All American Family Murder

Red Collar

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True Crime

4.4 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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On February 4, 2010 the McStay family disappeared without a trace from their home in Fallbrook, California. Over the years, the case made international headlines and everyone seemed to have a theory about what happened to the family of four: Did they walk over the border to Mexico to start new lives? Were they kidnapped? Did they meet with foul play? After their bodies were found in the desert near Victorville, California, investigators began to look for a killer much closer to home. Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.com/

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0:00.0	On February 4, 2010, the McStay family, 40-year-old Joseph, his wife, Summer, 43, and their
0:09.3	son's Gianni, Four, and Joseph Jr., Three, vanished without a trace from her home in
0:14.5	Fallbrook, California.
0:16.7	Joseph's company, Earth-inspired products, built custom-made decorative fountains and sold
0:21.1	them online.
0:22.1	Summer, a licensed real estate agent, stayed home and took care of the boys.
0:26.6	The family had just bought a new home on avocado Vistilane in Fallbrook, a suburb north of San
0:31.6	Diego with rolling hills, lots of green space, and a small town vibe.
0:36.6	It's known as the avocado capital of the world, and they even have an avocado festival that
0:41.2	draws big crowds.
0:43.4	How could a family of four disappear from the face of the Earth?
0:48.0	Everyone, from multiple law enforcement agencies, including police in San Diego and San
0:52.5	Bernardino, the FBI and ICE, to private investigators, reporters, and amateur online
0:58.3	sluice, was obsessed with the case.
1:01.7	Everyone had a theory.
1:03.2	From a run-in with the cartel to Summer killing Joseph and changing her name.
1:07.9	For a long time, law enforcement appeared to believe the narrative that suggested the
1:12.4	family had probably crossed the border into Mexico to start a new life.
1:17.0	But the skeletal remains found in the Mojave Desert told a different story.
1:21.3	The McStays and their killer were a lot closer to home.
1:25.2	I'm Katherine Hansen.
1:27.0	This is Red Collar.
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