He did that half closed eye look as he said it too. I am not any kind of professional in detecting liars but as a random person that seems very telling to me.
He makes me sick, I cannot believe he murdered this family. I hope he gets what he deserves. Justice is about to be served. Fly high with the angels Joseph, Summer, Joseph jr and Gianni
Right...if he didn't kill the family, he wouldn't be sure that he was the last person Joseph McStay saw...he could have seen anyone after their "restaurant meeting"...a neighbor, a friend, anyone. But Merritt said "I am definitely the last person he saw."
The brother said , "my brother gave this guy a chance n this is how he repays him," I bet this guy had a long history of theft laziness and other crimes. People don't surround your family with creepy people or self destructive people. Keep your family safe.
"just the standard questions..." has he been questioned before regarding someone's disappearance? i would think most people wouldn't really know what the standard questions are.
I thought the same thing. Unless someone's been questioned by the police before about a crime, how would they know what the "standard questions" would be? Also, how would he definitively be able to say to the interviewer that he knew he was the last person Joseph saw without totally implicating himself as the family's murderer?
Even if he meant that he was the last person to see them alive besides the killer and the cops really only asked him if he knew about their disappearance and not the murders, his callous behavior shows so much about his motives. He shows up to the interview wearing this stupid cowboy hat, probably thinking it’s looked cool when he looks like an idiot, then he’s shopping around a book, movie and/or documentary about the McStay family murders. He’s not distraught about their disappearance in the least, for him he’s trying to use them for new found fame which he can turn into money.
I suppose the DA found out from chases girlfriend after interogation that its better for her not to lie about chases phony alibi being with her at the time of murder or she could pay the price big price.that would certainly make chase look guilty,why else would he lie about his whereabouts unless he's hiding something.?
Looking someone straight in the eye doesn't mean you're not lying. The best liars tend to "romance" you all along by looking you in the eye to see if you're buying their story.
Yes. I was watching some of the interview that the murderer Paris Bennett did with Piers Morgan and he kept staring at Piers Morgan with a fixed stare, barely blinking at all, yet he brutally murdered and raped his 4 year old sister. I'm sure a total sociopath/psychopath like that would have no problem fixing anyone with an unwavering stare, which obviously would not prove in any way that anything they said was anywhere near the truth.
It didnt look like to me he was looking her in the eyes his eyes was looking to the side that man gave me the creeps. But im glad your such an expert newslady maybe you could of invited him to your house for coffee 😳
I can tell he did this a million miles off....he was disparaging about the family saying Summer was controlling and I got that he didn't like her much....and even joked about how the father had a funny walk, almost trying to humiliate him.....He seems nonchalant with no emotion about the killings and laid back...he worked with this guy closely and was supposed to be his friend, but he doesn't seem upset at all..just matter of fact whilst he is talking about it!..
Chase seems dismissive or searching for an answer around 1:15 when talks about not knowing for sure if there was another person or two that Joseph talked to on his way home. I wonder if that was important to his story, timeline, alibi, somehow.
Come on you! When you interviewed him the first time, I said to my Mum and Dad, THIS IS THE ONE WHO KILLED THEM, the way he spoke, the way he didn't look at you directly, he was trying very hard to control his voice and his panic, and stupidly you said '' they were friends'' oh really?
Ask yourself this...the detective said he smelled fresh paint when he went into the mcstay home yet the mother and brother said they did not, now why is that?
When i saw this interview i felt so sure that this guy was guilty!! He even looks like he likes the attention and almost are laughing at the world because he thinks he is the smart guy fooling everyone... What an evil and sick man killing a hole family and specially two children like this :-/
Not only the last person to see them alive but the only one that was way too forceful in blaming the wife and accusing her of trying to kill the husband, being controling and hating the stepson yet not one family member of the husband had anything bad to say about her and I'd think if there was that kind of issue the family would have known and spoke up. To me it was someone too quick to point a finger at a person that was also missing and didn't make sense. That stuck out to me and had me thinking he knew more than what he was telling. Now it comes to pass that I was right in that thought
I just know he had something to do with it....and you can easily tell by his body language and the way he talks about that family...there is no remorse, or sorrow, he's cold and it gives me chills. He is nonchalant, matter of fact shrugging his shoulders. I can see a bit of nervousness in his eyes, that he is trying to control. He even was rude about Joseph's walk...saying 'he walked funny', and could tell his walk a mile off. The fact he tells everyone he was the last person to see them, is to make out he is being upfront and honest about that, so obviously it may look like he has nothing to hide by admitting it. I think there was a lot of lucrative deals set in place for the business which would have been worth a lot of money, and he wanted to take over the business to acquire it. That computer programmer/web designer who did the website for the business etc should be looked at also. He put the business in his name after they disappeared....and that is not suspicious? I think either Chase did it, or he was in cahoots with the computer guy to take over the business!.....Chase was the last person to see them, and they end up dead a stone's throw from where he lives?....you do the math!
