Suspect In Slayings Of California Family Of Four Pleads Not Guilty | Reading Eagle - Ap

All four died from blunt force trauma. A week later, Merritt was quoted in a British tabloid as saying that he had been the last person Joseph McStay phoned before he vanished and that the two, who had worked together in the water fountain business, had spent more than an hour together that day. Merritt added that he had taken a polygraph test and wanted to do anything he could to help find the killers. He was my best friend and we told each other everything, he said. The Riverside County resident has a long history of petty crime, violating court orders and drifting between blue-collar jobs. For the original version, visit http://readingeagle.com/ap/article/suspect-in-slayings-of-california-family-of-four-pleads-not-guilty