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Going to see him again. i just -- i just knew. something told me i wasnt going to see him again. >> four years ago, patrick mcstay lost everything he loved. four years ago, his son, joseph, daughter-in-law somer, and their two little boys, 4-year-old geeiani, and 3-year-old joseph jr., vanished. >> i dont think they knew what was coming. i really dont. >> how did you find out that they had gone missing? >> friday i tried calling him, couldnt feget him. sunday i called and couldnt reach him. now ...

Who killed the mcstay family? >> from day one, i just had this gut feeling that i was never going to see them again. i just, i just knew. something told me i wasnt going to see them again. >> four years ago patrick mcstay lost everything he loved. four years ago, his son joseph, daughter in law, summer, and their two little boys, 4-year-old gioni and 3-year-old joseph junior, vanished. >> i dont think they knew what was coming. i really dont. >> how did you find out that they had gone missing? >...

His friends and family that he had not been communicating on line or via phone and i couldnt get ahold of summer either. >> dan cavanaugh, who managed josephs companys website, contacted patrick. >> my gut instinct was not really a good one. >> patrick called his younger son michael who lived near joseph. >> i need you to go down and check on your brother. again, i get, im too busy. >> i didnt want to overreact. we thought that maybe they did a little ten-day vaca. >> let me tell you something, ...

>> with their permission, i grabbed his computer, what would be joeys computer, and the sd card. i got the pictures off, i got that download. then i had to put that back prior to them issuing the warrant. >> back in texas, patrick could hardly believe whats going on. >> the first thing im thinking is, youre going to destroy evidence. i was just stunned. >> certain items that might have been really key to the big mystery of why they left that house are gone. touched, moved, cleaned up. its ridicu...

Theyre like, do what you need to do. >> but cavanaugh didnt stop there. by summer 2011 when joseph was still missing, cavanaugh had sold josephs business to an outside company. >> they werent really looking to give me huge amounts of money, but they were like, well just come in, pay off whatever debts and things that the company has incurred and bring it current, and then youll barely get paid any money. >> patrick was enraged when he found out. >> owned nothing of any part of any share of anyth...

Looking for bank statements. i think she was just reaching for evidence. >> wasnt it a crime scene? >> no, it was not deemed a crime scene, because there was no sign of forced entry. there was no signs of foul play at the house. >> michael says investigators gave them the okay to remove some items from the home. >> with their permission, i grabbed his computer, what would be joeys computer, and the sd card. i got the pictures off, i got that download. then i had to put that back prior to them is...

>> were getting a story, we found the car at the border and we got a family walking across the border. so they may have left voluntarily. >> while detectives pursued that theory, those that knew the mcstas insisted those people in that individual were not the mcstays. >> i said right up front, the first time i saw it,9" wasnt them. >> so theyre meeting with detectives. >> fearful detectives were chasing dead end clues, patrick called tim miller, a fellow texan, who he hoped could refocus the sea...