

Click Here to see the petition that was started

to ask John Walsh to air Gayle's story on America's Most wanted.(I have to add that this petition has been sent to AMW with no response)

The petition has now been closed because it never reached it's potential - sad but true.

I hate to say that this show AMW has been taken off the air. But I am leaving the petition anyway. Because I want it to show that people out there do care and do want the right thing done. Not just for my daughter but for ALL missing people. Thank you to all who took the time to sign it. I appreciate it very much. From Gayle's mom.



Click here to go to the AMW website and view the small story

they have about her on their site.

This is one of my favorite pictures of Gayle when she was young and carefree with her heart full of dreams.



Regarding Shermantine and Herzog:

Before we get into Shermantine and Herzog I would like to explain that when I first heard he was talking about where there were bodies, I was excited and I hoped my daughter would be one of them. Imagine a mom sitting here being excited that her daughters body might be at the bottom of a well. OMG I felt so sick. I have been writing to Shermantine hoping he would tell me information about Gayle. After about 3 letters I realized he didn't have anything to do with what happened to her. But I am still writing to him in hopes he will give information that will reveal other buriel sites. So I just wanted you to know this before you read the rest. Miracles do happen I guess, sometimes. A miracle to me would for this to have never happen. Shermantine is on death row. Herzog's sentence was reduced from 78 years to 14 years after the court ruled his confession had been coerced. He was paroled in 2010 and then committed suicide in January 2012, after he found out his former partner had begun cooperating with authorities and had offered to reveal the location of victims' bodies in exchange for a payment of $33,000. Shermantine led investigators to the skeletal remains of Chevelle Wheeler and Cyndi Vanderheiden, who'd been missing since 1985 and 1998 respectively. He also pointed out an abandoned well in Linden, California that contained some 300 human bones and personal items. Shermantine stated the well contains up to twenty victims, Michaela Garecht possibly being one of those. He blames Herzog for all the murders and says he only helped with disposing the bodies. Authorities are in the process of sorting out the contents of the well and attempting to identify the bones. Shermantine and Herzog are being investigated in other missing persons' cases, including

Phillip Martin, who was a loving father, with a kind heart, happy spirit and loved life and his daughters did not deserve what happened to him. His daughters and other family members want answers.

Michaela Garecht A young beautiful girl with her whole life in front of her, all her hopes and dreams snatched from her by a sick, evil creep. Her mom and family member want answers too!

Here is a composite picture of the person who abducted Michaela, next to that is a picture of Loren Herzog. Draw your own conclusions.

Is the time close at hand where we will finally get our answers? I hope so. Answers I don't want. Are they finally going to find the bodies? Let's just pray they will find everything this time and our time in hell will end.







By Sue Kizer

These are feelings that I have had often, very often in fact. I might think that there was something wrong with me if I didn't have them. But I sure wish I didn't have them. I see in my mind that I have run from them, as though they were chasing me through a field trying to catch me. They have always been there, lurking in my dreams in just about every thought I have of Gayle, lurking in every thought and thing I do. As I know they must be with all loved ones of missing people, or murdered people or people who have died. You see when this first happened to me I truly didn't know what to think because all I felt at the moment was sheer terror, panic, despair, oh what a list of words I might use to describe this. However yesterday, December 2, 2011 just 2 days after her 42nd birthday and twenty three years after the day she vanished everything came to the surface. Of course I had this huge dam built up to hold it all in, I am "ToughGirl", stronger than any feelings that might ping against my tough skin! But a tough mom can only take so much and at last it was too much. For no apparent reason, meaning there really was not a catalyst except maybe her birthday just passing and seeing all the joyous commercials of the coming holidays and all the happy families on TV and me wondering what could have been had we been able to just skip October 18, 1988. But of course that didn't happen, ha! And the clock will never move backwards. I don't think, but my mind is always open. May I share a few other thoughts?



I suffer from chronic insomnia, I have bizarre thoughts, strange "what if" thoughts. I don't think that unless I am drugged either by booze, or prescriptions meds I am not gonna sleep too well. I was told I have PTSD. I think and worry about everything. When I worked I worried about my clients, or people I worked with. For some reason (and I am not complaining) people liked to talk to me and tell me their problems I liked to listen because you just never knew when it might be you in the same position. If I wasn't worrying about my work then I was thinking about my oldest daughter Annie and how she was doing and was she OK, did she need anything, and then I worried about my grandson Shane, and my mother, and my animals and so on and so on and so on. It wasn't actually all worry, sometimes I had visions of what a wonderful compound I would build when I became a millionaire and took in and cared for ALL animals, and how I would build houses for all of my family and friends and we would all live together in happy harmony with no cares or worries or woes.

