Bone may be of missing girl
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October 13, 2012, Saturday
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THE mother of a nine-year-old girl snatched from a Northern California street 24 years ago believes DNA tests would show her daughter was buried in a well where a pair of serial killers dumped their victims.
A 3-inch bone fragment possibly belonging to Michaela Garecht was found in a bag of skeletal remains largely belonging to another victim of the "Speed Freak" killers, so named for the methamphetamine-fueled violence police say the two perpetrators unleashed during the 1980s and 1990s.
Police in Michaela's hometown of Hayward, California, across the bay from San Francisco, say they expect to get test results by the end of the month. Michaela was abducted outside a Hayward grocery store on November 19, 1988.
"I'm thinking it's probably Michaela. All the indications seem to point that way," her mother Sharon Murch said. "There's no happy ending. But if she's been in that well for all these years, I'd just like to bring her home."
Investigators were first directed to the well and four other burial sites by a map drawn by convicted "Speed Freak" killer Wesley Shermantine. Prosecutors said they believed Shermantine and his co-defendant, Loren Herzog, a childhood friend convicted of three murders, were linked to as many as two dozen killings.
A 3-inch bone fragment possibly belonging to Michaela Garecht was found in a bag of skeletal remains largely belonging to another victim of the "Speed Freak" killers, so named for the methamphetamine-fueled violence police say the two perpetrators unleashed during the 1980s and 1990s.
Police in Michaela's hometown of Hayward, California, across the bay from San Francisco, say they expect to get test results by the end of the month. Michaela was abducted outside a Hayward grocery store on November 19, 1988.
"I'm thinking it's probably Michaela. All the indications seem to point that way," her mother Sharon Murch said. "There's no happy ending. But if she's been in that well for all these years, I'd just like to bring her home."
Investigators were first directed to the well and four other burial sites by a map drawn by convicted "Speed Freak" killer Wesley Shermantine. Prosecutors said they believed Shermantine and his co-defendant, Loren Herzog, a childhood friend convicted of three murders, were linked to as many as two dozen killings.
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