5 or 6 years ago this man was so sure he got away with murder that he had the nerve to say in an interview that he knows he was the last one to see them alive. That’s arrogance. He knows he was the last one cause he killed them.
@t t Right, unless he had others helping him. I dont know what partner would not help there other partner if the saw them being attacked but maybe some people are like that?
@@rebelliousben Joseph had a broken leg, Merritt took the sledgehammer (a tool he knew how to use well) and broke his leg, disabling him somewhere that Summer and the dogs couldn’t see (garage or office). After killing Joseph, killing Summer would have been easier, he hated her, he would just get her away from the kids or maybe use the kids as leverage. Once the adults were dead, he could have told the kids that they were going for a ride and drive them to the desert and killed them there. It started on Feb 4, and there might have been an intermediate place for the bodies or they went straight to the desert. However, he had at least one day to clean up the scene and logon to the Quickbooks account and start stealing, which he did within 24 hours of their death.
It's been so long since these awful murders! That he has convinced himself that he didn't do it!!! Still cant be honest with the families or himself! Shame on him....
Sorry, where is the proof? How can you figured this guy killing the whole family without a gun and not to leave traces? The investigators where so busy that they didn't look about Summer's past life
Degenerate gambler. Slaughters an entire family, including children. For money. His sentence will never be carried out fast enough to make me happy. He'll be around for years unless Karma decides that it's been long enough.
LOL! And they can all team up with OJ to go out and "find the real killers." Honestly, these lying murderers are all the same. They lie every time they open their mouths and have absolutely no problems sleeping at night. Rotten to the core they are.
@@janetlieb2507 the trial was a travesty. The state did a horrible job. They’re the reason why OJ is out. Trying on the glove that had been shrunken?! Any lawyer would say that that is a horrible move. I don’t blame the jury to coming to that verdict.
I think he gave a tissue to the women with the blonde and pink hair, and I think she might be Chase’s girlfriend Michelle. The one who asked him through the prison glass why he searched change of identity. He told her instead of writing a book under a pen name he would write under his real name and just change his name to escape the notoriety. Yeah, the jury probably didn’t buy it.
So vile!!! He thinks he’s smarter than everyone else. I really can’t believe he’s calling himself a victim here. I am losing it right now 🤯🤯🙄🙄. He’s blaming all this on everyone but himself.
Agreed. It's disgusting. And what's also disgusting is how many people thought/think he's innocent even after all the evidence clearly points directly to him. And him alone.
@@thelmakitty11 There's a sucker born every minute. Anyone who believes he is innocent is naive at best. We must remember that it is naivety that makes so many victims. Yep. He did it. Alone.
That means nothing. We do not see him the other times rotting away in prison with health issues but I am like 60 40 split on 60 guilty 40 innocent but I am not entirely sure he is guilty.
Sam Loomis - There’s no other plausible suspect. He was in the Victorville area when the family disappeared in the vicinity of where the bodies were found. He had a clear motive. And his demeanor is definitely not that of an innocent man wrongly convicted. 60/40 probability that he did it is pretty absurd. More like 99/1.
@@BradCrystal007 you have a dimwitted and biased preconceived notion. I have seen no hard evidence that made Chase guilty. Mike McStay and Dan Kavanaugh are equally suspect if you want to throw stones and point fingers.
Sam Loomis - “Dimwitted” is actually the adjective that perfectly applies to you if you can’t accept the undeniable evidence that Charles Meritt committed these unspeakably vicious murders. Fortunately, your warped perspective is about as likely to prevail as that of the wingnuts who insist the moon landings were a hoax.
As Merritt finally brought his statement to a close - notice the cop walking behind him to bring a box of tissues to someone behind the defendant who was crying real tears. What? No tissues for Merritt who has 'apparently' been weeping off and on for 10 minutes?! What an act.
@@lisafryslie2574 but why would a truly guilty man go on and on talking like this? It does nothing for an appeal. Nothing. I never felt fully sure he was guilty but it seems he likely is. I guess it's not a perfect world or system but I just don't know if he's guilty.
Yeah, he was more upset about that photo than the death of 2 adults, and 2 children, all bludgeoned to death!!! A damaged brain and personality disorder of a narcissist.
He gets a pass on 4 arrests , sits in an interview with two detectives when he has an active warrant, has recordings of him witness tampering and he compared his plight to those that have been lynched.
He more than deserved this. Sometimes when it takes so long for someone to go to trial, the severity, the horror of the crimes are forgotten. Not this time. Thank God.
He should be held for life no parole trust me, it is worse than our death penalty and it saves taxpayers millions. Death is quick and an escape from concrete walls. Chase would rot away irrelevant to anyone, kept alive in a small hole until he dies old and broken completely.
I don't agree with our death row process so I can't agree with that verdict but I do think him being in a tiny concrete hole until dying slow and painful mentally and physically is much worse than a fast death costing us taxpayers millions and giving the families no peace. In horrible grief it would make you feel worse actually plus it's usually decades later.
It's sickening listening to him splurting out lie after lie, denying everything. He was the only person that had a cause to murder this family. No court sentences a man to death lightly and all the evidence pointed to him. He's 100% guilty and he's only crying for himself. His life is now over and that is what's terrifying him. He's also terrified somebody will get to him in prison and that's why he's attempting to sow doubt in everyone's minds, especially other prisoners he'll have to live with. He is an evil man and using Gods holy name to swear on his name that he didn't commit those murders when he knows he did is not going to serve him well after death.
What people do not realize or just don’t say is; if a person can murder one person a person is already a liar. They murdered and went on with their life as if they simply dusted their house! Even the outrageous acts of spending the dead’s money or “comforting” the loved ones…. Yes real judgment will come from God, rest assured….
listen to this! after the death penalty is given, outside of the court, merritt's family is running to their car while cameras give chase. right before his sister gets in the car, before she closes the door, she says, "he didn't mean to do it!!!" guilty.
