“I think when you’re hoping for a miracle, you don’t realize that it’s that last bit of hope that’s been carrying you on. And it was brutal when that was taken away.”
— Jen Yao, after the body of her husband, 37-year-old Philip Kreycik, of Berkeley, was found last week. He went missing July 10 after going on a trail run in a ruggedly steep Pleasanton park under a scorching sun.