Closing Arguments- Chase Merritt Charged W/Murder of Joseph, Summer, Gianni and Joe Jr McStay #2

[Recidivist]

I think if the verdict comes in at 4pm, the judge will have it read - that is unless he wants to beat the traffic to wherever he lives (just kidding). It has to be read at the time it's delivered.

He told the family he would give two hours notice.

 

[katydid23]

The jury knows about the 2 hour notice too. I dont think they are going to go to the judge at 4 with a verdict. It would not make sense for them either. I think they would just go home and sleep on. it, and come back the next morning and turn it in.

I think they may come back with a verdict on Thursday morning.

 

[Force Ten]

Oh hell no. They cannot even do that.

Hopefully if the jury reaches a verdict around 4pm, they go home and sleep on it. Then vote again in the morning and announce it then.

It would be cruel and unusual punishment for the families to say "we have a verdict but you have to wait 18 hours to hear it."

NO WAY.

I think the family is losing sleep regardless.

 

[Force Ten]

The proof is the fact the McStay Family was buried in the desert.

At least before the 12th, while the soil media was still muddy.

 

[Bennettfit]

"The proof is the fact the McStay Family was buried in the desert."
Why is it assumed that once people cross the border they can't return either dead or alive? How does their bodies being discovered in the Ca. desert 4 years after their disappearance mean they never entered Mexico? <modsnip: rude and personalizing>

 

[Bennettfit]

"At least before the 12th, while the soil media was still muddy."
All we know is holes were dug, we have no idea what the holes contained.

 

[Force Ten]

"At least before the 12th, while the soil media was still muddy."
All we know is holes were dug, we have no idea what the holes contained.

See earlier post. Ditto.

 

[katydid23]

"At least before the 12th, while the soil media was still muddy."
All we know is holes were dug, we have no idea what the holes contained.

Oh right, critical thinking. It must have been buried treasure there on the 12th. Then years later, after the family came home from their vacation in Tijuana, they ended up buried there instead.

 

[Bennettfit]

A lot of assumptions, this is why there will not be a conviction.

 

[KALI]

Yes. I am with you both on this. I live here.
God forbid I am ever murdered in San Diego, Ca.
Keystone Cops operate here.
Perhaps they are too busy dealing with the homeless to do real detective work, as the San Bernadino detectives did?
It was All right there, in front of their faces.
Bank account raided by Chase Merritt. No cell phone, bank activity after the 4th of February and forever more by either Summer or Joey.
A brand new home abandoned?
Planned get togethers with family members ignored?
Tens of Thousands of dollars of business income for this family ignored by Joey, who we can all see by his phone records, was working his business ill or not.

Joey was dedicated to making his business successful. For himself, his wife and his little children. One person, put the brakes on all of Joey and Summer's dreams.
Then decided to torture them before finally finishing all of them off.
The torture part kills my very soul.

By all accounts, the little McStay family were close and loving.

Who had to watch their loved ones die first?
They could not possibly be all murdered at the same time. So, yes, without a doubt, they watched hopelessly, as their loved ones were slaughtered before their eyes.
That. Is Torture.

wish I had an applause emoji

 

[Bennettfit]

Those dirt mounds that eventually became graves were visible on google maps. Perhaps, google maps was used by the killer to locate pre-dug holes.

 

[LadyL]

A lot of assumptions, this is why there will not be a conviction.

like what, the assumption that it was not the McStays in the border crossing video because they were found dead in the desert?

 

[katydid23]

Those dirt mounds that eventually became graves were visible on google maps. Perhaps, google maps was used by the killer to locate pre-dug holes.

Yah, that must be it. I think we have seen that happen quite often in other murder cases here....wait....

 

[Bennettfit]

"like what, the assumption that it was not the McStays in the border crossing video because they were found dead in the desert?"
Yes, that's one.

 

[Karinna]

"The proof is the fact the McStay Family was buried in the desert."
Why is it assumed that once people cross the border they can't return either dead or alive? How does their bodies being discovered in the Ca. desert 4 years after their disappearance mean they never entered Mexico? <modsnip: rude and personalizing>

You do realize once it was thought the McStay family could of gone to Mexico that the case was then handed over to the FBI don't you?
(quote)
Boosting that theory was the discovery of the family's Isuzu Trooper was found parked in a strip mall near the Mexican border and the San Diego County sheriff's investigators then turned the case over to the FBI.
https://www.myvalleynews.com/story/...stay-family-to-spill-into-thursday/66099.html

 

[LadyL]

Did Chase Merritt murder the McStay family?
This poll will close on Jun 17, 2019 at 7:34 AM.

1. *
   Guilty
   142 vote(s)
   92.2%
2. 
   Not Guilty
   12 vote(s)
   7.8%

POLL - Did Chase Merritt murder the McStay family?

Did Chase Merritt murder the McStay family?
This poll will close on Jun 17, 2019 at 7:34 AM.

1. *
   Guilty
   143 vote(s)
   92.3%
2. 
   Not Guilty
   12 vote(s)
   7.7%
   

 

[katydid23]

"like what, the assumption that it was not the McStays in the border crossing video because they were found dead in the desert?"
Yes, that's one.

So they went to Tijuana, met their killers there, and the killers decided to go back into the USA with their hostages, and dispose of them there, instead of the Mexican desert?

 

[LadyL]

"
Yes, that's one.

you're asking people to suspend disbelief and ignore common sense

 

[Bennettfit]

"Yah, that must be it. I think we have seen that happen quite often in other murder cases here....wait...."
The above statement is the epitome and text book example of closed minded thinking. Just because something is not ordinary, then it can't be, is the wrong approach to take.

 

[Karinna]

"like what, the assumption that it was not the McStays in the border crossing video because they were found dead in the desert?"
Yes, that's one.

I think we're way past theories right now. The jury is deliberating the facts and we are on Verdict watch.