Both, killing someone and being found guilty in court, is beyond my ability to comprehend. Just being called to jury duty was my form of being "Scared straight". Anyhow, he got what he deserved.
There was Mrs McStay’s ex-boyfriend, who sent her an email just months before the family’s disappearance telling the mother-of-two he’d “love her for ever.” He lived nearby and had been arrested for threatning a neighbour and her daughter. There was the new husband of Mr McStay’s ex-wife, a man with a history of violence who’d allegedly threatened to “muzzle” Mrs McStay and beat up her husband. And then there was another associate from Mr McStay’s work, the computer whiz who maintained the company website - a man who’d sent messages to MrMcStay essentially threatening to destroy the site and ruin the business. Two Shallow Graves also points to an advertisement allegedly placed by the same man to sell the water fountain business from under its rightful owner. They didn't have any hard evidence just circumstantial.. it'd be really messed up to convict the wrong person for a horrific crime and the real killer be out living his best life ..
And don't forget that the internet guy sold the business, took over 50k AND confessed to someone that he did it. All the State had on Merritt was a cell tower ping and two canceled checks for less than 5k. His defense team and his wife didn't do him any favors either. His wife lied for no reason, one of his attorneys was out for a month, they didn't call the States expert who changed his mind during his review of the video the State hung their case on, and they decided against calling the woman who says the murderer confessed to because she was a junkie. While I get their reasons for thinking she could be a bad witness, it doesn't change the fact that he confessed to her and told her things only the murderer would know. His sister changed her testimony on the stand, his daughter was a joke. It's obvious that someone else killed this family and Merritt just checked all the boxes for the State. It was a horrible crime that they ignored at first so they had to deal with it swiftly once the family was found. I think an innocent man is on death row.
@@Awakenthemasses2016_thetruth I hope you hire a contractor just like Charles and then he go smoke crack with 1 of his friend from the underworld and try to knock you off to steal some money from some one who is naive and trusting like you
Oh my god how can you hurt little beautiful kids there is special place in 🔥🔥🔥🔥 for people like u so sorry for the family's who's lost their loved ones
@euegne st0ner yeah, who did you think I was talking about? Mikes mother cleaned the house because she knows her son MIKEY is the guilty one. Everyone liked Chase until people started suspecting MIKE did it and then they (Susan, Patrick, Mike, etc) turned on Chase to get the heat off Mikey.
I’ve followed this case only recently since American Greed did an episode on it. Since then I have tried to read and watch as much as I can stomach. There is a comment under that video that someone wrote believing that the monster Charles Merritt was not in fact guilty, and would be able to win on appeal. For some reason that comment made me almost as sick as the vile words Mr. Merritt spewed in the statement this video shares. I could go on and on- the tears I’ve cried for this family, and the hate I feel for the evil that took them. I still quietly ask out: “why?”, “how could he?”, and “will he ever do the next right thing?”, “ will he ever beg for forgiveness?”. As messed up as this world can be, I still hold some faith in humanity. But then someone like Mr. Merritt comes along and again that faith is shaken to its core. To me, and I am no one special, nor am I any more knowledgeable than the next person on this case... but I do believe that Mr. Merritt is one of a few “men” who is NOT capable of anything that is good. He is completely devoid of the fortitude and the heart that it would take to rebuild himself from the soulless shell that he is onto a life of some meaning and purpose. Because the only way he could ever complete this journey, is to be given the gift of forgiveness at the end... a gift that can only be granted by the family of Joseph and Summer McStay.
Chase Merritt had a serious gambling habit. He was doing ok and then started to gamble. He hated Summer McStay. He hit her directly square in the face with that sledge hammer. He is a weak man and a monster. Pathetic.
I would MUCH rather be sentenced to death than to life in prison. I could imagine California not making things as miserable as I’d prefer but I honestly just don’t know enough about it.
Cornered like a rat, this gentleman's whole speech was self centered as was his life. What gets me through these types of situations is knowing one day we will all stand before God and answer for what we did. He may appear to get away with 'murder,' however, life on earth is temporal - heaven and hell are forever.
@@ngutho2438 That's a good point you wrote and that's something they couldn't explain. How does he kill the family and then drive their car 100 miles away by himself. I actually don't believe he did it. When the Family first went missing he's the one who called Joseph's brother to check on them and the brother refused to do it then their father asked the brother and he still refused until 9 days later because he said he thought they was on a 10 day vacation in Mexico without telling anyone. The police never treated the house as a crime scene and not only that but let the Mother and Brother clean the house with bleach. To me the crime with all the violence points to more of a personal murder not just killing for money. Also in a interview like a year before they found the bodies Michael said something like I expect them to be in shallow graves. This Country will doubt some suspects with more evidence against them but then turn around and demonize other suspects with less evidence against them.
Of course your not convinced, those bodies were hidden really well for years. He cleaned up pretty well too. He was counting for people to think 🤔 like that.
He's blaming everyone else! little mention of family loss, if he is a family friend and partner, he just wanted money, and thought he could get away with it. Just greedy, and narcissistic.
No body believes you or cares No more trials on our $$ it is wrong Let them Pay own appeal Look at the low lifes 😢 for him too birds of a feather flock together
I never thought he was guilty, I do believe tho Mike his brother had something to do with it, why tf would a mother go clean a house and get rid of evidence, there is alot more to this that doesn't sit right with me.
This was My frist thought too, his mum cleaned the house totally with bleach and Nike toook the computer and om the stand he is lysing through his teeth! And he took over the business straight after
2:25 good grief! what a performance. this is the guy who tore a kitten's tail off and he's talking like he's St. Francis. Go do your time Mister Merritt! It's over for you. Think prison is bad? Just wait till you experience old age...and you find yourself imprisoned in your body AND imprisoned in jail.
Disgusting liar yet gotta give it to him , he's a pretty good actor. Maybe that's why he got so many people including a documentary crew to believe in him. Wondering if that documentary will be released.?
