His truck was in the driveway. dogs were in the backyard with no food, no water. i walked around the house. i didn t see anything suspicious. did it surprise you that the dogs were outside? very much so. so much so that i called susan, joseph s mother and tolder and told her there s something amiss. i said, go down, the dogs are there, move the dog bowls, the food and the water and then we can see if maybe 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.
From joseph mcstay? yes. we have the evidence to prove that, yes. how strong is that proof? how reliable is the evidence gathered at the mcstay house weeks after investigators say they were murdered there? tons of critical evidence could have been lost in those first 15 days. 15 days in which people were in and out of the house. so many things in there that could have been relevant to the case. investigative journalist s steph watts. we don t know if somebody in that house was related to or had knowledge of the crime could have removed items that could have been significant to solving this case. could have removed items that could have indicted them in this case. i don t think that you can seal a home for that long unless you are actually investigating a murder, and at that time, it wasn t. we know that the family members went in and out and susan mcstay went in and cleaned the counters. she couldn t stand the house was dirty, she went in and threw out dirty diapers. and mike mcstay took the video