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50 Ways to Catch a Killer - Season 1 Episode 5 -
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02:14với một .22-caliber chiếc.
02:17Each of the children were shot one time.
02:20On the floor, there are these two green incredible Hulk hands.
02:26And I had just bought one of my children the same toys like two weeks earlier.
02:31And as a parent, looking at that crime scene,
02:35it just really made me think,
02:37who in the world is killing kids?
02:44In the hallway, Ernestine Harper, 70 years old,
02:47the mother of Joanie, was dead on the ground with a revolver next to her.
02:52It was ultimately learned that that revolver belonged to Ernestine.
02:55It was something that she kept for her personal protection.
02:58Every one of those bullets had the primer struck,
03:01which means six times the trigger was pulled on this gun,
03:06and six times every bullet failed.
03:09They were very old bullets.
03:11And Ernestine was shot twice.
03:16This was Tuesday when I was on scene,
03:18based off the fact that they missed some of their normal routines.
03:22We do believe that they were killed Sunday afternoon.
03:25I was in my office teaching a Bible class.
03:34My cousin called me and told me that Joanie has been shot and killed.
03:41And he said, your mother was shot.
03:45Execution sound.
03:47Shot in the head twice.
03:49And everything on the inside was falling apart.
03:53I felt like I needed to run because I wanted to get away from what I was feeling at the time,
04:00which was just immense pain.
04:01Especially when we found out that the children had been murdered as well.
04:08Didn't sound real.
04:09It didn't sound like it's something that would have happened to my family.
04:14Bakersfield is located about 100 miles north of Los Angeles in the Central Valley of California in Kern County.
04:24It's the ninth most populous city in California.
04:27That said, it still has a small town feel.
04:30In Bakersfield, mass murder is very uncommon.
04:37Look at the definition of mass murder, three or more people murdered at the same time.
04:42So that was a very unusual crime.
04:45When I first heard about this case, I was completely horrified.
04:49I couldn't understand how someone could kill five members of a family, three generations of a family, including three young children.
04:58The only family member to survive is Joni's husband, the children's father, Vincent Brothers.
05:04Over that 4th of July weekend, Vincent Brothers was out of town.
05:08He was visiting his brother, Melvin, in Columbus, Ohio.
05:11And then he and Melvin drove to Elizabeth City, North Carolina to visit their mother, Margaret.
05:20Joni was a loving sister, very kind-hearted, very tender-hearted as well.
05:26Even though she was a great basketball player and great official, her life was with her children and she adored them.
05:37My aunt Joni, she was my father's sister, his baby sister.
05:41And she became my favorite auntie.
05:43She loved to do track.
05:45We played all kind of games when we would get together.
05:48She always had an open door and always said,
05:51if there's anything that you need, anything you want to talk about, you can come to me.
05:58My mother, Ernestine, was a wonderful woman.
06:01And there was nothing she wouldn't do for someone.
06:05She literally would sacrifice so much to help not just somebody important, but anyone.
06:15Every time I would go to Bakersfield, that's where we would go, to my grandmother Ernestine Harper's house.
06:21There was always a smell of something cooking in the house, so it was just home, you know.
06:26Joni and Ernestine Harper were very involved in the church.
06:32They were well-loved and well-known.
06:34And they had a strict routine on Sundays.
06:36The whole family would go to church in the morning.
06:39They would go to lunch.
06:40They would come back to the home and all take naps.
06:43The three children would sleep in the same room as Joni.
06:48Then they would wake up and return to church for later services.
06:52So my focus was going to be Kelsey Spann.
06:54She's the one that called 911.
06:56Kelsey Spann told us Sunday, July 6th, the family had gone to church that morning.
07:02And then they met with Kelsey for lunch at Black Angus restaurant.
07:07Kelsey tried to get all the family for the next two days.
07:11Nobody answered the phone.
07:12No response, which is extremely unusual.
07:15Tuesday morning, still no phone call.
07:19So that's why Kelsey decided she's going to stop by the house that morning just to check their welfare.
07:25In the wake of Kelsey Spann's horrific discovery,
07:28Detectives start conducting interviews to determine who might have targeted the Harper family.
07:33The crime scene was in really good hands.
07:35I needed to start gleaning information from people.
07:38And then the first person was going to be Vincent Brothers because he's the husband.