He should have had the decency to either admit his clear guilt, or stay silent. The evidence was clear, and to claim it was in some way manipulated is simply false. Shame on him, he's a weak, selfish and cowardly man. I hope he one day confesses, gets it off his chest and express genuine remorse. The family have a right to know what really happened, however painful that is.
@@GrannyJB Yes I know about the death row appeals process & it's the single argument I have against the death penalty: the expense. LWOP seems like it is what happens anyway, in the more dragged-out cases.
janet sinclair me to and I went in thinking he did it. They have a lot of circumstantial evidence but what exactly 100% says he killed them?? I never was convinced. I would of held out. I actually think he might be involved but I’m just not convinced enough to find him guilty.
I think the guy who wanted the world to know that he was far away to be involved. Would chase say negative things about Summer on TV if he was trying to hide something or the fact that the vehicle he drove didn't exactly match the vehicle in the footage. The police should look more into computer evidence like spoofing, hacking, GPS tricks. I smell a rat, the other dude looks like he's a drug addict, then he sells the company😐😈COME ON, the police just wanted a scape goat who doesn't have the money to get proper defense
janet sinclair there is more to this than what the prosecution laid out. Had to be 2 or more people. I don’t really like chase he’s definitely not a good person he stole money and he gambled but I’m just not convinced he murdered them and I’d rather have a killer be free than a innocent person locked up. Something isn’t right and that DNA wasn’t tested but they still gave him a death sentence with that DNA hanging over this case I think he will be successful in a appeals. This judge was 100% pro prosecution .
@@dennissinkovics8379 I agree, certainly not enough evidence to send someone to death. They wanted to give closer to the family and too much media attention towards his guilt.. Touch DNA hmm that's what confused me because it's possible it could happen by shaking hands, all the places his DNA was found was exactly like the way the defense argument was. Reasonable doubt is not something that's taken very seriously. ..
@@mandilynn24 and why would he not want to look for his brother… days and days later he finally did after he broke into the house?! And he tried to get a loan by stating he was the business owner and they kicked his father out of the business… something’s fishy!
First 15-20 minutes of the documentary I had an uneasy feeling about the brother. Wouldn’t go check on them, police told HIM if house was messed with nothing would be able to be used for evidence yet he didn’t intervene when his mom decided to bleach it down and he took a computer, he said they prob went to Mexico (then vehicle was found near border)…the list goes on. He just rubbed me the wrong way big time right off the bat.
on IDTV a few days ago, they show us the skull of Joseph . Think about the 2 innocent children and how you can let this f up criminal get away with murder of innocent people for money . He yelled to his wife/G friend to make sure to tell everyone that he was home with her on that night in question when cell phone indicates she tries to call him 5 times when he turn off his for more than 3 hours. He stole about 19000 a few days after their disappearance and call Quickbook from his cell phone while pretending to be Joseph to delete the phony check he made to himself .His cell phone also pings a few days later near the burial site. He was in jail before and must share some crack with 1 of his friend from the underworld to help him moved the SUV to the border. If you still believe in him, you are too naive and should be careful when hiring ex-criminal to do jobs for you. If you want this guy to be freed ,How about bringing back the dead?
I went to high school with Mr. Merritt. Then he married my cousin .then my husband and I squatted in his empty house in Hesperia cal. Then I received letters from him in jail. I never knew that he could carry off something like this. He was always a mysterious type fella.
Why could they not get location data off Mike Mcstays phone???? We dont know where he is the night of Feb 4 into feb 5th. His truck is similar to merritts as well. He couldn't even be bothered to check on his brother because he knew they were already gone.
From all of these comments i assume you have seen the evidence on both sides. What if he didnt do it but was framed. It wouldnt be the first time law inforcement at all levels manipulated the evidence simply because they believed he did it. Just saying. There are alot of inesent people that were found to be enisent because the evidence was manipulated. Food for thought. Just because a jury found him guilty dont mean he is.
Löni A. .. I just watched this and thought the exact same thing! There are so many innocent people in prison that it’s scary! I think I’ll go back and listen to the case, because I have no idea what evidence they had on him. So I’m obviously not saying he’s innocent, but that I’m like you, I’d never ever want to be a juror in a trial like this! I’m leaving that up to God..🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 RIP Beautiful McStay Family.
You should watch the trial. I watched most of it. I found the evidence very compelling. A lot of things put together lead to my belief. It was a long trial. And I know that a defendant does not have to take the stand but when your life is on the line and you adamantly deny you did it for God’s sake take the stand and tell your truth. He didn’t because he knew the prosecution would eat him alive.
S A .. Yes, I am watching it now. I’m only as far in as the neighbors security cam footage now. But I was wondering if he testified, especially after that final speech he gave. I couldn’t agree with you more about testifying if innocent. I don’t know if he did or didn’t do it. But, if he did, he’s a monster for what he did, especially to those little kids!! Omg’sh, I can hardly take hearing about it.. 😭🙏🏼😢
S A I agree with you it it’s a death penalty case you take the stand no matter how bad your past is. I just find it hard to believe that 4 people got killed in that house and not one spot of blood and they were killed with a sledgehammer come on. Something isn’t right and they had to have been killed somewhere else and it had to be more than 1 person involved. I don’t think much of Chase he doesn’t seem trustworthy but a killer i don’t he is . I could be wrong but I watched this whole trial and tried to be objective because I thought he did it before it even started but no way if I was on that jury I would of held out. I’m not putting a man to death because he might have been on a highway passing through the area where the bodies were a couple days later. You got to show me he killed them not driving by the area. They never even tested the other DNA even the media questioned them about that. This story hasn’t been told in my opinion.
