A few of the bones had been scattered by animals. At that location, 100 miles north of Fallbrook, detectives discovered two shallow graves each containing two sets of skeletal remains. After leaving Fallbrook that morning, the family simply disappeared.Īt ten in the morning of November 11, 2013, an off-road motorcyclist near a dirt road in the desert outside the San Bernardino County town of Victorville, came across what appeared to be human bones. An examination of their home computer revealed an Internet search that read: 'What documents do children need for traveling to Mexico.' Friends and relatives, however, had no knowledge that the McStays had planned a short trip into Mexico.

Investigators found no recent activity on the McStay's credit cards or bank account.

The family's two dogs were in the backyard, an indication the McStays hadn't planned for an extended trip. Police officers found bowls of popcorn in the living room and eggs on the kitchen counter. Moreover, officers found no evidence of a struggle or the theft of household property. On February 14, 2010, police officers entered the McStay's cul-de-sac home in Fallbrook. Poor quality surveillance camera footage on the Ysidro/Tijuana border revealed a family resembling the McStays walking into Mexico four days after they were video-recorded leaving their home in Fallbrook. On Monday, February 8, 2010, the McStays were reported missing after a security guard in Ysidro, a town across the border from Tijuana, Mexico, discovered the family's locked and apparently abandoned Isuzu Trooper parked in a mini-mall parking lot two blocks from the border.Ī surveillance camera on a neighbor's house in Fallbrook showed the couple and their boys, ages three and four, pulling out of their driveway in their SUV at 7:45 in the morning of February 4, 2010. Joseph McStay, a 40-year-old owner of a company that installed home water fountains, resided with his wife Summer and their two boys in Fallbrook, a suburban community 55 miles north of San Diego, California.

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