Authorities said there is growing evidence that a Fallbrook family that disappeared two months ago may have planned to vanish into Mexico.
San Diego County Sheriff’s Department officials said they examined the family’s home computers and found evidence that they had been looking into information about child passports to Mexico shortly before they vanished.
The family’s car was found at the U.S.-Mexico border, and a videotape shows four people who might be the family crossing into Mexico. Family members have been skeptical that the family is in Mexico and remain worried about foul play.
No one has seen or heard from the family — Joseph McStay, his wife, Summer, and their
two children, Gianni, 4, and Joseph, 3 — since February.
Family and
friends describe Joseph McStay, a 40-year-old businessman, and his
43-year-old wife as devoted parents excited by their recent move from
San Clemente to a home they bought on a cul-de-sac in Fallbrook.
Authorities
say they are stumped by the disappearance of a family that had no
apparent financial or marital problems and no known enemies or
connections to drugs or crime.
On Feb. 14, McStay’s brother went to the family’s home to check on them
after Joseph’s partner in a water fountain business said he couldn’t
reach him. Michael McStay found the couple’s two dogs had been left
unfed and perishable food was on the kitchen counter.
— Shelby Grad
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