Nine years after the McStay family disappeared, their accused killer heads to trial
by Marisa Gerber, Los Angeles Times
Jan 07, 2019
4 minutes
Each item exhumed from the shallow graves - a diaper, a bra, a blanket filled with bones - led detectives to the same question.
Could this be the skeletal remains of the McStay family, who had vanished more than three years earlier?
The mysterious disappearance of a family of four whose Fallbrook home showed signs of a swift departure - uneaten bowls of popcorn on the futon, vegetables left out to rot - transfixed the nation and puzzled police until the fall of 2013, when an off-road motorcyclist discovered parts of a skull in the desert off Interstate 15 in Victorville.
Days later came a grim confirmation: The remains unearthed along with a rusty sledgehammer belonged to Joseph and
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