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[*] posted on 3-5-2010 at 02:11 PM


Crime scene examination would reveal much. With the bits and pieces put out there it sounds staged to me. Again I could be wrong as I do not have all the facts. If it was them walking hand in hand at the border it was not a witness protection removal.



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[*] posted on 3-5-2010 at 02:27 PM
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Crime scene examination would reveal much. With the bits and pieces put out there it sounds staged to me. Again I could be wrong as I do not have all the facts. If it was them walking hand in hand at the border it was not a witness protection removal.


At the same time, nothing that has been reported in the media seems to indicate any connection to Mexico by this family. On the other hand, after perusing the business web site, it does appear that a certain amount of the doodads, and parts of the doodads could be of Mexican origin. Maybe he had suppliers from South of the Border.
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[*] posted on 3-5-2010 at 02:29 PM


I just hope it is what I think and they just flew away to a new life.



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[*] posted on 3-5-2010 at 02:51 PM


We're certainly seeing a different community reaction to this case compared to the case of the young lady who disappeared a couple of weeks ago.
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[*] posted on 3-5-2010 at 02:57 PM


Well, I could be wrong, but the first thing the police do in a case like this is put a watch on all their bank accounts, credit cards, cell phones, etc. It's hard to run away and start a new life with a wife and two kids with no home, clothes, money or transportation.

I would prepare for the worst.




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[*] posted on 3-5-2010 at 03:01 PM


This whole thing is as bizarre as that baloon kid farse. Hope this isn't that type of nonsense.

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[*] posted on 3-7-2010 at 03:16 PM


ANYONE ELSE NOTICE HOW THIS STORY HAS JUST DROPPED OFF ALL THE NEWS MEDIA'S?

One day it was every major TV channel news show's top story and on every newspaper's front page and now...it's GONE!

I'm still voting for the WITNESS PROTECTION program.


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[*] posted on 3-7-2010 at 03:29 PM


That's a good point. And as arrowhead mentioned, to flee on their own, it would be nearly impossible to cover their tracks.
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[*] posted on 3-7-2010 at 10:16 PM


Just saw this posted on the internet regarding the family.

http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/new-lead-in-case-of-mi...
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[*] posted on 3-13-2010 at 12:35 PM


A little more info trickles in... The husband did do some business in Mexico. The grainy videos may be the family crossing into TJ at San Ysidro- still nothing definitive.

"Family friend Don McCutcheon said Joseph McStay, who operated an indoor fountain business from home, occasionally traveled to Mexico for business, but he didn’t take his family on those trips."




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[*] posted on 3-13-2010 at 04:33 PM


And just how far do we have to stretch to consider that given the Colombian wife, and The type of business he had, with a location in Pomona that this dude may have been connected. Hate to post that, especially since they have little kids. But after perusing his business web site, I really have to scratch my head as to their financial bounty.
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[*] posted on 3-25-2010 at 10:39 AM
Two months later, and no trace of family


http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/mar/24/two-months-la...

By Leslie Berestein
March 24, 2010

Nearly two months after a Fallbrook family of four vanished with scarcely a trace, authorities continue to pursue leads in Mexico, while some relatives are skeptical as to whether they ever crossed the border in the first place.

A grainy Border Patrol video taken the evening of Feb. 8 shows two adults and two small children crossing on foot into Mexico at San Ysidro, which investigators think could be missing businessman Joseph McStay, his wife and their two young sons. The video has been enhanced for resolution by San Diego County Sheriff’s Department investigators, but it has yielded no better identification on the foursome than the original.

“Some family members are more certain that it is them than others,” said Lt. Dennis Brugos of the sheriff’s homicide unit, which has been working with Mexican authorities in hopes of finding the McStays.

McStay, 40, his wife Summer, 43, and their two children Gianni, 4, and Joseph Jr., 3, were last heard from Feb. 4. Since then, there has been no activity on their cell phones, said Mike McStay, 37. He said his missing older brother, who ran a custom indoor fountain business, was a frequent cell phone user who was on track to rack up 7,000 minutes that month.

McStay, who lives in Orange County, said he isn’t convinced that the people in the video are the missing family.

“I have analyzed that thing hundreds of times, I don’t know,” McStay said of the video, which authorities are hoping to enhance further. “The best I can come up with is that the children are the appropriate age and the appropriate size. The quality of the video is just very, very poor.”