07:43He's thousands of miles away visiting his brother.
07:47And detectives need to go and talk to him and find out who could have done this to his family.
07:53We jumped on a flight from Los Angeles to North Carolina.
07:57And that Wednesday morning, I met with Vincent Brothers.
08:10Bakersfield police wanted to inform him that his wife and his three children were murdered.
08:15Vincent Brothers is sobbing uncontrollably asking for his mama.
08:28There's a lot of things going through my mind as a father, not even as a cop, just as a father.
08:40I mean, the man's family was just murdered.
08:47Throughout the interview, Vincent Brothers seems too traumatized to provide any leads.
09:00Returning to Bakersfield, Detective Watts rejoins the search for suspects with a motive for murder.
09:06We knew that Ernestine Harper was a social activist.
09:11She would look in the community for potential injustices.
09:15And if she found them, would try to support that person.
09:19Ernestine Harper did work with some dangerous people, some of them gang members.
09:23So police wanted to look into that to see if there was a connection there.
09:26We wanted to look at sex registrants that are living in the area.
09:31People that are constant burglars, people on parole.
09:35If we have a serial killer starting a spree and this is his first case, you just never know.
09:41And you have to consider all that stuff.
09:43But there was no other potential suspects identified.
09:47Was this a burglary gone bad?
09:50Was it a robbery that somebody actually tried to force entry?
09:54Initially, it appeared like it could be a burglary.
09:58The house was in a bit of disarray.
10:00But when they looked a little further, nothing of value was taken.
10:03There were credit cards.
10:05There was a TV set.
10:07I found a U.S. currency in plain sight, you know, not taken.
10:12There's a firearm that one of the victims tried to use.
10:15It also wasn't taken.
10:17And so you start to consider a crime scene staging had taken effect that somebody's trying to make this look different than it actually is.
10:27There were no broken windows or broken doors.
10:30Someone knew their routine and had a way of getting in that house.
10:34Five members of the Harper family were shot to death, but Joanie was stabbed five times post-mortem.
10:41That's personal.
10:43And of course, when there's a murder, police look at the spouse.
10:47Vincent Brothers was a vice principal of an elementary school.
10:53He was liked very much so at the school.
10:56They thought that he was a very good person and did well in his profession.
11:02But as detectives started looking more into Vincent Brothers and his background, they determined that he had a dark side.
11:10I had several interviews with Kelsey Spann, and she was fearful of him.
11:16And that was also a common theme amongst a lot of people we spoke with.
11:21Years before the murders, before the three children were born, Vincent Brothers actually spent six days in jail for misdemeanor spousal abuse
11:28because the mother of his first child, Margaret, said that he did abuse her.
11:34The relationship of Vincent and Joanie was pretty rocky.
11:38It was a roller coaster.
11:40They first had Marcus.
11:41Then they got married in 2000.
11:43They got divorced in 2001 due to Vincent's infidelity.
11:47Then they came back together and they secretly remarried in Las Vegas.
11:51Joni had married Vincent for the second time in January of 2003.
11:56Now the crime occurred in July 2003.
11:58So they've been only married seven months.
12:01And we learned he has, and I'm not exaggerating, girlfriend after girlfriend.
12:07Vincent had four kids, and to divorce Joanie would mean paying child support for the three kids that he had with Joanie.
12:18So that could be a motive.
12:20If he had to pay child support for these three Harper children, he would be doing that for about another 18 years.
12:26But Vincent Brothers had a pretty solid alibi.
12:32He had credit card receipts in Columbus, Ohio, from a Chinese food restaurant, from a Walmart.
12:38Police, of course, wanted to verify the alibi that Vincent Brothers gave them.
12:42So I remember the credit card receipt that was delivered to my office as evidence.
12:46And it was a Walmart receipt on the day of the murder.
12:51It had Vincent Brothers' signature on it.
12:53Because we learned that Vincent Brothers' credit cards are being potentially used on the day we believe the murders happened, on the 6th of July,
13:01My partner and I head to Columbus, Ohio, just to check his alibi.
13:10We had gone to these two stores where the credit cards were used, pulled their surveillance tape.
13:16We were reviewing the tapes.
13:20Lo and behold, it's not Vincent Brothers using those credit cards.
13:24It's his brother, Melvin Brothers.
