Charles “Chase” Merritt, 62, was convicted in June of killing his former business associate Joseph McStay, 40, McStay’s wife, Summer, 43, and their two children, Gianni, 4, and Joseph Jr., 3.
Feb 15, 2021 · Merritt told investigators that on Feb. 4, 2010, the day the family disappeared, Merritt and McStay met for lunch at a Chick-Fil-A restaurant in Rancho Cucamonga for a business meeting. “We just had to go over all kinds of money stuff,” Merritt told detectives in an interview recording obtained by “American Greed.”.
“In a motion filed with the court, one of Merritt’s attorneys argued that a business associate of victim Joseph McStay, Daniel Kavanaugh, threatened McStay and his family in an online exchange in January 2009 after their relationship soured. Additionally, the attorney said, Kavanaugh told another man in November 2013 that he “knows how to ...
Jun 30, 2015 · Charles “Chase” Merritt was arrested last November and charged with four counts of murder in connection with the deaths of Joseph McStay, 40, his wife, Summer, 43, and their sons, 4-year-old ...
Watch the Full Episode. When Joseph McStay, his wife Summer, and their two young sons disappeared from the family’s Fallbrook, California home in February 2010, it was as if they’d simply vanished into thin air.
Cell phone records placed Merritt in the desert where the bodies were ultimately discovered just two days after the family disappeared. Detectives said Merritt had grown up in the area and was familiar with the terrain.