He said the last time his brother traveled to Mexico was in 2003, and that he is the only member of the family who holds a current passport; his wife’s passport is expired, McStay said. In addition, their youngest child’s birth certificate, required for minors to cross back into the United States, is with the child’s grandmother.

John Cirignani, who with his wife is a longtime friend of Summer McStay’s from Orange County, said in a recent interview that said she had expressed unease with the idea of traveling to Mexico even as a possible vacation destination, saying she had concerns about safety.

Since the family disappeared, local investigators have teamed with Baja California state police, which have made inquiries about the family at airports, bus stations, hotels, shopping centers, hospitals, even the Tijuana morgue. Investigators checked with a family acquaintance in Los Cabos, who had not heard from them, according to Baja state police. In the United States, investigators from the state Department of Justice are also involved, Brugos said.

While there is still an investigation north of the border, “it seems as thought there is a high probability that they went south,” Brugos said, “We are going to look in that direction now.”

Mike McStay doesn’t think so, fearing something happened to the family in the four days between when they were last heard from and the night their SUV was found near the border — the same night the video shows the two adults and two children walking south.

“One of my biggest fears is could it be the kids, but that it could not be the adults,” said McStay, who worries that someone else may have driven the car to the border.

McStay, who has been working with a private investigation firm, said he and other family members remain stumped, and that as time goes by, are growing increasingly pessimistic. He said that a neighbor’s surveillance tape shows the family’s SUV leaving their home at 7:47 p.m. Feb. 4 and not returning that night. The family, which had recently moved in after relocating from San Clemente, appeared to have been painting the kitchen, he said, not planning a trip. Perishable food was left out, and their two dogs were left uncared for.

McStay said his brother had no reason to leave: His business had recently obtained some lucrative corporate contracts. After a bankruptcy several years ago, stemming from a lawsuit over a previous business the brothers shared, his brother had regained his financial footing and was and was excited about buying a new home. Joseph McStay also has an older son from a previous marriage that he was close to and would not abandon, his brother said.

“There is no crime scene at the house or in the car, but that does not mean there is not a crime scene,” Mike McStay said. “People don’t just fall off the face of the earth.”




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[*] posted on 3-29-2010 at 06:35 PM
E-mails link McStays to Mexico, authorities say


http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/mar/29/e-mails-link-...

By Leslie Berestein
March 29, 2010

FALLBROOK — Sheriff’s investigators say a missing Fallbrook family’s computer records indicate they had been looking into passport rules for children traveling to Mexico shortly before they disappeared.

Homicide Lt. Dennis Brugos said Monday that investigators found e-mails sent to unspecified recipients in late January that indicated Joseph and Summer McStay were asking about entry into Mexico.

The couple and their two small children were last seen Feb. 4. Their sport utility vehicle was found parked near the U.S.-Mexico border four days later.

“It appears they went into Mexico of their own volition,” said Brugos, who would not say to whom the e-mails were sent. “There is nothing to suggest any coercion or anything like that, at least that we have uncovered… this still isn’t a criminal investigation.”

Relatives, however, say they are baffled by the McStays’ disappearance and are skeptical that the family is in Mexico. They said the couple had not given any indication to relatives that they were going anywhere.

Joseph McStay, 40, runs an indoor water fountain business.

“The whole thing does not make any sense to me at all,” said Joseph’s brother, Mike McStay, who lives in Orange County.

Friends and relatives have also said that Summer McStay, 43, had expressed concerns about safety in Mexico in the past. While her husband had traveled there, she wasn’t interested in going with the children, Gianni, 4, and Joseph Jr., 3.

Their home showed no signs of a planned trip: Perishable food had been left out in the kitchen, their two dogs were left uncared for, and Summer McStay’s passport was expired. Investigators confirmed that Joseph McStay had a valid passport, though the children did not.

Sherriff’s investigators have been working with Baja California state police, which has followed up on tips and checked hotels, transportation centers, hospitals, the Tijuana morgue and other places without success.

The McStays’ white Isuzu Trooper was found in a parking lot by the border in San Ysidro Feb. 8, the same night a Border Patrol video recorded two adults and two small children walking toward the border turnstile into Mexico. However, investigators have not been able to enhance the video enough to identify the people.

Investigators have also viewed a surveillance video taken by a neighbor’s security camera Feb 4. that shows a vehicle backing out of the McStays’ driveway at 7:47 p.m. The tape ended at about midnight, said Mike McStay, who has also seen it, and there is no sign of the car returning before then.

