Sheriff’s detectives are searching for a San Clemente businessman, his wife and two children who went missing from their northern San Diego County home about two weeks ago.
According to friends and family, Joseph Bryan McStay, 40, and his wife, Summer, 43, and their children, Gianni, 4, and Joseph, 3, have not been seen or heard from since Feb. 4, according to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department.
But the family was not reported missing until Monday, when McStay’s brother, Michael, called the Sheriff’s Department and requested a welfare check at the family’s two-story home in Bonsall.
Deputies did not find the family at the house and called homicide detectives because the family’s disappearance seemed suspicious. Investigators said it did not appear that the family had gone on a planned trip. In fact, the family’s two dogs were left uncared for, according to published reports.
Investigators also learned that the family’s white 1996 Isuzu Trooper was found abandoned near the U.S.-Mexico border four days after their disappearance, according to published reports. Homicide detectives have notified Mexican authorities about the family.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department at (858) 974-2321 or leave an anonymous tip with Crime Stoppers at (888) 580-8477.
–Ruben Vives