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What happened to the McStays?

"It's not really the outcome we were looking for," Michael McStay said during a news conference in November 2013 after the remains of his brother, sister-in-law and nephews were identified. "But it gives us courage to know they're together and they're in a better place."

“It’s not really the outcome we were looking for,” Michael McStay said during a news conference in November 2013 after the remains of his brother, sister-in-law and nephews were identified. “But it gives us courage to know they’re together and they’re in a better place.”  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

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After the McStay family vanished in 2010, investigators had no answers. Now they hope the family’s remains will tell them what happened.

News conference

Erin McStay, left, and Susan Blake at a news conference in November 2013 at the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department headquarters, where authorities announced the remains of Blake’s son, Joseph McStay, and his family had been identified. Erin McStay is Joseph McStay’s sister-in-law.  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Excavation

San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department investigators excavate a grave on the outskirts of Victorville in November 2013. Human remains found in two graves at the site were determined to be those of the McStay family, who went missing in 2010.  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

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