Brugos said because of the angle, the tape does not show people getting into the car, and that it is also difficult to identify the vehicle.




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[*] posted on 4-2-2010 at 06:26 AM
FBI joins search for McStays


http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/apr/02/fbi-joins-sea...

By Leslie Berestein
April 2, 2010

FALLBROOK — The FBI is joining the search for a Fallbrook family that has been missing for almost two months and is believed to be in Mexico.

Homicide Lt. Dennis Brugos of the San Diego Sheriff’s Department said the federal agents will be briefed on the case today. “They have more resources in Mexico,” he said.

Darrell Foxworth, an FBI special agent in San Diego, acknowledged the briefing but provided no other details about the agency’s involvement.

Businessman Joseph McStay, his wife, Summer, and their two young sons were last heard from Feb. 4. Their white Isuzu Trooper was found in a San Ysidro parking lot near the border four days later.

Brugos said that while the investigation continues in both countries, the primary focus is on Mexico. Earlier this week, investigators said the couple’s computer records revealed that the week before they disappeared, inquiries were made about passport requirements for traveling to Mexico with children. The McStays’ two children are Gianni, 4, and Joseph Jr., 3.

Sheriff’s homicide investigators have been working with the state Department of Justice and with law enforcement agencies in Mexico, including Tijuana police, Baja California state police and the Baja California attorney general’s office.

Investigators there have checked transportation centers, hotels, hospitals and other sources within Baja California and followed leads beyond the border region, including in the Los Cabos area.

Jesús Quiñones, an international liaison for the Baja California state attorney general’s office, said information about the missing family has been shared with state agencies throughout Mexico and with the national immigration service, which checks foreign travelers’ documents at airports and highway checkpoints.

While it’s presumed that they crossed the border, he said nothing has turned up.

“We are searching, but so far, there has been no indication that they are in Mexico,” Quiñones said.

Joseph McStay’s brother, Mike McStay, said the computer inquiries were made to About.com, a site where users can send in questions. The inquiries were made Jan. 27 and 28, he said.

McStay said he is glad the FBI will be joining the search. But the recent news that the family might have planned to go to Mexico has not put relatives any more at ease.

Relatives of both Joseph, 40, and Summer, 43, say it would be uncharacteristic of them to simply pick up and leave the country without telling family members.

“I know I should feel a little bit better, but I don’t,” said Summer McStay’s sister, Tracy Russell, 40. She last spoke to her sister on the phone Feb. 4.

“My mother is distraught. I don’t think my sister would torture my mom like that.”

Russell, who lives in Rancho Cucamonga, said her sister had told her during that last conversation that she was planning to visit her next week.

She said that her sister had visited Baja California many years ago, but that given the violence there in recent years, Summer McStay had no interest in returning and would not take her sons. Furthermore, Russell said, her sister is a stickler for proper use of car seats; the family Trooper was found with the children’s car seats inside.

Mike McStay, 37, who lives in Orange County, said the news this week has prompted more tips about possible sightings to a Web site he has set up, which he has forwarded to authorities. So far, he has heard no word from investigators as to any possible destination, if there was one.

Neither of the McStays is fluent in Spanish, according to relatives. And only Joseph McStay has a valid passport; his wife’s is expired. Their youngest son’s birth certificate, required for re-entry to the United States by minors under 16, is with a grandmother.

Mike McStay said he has applied for a passport so that he can travel to Mexico if necessary. He still has a hard time with the idea that the family would pick up and leave, but at least there is more direction to the investigation, he said.

“I don’t know that they are safe,” McStay said. “All I know is that I have a direction to go in with the case. If I have to go there myself, I am going there myself.”




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[*] posted on 4-5-2010 at 05:23 PM
McStay family relatives hand out fliers


http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/apr/03/mcstay-family...

By Michele Clock
April 3, 2010

SAN YSIDRO — Family and friends of a missing Fallbrook family fanned out Saturday near the area where the family’s sports utility vehicle was abandoned nearly two months ago in hopes of gathering any possible leads.

Armed with colorful, photo-filled fliers, Mike McStay, the brother of missing businessman Joseph McStay, said somebody had to have noticed something. The family of four hasn’t been seen since Feb. 4. Four days later their car turned up in a San Ysidro parking lot near the border.

“Did somebody, with all these people around, see something from here to the border?” said Mike McStay, 37, standing in the same shopping center parking lot where the family’s white 1996 Isuzu Trooper turned up.

