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Invisible Choir

The Sledgehammer

Invisible Choir

Reach Freaks

True Crime

4.75.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

February 4th, 2010 left one family’s lives forever mysteriously frozen in time inside of their Fallbrook, CA home. The television was left on, two bowls of popcorn remained on the couch, and the dogs were still out back barking. Joseph, Summer, Joseph Jr., and Gianni McStay had seemingly vanished into thin air. Four days later their vehicle was found abandoned near the U.S./Mexico border - but the case went cold for nearly four years until their bodies were discovered buried in a shallow grave in the harsh Mojave desertscape near Victorville, CA. Police were ultimately left wondering if Joseph McStay's partner in business eventually turned into a partner in crime.    Visit Invisible Choir on the web:  Patreon - Invisible Choir Premium:  https://www.patreon.com/InvisibleChoir  Website:  https://www.invisiblechoir.com/  Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/InvisibleChoirPodcast/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/invisiblechoir/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/InvisibleChoir All Written, Audio, and Sound Effect sources are available at www.invisiblechoir.com.    ©2019 Reach Freaks, LLC. All Rights Reserved. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Thank you for listening to Invisible Choir.

0:04.2

This episode contains sensitive material including graphic depictions of violence or abuse

0:09.4

against children, which some listeners may find especially distressing or traumatic.

0:14.6

Their discretion is advised.

0:17.8

What's a little business between friends?

0:34.8

Welcome to Episode 5 of Invisible Choir.

0:37.3

I'm your host, Michael O'Jibwey.

0:39.8

There's a saying in business.

0:41.6

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door, and that's precisely what Joseph McStay

0:46.9

did when he started a custom fountain business in Southern California.

0:51.7

And when business was finally booming, so too were the foundations of greed and selfishness

0:57.4

that would ultimately drive a partner in business to become a partner in crime.

1:03.3

We finally have answers in what many considered the mystery of the last decade, and the details

1:09.9

are disturbing.

1:11.5

So turn the headphones up and settle in, because this one's pretty crazy.

1:31.2

Do you believe there's any possibility that that home and the scene inside that home

1:34.1

was staged?

1:36.0

That's one theory, and of course we've looked at that.

1:39.9

We don't see anything like that, we don't have any hard evidence to indicate that, but

1:44.1

we keep that in the back of our minds.

1:46.8

Starting a business is said to be one of the most stressful things you will encounter in

1:51.0

the workforce world.

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