David Misch Sentenced to 50 Years to Life in Prison for the Murders of Jennifer Duey and Michelle Xavier
<style> </style> January 22, 2025 OAKLAND, CA — Chief Assistant District Attorney Royl Roberts announces that David Misch (63) received two consecutive 25-year to life sentences for the murders of Jennifer Duey and Michelle Xavier in 1986. On December 19, 2024, a jury found Mr. Misch guilty of one count of first-degree murder for killing Jennifer Duey, and one count of first-degree murder for killing Michelle Xavier. The naked bodies of both women were found in a remote area in Fremont on February 2, 1986. The evidence presented at the trial showed that DNA found under Jennifer Duey’s nails in 2001 belonged to Mr. Misch. In 2003, while serving a life sentence for a murder he committed in December of 1989, Mr. Misch claimed that he had seen the two young women being kidnapped at gunpoint and tried to save them. He used this as an explanation…