A grainy video showed two adults and two young children approaching the San Ysidro border crossing on Feb. 8, though authorities haven’t been able to determine for sure whether it is the missing family.

McStay and more than a dozen family friends yesterday passed out more than 4,000 fliers with photos and descriptions of Joseph McStay, 40, his wife, Summer, 43, and two children, Gianni, 4, and Joseph, 3.

McStay and family friend Don McCutcheon, of Mission Viejo, said several leads pointing to sightings of the family in Mexico were passed along to authorities this week. The tips leads have placed the family across Mexico, from the Yucatan area on the Gulf of Mexico to the Jalisco area on the Pacific Coast.

Asked if he thinks the family is still alive and in Mexico, McStay said, “I’m leaning that way.”

Standing near stacks of fliers, McCutcheon insisted the family just had no reason to leave their lives.

“Nice house, cars paid off, business doing good and you leave?” McCutcheon said. “Doesn’t make sense...We believe they did not go on their own accord.”

San Diego Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Jan Caldwell confirmed Friday that the FBI had been briefed on the case, joining an effort headed by sheriff’s investigators.

“The FBI has sources south of the border, and that is what we would like to tap into,” she said.




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[*] posted on 4-5-2010 at 05:31 PM
The McStay's 'Simple Plan'


http://newsblaze.com/story/20100403100625kays.nb/topstory.ht...

By John Kays
April 03, 2010

I had my doubts before about the surveillance video of the McStays approaching the turnstile to cross over into Tijuana, Mexico. But now I have developed my own photo of the family in silhouette, and am more convinced than ever that this is indeed the McStays. The figure of Summer with her long black hair is the most recognizable.

The investigation into the February 4th disappearance of the McStay family is morphing in the direction of a flight into Mexico, and probably deliberately. This only muddies the waters all the more. My theory is that with their fleeing into Mexico by choice, they must have been trying to avoid someone. They left behind a beautiful brand new home and a very happy existence. Or so it would appear on the surface?

I am going to back up here and spell out a handful of new facts that cast this case in a different light. The best reporting is coming from the Union-Tribune in San Diego and specifically from staff writer Leslie Berestein. Leslie seems to have the inside scoop with the McStay family and with the San Diego Sheriff's Department, who is oh so selective in what clues they'll disclose to the public.

A primary new clue is that the McStay's were researching passport requirements for traveling to Mexico with children. These inquiries were found on their computer and were made on Jan. 27 and Jan. 28; they visited the site About.com. However, it doesn't look as if they followed through with obtaining the proper legal documents.

Joseph was the only one who had a valid passport. Summer's had expired and the youngest son's birth certificate, required for reentry into the United States, was left with a grandmother. Therefore, I believe that a sudden unexpected event or development (a third party intervention) hastened their plans to depart Fallbrook on February 4th.

A new fact that I find significant is that a neighbor's security camera shows a vehicle backing out of the McStay's driveway at exactly 7:47 P.M. on Feb. 4th. Why were the family of four leaving so late on their trip? Some event, perhaps a phone call, must have triggered an impetus to move up the clock of departure?

Why leave so late for Mexico? This makes no sense. And remember, it would be four more days until their car was towed from a strip mall parking lot in San Ysidro. Where were they during this time and what were they doing for those four days?

The last phone call made was by Joseph McStay, on his cell phone at 8:37 PM to his business partner. The call was for only one minute and was made one hour after their departure for an unknown destination. After this time the cell phones go dead. Also, bank activity completely drops off the earth.

Could they have been living on cash alone? They would have to. A sizeable withdrawal of cold cash is required to make this fit. Yet the police haven't mentioned any cash withdrawal such as this? This is the key to a fundamental hypothesis of mine that I will postulate for you shortly.

What I find most odd is why hasn't the business partner come out with a statement to the press? This partner of Joseph in his home fountain business has not even given his name. Is he hiding something? What did he discuss with Joseph in this last one minute phone conversation? If he has nothing to hide, why not just come out with a statement to the press? Perhaps he has a piece of information that could unravel this unsolved mystery?

Tim Miller of Texas Equusearch was a guest on Jane-Velez Mitchell on Wednesday, March 31st. When Tim looked over the McStay house, he observed that it appeared that many clothes were missing. This implies that the family packed these belongings with the idea of leaving on a planned trip. Maybe a trip of some length, I might add. There were only high heels for Summer, and where were Joseph's shoes and shirts? Packed in luggage, I would think.

