Serial Killer Sings ‘99 Bottles of Beer’ as He’s Sentenced for Murdering 2 Best Friends

A California man convicted in the 1986 killing of two best friends who went missing from a birthday party showed “no remorse” during his sentencing this week, prosecutors said, merrily singing before eventually being yanked out of a courtroom.

David Misch was sentenced Tuesday to 50 years-to-life for the 1986 murders of Jennifer Duey and Michelle Xavier, but he appeared to make light of the proceedings as he sang multiple verses of “99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall” while witnesses read their impact statements, and continued whistling even from a nearby holding cell according to several reports.

KTVU, KRON, and The Mercury News reported that Misch, 63, was eventually kicked out of the courtroom for his antics.

Misch is already serving a life sentence for the 1989 killing of Margaret Ball, according to KTVU. He was in court Tuesday to be sentenced for the murders of Duey and Xavier, two best friends who were 20 and 18 when they were killed.

“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 told reporters afterwards, according to the outlet. “The families of these two young women have been waiting nearly 40 years to receive justice for their tragic and senseless murders.”

Duey and Xavier were found naked on the side of a road hours after they went missing from a birthday party dinner in February 1986, according to KRON. The outlet reports that Misch got away with their murders for years until DNA found under Duey’s fingernails matched Misch’s, leading to his arrest.

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The Fremont Police Department said in a press release that Misch’s arrest stemmed from a 2016 cold case program which reexamined the 1986 case. Misch was convicted on two counts of first-degree murder in December, according to the department.

The Mercury News reports that Misch is also the primary suspect in the 1988 murder of 9-year-old Michaela Garecht. Prosecutors allege Misch abducted and later killed the 9-year-old girl outside of a local corner store before discarding her body, according to the outlet. 

Garecht’s body still hasn’t been found, the Mercury News reports, but Misch’s fingerprints were discovered on her scooter, according to KTVU.