Convicted killer sings at sentencing hearing, California officials say. ‘No remorse’

A man convicted of killing two women in 1986 began to sing as statements from their families were read in court at a sentencing hearing, California officials reported.

David Misch, 63, was removed from court for creating a disturbance during the hearing Tuesday, Jan. 21, KPIX reported.

“David Misch’s behavior in court was not only reprehensible but a blatant display of no remorse for taking the lives of Jennifer Duey and Michelle Xavier,” said Chief Assistant District Attorney Royl Roberts in a Jan. 22 news release.

The naked bodies of the two women were found in a remote area near Fremont on Feb. 2, 1986, officials said in the release.

Duey, 20, and Xavier, 18, were best friends, the Fremont Police Department said in a Jan. 22 news release. They were last seen at a convenience store following a family birthday party.

In 2016, a detective in a newly created position to investigate cold cases looked into the slayings and found DNA evidence linking Misch to the crime, police said.

In 2018, the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office charged Misch, who was in prison on an 18-years-to-life sentence in another slaying, with killing the two women, police said.

He was convicted of killing Duey and Xavier on Dec. 19, police said.

A judge on Jan. 21 sentenced Misch to two 25-years-to-life terms to be served consecutively after he finishes his earlier 18-years-to-life sentence, prosecutors said.

He’s also awaiting trial in the 1988 kidnapping and slaying of a 9-year-old girl in Hayward following the charges filed in 2020, KPIX reported.

Fremont is about a 40-mile drive southeast from San Francisco.

This story was originally published January 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM with the headline "Convicted killer sings at sentencing hearing, California officials say. ‘No remorse’."