13:29Melvin eventually admitted to using the credit cards and signing Vincent's name.
13:34He also said that Vincent told him when to go to Walmart and exactly what items to buy.
13:41Melvin Brothers admitted that while he saw his brother Vincent in Columbus, Ohio, from July 4th through July 7th, Melvin didn't know where his brother was.
13:53This is a crucial piece of information because this is when the murders happened, on July 6th.
14:00Between the credit card revelation and his mysterious whereabouts at the time of the murders, Vincent Brothers becomes the investigation's prime suspect.
14:10We determined that Vincent Brothers did not take a commercial air flight back to California during the middle of his stay in Ohio.
14:20Then it came down to, well, what are the other alternatives?
14:24We thought, you know, maybe he drove.
14:27Could he have done this?
14:29Could he really have drove from this time in Ohio to Bakersfield to commit this murder and then back to Columbus, Ohio?
14:37It's a lot of driving.
14:39We thought, we know I had a rental car.
14:41Let's seize that rental car and just take a look at mileage when that rental car came in service.
14:48We were fortunate that there was only three other renters that had that car.
14:54And what we found out was there was 5,400 miles approximately that only Vincent Brothers could have put on that car.
15:03At this point, detectives have Vincent's alibi, admitting that he disappeared the weekend of the murders.
15:09What they don't have is solid evidence.
15:12And without that, Vincent's plan is working.
15:14And he's about to walk free.
15:16If they want to take him down, they need to think outside the box.
15:21It seemed pretty impossible for Vincent Brothers or anyone to be able to drive from Columbus, Ohio to Bakersfield 2,300 miles.
15:30Kill five people, get back in the car and travel another 2,300 miles back to Columbus, Ohio without being noticed.
15:38But it was possible.
15:39We needed more than just mileage to show that he drove this car intentionally to California.
15:46Police needed to figure out how to place Vincent Brothers in Bakersfield during that 4th of July weekend when the murders occurred.
15:53With any investigation, when you're not getting the results right away, you start to get frustrated.
16:00Usually once a day, you will have meetings with other homicide detectives or supervisors.
16:06And we'll discuss what else do we have that we're not thinking about.
16:13Then somebody throws out, why don't we check for bugs?
16:18That's something I never heard of.
16:21As anybody knows, if you drive a car, it attracts bugs.
16:26If you drive a car at night, it attracts even more bugs.
16:29And so this rental car had bugs all over it.
16:33Nobody that I know of requested an entomologist look at bugs and say, hey, can you tell us where the distribution of those bugs lay within the United States?
16:40Could you take fragments of bugs?
16:43And could you pinpoint where a vehicle might have traveled?
16:48University of California Davis has one of the largest entomology collection of bugs catalogs that I know of.
16:56And I spoke with Dr. Lynn Kimsey.
17:00And I told her, I said, hey, I'm wondering if we package up this radiator and other pieces of the intake from this car, would you look to see if there's any bugs you can identify?
17:11It was struck a genius.
17:13Dr. Kimsey painstakingly went through this radiator and other pieces of the intake airflow that you'd normally would come in contact while driving.
17:24She said, look, we've actually found some bugs that we can identify specifically on this radiator.
17:32And it turned out that you would only find these bugs west of the Rocky Mountains.
17:38So that was a big deal because now we not only had 5,400 miles on this car, we could also say this car has now been to California where the murders occurred.
17:47Afterwards, detectives talked to people, talked to the community, and they discovered that several people saw Vincent in Bakersfield around the time of the murder.
18:00There was an eyewitness, someone who lived next to the Harper home, who said he saw Vincent Brothers, who he knew, on that patio that 4th of July weekend.
18:13Detectives had already determined that Vincent Brothers had motive to kill his family.
18:18And despite his cunning attempt to fabricate an alibi, they'd now proven he also had opportunity.
18:25As a result of additional information through this ongoing investigation, we developed probable cause to arrest Mr. Brothers.
18:40On April 30, 2004, Vincent Brothers was arrested in Bakersfield and charged with five counts of murder.
18:47Based on what we had, we believed Vincent Brothers was looking to be free, unburdened of a wife, of a mother-in-law he could not tolerate.
18:58And three children that were nothing but innocent, but he looked at them as financial burdens if that whole family wasn't wiped out.