Cable News Network acts as though they have an exclusive on interviewing him? I have more than 20 hours of him over the past 4 years on tape answering questions over the phone. And I'm just a measly private Investigator.
He was truthful. He was the last person this poor family saw. 🤦🏽♀️🙏🏽 Just monstrous! How can you kill an entire family?!? Why kill the babies?!? Just monstrous. 🙏🏽
You know, I tried furiously along with everyone else to figure this out and though I never like Chase and thought he looked like a prime suspect, I admit I got sucked into all the suggestions about other suspects which made me believe he was probably innocent. A lot of doubt about his culpability came from his own claims that he was Joseph's best friend and that they were looking forward to a lucrative business deal, and him defending Joseph saying Joseph would never get mixed up in drugs or illegal activity, not to mention his claim that he was the only one who volunteered for a polygraph, that he passed it, and of course that he had an alibi which was watching a movie with his girlfriend when a call from Joseph's to his cell was placed. You have to wonder what evil lurks within the mind of someone capable of such magnitude in single-handedly eliminating four lives, including very innocent, very little children who probably suffered incredible fear and shock from seeing their mommy and daddy killed. You have to wonder the unfathomable that Merritt could publicly subject himself to interviews, express false grief for his loss, and proclaim his innocence in order to divert attention away from himself. As is being shown here, the last person to see and talk to them, turned out to be the suspect. They found something in that home. When will we find out what it was?
Yeah, nine years later and we still don't know. Why? Because there is nothing to find, and if there was LE did such a botched up job there is no chance of ever finding the real killer/killers at this point. There will be no justice for this family because LE jumped to conclusions and tried to nail someone without the proper evidence to back it up!
Money corrupts and corruption follows money...if this guy did this he just snapped at the thought of being left out...from the records he “McStay” was on the way up, and he had a lot of projects lined -up...supposedly worth a million dollars? So again, maybe money was a factor in this whole incident. So sad.
What a big dummy, Im definetly the Last person he saw ?? The reporter also saying oh he was so calm, looked me in the eye, was nice, blah, blah. You cant judge a person by the standards they tell us because its all bull crap !! Most killers are very well liked, very personable and will even look you in the Eye while bashing your head in !!
Did anyone else notice at :53 he says, the cops asked me if I knew anything about the disappearance. He almost said murder but caught himself. This guy is right were he belongs.
Hey Ashlie, as for looking in his eyes to see if he was being honest, you should tell your newspeople on CNN to look in the mirror and ask themselves why they lie on the news and give fake news casts.
May they rest in heaven . maybe with the grace of God Patrick could come face to face with his oldest son in Ohio and introduce him and mike to each other. Everyone could always use family to lean on in hard times.
rope law,will solve this and many more heinous murders,bleeding heart people not needed,the law is deficient as of now,hands tied by people who have no skin in the matter,whoso shedth mans blood,by man,blood be shed
Also at 00:53 it almost looks like he’s going to say “Do I know anything about the murders” But catches himself and quickly says them disappearing Idk maybe I been watching too much true crime 😂
Gambling is forbidden in all religions. Should be demolished from our the society. It could be exiting and entertaining but the kind of action that a person willing to take once became addicted is no joke. The gambling associates become rich beyond belief while many family's life are ruined and affected. Not only for those who practice and become addicted but also for those who got nothing to with it.
He said I'm MOST DEFINITELY THE LAST PERSON HE SAW....
not a good choice of words
Exactly, how would he know that he was definately the last person he saw? Sounds like he knows that as fact cause he did kill them. What a POS.
He did that half closed eye look as he said it too. I am not any kind of professional in detecting liars but as a random person that seems very telling to me.
I've seen that seem expression with the eyes on Scott Peterson and Chris Watts interview.
The LAST PERSON the victim saw would be the KILLER.
This guy just dug his own grave, using his mouth as a shovel.
Thank you!!! People talkin bout eye movements and everything Else but the fact that he subconsciously snitched on himself
If you say Im the last person to see him alive. Isnt that a confession?!?
Anne D Definitely
Lol... Right...
He said HE was MOST DEFINITELY THE LAST PERSON HE SAW!!
Killing children is pure evil, that it.
