The McStay Family Murders

True Crime All The Time

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True Crime, Truecrime, Podcast, Documentary, Murder, Exhibit C, Serial, Killers, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Joseph McStay, his wife Summer, and their two young sons went missing in February 2010. Their bodies were found in the California desert three years later. Initially, it was believed that the family had decided to travel to Mexico, but authorities discovered evidence suggesting that someone close to Joseph was involved in their murders.

Join Mike and Gibby as they discuss the murders of the McStay family. The family of four was thriving in California at the time that they went missing. Several things led the authorities to believe they had walked across the border into Mexico. However, the evidence began to lead authorities to a close friend and business associate of Josephs named Chase Merritt. But Merritt wasn't the only one with a motive and who had evidence pointing in their direction.

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1:14.7	I'm Mike Ferguson.
1:15.7	And with me as always is my partner in True Crime, Mike Gibson, Gibby.
1:20.3	How are you?
1:20.9	Yeah, I'm doing good about you.
1:22.2	I'm doing great.
1:23.7	You and I just did our weekly Patreon kind of minisode thing and, you know, talked about what we were watching, what's going on in our lives, but also talked about the return of mine hunters.
1:37.8	Yes, we did.
1:38.5	Which is a very exciting thing.
1:41.6	I can't wait to be in that episode.
1:43.8	As a perpetrator. As a perpetrator as a perpetrator
1:46.0	i'll be the guy in the mask so you might not recognize me uh-huh and also changing my
1:54.3	voice up a little bit so might be hard hard to realize it's actually me yeah but it is you yes
2:00.1	let's go ahead and give our patreon shout-outs we had amber hoff jump out at our high Hard to realize it's actually me. Yeah, but it is you. Yes.
2:02.9	Let's go ahead and give our Patreon shoutouts.
2:05.4	We had Amber Hoff jump out at our highest level.
2:05.9	The Hoff.
2:06.7	You remember the Hoff?
2:09.4	You mean from Baywatch?
2:11.1	Eating the cheeseburger off the floor.
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