HARRISON COUNTY Justice judge steps down from cold-case hearing A Justice Cotut judge has recused himself from the preliminary hearing of murder suspect Michael David Lamb accused in the 1994 slaying of his teenage girlfriend Judge Bruce Strong presiding at hearings this week at the Harrison County jail declined to hear the evidence to avoid any appearance of impropriety He knows the victim’s family and was a Biloxi police detective when the victim was reported missing in 1994 Lamb is accused in the murder of Genevieve "Nicole" Munoz 18 Biloxi police arrested him in Peoria' III in September alter reopening the cold-case file Munoz’s body has not been found Lamb 32 remains in custody without bond Harrison County Attorney Herman Cox said the hearing has been reset for Oct 29 — ROBIN FITZGERALD rfitzReraldsunheraIdcom