Stay updated with breaking news from Newlyweds joseph. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
He said, $22. i said, you re kidding me. he said, i m going to start making them in the garage, dad. he did. he sold 30 a month and it just took off from there. he s like, check this out. maybe we should try to build a site for these water fountains. dan cavanaugh built a website for what became joseph s new waterfall company, earth inspired products, or eip. what was originally a tiny start-up operation making nothing was eventually a successful online business. so successful, online orders began pouring in. i was his customer sales rep. gina watson worked for water for a waterfall manufacturer in florida. anytime he needed a real fancy custom job done or, you know, quote request for one, we d work together on it, so i got to know him throughout the years. tell me what you thought of him. what was he like? well, personally, very nice guy. ....
Joseph s mother, and told her, there s something amiss. i side, go down, if the dogs are there, move the dog bowls, the food and the water, and then we can see if they hired someone to feed the animals. well, then go back two days later and could tell the bowls were moved, obviously fed. so this is why we thought they were out of town. finally, eight days after anyone had heard from joseph, michael mcstay went to his brother s house with chase. who knew exactly how to get inside the locked home. 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 ....
i told the detectives i didn t believe it was them. you ve got one camera angle of the family crossing the border but there s cameras all over the parking lots. how come not one camera down there picked them up anywhere walking in the parking lots or across to the border? come on now. fearful that the sheriff s department was putting all their eggs in the wrong basket, patrick teamed up with an old friend of joseph s. gina watson. it became, i would say almost an obsession of looking for information. they quickly became seasoned investigators, scouring the internet, tracking down leads. evidence that gina believed poked holes in the theory that the family voluntarily went to mexico. and there was more. like all of their craigs list purchases, if a family was planning to disappear, why were they buying so much on craig s list? countertops, microwaves, things ....
Very generous. really not easy to anger and professionally, very, very good with customers. knew his stuff. joseph also knew how to spot talent and he believed he d found it in welder chase merritt. joseph owned his own business. and i owned mine. i manufactured custom indoor waterfalls and he bought the waterfalls from me. this waterfall, i m under the understanding that you re going to have a designated switch. we were anticipating probably $1.5 million in sales for 2010 while they met through business, the two quickly became close friends. we talked constantly. we played paint ball together all the time. he came down and had dinner with me and my family once or twice a week, virtually every week. joseph was my best friend. how was he to work with? oh, man. ....
i have to say that the only person that i know in the whole thing that i could ever trust is her. you know. and she never once turned her back on me or betrayed the trust, you know. that is nice. trust and friendship that patrick says that he ll need as chase merritt goes on trial for murder, the murder of his loved ones, joseph, summer, gianni, and joey, jr. if this does go to trial, will you go? yes. definitely. it s important to you? absolutely. i want to look him in the face. let me tell you what one of the detectives told me. he says, i know, patrick, i know that you would like to give me 15 minutes with him, but i can t. and i said, yep, you are right. what would you ask him? i wouldn t ask him anything. there would be one person coming ....