michaela, please email me at sharon.murch@gmail.com, or call Hayward Police Department at 1-800-222-3999 or 510-293-7079.

"If ever there is a tomorrow when we're not together ... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart, I'll always be with you." From Winnie the Pooh to Piglet. From my dear friend Chris Orrey to me. From me to Michaela, and to all my children. I love you all so much.

"God put rainbows in the clouds so that each of us, in the dreariest and most dreaded moments, can see a possibility of hope." Maya Angelou

About Michaela ...

My daughter, Michaela, was kidnapped at the age of nine, on November 19, 1988. She and he best friend had ridden their scooters two blocks to the neighborhood market, to purchase some goodies. When they went in the store, they left their scooters by the door. When they came out, at first they forgot they had brought the scooters and started to walk home. Halfway across the parking lot they remembered, and turned back. One of the scooters was not where they had left it. Michaela spotted it first, a few parking spaces down from the door, next to a parked car. She went to get it, and when she bent over to pick it up, a man jumped out of the car, grabbed her from behind, threw her screaming into his car, and took off with her.

The search for her has been massive and long. It has never become a cold case, but is very active with both the Hayward Police Department and the FBI. We have several very strong leads, but getting that final piece of information that will lead us directly to her has eluded us so far.

I continue to believe that Michaela might still be alive, and that for any number of reasons she might be afraid to come home, and because of that, my mission is to keep reaching out to her, hoping she will see it and will know that. She is a part of all of our lives continually.

To Michaela ... there is nothing that could ever change our love for you -- nothing that you could have done, nothing that could have been done to you. We just want you to come home, and hold you safely in our arms, and if you have children, we will bring them safely home as well. Michaela, you are present with us, very much alive to us. You are a part of your family always, in everything we do, every gathering, every celebration, every small conversation in the kitchen.

Michaela, my phone number is listed at the top of this column. You can call me from anywhere in the world, or e-mail me at missingmichaela@gmail.com, or sharon.murch@gmail.com, or you can leave an anonymous comment on this blog if you prefer, but please include some detail only you would know so that I can know it is you. And yes, Michaela, my name is different, but my love for you is the same, and so is your dad's and your brothers and sisters. We have moved, but we are living in Nana's house, so it will not be a strange place to you. Libby and Robbie still live here with me, and you have a new little sister, Johnna Joy, although she's actually a young adult now. Alex moved away and has a little family of his own.

I love you forever, Michaela.

... Mom

Contact information:

e-mail: sharon.murch@gmail.com

or missingmichaela@gmail.com

mail:

P.O. Box 196

Hayward, CA 94543

My phone number is at the top of this column, but it is for use only by Michaela or in case of someone who knows what happened to Michaela and where she is right now. All NON-URGENT leads should go to the police at 510-293-7079, and you can trust that they will take them and do whatever can be done with them.

E-mail is my preferred form of communication unless it is an emergency. I usually get e-mails as quickly as I get phone calls, and they are easier for me to answer within my schedule of working and caring for my family, and I always answer them. You can also leave a comment on this blog, and you can do it completely anonymously if you like. I have no way to trace comments.

The love and the caring poured out over the years for Michaela, and for her family, have been so important to me. It has helped me more than you could know. There have been times when I have been so weary and broken hearted that I have just wanted to lay down hope and surrender to the darkness. But you people out there have supported me when I felt I couldn't go on, and sometimes even actually bullied me into picking up that hope and holding onto it when it had become so heavy I didn't think I could. I can't thank you enough for that, and please, please, please don't ever stop.

Please remember to like us on Michaela's Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/MichaelaJoyGarecht

My other blogs are not as active as this one. The journey blog does have some posts about Michaela's case as well.

www.thewanderingjourney.blogspot.com

www.wonderfullyhealthy.blogspot.com

Thanks.

Wherever you may be ...

Микаэла была похищена в возрасте девяти лет в 1988 году. Я - ее мама и я все еще ищу ее. Если у вас есть какая-либо информация о том, где она может быть, пожалуйста напишите мне сообщение наmissingmichaela@gmail.com. Микаэла, если ты прочитаешь это, знай, что я всегда люблю и буду любить тебя что бы ни случилось. Пожалуйста возвращайся домой.

Michaela a été enlevée à l'âge de neuf ans en 1988. Je suis sa mère et je suis toujours à sa recherche. Si vous avez des informations sur l'endroit où elle pourrait se trouver, s'il vous plait écrivez-moi à missingmichaela@gmail.com. Michaela, si tu lis ce message, sache que je t'aime depuis toujours et pour toujours, quoi qu'il arrive. S'il te plaît, reviens à la maison.

"Michaela fue secuestrada a la edad de nueve años en 1988. Yo soy su mama y aun la estoy buscando. Si usted tiene información acerca de donde ella podria estar, por favor envieme un correo electronico amissingmichaela@gmail.com.

Micahela, si tu lees esto, yo te amo siempre y por siempre, no importa lo que paso. Porfavor regresa a casa."

Dear Michaela (formerly the Wondering Heart)

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Dear Michaela ... there is nothing that I would not do...

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