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Death Row prisoner James Odle, who killed Amber Swartz-Garcia s father, dead at 71
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James Odle, sentenced to death for murdering a Pinole woman and a police officer who was trying to arrest him in 1980, has died in a hospital, state prison officials said. He was 71.
Odle of San Pablo was convicted of stabbing 19-year-old Rena Aguilar at her home on April 30, 1980, and shooting Officer Floyd “Bernie” Swartz four days later as police closed in on him. Odle was trying to stop Aguilar from contacting police after her roommate, Odle’s former girlfriend, had told her he had stolen a van.
Convicted Killer Charged In 32-Year-Old Cold-Case Kidnapping and Murder of 9-Year-Old in the East Bay
Gen Xers and older Millennials who grew up in the Bay Area and their parents may remember 1988 as a scary time to be a kid, with multiple child disappearances making headlines within a few months. One of those was the disappearance of nine-year-old Michaela Garecht, who was grabbed in a supermarket parking lot in Hayward a few days before Thanksgiving, never to be seen again.
Now, 32 years on, investigators in the East Bay say they ve identified a suspect, and it s a man who s been in prison for another Hayward murder since 1989, and who s been charged in a double murder of two women in 1986 in Fremont. His name is David Misch, he s now 59 years old, and, as KRON4 reports, he is being arraigned in Alameda County court on Tuesday on Garecht s kidnapping and murder.