IDTV show us the skull of Joseph a few days ago. Thinks about the death of 2 innocent children. His Prison record and his stealing /looting the account of Joseph and all other evidence show us he is guilty beyond any reasonable doubts. That is why he get the death penalty. There is no mistake and he is 65, he deserve exactly what he gets his entire family deserve to go to jail for lying to try to protect a scumbag
I feel in my soul that if I was convicted for something I did not do..I wouldn’t be able to write page after page of anything…I’d just be crying & crying & Say..I DID’NT DO THIS..I DID’NT DO THIS & wouldn’t stop
Yeah and your defense of “I didn’t do this, I didn’t do this” played on non-stop repeat would not have the outcome you’d expect. People would immediately criticize and find fault, saying that you’re not saying enough. It’s beyond foolish to think that you would know how you would react, speak or behave if you were thrown into a similar situation. Unfortunately, proclaiming your innocence and leaving it as a “trust me bro” scenario would not have the monumental impact that you think it would have and that you’ve fabricated within your own mind. 🙄
In his first police interview he tells the police proudly that he spanked his kid for an hour and he didn’t like that Summer didn’t believe in Corporal punishment.
The(his appearance,body language,facial expression, fake emotional tears)tells it all the face of a guilty man😎🏴☠️🦍🦝🏴☠️💰💲money is the root of all evil things!
This man started writing checks the same day this family went missing he was forging the victim's signature right inside the victims home .He should tell the truth .
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5 or 6 years ago this man was so sure he got away with murder that he had the nerve to say in an interview that he knows he was the last one to see them alive. That’s arrogance. He knows he was the last one cause he killed them.
Exactly right 👊🏽
But how did he kill the whole family by himself? Why wouldn't Joe's wife attack him if he was strangling him??
@t t Right, unless he had others helping him. I dont know what partner would not help there other partner if the saw them being attacked but maybe some people are like that?
@@rebelliousben Joseph had a broken leg, Merritt took the sledgehammer (a tool he knew how to use well) and broke his leg, disabling him somewhere that Summer and the dogs couldn’t see (garage or office). After killing Joseph, killing Summer would have been easier, he hated her, he would just get her away from the kids or maybe use the kids as leverage. Once the adults were dead, he could have told the kids that they were going for a ride and drive them to the desert and killed them there. It started on Feb 4, and there might have been an intermediate place for the bodies or they went straight to the desert. However, he had at least one day to clean up the scene and logon to the Quickbooks account and start stealing, which he did within 24 hours of their death.
@@rebelliousben he had an injury to his hand after Feb 5. He told police he got it a metro sheet metal but msm said no injury like that happened
It's been so long since these awful murders! That he has convinced himself that he didn't do it!!! Still cant be honest with the families or himself! Shame on him....
indymay He’s a POS!!!
indymay what else you can expect for a cold blood sociopath killer.
Sorry, where is the proof? How can you figured this guy killing the whole family without a gun and not to leave traces? The investigators where so busy that they didn't look about Summer's past life
@@renilda2222 His dna was at the crime scene and in the Mcstay home and on the murder weapon
The crime is so heinous he has blocked it out. He killed children so his time in prison will be fun for him.
Degenerate gambler. Slaughters an entire family, including children. For money. His sentence will never be carried out fast enough to make me happy. He'll be around for years unless Karma decides that it's been long enough.
He can hang out with Scott Peterson
OMG...too funny
LOL! And they can all team up with OJ to go out and "find the real killers." Honestly, these lying murderers are all the same. They lie every time they open their mouths and have absolutely no problems sleeping at night. Rotten to the core they are.
@@moniquemonicat psychopaths. They all lie! The O.J. trial and verdict were a travesty.
@@janetlieb2507 the trial was a travesty. The state did a horrible job. They’re the reason why OJ is out. Trying on the glove that had been shrunken?! Any lawyer would say that that is a horrible move. I don’t blame the jury to coming to that verdict.
I love how the bailiff walked past Merritt's fake crying, to hand tissues to a woman in the gallery.
I caught that too LOL 😂 The shade was real
It was beautiful!
Yeah no tears, no tissues, no dry mouth , no water, no expression!!!! No remorse, NO LIFE!!!!
I think he gave a tissue to the women with the blonde and pink hair, and I think she might be Chase’s girlfriend Michelle. The one who asked him through the prison glass why he searched change of identity. He told her instead of writing a book under a pen name he would write under his real name and just change his name to escape the notoriety. Yeah, the jury probably didn’t buy it.
So vile!!! He thinks he’s smarter than everyone else. I really can’t believe he’s calling himself a victim here. I am losing it right now 🤯🤯🙄🙄. He’s blaming all this on everyone but himself.
Agreed. It's disgusting. And what's also disgusting is how many people thought/think he's innocent even after all the evidence clearly points directly to him. And him alone.
Jazminne narcissistic asswipe typical sociopath type
Like The Warlock lurch on trial in pensacola
"Something is wrong" YOU! You kill innocents for $$$
Children 👶
@@thelmakitty11 There's a sucker born every minute. Anyone who believes he is innocent is naive at best. We must remember that it is naivety that makes so many victims. Yep. He did it. Alone.
Psychopath.narcissustic
He isnt even crying lmao. If I were on trial for a 4 PERSON MURDER that I did not commit, I would be a whole wreck
Ashelyn Rodriguez - Exactly!
That means nothing. We do not see him the other times rotting away in prison with health issues but I am like 60 40 split on 60 guilty 40 innocent but I am not entirely sure he is guilty.
Sam Loomis - There’s no other plausible suspect. He was in the Victorville area when the family disappeared in the vicinity of where the bodies were found. He had a clear motive. And his demeanor is definitely not that of an innocent man wrongly convicted. 60/40 probability that he did it is pretty absurd. More like 99/1.
@@BradCrystal007 you have a dimwitted and biased preconceived notion. I have seen no hard evidence that made Chase guilty. Mike McStay and Dan Kavanaugh are equally suspect if you want to throw stones and point fingers.
Sam Loomis - “Dimwitted” is actually the adjective that perfectly applies to you if you can’t accept the undeniable evidence that Charles Meritt committed these unspeakably vicious murders. Fortunately, your warped perspective is about as likely to prevail as that of the wingnuts who insist the moon landings were a hoax.
