joey had pretty serious allergies so he always kept his window open, always. they found a mess, rotten food on the counter. popcorn on the futon. clothes tossed all over the place. i don t remember a great deal of it because i was in the house for maybe three minutes, i think. not very long. i told michael at the time, you should probably call the sheriff s department. his response was simply, you know what? let s wait until the end of the weekend. san diego s sheriff, they have a rule anyway. after 10 days, it s automatically, they send out homicide. could you have reported them missing and gotten police action before the ten days? i don t know. i don t know. maybe. it would take until monday, february 15th, 11 days after the family went missing for michael
of it because i was in the house for maybe three minutes, i think. not very long. i told michael at the time, you should probably call the sheriff s department. his response was simply, you know what? let s wait until the end of the weekend. san diego s sheriff, they have a rule anyway. after 10 days, it s automatically, they send out homicide. could you have reported them missing and gotten police action before the ten days? i don t know. i don t know. maybe. it would take until monday, february 15th, 11 days after the family went missing for michael to call the sheriff s department. investigators came to the house. immediately alerted homicide. but chose not to seal off the scene. they don t put any tape, crime scene tape, nothing, just locked the house back up and leave to get warrants.
it s automatically they send out homicide. could you have reported them missing and gotten police action before the ten days? i don t know. i don t know. maybe. monday, february 15th, 11 days after the family went missing, michael called the sheriff s department who came to the house to investigate. they immediately alerted homicide. then investigators did something patrick mcstay finds unbelievable. they don t put any tape on it, crime scene tape, notices on the door, nothing. they just lock the house back up and leave to get warrants. it doesn t make any sense to me. i think you got a family that s missing for a week, and they are still not going to call it a crime scene? it took san diego investigators four days to obtain the warrants they needed to complete a full search of the home. but during those four days, the mcstay s home remained unsealed,
needed to drive to his brother s house himself. chase met him there and together they climbed inside through an unlocked window. they found rotten food on the counter, popcorn on the futon, clothes thrown all over the place. i told michael at the time, you should probably call the sheriff department. and his response was simply, you know what? let s wait until the end of the weekend. san diego sheriff, they have a rule anyway after ten days it s automatically they send out homicide. could you have reported them missing and gotten police action before the ten days? i don t know. i don t know. maybe. monday, february 15th, 11 days after the family went missing, michael called the sheriff s department who came to the house to investigate. they immediately alerted homicide. then investigators did something patrick mcstay finds
that is how it s done. truly amazing! get in the hole-in-one sweepstakes. enter today at pgatour.com/quickenloans and you could have your mortgage paid for an entire year. a family of four disappears from their san diego home without a trace, no shines of struggle, nearly four years ago later, they are found dead. what happened to the mcstay family. it s part of a special cnn report tonight. it took days for other family members to alert police that these four were even missing. reporter: monday, february 15th, 11 days after the family went missing. michael called the sheriffs department who came to the house to investigate. they immediately alerted homicide. then investigators did something