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joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
Fri Nov 15, 2013, 07:37 PM Nov 2013

Remains found in Calif. desert ID'd as those of missing San Diego area family

More than three years ago the McStay family -- Joseph, Summer and their two young sons – seemed to vanish into thin air, but Friday authorities confirmed that four sets of skeletal remains found in California’s Mojave Desert are likely those of the couple and their two boys.

San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon said at a press conference that the remains were identified through dental records as those of Joseph McStay, 40, and his wife, Summer, 43.

Authorities are in the process of identifying additional skeletal remains that are believed to be those of the couple's sons, Gianni and Joseph Jr., who were 4 and 3, respectively, at the time of their disappearance.

The case is now being investigated as a multiple murder. McMahon said no suspect or suspects have been identified but held out hope that evidence at the scene where the bodies were found would eventually lead investigators to whoever was responsible for the killings.

http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/11/15/21480854-remains-found-in-calif-desert-idd-as-those-of-missing-san-diego-area-family?lite

Damn, the little boys were only 4 and 3.

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Remains found in Calif. desert ID'd as those of missing San Diego area family (Original Post) joeybee12 Nov 2013 OP
Not to make light of this... Cooley Hurd Nov 2013 #1
Dang…and I thought it was sad that they might have skipped out of the Country leaving their... Tikki Nov 2013 #2
And the theory was they went to Mexico. GentryDixon Nov 2013 #3
Very sad. I hoped the had just walked across the border. livetohike Nov 2013 #4
Disappearing is poetry, finding bones is journalism. DreamGypsy Nov 2013 #5

Tikki

(14,556 posts)
2. Dang…and I thought it was sad that they might have skipped out of the Country leaving their...
Fri Nov 15, 2013, 07:51 PM
Nov 2013

friends and family behind….


Tikki

DreamGypsy

(2,252 posts)
5. Disappearing is poetry, finding bones is journalism.
Fri Nov 15, 2013, 10:27 PM
Nov 2013

Maybe someone will write a song about the McStay family....like Dave Alvin wrote for Everett Ruess.

Well I hate your crowded cities
With your sad and hopeless mobs
And I hate your grand cathedrals
Where you try to trap God.

‘Cause I know God is here in the canyons
With the rattlesnakes and the pinon pines
And they never found my body, boys
Or understood my mind.

They say I was killed by a drifter
Or I froze to death in the snow
Maybe mauled by a wildcat
Or I’m livin’ down in Mexico.

But my end, it doesn’t really matter
All that counts is how you live your life
And they never found my body, boys
Or understood my mind.




I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly. Why muck and conceal one's true longings and loves, when by speaking of them one might find someone to understand them, and by acting on them one might discover oneself? - Everett Ruess


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