Killing any innocent is pure evil
DEKMAN99 its evil too kill anyone innocent, its certainly no worse because its a child. you sound like you don't have any sympathy for the parents lol
marklola12 According to God children are different because they are defenseless.
Saahir Khan Children can’t defend themselves.
People here protest children are no different. Not true! They can’t defend themselves. Cowards kill children without a fight
Welcome to the world of psychopaths!
He makes me sick, I cannot believe he murdered this family. I hope he gets what he deserves. Justice is about to be served. Fly high with the angels Joseph, Summer, Joseph jr and Gianni
You dumb bitch they never proved anything
6 years later and I agree 💯
How could u kill kids?? That's just a different kind of evil
Creepy if he did it. "But you were the last person he saw". "I;m definitely the last person he saw". Wouldn't the kill be the last person?
Right...if he didn't kill the family, he wouldn't be sure that he was the last person Joseph McStay saw...he could have seen anyone after their "restaurant meeting"...a neighbor, a friend, anyone. But Merritt said "I am definitely the last person he saw."
Right mark right!
Uh I guwss so
I hope not, I don't think she has any more supply of mascera.
You definetly are somekind of a french man who started a new life in America
when I saw this interview I found he seemed so cold
The brother said , "my brother gave this guy a chance n this is how he repays him," I bet this guy had a long history of theft laziness and other crimes. People don't surround your family with creepy people or self destructive people. Keep your family safe.
I think he's a sociopath. They don't care.
"just the standard questions..." has he been questioned before regarding someone's disappearance? i would think most people wouldn't really know what the standard questions are.
Ummm why would you think that lol 😂 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I thought the same thing. Unless someone's been questioned by the police before about a crime, how would they know what the "standard questions" would be? Also, how would he definitively be able to say to the interviewer that he knew he was the last person Joseph saw without totally implicating himself as the family's murderer?
he closed he's eyes when he said he was last person to see him alive
It's so incredibly obvious to me that he was acting.
Imagine sitting down with a murderer
there is absolutely no doubt! this is definitive! no question about it:
chase merritt knew they were gone.
He was about to say “did I know anything about their murders” then he caught himself and said about them disappearing
Even if he meant that he was the last person to see them alive besides the killer and the cops really only asked him if he knew about their disappearance and not the murders, his callous behavior shows so much about his motives. He shows up to the interview wearing this stupid cowboy hat, probably thinking it’s looked cool when he looks like an idiot, then he’s shopping around a book, movie and/or documentary about the McStay family murders. He’s not distraught about their disappearance in the least, for him he’s trying to use them for new found fame which he can turn into money.
No he doesn't he says about themmmm disappearing. You are reaching. I know him and he didn't kill anyone.
I suppose the DA found out from chases girlfriend after interogation that its better for her not to lie about chases phony alibi being with her at the time of murder or she could pay the price big price.that would certainly make chase look guilty,why else would he lie about his whereabouts unless he's hiding something.?
His eyes shift away from the interviewer twice, right as he answers crucial questions; A sign of lying.
Not really the fact that he said “DEFINITELY WAS THE LAST PERSON HE SAW” was the give away he subconsciously snitched on himself
Looking someone straight in the eye doesn't mean you're not lying. The best liars tend to "romance" you all along by looking you in the eye to see if you're buying their story.
Yes. I was watching some of the interview that the murderer Paris Bennett did with Piers Morgan and he kept staring at Piers Morgan with a fixed stare, barely blinking at all, yet he brutally murdered and raped his 4 year old sister. I'm sure a total sociopath/psychopath like that would have no problem fixing anyone with an unwavering stare, which obviously would not prove in any way that anything they said was anywhere near the truth.
THEY CAUGHT HIM STEALING.....SO HE KILLED THEM
It didnt look like to me he was looking her in the eyes his eyes was looking to the side that man gave me the creeps. But im glad your such an expert newslady maybe you could of invited him to your house for coffee 😳
I can tell he did this a million miles off....he was disparaging about the family saying Summer was controlling and I got that he didn't like her much....and even joked about how the father had a funny walk, almost trying to humiliate him.....He seems nonchalant with no emotion about the killings and laid back...he worked with this guy closely and was supposed to be his friend, but he doesn't seem upset at all..just matter of fact whilst he is talking about it!..
Chase seems dismissive or searching for an answer around 1:15 when talks about not knowing for sure if there was another person or two that Joseph talked to on his way home. I wonder if that was important to his story, timeline, alibi, somehow.