And what about the notion that they staged their disappearance? What's for sure, is that they left in haste! Food was left out. And Summer forgot her prescription sunglasses! The dogs were left without food and water (most puzzling). Trays of paint and rollers were abandoned, as if some event altered Summer's flow of work, her painting of the kitchen, a dramatic gear shift. A statement of Summer's friend for ten years, Jesi Silveria, reinforces my theory of a rapid change in plans.

"I was one of the last people speaking to her and for three days straight it was all about moving in and setting in. There was no mention about hesitancy or challenges she was having. If she had any stress or strain or worry you could have heard it in her voice. It just doesn't make sense to anyone who personally knows them."

A life altering development occurred on February 4th. This event was reinforced by previous happenings, however. This is cause and effect here. Think of when you shoot a pool ball with a cue stick. The ball hits other balls and they move to a new location on the pool table. In turn, this affects the player's strategy on his next shot. The 'McStay Plan' was a work in progress. It shifted with the sifting sands of fate.

Testimony from Susan Blake, Joseph's mother, adds to my belief that something BIG went down on February 4th. Susan Blake felt as if something was out of place when she spoke to her son on that day. "Joe told me he wasn't feeling good that day. His equilibrium wasn't right and I felt something was wrong." I think that Joe knew it was time to get away. Not doing so would be a more negative decision for his family.

I'm going to lay out my theory, so don't scoff at me for idle speculation. I'm sure that the FBI is doing that very thing even as I type these words. But here goes nothing. A favorite movie of mine, 1998's A Simple Plan, directed by Sam Raimi, is my model for what happened to the McStays. In the film Hank Mitchell, his brother Jacob, and a friend Lou stumble upon a downed airplane. They find a dead man inside the crash and $4.4 million dollars in cash, stashed in cargo bags.

The brothers and the friend devise a 'simple plan' to lay low and to keep the money as a sort of retirement account for their old age. This is where the irony comes in, this is anything but a 'simple plan' as a rapid sequence of events put a tire iron in the spokes of a well-oiled scheme. In this parallel the McStays must have discovered some money that they weren't intended to have. I think it was a sum of more than a million dollars. This cash may have been hidden in one of the fountains that Joseph purchased from Mexico. Narco-traffickers may have been attempting to launder vast amounts of drug money by way of these fountain craftsmen on the other side of the border. The McStays were not supposed to be aware of this scheme.

As such their men on the American side would retrieve this money and smuggle it away to another safehouse. But Joseph accidentally discovered this money when he was working on one of these fountains. The amount was so great, that he decided to keep it after discussing the situation with Summer. In the film Bill Paxton does something similar with Bridgett Fonda. The money pushes their button. This is where a 'simple plan' comes into play.

And so this would explain why the bank accounts suddenly went dead. The McStays would operate strictly on a cash-only-basis, going forward. They figured that could hide out in Mexico undetected, maybe in some simple village up in the mountains, away from civilization. And their cash would stretch out as far as the eye can see.

Fitting in with my theory, the McStays had to hide out in the states from the 4th to the 8th. They didn't want to cross over into Mexico too rapidly, lest the traffickers might surprise them at the crossing. Why leave the white Isuzu Trooper in San Ysidro? Because the Bad Men knew of the vehicle from the news, so they had to get rid of it. And what about the last call to the business partner?

This is why I think he knew. He may have tipped off the McStays that 'they' were looking for them. This would also explain why he won't give his name or provide the media with a statement of some kind. Also, I believe the police know of his involvement and are providing him with a makeshift 'witness protection program.' This would also explain why it took so long to report the disappearance to the authorities. Enough time was allowed for the McStays to hide away in the remotest regions of Mexico.

And then you might wonder why the McStays didn't just return the money to these traffickers? The reason why is this wasn't even an option! Even if they did return the money, they would still be killed to silence them. This is how these ruthless criminals operate, in say, Ciudad Juarez. The McStays had no choice but to flee with the money in tow. They had but one choice-a permanent departure from their once beautiful life.

My theory of what might have happened to the McStays is the only one that fits all the known facts we that we have at our disposal. Today Michael McStay is distributing fliers down on the border. He intends to go to Mexico very soon, and has already gotten his passport. And now the FBI is taking a stake in this case.

