DUBLIN, Calif. — In gripping and heartwrenching testimony, the families of three East Bay homicide victims — including a 9-year-old girl abducted and killed — described their final memories of their loved ones from the witness stand and ended a three-decade wait to confront the man accused of murdering them.
One witness, the best friend of the 9-year-old Hayward girl, stared into the eyes of accused Bay Area serial killer David Emery Misch. “They remind me of the kidnapper’s eyes,” she testified.
At the end of the two-month preliminary hearing in January for Misch, an Alameda County judge found that there was enough evidence to advance the case to the next stage, giving the green light for prosecutors to proceed to trial. No trial date has yet been set, and Misch — already serving life for murdering a woman in 1989 — has no reason to hurry things along, other than his expressed disgust with the food at Santa Rita Jail.
