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Continue to do what you do. if you see things that are concerning, push them up to local law enforcement immediately. if they rise to a certain level or if you want to push it to both the fbi and local law enforcement, feel free to do that. these are your protecters. but do as you do normally. go about your day. do not let this cause mass h hysteria. we're not there. we're not there at all. we have a long-term very complex investigation that we have to complete. that's going to take time and a lot of energy and a lot of hours and a lot of agency expertise. i assure the american public we will ...

The border to enjoy a day in mexico? why would they walk over the border in the dark at night when there's really nothing on the other side at that time of night to do with small children? >> consider the timing. according to the sheriff, the empty mcstay vehicle was found between 5:00 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. at the mall. yet the surveillance video at the border is time stamped 7:00 p.m. >> tell me something, where were they for an hour and a half? with all these cameras in the parking lot, in the mall stores, and on top of the bank right in front of where the vehicle was parked, there's no video. ...

Coffee grounds scattered about. susan blake is joseph mcstay's mother. >> your thoughts are going wild. why would they be mising? something's not right here. >> the family's sudden disappearance stunned nearly all who knew them. a true mystery that baffled investigators. san bernardino sheriff john mcman and his team are in charge of the investigation. any thoughts on what would have made the mcstays leave their home on february 4 in such a rush? >> at this point, no. why would they take their children, who are 4 and 3, out of the home at 8:00 at night? it's dark. what was it that got all four...

>> as a journalist at the time, i had to consider it. particularly because law enforcement was to adamant that it was them. >> we did believe for a while, we add strong reason to believe, that they traveled to mexico. >> jan caldwell is with the sheriff's department. >> somebody else down there brought them cocktails and we did have the sightings. were they still there? we didn't know. >> and as more time went by, detectives say the leads dried up and the case went cold. >> it's almost impossible to work a case without information flowing in. >> with every passing day, the case grew colder and...

Just days after the remains were discovered. >> hopefully now that we have a scene, that's going to tell us the answers to this mystery. >> a mystery, once considered a missing person's case, now officially a murder investigation. >> the manner of death has been determined to be homicide. >> almost four years since the disappearance. grieving family and friends criticize law enforcement for overlooking evidence that might have helped them find the mcstays sooner. >> i could have hired some boy scouts and done a better job. >> allegations we put to the san diego sheriff's department in