As Merritt finally brought his statement to a close - notice the cop walking behind him to bring a box of tissues to someone behind the defendant who was crying real tears. What? No tissues for Merritt who has 'apparently' been weeping off and on for 10 minutes?! What an act.
Guy didn’t shed a tear for babies. He cried tears only when it was his life. Maybe he’ll understand how it feels to beg for your life.
Oh yeah...convict on that! What a bunch of sheep you people are. The man didn't do it!
@@lisafryslie2574 but why would a truly guilty man go on and on talking like this? It does nothing for an appeal. Nothing. I never felt fully sure he was guilty but it seems he likely is. I guess it's not a perfect world or system but I just don't know if he's guilty.
Comparing himself as a victim of soldiers posing with dead bodies is astoundingly out of touch. This guys mind is warped.
Yeah, he was more upset about that photo than the death of 2 adults, and 2 children, all bludgeoned to death!!! A damaged brain and personality disorder of a narcissist.
He gets a pass on 4 arrests , sits in an interview with two detectives when he has an active warrant, has recordings of him witness tampering and he compared his plight to those that have been lynched.
He's putting on an act, trying to sound pitiful. Trying to squirm out of his guilt.
He's a weak actor isn't he. If i were in your shoe's. Pffffft liar
Such a liar.
Oh, he's over doing it. Poor actor.
Susie Pittman Big Time
His attorneys are pretty good actors too. Stroking his arm and all, hanging their heads down. Good grief!
What a disgusting final slap in the family’s face
He's the killer that keeps on killing!
But karma turned around and he was slapped back even harder by receiving the death penalty, a slap well deserved..
He more than deserved this. Sometimes when it takes so long for someone to go to trial, the severity, the horror of the crimes are forgotten. Not this time. Thank God.
He should be held for life no parole trust me, it is worse than our death penalty and it saves taxpayers millions. Death is quick and an escape from concrete walls. Chase would rot away irrelevant to anyone, kept alive in a small hole until he dies old and broken completely.
It's so hard to take them seriously when they are fake crying. No tears. Pretend crying behaviors. He is full of crap
True they only feel sorry because they got caught and getting life in prison or death penalty
Wow! Just like Bob Bashara. Everyone is to blame but him. And he feels so sorry for himself! He's going to where he belongs.
Narda van der Meer That’s an accurate comparison! Bashara is very similar!
I don't agree with our death row process so I can't agree with that verdict but I do think him being in a tiny concrete hole until dying slow and painful mentally and physically is much worse than a fast death costing us taxpayers millions and giving the families no peace. In horrible grief it would make you feel worse actually plus it's usually decades later.
Bashara, what a pervert
Wow! Those “tears” dried up fast. May God have mercy on him.
Crocodile tears! Faking the emotion, devil's like him should be put down as soon as they're sentenced. Save the taxpayers having to keep them
There were never any tears falling. You are so right, all fake.
Agree
Yeah. The death penalty only means life ......and appeal after appeal.....etc
Scary, he looks so normal!
Here he does but did you see how he looked when they arrested him? He looked like a total convict there!!
When he opens his mouth, he sounds like a con artist, which he was.
It's sickening listening to him splurting out lie after lie, denying everything. He was the only person that had a cause to murder this family. No court sentences a man to death lightly and all the evidence pointed to him. He's 100% guilty and he's only crying for himself. His life is now over and that is what's terrifying him. He's also terrified somebody will get to him in prison and that's why he's attempting to sow doubt in everyone's minds, especially other prisoners he'll have to live with. He is an evil man and using Gods holy name to swear on his name that he didn't commit those murders when he knows he did is not going to serve him well after death.
What people do not realize or just don’t say is; if a person can murder one person a person is already a liar. They murdered and went on with their life as if they simply dusted their house! Even the outrageous acts of spending the dead’s money or “comforting” the loved ones…. Yes real judgment will come from God, rest assured….
Very astute observation and/or spiritual revelation. So true.
Amen!
but there is no dna that matched him at the gravesites..he must b innocent
No genuine tear at all, not even when he wiped them so called tears on his sleeve.
pretty sure hes just acting yeah. hes a sociopath narcissist. we need someone to bring babylonian justice to em eh?
listen to this! after the death penalty is given, outside of the court, merritt's family is running to their car while cameras give chase.
right before his sister gets in the car, before she closes the door, she says, "he didn't mean to do it!!!" guilty.
Both, killing someone and being found guilty in court, is beyond my ability to comprehend. Just being called to jury duty was my form of being "Scared straight".
Anyhow, he got what he deserved.
Life behind bars forever no parole is worse than death especially for him he has nobody whatsoever left on the outside either.
The prosecutors set this guy up.... big time
why do you say that
There was Mrs McStay’s ex-boyfriend, who sent her an email just months before the family’s disappearance telling the mother-of-two he’d “love her for ever.” He lived nearby and had been arrested for threatning a neighbour and her daughter.
There was the new husband of Mr McStay’s ex-wife, a man with a history of violence who’d allegedly threatened to “muzzle” Mrs McStay and beat up her husband.
And then there was another associate from Mr McStay’s work, the computer whiz who maintained the company website - a man who’d sent messages to MrMcStay essentially threatening to destroy the site and ruin the business. Two Shallow Graves also points to an advertisement allegedly placed by the same man to sell the water fountain business from under its rightful owner.
They didn't have any hard evidence just circumstantial.. it'd be really messed up to convict the wrong person for a horrific crime and the real killer be out living his best life ..
Right were there any evidence on this guy. You have a point tho.
