When a girl vanishes from California's Bay Area while walking home from school, it quickly

becomes apparent that she was likely abducted. Investigators explore a series of potential suspects

each stranger than the last in this episode of Last Scene Alive. Surely we're not doing Sierra

May Lamar again. No, this isn't Sierra's story.

This is Eileen Michaloff's story.

But I'm not surprised that you asked that because this stood out to me, too.

Their stories are a lot of like in some ways.

Music Thanks for listening to Last Seen Alive.

I'm your host, Leah, crime analyst by day and true crime storyteller by night.

And as always, I'm your host, Scott.

Eileen Michaloff was last seen alive on January 30th, 1989. She was 13 years old at the time and lived in the

small suburban city of Dublin, California, which is located about an hour's drive for both San Francisco

and San Jose, and a little closer than that to Oakland.

The city describes itself as a crossroads of the San Francisco Bay Area, and today it has a population of approximately 73,000 people.

Back in 1989, though, it was a much smaller town, less than a third of its current size.

If you're thinking that Dublin's population growth has been pretty explosive, you're right.

Statistically speaking, nowadays, Dublin is officially the fastest growing city in the entire state of California.

Lots of Californians have chosen to raise their families in Dublin, and it's easy to see why.

Not only do residents have their pick of nearby cities to commute to for work, but the crime

rate is also markedly low. In Dublin, one's odds of becoming the victim of a violent crime are

nearly three times lower than the California average.

Dublin is safer and more affluent than most of the state, and while it may have been a more modest place back in 1989, it was certainly no cesspool of crime.

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