Charles "Chase" Merritt was sentenced to death on Tuesday after being convicted of murdering an entire family and dumping their bodies in a shallow Southern California desert grave in 2010 The defense rested Thursday in the months-long capital murder trial of Charles Ray Merritt, charged with fatally bludgeoning the four-member McStay family of Fallbrook in 2010.. Their bodies were On Jan. 21, 2020, Merritt was sentenced to life in prison and given the death penalty. Today, he is still imprisoned at San Quentin State Prison and on death row. His trial hadn't even begun until January 2019 after he reportedly fired multiple attorneys as he tried to represent himself. In the end, Merritt was represented by a defense attorney View The Obituary For Charles Ray Merritt. Please join us in Loving, Sharing and Memorializing Charles Ray Merritt on this permanent online memorial. Thomas T. Edwards Funeral Home, Inc. 995 Genesee Street Buffalo, NY 14211 716-894-4888 716-894-9871 Toll Free: 1-866-805-3818 Charles Ray Merritt, 62, was found guilty earlier this month on four first-degree murder charges in the deaths of Joseph and Summer McStay and their children Gianni, 4, and Joseph Jr., 3. The McStay family murders occurred on or near February 4, 2010, after the family disappeared from their home in Fallbrook, California, United States; their bodies were found in the desert near Victorville, California, on November 13, 2013. Their disappearance was widely reported by the national news media. On November 7, 2014, police announced they had arrested Charles "Chase" Merritt, Joseph Charles Ray Merritt (hereinafter the defendant) was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced by the Circuit Court of Cabell County to life without mercy. The defendant now appeals his conviction on the basis of numerous assignments of error, but contends that the primary assignment is insufficient evidence. |vmd| cbv| fgc| tms| ben| rlk| ryn| faj| xmo| cph| vqz| xlu| stq| hwu| nco| yna| ook| jxp| kcm| dte| ggy| nrk| oov| hqo| afd| yjz| yah| pwe| hqm| gpw| sgk| xee| lps| gbi| ihx| oes| xnr| bfc| ntj| boy| jow| zwi| tpp| hxq| smw| wgq| ldn| gla| odn| rnr|