Come on you! When you interviewed him the first time, I said to my Mum and Dad, THIS IS THE ONE WHO KILLED THEM, the way he spoke, the way he didn't look at you directly, he was trying very hard to control his voice and his panic, and stupidly you said '' they were friends'' oh really?
Another interesting case to check out. The case of Russ Faria.
Ask yourself this...the detective said he smelled fresh paint when he went into the mcstay home yet the mother and brother said they did not, now why is that?
God has a way of making idiots tell on themselves
Study how psychopaths are so convincing of their innocence. Just like politicians.
he's a sociopath
This makes me sick 😷
When i saw this interview i felt so sure that this guy was guilty!! He even looks like he likes the attention and almost are laughing at the world because he thinks he is the smart guy fooling everyone...
What an evil and sick man killing a hole family and specially two children like this :-/
"I'm definitely the last person he saw.",...anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.
He definitely did it this is crazy no one had sense enough huh
How you know, you are definitely the last person he saw?
jerk but who would go into business with a guy who had been in prison
Yap, he's a shifty, looking down and to the left.,
And, develop a baseline. His eyes in certain a direction can just be him accessing memory, because that's what people do.
Reagan^^^
@@jilltheprivateinvestigator3328 Good point.
The interviewer said he looked at her the whole time but he didn’t! I agree with you, he was looking down and to the left for most of it.
You can tell he's obviously lying and guilty just by the look on his face.
People screwed up big time.
I saw right thru this interview....
He and the brother did it!!
Hiding under his hat, and other body language involuntarily saying, "I'm guilty!"
I think he seems guilty as shit but I cannot condemn a man to death until I see all the evidence
@Angel Rojas i said that the state of California did not prove to me that he was guilty so I cannot agree with his death sentence.
This freaken monster
Digging the burial holes 1 foot deeper - and he still would be free of any suspicion...
This interview is so telling
right... she's attracted to him
He sure didn't want to tell what the detectives talked to him about.
Not only the last person to see them alive but the only one that was way too forceful in blaming the wife and accusing her of trying to kill the husband, being controling and hating the stepson yet not one family member of the husband had anything bad to say about her and I'd think if there was that kind of issue the family would have known and spoke up. To me it was someone too quick to point a finger at a person that was also missing and didn't make sense. That stuck out to me and had me thinking he knew more than what he was telling. Now it comes to pass that I was right in that thought
I can tell by this man's demeanour that he did it.
How? That’s a very believable demeanor especially if someone is a sociopath. Hard to say how you would act under those conditions
I just know he had something to do with it....and you can easily tell by his body language and the way he talks about that family...there is no remorse, or sorrow, he's cold and it gives me chills. He is nonchalant, matter of fact shrugging his shoulders. I can see a bit of nervousness in his eyes, that he is trying to control. He even was rude about Joseph's walk...saying 'he walked funny', and could tell his walk a mile off. The fact he tells everyone he was the last person to see them, is to make out he is being upfront and honest about that, so obviously it may look like he has nothing to hide by admitting it. I think there was a lot of lucrative deals set in place for the business which would have been worth a lot of money, and he wanted to take over the business to acquire it. That computer programmer/web designer who did the website for the business etc should be looked at also. He put the business in his name after they disappeared....and that is not suspicious? I think either Chase did it, or he was in cahoots with the computer guy to take over the business!.....Chase was the last person to see them, and they end up dead a stone's throw from where he lives?....you do the math!
smooth talker..
Keep your enemies close but yo friends closer dam shame
Evil murderer! Rest in paradise McStay family :(
He's wearing a stupid during a interview red flag
Cable News Network acts as though they have an exclusive on interviewing him? I have more than 20 hours of him over the past 4 years on tape answering questions over the phone. And I'm just a measly private Investigator.
You're full of it. Just another hanger-on trying to make yourself of some importance. You're not.
theedrstrangelove Did you notice inconsistencies in his story like DA explained there is?
theedrstrangelove lol
He was truthful. He was the last person this poor family saw. 🤦🏽♀️🙏🏽 Just monstrous! How can you kill an entire family?!? Why kill the babies?!? Just monstrous. 🙏🏽
Wrong
You know, I tried furiously along with everyone else to figure this out and though I never like Chase and thought he looked like a prime suspect, I admit I got sucked into all the suggestions about other suspects which made me believe he was probably innocent. A lot of doubt about his culpability came from his own claims that he was Joseph's best friend and that they were looking forward to a lucrative business deal, and him defending Joseph saying Joseph would never get mixed up in drugs or illegal activity, not to mention his claim that he was the only one who volunteered for a polygraph, that he passed it, and of course that he had an alibi which was watching a movie with his girlfriend when a call from Joseph's to his cell was placed.