And don't forget that the internet guy sold the business, took over 50k AND confessed to someone that he did it. All the State had on Merritt was a cell tower ping and two canceled checks for less than 5k. His defense team and his wife didn't do him any favors either. His wife lied for no reason, one of his attorneys was out for a month, they didn't call the States expert who changed his mind during his review of the video the State hung their case on, and they decided against calling the woman who says the murderer confessed to because she was a junkie. While I get their reasons for thinking she could be a bad witness, it doesn't change the fact that he confessed to her and told her things only the murderer would know. His sister changed her testimony on the stand, his daughter was a joke. It's obvious that someone else killed this family and Merritt just checked all the boxes for the State. It was a horrible crime that they ignored at first so they had to deal with it swiftly once the family was found. I think an innocent man is on death row.
@@Awakenthemasses2016_thetruth I hope you hire a contractor just like Charles and then he go smoke crack with 1 of his friend from the underworld and try to knock you off to steal some money from some one who is naive and trusting like you
Y’all must be related tho this trash! He called quick books from his phone number to get everything deleted 🤔
Caitlyn M. you are Absolutely right, but the Website Designer who maintain the business is near to the evidence.
You got what you deserved pal, you have no right to kill anyone, God Bless McStay family and your loss.
Wish I could hear him
The brother is suspect in my opinion.
Oh my god how can you hurt little beautiful kids there is special place in 🔥🔥🔥🔥 for people like u so sorry for the family's who's lost their loved ones
...he's clearly a good guy. You can tell he's a good guy by his ability to cry without shedding a single tear
U drunk
Is anyone in there actually listening to this crazy rambling?
mac andcheese can't understand a word.
Yes. His beloved Juanita, another sociopath. She buys it cuz she can't tell truth from lies.
The mother cleaned the house because she did not want to lose her only living son, so she protected him despite him being a killer.
@euegne st0ner yeah, who did you think I was talking about? Mikes mother cleaned the house because she knows her son MIKEY is the guilty one. Everyone liked Chase until people started suspecting MIKE did it and then they (Susan, Patrick, Mike, etc) turned on Chase to get the heat off Mikey.
@euegne st0ner yes I am aware of that, why would she clean...she wanted to protect her only LIVING son.
We can’t hear anything
I’ve followed this case only recently since American Greed did an episode on it. Since then I have tried to read and watch as much as I can stomach. There is a comment under that video that someone wrote believing that the monster Charles Merritt was not in fact guilty, and would be able to win on appeal. For some reason that comment made me almost as sick as the vile words Mr. Merritt spewed in the statement this video shares. I could go on and on- the tears I’ve cried for this family, and the hate I feel for the evil that took them. I still quietly ask out: “why?”, “how could he?”, and “will he ever do the next right thing?”, “ will he ever beg for forgiveness?”. As messed up as this world can be, I still hold some faith in humanity. But then someone like Mr. Merritt comes along and again that faith is shaken to its core. To me, and I am no one special, nor am I any more knowledgeable than the next person on this case... but I do believe that Mr. Merritt is one of a few “men” who is NOT capable of anything that is good. He is completely devoid of the fortitude and the heart that it would take to rebuild himself from the soulless shell that he is onto a life of some meaning and purpose. Because the only way he could ever complete this journey, is to be given the gift of forgiveness at the end... a gift that can only be granted by the family of Joseph and Summer McStay.
Chase Merritt had a serious gambling habit. He was doing ok and then started to gamble. He hated Summer McStay. He hit her directly square in the face with that sledge hammer. He is a weak man and a monster. Pathetic.
I would MUCH rather be sentenced to death than to life in prison. I could imagine California not making things as miserable as I’d prefer but I honestly just don’t know enough about it.
The brother seems off.
Totally agree
if i were he and innocent i would have taken the stand to get my story out
Absolutely!
Cornered like a rat, this gentleman's whole speech was self centered as was his life. What gets me through these types of situations is knowing one day we will all stand before God and answer for what we did. He may appear to get away with 'murder,' however, life on earth is temporal - heaven and hell are forever.
Faith Joy so true I agree
@Hemlock Cocktail there is one
You use the words Gentleman easily on criminals. He must have at least 1 friend to help him move the SUV to the border
@@ngutho2438 That's a good point you wrote and that's something they couldn't explain. How does he kill the family and then drive their car 100 miles away by himself. I actually don't believe he did it. When the Family first went missing he's the one who called Joseph's brother to check on them and the brother refused to do it then their father asked the brother and he still refused until 9 days later because he said he thought they was on a 10 day vacation in Mexico without telling anyone. The police never treated the house as a crime scene and not only that but let the Mother and Brother clean the house with bleach. To me the crime with all the violence points to more of a personal murder not just killing for money. Also in a interview like a year before they found the bodies Michael said something like I expect them to be in shallow graves. This Country will doubt some suspects with more evidence against them but then turn around and demonize other suspects with less evidence against them.
THIS IS REPREHENSIBLE....TO LET HIM SPEAK!!!!
innocent man sent to Jail, I hope I can help this man some day. So sick of wrongful convictions. They needed to look at her evil family
What solid beyond-a-reasonable-doubt evidence did they have here? That he owed them money??? This is too weird. I'm just not convinced.
Naivety is what makes most victims victims. Don't be naive.
Of course your not convinced, those bodies were hidden really well for years. He cleaned up pretty well too. He was counting for people to think 🤔 like that.
Apparently the guy loved the $15,000 checks he wrote himself out of Joseph's business account more.
He's blaming everyone else! little mention of family loss, if he is a family friend and partner, he just wanted money, and thought he could get away with it. Just greedy, and narcissistic.
The person who should’ve gotten the death sentence was the person who did the audio
The only thing he is sorry is he got caught
He's innocent
No body believes you or cares
No more trials on our $$ it is wrong
Let them
Pay own appeal
Look at the low lifes 😢 for him too birds of a feather flock together
Can’t hear what is being said.
Killing is wrong...
Judge needs to take a lesson in proper English and delivery. Really bad for such a profound matter.
I never thought he was guilty, I do believe tho Mike his brother had something to do with it, why tf would a mother go clean a house and get rid of evidence, there is alot more to this that doesn't sit right with me.
