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Merritt's defense team points to alternate suspect in McStay killings

The defense team for Charles "Chase" Merritt spent two days of testimony with computer forensic analyst Bryan Charles La Rock to build a case that would implicate former business associate Daniel Kavanaugh as a possible alternate suspect in the murders of a Fallbrook family in 2010.

Merritt is accused of killing the McStay family, Joseph, Summer and their two young boys who lived in the Lake Rancho Viejo housing development east of Interstate 15 in Fallbrook.

The McStay family was last seen alive Feb. 4, 2010, and relatives reported them missing a few days later. Then, in November 2013, the sk...

 

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