This is further support for my theory. I don't believe they would get involved if they didn't believe their case had taken on wider parameters. As such maybe it's more international in scope, involving U.S. citizens and narco-traffickers, who operate without impunity on both sides of the borders.

You may think I'm spinning cotton candy here, but how can one juxtapose these disjointed facts into a cogent theorem that fits for their sudden disappearance? My theory works. And don't you look upon me as if I'm lingering on the Dark Side (I don't live in a Gingerbread House)!

I do believe that they are still alive! I'm an optimist. Two possible sightings have already been reported. The case may break tomorrow or it may remain unsolved. Words of Lt. Dennis Brugos best characterizes the McStay case: "I've never seen anything like this in over 35 years of experience in the business."




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[*] posted on 4-6-2010 at 10:48 AM


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Wow! That is some serious speculation and you have certainly spent some time on this.


The article was written by John Kays for newsblaze.com. He also wrote this article about the 9 militia indicted for ploting to kill law enforcement agents:
Is The Hutaree Militia an 'outlier' or Part of a Growing National Trend?
In this article he states: The Hutaree believe that the feds are conspiring to create one-world government and so a war is at hand, that is, between Christians and the Antichrist. Exactly who is the Antichrist? This is unclear from 'Hutaree theology,' but I would think it must be Barack Obama, since he's the president of the federal government.
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[*] posted on 4-6-2010 at 11:26 AM


Moreover, newsblaze is the handiwork of Alan Gray, a devout tea party advocate.
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[*] posted on 4-6-2010 at 11:58 AM


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http://newsblaze.com/story/20100403100625kays.nb/topstory.ht...

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That story is pure arm waving imagination run amock-- was not news.

BajaNews: As a news compiler and poster, you should add to your signature that you make no attempt to filter news with respect to reliable vs unreliable sources, or filter news from internet conspiracy theories.

anywho, thast was not a news article, but was an entertaing tabloid theory piece. perhaps yopu need another posting-name: "BajaNews-tabloid edition" to distiguish your pieces from regular news.
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[*] posted on 5-13-2010 at 12:12 PM


New information from CNN - may be in Baja


Gabriel Falcon
AC360° Writer

The brother of a Southern California man who disappeared along with his entire family reported a possible new lead in the three-month-old mystery.

Michael McStay said he learned through an investigator that a waiter believed he served Joseph McStay, his wife, Summer McStay, and their children, Gianni, 4, and Jospeh, 3, at a restaurant in Guerrero Negro, Mexico in late February or early March.

Guerrero Negro is a city in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur.

According to Michael McStay, he recalled that the family left behind a map. McStay said he did not know any further details about the map. He said it was handed over to the FBI, who did not return calls for a comment.


McStay also said the waiter commented at the time on what he thought was a bump on the little boy’s head. It was actually a birthmark, Mcstay said.

McStay told CNN that the waiter remembered that Joseph McStay “looked ill, he looked sick.”
“My understanding was in the last year he’d been having these vertigo type symptoms,” McStay said. “He was in the hospital for a couple of weeks, and on the (February) 4, he was talking to my mother and he had to pull over when he was driving home because he felt vertigo type symptoms.”

The Mcstays have not been seen or heard from since February 4.

Information gathered on the McStay's home computer reveal the couple was making travel inquires about Mexico on the internet a week before they were reported missing, authorities said.

“It had to do with travel in Mexico with children and whether you needed to have passports for children,” Lt. Dennis Brugos, of the San Diego Sheriff’s Department said. “It looks as if there were some planning.”

Their two dogs were found unattended without food or water in the Mcstay’s San Diego house, investigators said.

An SUV belonging to the McStays was found abandoned on February 8 just two blocks from the San Ysidro border checkpoint, authorities said.

Surveillance video taken that evening appears to show the family “casually” walking into Mexico, the sheriff’s department said.

Michael McStay does not understand why his brother would, it appears, voluntarily abandon their life in the U.S.

“It’s like they are afraid of something,” he said. “That’s what to me it appears to me.”

“What I can’t gather is what’s compelling him to go down there…I can’t figure it out.”

Joseph McStay is 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighs 175 pounds. He has brown hair and brown eyes. Summer McStay, also known as Lisa Aranda-Martelli, is 5 feet 5 inches tall and 115 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes.

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of the McStay family is urged to contact the San Diego County Sheriff's Department at 858-565-5200. Anonymous calls can be made to 888-580-8477.
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