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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 Californias 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.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)...but the scene in National Lampoon's Vacation comes to mind:
Tikki
(14,556 posts)friends and family behind
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Tikki
GentryDixon
(2,948 posts)How very sad.
livetohike
(22,133 posts)DreamGypsy
(2,252 posts)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 Im livin down in Mexico.
But my end, it doesnt 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