A California serial killer added insult to injury when he burst out in song in front of his victims’ families as they begged him to give up the location of a young girl he is accused of murdering.
David Misch, 63, began singing the lyrics to 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall during his sentencing in an Alameda County courtroom on Tuesday as the distraught families of his victims gave their impact statements, according to Mercury News.
County Judge Paul Delucchi promptly kicked the killer out of the courtroom, but he could be heard whistling the song from a nearly holding cell as the families begged him to reveal the location of Michaela Joy Garecht, a nine-year-girl he is accused of killing in a separate case in 1988.
Chief Assistant District Attorney Royl Roberts said his actions were ‘not only reprehensible, but a blatant display of no remorse for taking the lives of Jennifer Duey and Michelle Xavier’ – who he was being sentenced for murdering.
The prosecution said that Misch kidnapped Xavier, 18, and Duey, 20, both of Fremont, in February 1986 with the intent to sexually assault them.
They said Misch killed them after they fought back, according to Mercury News.
His DNA was found underneath Duey’s fingernails and part of his license plate was written on Xavier’s hand.
Misch, however, claimed he was a cocaine dealer who had shared a cigarette with Duey the night of the murder. He also claimed he saw her being adducted and had tried to intervene.
The girls had attended a birthday party dinner just hours before they were found dead by a motorcyclist in Fremont. They both had suffered stab and bullet wounds, according to KRON 4.
He was charged with Xavier and Duey’s death in 2018.
On Tuesday, Misch was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison for their murders.
Garecht disappeared in November 1988 after being kidnapped in a Hayward parking lot, according to KRON 4.
Misch allegedly moved her scooter closer to his car to lure her. When she tried to get it back, he allegedly grabbed her and drove away, leaving her friends behind at a Rainbow Market, according to the FBI.
He was charged with her death in 2020.
Misch is currently serving an 18-year-to-life sentence for a fourth murder of Margaret Ball in 1989 in Oakland, according to Mercury News.