Prosecutor uses death hammer found at graves during McStay family murder trial closing arguments

A prosecutor told jurors Tuesday, May 28, that the only way the McStay family could disappear off the face of the Earth from their Fallbrook home in 2010 was murder, and that Charles Merritt delivered the deadly blows — then slammed a speaker’s stand with the three-pound sledge hammer recovered from their desert graves.
“It wasn’t just one debilitating blow to incapacitate and remove them from the scene” prosecutor Britt Imes told the panel. “It was blow, afte