19:05Vincent knew the routine. I believe he chose Sunday because this was a time where you can get them all together at one time to commit the murders.
19:16I believe that he was hiding in the house when the family comes home from church.
19:23He's waiting for them to take their nap, and this is when he starts his rampage.
19:30His biggest threat was Joni. Joni Harper's in great shape.
19:33I mean, she ran up and down courts as a basketball official. She had salmon on.
19:38So, Joni would be the first person to have been attacked.
19:42Hearing gunshots in the house would have woken Ernestine up from her nap.
19:47And I think Vincent and Ernestine meet head to head in the hallway.
19:52He's surprised when he's confronted with a gun to his face.
19:56Unfortunately, because it was an old revolver, it malfunctioned and it didn't actually shoot anybody.
20:02And Vincent Brothers fires off two rounds as quickly as he can.
20:08Both striking Ernestine in the face in very close proximity to each other.
20:15At this point, I think he went back into that bedroom, and this is when he killed the kids.
20:22When they found Marcus, they said that in his hand, he'd been, I guess he was so scared that he bit through his hand.
20:38And to do a child like that, your own child like that, you have to be a demented person.
20:55I almost have no words.
21:00This little boy, seeing his brother and sister and his mom and grandma all killed and knowing that his father was doing it.
21:08I can't imagine.
21:10What Vincent does next is he starts to stage this crime scene.
21:15He pulls the TV over, knocks it down on the ground.
21:18He takes the purse that contains Joni's identification and car keys and he dumps it on the ground to really make this look like a robbery gone bad.
21:27This is a very calculating evil person.
21:32At that point, all he had to do was drive back to Ohio without getting stopped by the police or getting a citation, which he was successful in doing.
21:40And he already had his brother covering for him on credit cards that day, so he thinks he has an alibi.
21:53This case was the biggest criminal trial in Bakersfield in decades.
21:58It affected the community so greatly, largely because these people were very well known in the community and three young children were involved.
22:07I had no doubt that he thought he was smarter than everybody in the room.
22:11I think he thought we were all beneath him, that even the jury wouldn't be able to figure it out.
22:18On May 15th, 2007, Vincent Brothers was found guilty of five counts of first degree murder.
22:25We the jury and panel to try the above entitled cause find the defendant, Vincent Edward Brothers, guilty of felony to wit murder of Ernestine Harper.
22:35Guilty of murder of Joni Harper. Guilty of murder of Marcus Harper. Guilty of murder of Lindsay Harper. Guilty of murder of Marshall Harper.
22:45Vincent was given the death penalty, so he is serving his sentence in San Quentin here in California, and I believe he's right where he belongs.
22:58I think death would be a gift for him. I think he should spend the rest of his life in jail thinking about what he did and the lives that he took and suffer with that for the rest of his life.
23:12I'll never forget when I went to college and I cried and I told my mother, mother, take care of Joni.
23:21Cause I knew I wouldn't be there to take care of her.
23:27And sometimes I think about that. I think about that even now that I wasn't there to take care of her.
23:38I'll never forget the Harper family. I'll never forget Marshall and Marcus and Lindsay and Joni and Ernestine.
23:50I never knew them, but I'll never forget them.
23:54Sometimes I'm the only voice for somebody that's been murdered.
23:58In this case, I was the voice for five people.
24:01Not only me, me and the, I would venture to say the entire investigation division of the Bakersfield Police Department all contributed so much.
24:11The fact that someone had the creativity to even think of looking at bugs in a radiator of a car.
24:23That kind of blew my mind. Cause I was, I was like, who would even think of doing something like that?
24:28That's what you have to do in law enforcement and forensic examinations.
24:32You have to think, is there a different way to do things?
24:35Vincent brothers killed his whole family. This guy was convinced he outsmarted everyone.
24:44But detectives found a bug in his plan. A lot of bugs, actually.
24:49The details small enough to overlook, but big enough to catch a killer.
25:05And the one thing about. And that's the reality.
25:07The one thing that actually Muss the magistrate one.
25:09And how can he get to attention to human rights?
25:10So you see it also that the body doesn't look around and the thing.
25:13If the kilometres plunges andailable scum showing one of the distances.
25:15May God give Ziviro to success.
25:29The motel contractor has killed it most.
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