Convicted Murderer Charged With Killing Girl, 9, In 1988 Kidnapping

[Sugar Cookie]

A convicted murderer has been charged with kidnapping and killing a 9-year-old girl who vanished from a California supermarket more than three decades ago, authorities said.

David Misch, 59, is set to be arraigned early Tuesday on murder and kidnapping charges in the cold case disappearance of Michaela Joy Garecht, who was kidnapped outside a Hayward supermarket just days before Thanksgiving in 1988, prosecutors said Monday.

Misch, who is currently in state prison for an unrelated 1989 murder of a woman near Hayward, is also suspected of killing two women in Fremont in 1986, O’Malley said.

Michaela’s body has not been found, but fingerprints on the scooter she was riding at the time of her abduction match those of Misch. An eyewitness also spotted him at the kidnapping scene on Nov. 19, 1988, O’Malley said.

Convicted murderer charged with killing girl, 9, in 1988 kidnapping

A convicted murderer has been charged with kidnapping and killing a 9-year-old girl who vanished from a California supermarket more than three decades ago, authorities said. Michaela Garecht David …

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[McDanel]

I was living in the north Bay then, I well remember this case, and she was one of several girls that went missing in the SF Bay area during that time period.

 

[Sejanus]

I can't support keeping animals like this alive considering the lives 5hey have brutally cut short.
The only question should be how to do it.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

A convicted killer who has also been charged in the 1988 disappearance of Michaela Garecht was sentenced Tuesday in connection with the murders of two Fremont women nearly four decades ago, authorities said.

According to the Fremont Police Department, David Emery Misch received two consecutive 25-year-to-life sentences in the murders of Michelle Xavier and Jennifer Duey. A jury convicted Misch of the murders on Dec. 19, 2024.

According to officers, Xavier and Duey were found shot and stabbed along the side of Mill Creek Road in the hills above Mission Boulevard shortly after midnight on Feb. 2, 1986. Xavier was 18 and Duey was 20 when they were killed.

Earlier in the evening, the best friends were attending a birthday dinner for a family member and were last seen together around 10:15 p.m. at a convenience store near Farwell Drive and Mowry Avenue, police said.

Despite numerous tips following their murders and thousands of leads, the case went cold. Police reopened the case in 2016 and with the help of DNA testing, Misch was identified as the main suspect.


Misch, who was already serving 18 years to life for the 1989 killing of Margaret Ball in unincorporated Hayward, was charged with the murders of Xavier and Duey in 2018.

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At Tuesday's sentencing hearing, the 63-year-old was removed from the courtroom after disrupting the proceedings and singing while the victims' impact statements were being read, according to the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.

"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," Chief Assistant District Attorney Royl Roberts said Wednesday. "The families of these two young women have been waiting nearly 40 years to receive justice for their tragic and senseless murders. Thanks to the jury and this conviction, Mr. Misch will be held accountable."

Awaiting Trial In Garecht Case​

Misch remains in custody at the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin as he awaits trial for the kidnapping and murder of Michaela Garecht, who was nine years old when she vanished from a street corner in Hayward more than 36 years ago.

One of the Bay Area's most high-profile missing children's cases, Garecht and a friend rode their scooters to the Rainbow Market located in her neighborhood on the morning of Nov. 19, 1988 to buy some candy and sodas. After they came out of the store, investigators said Garecht noticed that her friend's scooter had been moved in the parking lot.

When she went to retrieve it, an unidentified Caucasian male who appeared to be 18-to-24 years old, grabbed her and forced her into his older model American-made sedan and sped away from the scene.

Garecht's friend went inside the market calling for help. By the time, the store clerk rushed out of the store, both Garecht and her abductor had vanished.

Convicted killer David Emery Misch sentenced in 1986 murders of 2 Fremont women

A convicted killer who has also been charged in the 1988 disappearance of Michaela Garecht was sentenced Tuesday in connection with the murders of two Fremont women nearly four decades ago, authorities said.

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