You have to wonder what evil lurks within the mind of someone capable of such magnitude in single-handedly eliminating four lives, including very innocent, very little children who probably suffered incredible fear and shock from seeing their mommy and daddy killed. You have to wonder the unfathomable that Merritt could publicly subject himself to interviews, express false grief for his loss, and proclaim his innocence in order to divert attention away from himself.
As is being shown here, the last person to see and talk to them, turned out to be the suspect.
They found something in that home. When will we find out what it was?
Yeah, nine years later and we still don't know. Why? Because there is nothing to find, and if there was LE did such a botched up job there is no chance of ever finding the real killer/killers at this point. There will be no justice for this family because LE jumped to conclusions and tried to nail someone without the proper evidence to back it up!
Joseph's brother and Dan are the killers
Don't know how this story doesn't get more attention..
I mean cmon, Sledgeha-
Liar you killed that beautiful familie!
i hope he got the death penalty!
Money corrupts and corruption follows money...if this guy did this he just snapped at the thought of being left out...from the records he “McStay” was on the way up, and he had a lot of projects lined -up...supposedly worth a million dollars? So again, maybe money was a factor in this whole incident. So sad.
Body language tells all! He's lying!
I still think Vick Johansen had something to do with it, i think they were working together or something.
That reporter is horrible! That news anchor woman had a far better sense about that dude!
What a big dummy, Im definetly the Last person he saw ?? The reporter also saying oh he was so calm, looked me in the eye, was nice, blah, blah. You cant judge a person by the standards they tell us because its all bull crap !! Most killers are very well liked, very personable and will even look you in the Eye while bashing your head in !!
on 1min he getting too nervous....
Body language - facial giveaways - guilty.
Flutter Bize
Which are?
He was writing a book..
Definitely the last
the stupid hat gives it away. if youre respectiveful in an interview you'll take it off. i feel like hes hiding behind the hat
You stupid bitch. Now everyone has magic ESP powers huh?
Did anyone else notice at :53 he says, the cops asked me if I knew anything about the disappearance. He almost said murder but caught himself. This guy is right were he belongs.
He says " about then disappearing" you are reaching.
No I truly believe he almost had a slip of the tounge. They asked do I know anything about the mu the disappearance.
@@jjfunkdified he never said that, I talk to him all the time he never did this horrible thing.
At 1:19 his demeanor changes as if hiding something.
ROTTEN RICKY
REALLY???? How so??
Why is CNN giving the killer more notoriety? It is disgusting.
guilty as fuck he tripped up
Hey Ashlie, as for looking in his eyes to see if he was being honest, you should tell your newspeople on CNN to look in the mirror and ask themselves why they lie on the news and give fake news casts.
Emilybl
Lmaooooo 🐑 🐑
No need for that hat during the interview except to hide under it.
what about the two last painters??
he is lying his teeth out
Hes Pure Evil
Seemed guilty to me uh ah lemme think oh yeah ya know......obvious
CHASE IS INNOCENT
May they rest in heaven . maybe with the grace of God Patrick could come face to face with his oldest son in Ohio and introduce him and mike to each other. Everyone could always use family to lean on in hard times.
No eye contact
What a dumb bastard A-typical arrogant American who think they are invisible, all the checks he wrote and the cell phone records sealed his doom
He blinks a lot for an innocent man?
Sick and disgusting. A whole family. Children!! This family was cheated out of their life! This is beyond wrong!!!
Eww
He was going to say murders but changed it to disappearing
no he absolutely wasn't!
When CNN was real news.
Lose the ridiculous hat
MY UNCLE...MESSED UP HERE..LOL..SHOULD HAVE BEEN QUIET😮
what?
rope law,will solve this and many more heinous murders,bleeding heart people not needed,the law is deficient as of now,hands tied by people who have no skin in the matter,whoso shedth mans blood,by man,blood be shed
Look at his face he is replaying killing them as he is talking that's why he is so weird and can't speak straight .
Also at 00:53 it almost looks like he’s going to say
“Do I know anything about the murders”
But catches himself and quickly says them disappearing
Idk maybe I been watching too much true crime 😂
Gambling is forbidden in all religions. Should be demolished from our the society. It could be exiting and entertaining but the kind of action that a person willing to take once became addicted is no joke. The gambling associates become rich beyond belief while many family's life are ruined and affected. Not only for those who practice and become addicted but also for those who got nothing to with it.
From someone who couldn't care less about your religion, please shut the fuck up.
....LAST PERSON HE SAW🦍
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