Thank you! Me too!
I thought things were fishy with the brother too.
This was My frist thought too, his mum cleaned the house totally with bleach and Nike toook the computer and om the stand he is lysing through his teeth! And he took over the business straight after
2:25 good grief! what a performance. this is the guy who tore a kitten's tail off and he's talking like he's St. Francis. Go do your time Mister Merritt! It's over for you. Think prison is bad? Just wait till you experience old age...and you find yourself imprisoned in your body AND imprisoned in jail.
Disgusting liar yet gotta give it to him , he's a pretty good actor. Maybe that's why he got so many people including a documentary crew to believe in him. Wondering if that documentary will be released.?
Exactly! As they say: "there's a sucker born every minute." Some naive people actually believe he is innocent.
New 6 hour show on IDTV or D+ show us the skull of Joseph
Something is off I dont think he did this....
Steel Pipe Hmmm! Don't know.
Steel Pipe, I am also having an odd feeling about this..
Same I dont think he did the killings
Go hire an ex-convict just like him an wait for you final days
Bravo aux deux procureurs!
Charles Merrit n’a plus rien à perdre. Il se battra pour dire qu’il est innocent. Il est machiavélique
THE DEVIL MAKE YOU DO IT ....
It's 1st time for me to watch a crime on investigation Discovery and keep searching to know the trouth
Thank god 🙏 this child killer is arrested
He should have had the decency to either admit his clear guilt, or stay silent. The evidence was clear, and to claim it was in some way manipulated is simply false. Shame on him, he's a weak, selfish and cowardly man. I hope he one day confesses, gets it off his chest and express genuine remorse. The family have a right to know what really happened, however painful that is.
the family was in on it. couldnt be done alone
The brother did it!!!!!!!!!
Setting up for an appeal. What a monster.
@@GrannyJB Yes I know about the death row appeals process & it's the single argument I have against the death penalty: the expense. LWOP seems like it is what happens anyway, in the more dragged-out cases.
I think the evidence wasn't good enough to convict him...I watched the trial
janet sinclair me to and I went in thinking he did it. They have a lot of circumstantial evidence but what exactly 100% says he killed them?? I never was convinced. I would of held out. I actually think he might be involved but I’m just not convinced enough to find him guilty.
Maybe he hired someone or people to kill them
I think the guy who wanted the world to know that he was far away to be involved.
Would chase say negative things about Summer on TV if he was trying to hide something or the fact that the vehicle he drove didn't exactly match the vehicle in the footage. The police should look more into computer evidence like spoofing, hacking, GPS tricks.
I smell a rat, the other dude looks like he's a drug addict, then he sells the company😐😈COME ON, the police just wanted a scape goat who doesn't have the money to get proper defense
janet sinclair there is more to this than what the prosecution laid out. Had to be 2 or more people. I don’t really like chase he’s definitely not a good person he stole money and he gambled but I’m just not convinced he murdered them and I’d rather have a killer be free than a innocent person locked up. Something isn’t right and that DNA wasn’t tested but they still gave him a death sentence with that DNA hanging over this case I think he will be successful in a appeals. This judge was 100% pro prosecution .
@@dennissinkovics8379 I agree, certainly not enough evidence to send someone to death. They wanted to give closer to the family and too much media attention towards his guilt..
Touch DNA hmm that's what confused me because it's possible it could happen by shaking hands, all the places his DNA was found was exactly like the way the defense argument was. Reasonable doubt is not something that's taken very seriously. ..
Merritt is guilty, that's for sure...
But this incompetent prosecution team and the lax judge allow the defense to maybe get success on appeal.
What if he is innocent....??
linoleum Bonypart
What IF he’s guilty?
Innocent..
He's guilty!!!!
@@jacquelinefirkins994 I changed my mind yes...
Thanks for who ever keeps clicking their pen in the background. It compliments chase bulshit manifesto
It was the brother!!!! Why would he have his mother clean the scene with bleach?!?! And then steal the computer?!?!?!
Yes!! I’m so glad I’m not the only one who thinks it’s the brother!
@@jeninaz1848 I don't understand why no one else can see it!! Just like when he did the news conference with police....not 1 single tear!
@@mandilynn24 and why would he not want to look for his brother… days and days later he finally did after he broke into the house?! And he tried to get a loan by stating he was the business owner and they kicked his father out of the business… something’s fishy!
@@jeninaz1848 exactly!!! This drove me insane! Kavanaugh was a creep....fyi
First 15-20 minutes of the documentary I had an uneasy feeling about the brother. Wouldn’t go check on them, police told HIM if house was messed with nothing would be able to be used for evidence yet he didn’t intervene when his mom decided to bleach it down and he took a computer, he said they prob went to Mexico (then vehicle was found near border)…the list goes on. He just rubbed me the wrong way big time right off the bat.
I don't really think this man is guilty of the murders
I dont think so either
I never believed this guy did this! I hope one day he’s vindicated!!!
on IDTV a few days ago, they show us the skull of Joseph . Think about the 2 innocent children and how you can let this f up criminal get away with murder of innocent people for money . He yelled to his wife/G friend to make sure to tell everyone that he was home with her on that night in question when cell phone indicates she tries to call him 5 times when he turn off his for more than 3 hours. He stole about 19000 a few days after their disappearance and call Quickbook from his cell phone while pretending to be Joseph to delete the phony check he made to himself .His cell phone also pings a few days later near the burial site. He was in jail before and must share some crack with 1 of his friend from the underworld to help him moved the SUV to the border. If you still believe in him, you are too naive and should be careful when hiring ex-criminal to do jobs for you. If you want this guy to be freed ,How about bringing back the dead?
i think he is innocent..he said he didn't do it
I went to high school with Mr. Merritt. Then he married my cousin .then my husband and I squatted in his empty house in Hesperia cal. Then I received letters from him in jail. I never knew that he could carry off something like this. He was always a mysterious type fella.
