Chilling Ring dashcam footage shows them leaving their home before the husband shoots his estranged wife and himself

• Melissa, 45, and Johnny Soto, 52, went missing from their home in the San Ysidro neighborhood of San Diego on Wednesday, December 20
• San Diego police announced Wednesday that they conducted a search with Border Patrol and found a car “connected” to the disappearance

A San Diego couple who disappeared days before Christmas was found dead in a car in what is being investigated as a murder-suicide after disturbing Ring camera footage showed the night they disappeared.

Melissa, 45, and Johnny Soto, 52, went missing from their home in the San Ysidro neighborhood of San Diego on Wednesday, December 20. The couple, who were married for 20 years and have three grown children, recently separated.

San Diego police announced Wednesday that they had conducted a search with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol and found a car “connected” to the disappearance.

They did not identify the bodies, only to say they were a 52-year-old Spanish man and a 45-year-old Filipino married couple “living separately.”

Authorities believe their deaths were a murder-suicide, with the man shooting the woman before killing himself.

Scroll down for video:

In Ring camera footage released earlier this week, Melissa was seen pulling into the driveway of her estranged husband’s home around 8:51 p.m. the night they disappeared while Johnny, who was at a holiday party, was returning in his truck you’re about an hour later.

The couple’s son, Vincent, said his father then sat down with him to watch television. A few minutes later, however, Vincent was asked by his father to leave the house.

Over the next 15 minutes, Melissa’s car is seen backing out of the driveway – only to reverse again. A neighbor’s surveillance camera shows the garage door and trunk of Melissa’s car open about six minutes later, and John’s truck is nowhere to be found.

Vincent, who was the last to see the couple, told NBC San Diego it “felt like a normal night.”

‘[My dad] just sat here watching tv like always. And my parents, they always talk.

“He asked me, ‘Hey Vinny, can you leave for a minute?’ We’re going to talk. So I left the house assuming nothing,” he said.

Vincent said he was out of the house for about an hour and a half before he got a text from his father saying they had left and the coast was clear.

However, neither he nor his sisters Alexia and Elise heard from him again. The couple also failed to show up at their respective workplaces.

A search ensued, with the siblings saying it wasn’t like their parents leaving and not coming back.

“He and my mom like to talk and get together,” Vincent told ABC 10 — while revealing the couple had a pretty rocky relationship and recently split after 20 years.

“So while they were talking, they liked to take the truck,” he continued, citing how it wasn’t unusual for the couple to take off in his father’s silver Tacoma truck.

‘[Johnny] called me, he said, ‘Hey, Vincent, we’re going to the truck in a minute,'” he recalled.

“That was the last I heard of him.”

The surveillance footage served as the only real clue to their disappearance after the family filed a missing person’s report.

They show Melissa’s car pulling a car into the driveway at 8:51 p.m

“You see somebody get out of the car,” neighbor Raymond Arzola said, citing the clip taken by a camera located at his nearby house.

“You can tell it’s most likely a man in jeans and a blue jacket,” he added. “I usually see Johnny wearing a blue jacket.”

Then at 10:19 PM, Melissa’s car pulls out of the driveway and then reverses again.

About 14 minutes later, the same man was seen getting into his silver Toyota after maneuvering to park in Melissa’s car – before departing around 10:33 p.m.

In this clip, Melissa is noticeably absent, even when her car sits in the driveway for about 15 minutes.

“My dad had his phone and his wallet, but my mom didn’t have her phone, wallet or keys,” said Alexia Soto, the oldest.

“Even though they were separated, there were no issues between them,” she added of the couple’s strained relationship, which she and her siblings said took a turn in July.

“They were still in touch,” she said, citing how her mother still regularly visits the couple’s old house.

“They were still talking.” She would come [to Johnny’s house] and speak.’

The footage shows what many believe to be Johnny driving around the stage without his wife and someone who appears to be playing with her vehicle before Johnny’s truck drives off.

Aunt Cristina Sandoval also noted Tuesday how the couple “left without clothes,” telling the local NBC affiliate, “[they] left with nothing. All his clothes that he normally wears, like the sweats in the bedroom.

“Her phone was left here.” Her wallet was left here,” she continued as the search continued for the couple on Wednesday.

“Her keys were left here and then his phone was turned off about 15 to 20 minutes after he left here.”

Meanwhile, Sandoval has started a GoFundMe to help with “groceries and all kinds of bills” for the family.