i. i know how this works. you re a master cappuccino maker. come here, mommy! after the mcstay family disappeared, their california house once filled with life now seemed frozen in time. a paper in the driveway, shoes by the front door. i feel bad i didn t notice anything. i m shocked. i hope everything s okay. on february 8th, 60 miles south, police impounded a white isuzu trooper near the mexican border. it s towed from a parking lot as abandoned. on the 15th, police realized the trooper belonged to the mcstays. there was nothing in that car to indicate that anything bad had happened. there was no blood splatter, no damage to the vehicle. and no indication why it was
i feel bad i didn t notice anything. i m shocked. i hope everything s okay. on february 8th, 60 miles south, police impounded a white isuzu trooper near the mexican border. it was towed from a parking lot abandoned. on the 15th, police realized the trooper belonged to the mcstays. there was nothing in that car to indicate that anything bad had happened. there was no blood splatter, no damage to the vehicle. and no indication why it was abandoned within walking distance of a border crossing. and then came evidence from a search of the mcstay home computer. somebody in the mcstay was searching on the computer for passports and traveling to mexico. in my mind, we shifted gears. okay, they re in cabo or they re in mexico? when san diego detectives focused their search on the mexico border, they found what seemed to be the biggest piece of evidence to date.
somebody at the mcstay home had searched for getting passports to mexico. then just weeks later, what appeared to be a major break in the case. authorities are pouring over security tapes. new video could show the family crossing the mexican border. is it the mcstays? this surveillance footage showing what appeared to be a family of four crossing on foot into mexico on february 8. the very same night the mcstay s isuzu trooper was found near the border. we re getting a story, we found the car at the border and we ve got a family that looks like them walking across the border. so they may have left voluntarily. while detectives pursued that theory, those that knew the mcstays insisted those people in that video were not the mcstays.
there s the entrance. it was a new beginning. hi, you like all this big room in here? for them to be able to run and play outside, it was perfect. but by february 15, 2010, that once perfect house was now shrouded in mystery. the mcstay family was still missing, and so was their trunk. detectives send out a be on the lookout bulletin. bolo. what did they discover? instantly they get a hit on the truck. it s been impounded from a shopping mall near the mexican border. detectives say that four days after the mcstays disappeared, their white isuzu trooper was
mcstays moved into a new house. there s the entrance. it was a new beginning. light colors. hi, do you like all this big room in there? for the baby to run and play outside, it was perfect. i ll show you how this works. but by february 15th, 2010, that once perfect house was now shrouded in mystery. the mcstay family was still missing and so was their truck. detectives send out a be on the lookout, bolo. what did they discover. instantly, randi, they get a hit on the truck. bients impounded from a shopping mall near the mexican border. detectives say that four days after the mcstays disappeared, their white isuzu trooper was towed from the parking lot steps