Cold calculating psychopath pure evil. RIP McStay family. Regards to both families
Why could they not get location data off Mike Mcstays phone???? We dont know where he is the night of Feb 4 into feb 5th. His truck is similar to merritts as well. He couldn't even be bothered to check on his brother because he knew they were already gone.
Does he think wearing a smart shirt and tie is going to save him?
What is he supposed to wear to court lol..
An orange jumpsuit with the word inmate stamped on the back. The jury is long gone, the judge only has to certify the verdict.
Congestive Heart Failure smh who cares what you did was inhumane and cruel. It's even more bizarre that he thought he'd gotten away with this!!
I am not sure he is guilty. The trial was not fer and no prooves for the capital sentence.
HE'S NOT 😢 FOR THE FAMILIES HE'S 😢 BECAUSE HE GOT CAUGHT
The average person doesn't realize the damming non verbal body language that he presents, GUILTY!!!
Terrible crime!! Poor family!
From all of these comments i assume you have seen the evidence on both sides. What if he didnt do it but was framed. It wouldnt be the first time law inforcement at all levels manipulated the evidence simply because they believed he did it. Just saying. There are alot of inesent people that were found to be enisent because the evidence was manipulated. Food for thought. Just because a jury found him guilty dont mean he is.
There’s overwhelming evidence pointing to him. He had the motive to murder the family.
Totally agree!!
Free Charles Merritt
This is why i would never agree to DP. Only God knows the truth. What If he really didn't do it...😲
Löni A. .. I just watched this and thought the exact same thing! There are so many innocent people in prison that it’s scary! I think I’ll go back and listen to the case, because I have no idea what evidence they had on him. So I’m obviously not saying he’s innocent, but that I’m like you, I’d never ever want to be a juror in a trial like this! I’m leaving that up to God..🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 RIP Beautiful McStay Family.
You should watch the trial. I watched most of it. I found the evidence very compelling. A lot of things put together lead to my belief. It was a long trial. And I know that a defendant does not have to take the stand but when your life is on the line and you adamantly deny you did it for God’s sake take the stand and tell your truth. He didn’t because he knew the prosecution would eat him alive.
S A .. Yes, I am watching it now. I’m only as far in as the neighbors security cam footage now. But I was wondering if he testified, especially after that final speech he gave. I couldn’t agree with you more about testifying if innocent. I don’t know if he did or didn’t do it. But, if he did, he’s a monster for what he did, especially to those little kids!! Omg’sh, I can hardly take hearing about it.. 😭🙏🏼😢
S A I agree with you it it’s a death penalty case you take the stand no matter how bad your past is. I just find it hard to believe that 4 people got killed in that house and not one spot of blood and they were killed with a sledgehammer come on. Something isn’t right and they had to have been killed somewhere else and it had to be more than 1 person involved. I don’t think much of Chase he doesn’t seem trustworthy but a killer i don’t he is . I could be wrong but I watched this whole trial and tried to be objective because I thought he did it before it even started but no way if I was on that jury I would of held out. I’m not putting a man to death because he might have been on a highway passing through the area where the bodies were a couple days later. You got to show me he killed them not driving by the area. They never even tested the other DNA even the media questioned them about that. This story hasn’t been told in my opinion.
IDTV show us the skull of Joseph a few days ago. Thinks about the death of 2 innocent children. His Prison record and his stealing /looting the account of Joseph and all other evidence show us he is guilty beyond any reasonable doubts. That is why he get the death penalty. There is no mistake and he is 65, he deserve exactly what he gets his entire family deserve to go to jail for lying to try to protect a scumbag
I feel in my soul that if I was convicted for something I did not do..I wouldn’t be able to write page after page of anything…I’d just be crying & crying & Say..I DID’NT DO THIS..I DID’NT DO THIS & wouldn’t stop
Remember it has been nearly 10 years AFTER the murders...he's had almost 10 years of crying.
Yeah and your defense of “I didn’t do this, I didn’t do this” played on non-stop repeat would not have the outcome you’d expect. People would immediately criticize and find fault, saying that you’re not saying enough.
It’s beyond foolish to think that you would know how you would react, speak or behave if you were thrown into a similar situation. Unfortunately, proclaiming your innocence and leaving it as a “trust me bro” scenario would not have the monumental impact that you think it would have and that you’ve fabricated within your own mind. 🙄
It's the Constanza defence!
If you convince yourself enough, you believe you can convince others 😈
Jerry, it's not a lie...if you believe it.
or maybe he is just innocent. Sheeple
and the academy award goes to....parasite!
I have no idea what hes saying 🙁
He said that he has never raised a hand to a woman or a child haha does a sledgehammer count?
In his first police interview he tells the police proudly that he spanked his kid for an hour and he didn’t like that Summer didn’t believe in Corporal punishment.
JUSTICE FINALLY BEING SERVED!!
The(his appearance,body language,facial expression, fake emotional tears)tells it all the face of a guilty man😎🏴☠️🦍🦝🏴☠️💰💲money is the root of all evil things!
What are the two middle emojis? Btw, totally agree he is a greedy pos and he thought he could grift off Joseph forever.
Can someone shut him up
This losers earthly debt maybe got wiped out..but the debt he owes now is immeasurable!! Tragic story the McStays were a great family💔
no sound
I would be shocked to death if he killed them and managed to put up such a straight face…😳😳For now let me assume he didn’t do it😟
Of course Newsome put a moratorium on the death penalty...ugh!
This man started writing checks the same day this family went missing he was forging the victim's signature right inside the victims home .He should tell the truth .
Wrong guy.
What kind of defense has he got? I just just stealing but that's all?
NOT SORRY....just didn't want to go to PRISON!!
Heartbreaking the lovely family death
*But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and ---> murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.* Revelation 21:8 kjv
I think he had something to do with it. With some help. I just don't think there was a smoking gun.
Gutless pathetic and selfish! Can't even admit to his evil crime on this innocent family 😖😠🤮