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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities have kept quiet for months about what drove them to charge a California man with killing a family of four and burying their bodies in shallow desert graves. But San Bernardino prosecutors on Monday, June 15, 2015, were expected to finally reveal the case they've been building against 58-year-old welder Charles "Chase" Merritt for the murders of his business partner, Joseph McStay, the man's wife and their two young sons.

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