This week a jury found Chase Merritt guilty of murdering the McStay family back in 2010. The McStays were a family of four from California with two little children who vanished into thin air. Chase Merritt was the business partner of father Joseph McStay.

The McStay’s left their house in what appeared to be a quick exit leaving eggs on the counter, were thought to have possibly gone to Mexico, though it was never confirmed and they were never seen alive again.

Not long after the family disappeared, in March of 2010, weeks after the family went missing, the brother of missing Joseph McStay, Michael, was quoted as saying to the Orange County Register, “My fear is that I’m looking for two adult shallow graves and … my two nephews’ crosses.”

That statement was hair-raising! Who says that when their brother and his family is missing?

Mind you, the family wasn’t found in their “shallow graves” for years after that statement, and yes, they were in two separate shallow graves in 2013!

That has deeply troubled me, but that alone was not enough. There was more. Every time I watched Michael McStay talk in interviews, I saw red flag after red flag.

Every single time.

I also watched a long interview with Chase Merritt on CNN, who has now been found guilty, talk at length, and I did not see red flags.

It took a long time for this case to come to trial. I have not followed the trial, so if there were interesting facts revealed, I’d love to hear more about it.

Previous posts here and here.