Vincent Brothers
This is 46 year old Vincent Brothers, of Bakersfield, California.
Vincent Brothers had a great job as the vice-principal at the Fremont School, an adoring wife Joanie Harper, and three beautiful children- 4 year old Marques, 23 month old Lyndsey, and 6 week old Marshall. Seems like your average guy, right? Wrong. What makes Vincent different is the fact that he savagely murdered 5 members of his family, including his own innocent children, in cold blood.
The relationship between Vincent and Joanie had not been without it’s share of troubles. Joanie gave birth to Marques Juwan in 1998 (Vincent was not present for his birth) and the two married in 2000. Despite separating a month later, Joanie gave birth to Lyndsey Michelle later that year (Vincent was again absent from the delivery).
The marriage was annulled in 2001, with Vincent Brothers citing irreconcilable differences and Joanie citing fraud, allegedly because at the time of marriage, she had no knowledge of Vincent’s two previous marriages. Despite all the ups and downs, friends and family members all agree that Joanie loved Vincent deeply and was eager to for them to be a family, and they continued to have an on and off relationship. Most people never knew about Vincent’s Jekyll-and-Hyde personality, and those who did certainly never knew the extent of his capabilities.
In January, 2003, Joanie and Vincent remarried, and in May baby Marshall was born. Although Vincent had moved out of the family’s home in April due to discord
between he and his mother-in-law Earnestine, he was present for Marshall’s birth and for a little while, things seemed fine. On July 6, 2003, Joanie, her mother Earnestine and the three children attended church services. Although Vincent had left town 4 days prior to visit family in Ohio, it was a special day, with Joanie showing off Marshall to church members for the first time.
After morning services, the Harpers met up with friends, including Joanie’s best friend Kelsey Spann, for 
lunch then went home to rest until evening services. They never made those evening services.
After calls from friends and family went unanswered, Kelsey decided to stop by the house. She hadn’t seen Joanie since two days earlier and it was unlike Joanie to ignore her calls. Although the house looked fine from the outside, Kelsey found that the door wouldn’t open after she’d used her key to unlock it, so she went around to the patio door and finding it unlocked, let herself in. Her panicked call to 911 came in just after 7 a.m. and police arrived within minutes to find a house of horror.
First, police found Earnestine. She had been shot twice in the face at close range and was laying in the 
hallway near her bedroom. In another bedroom, police found the bodies of Joanie and the children, still laying in the same spots they had lain Sunday to nap after church.
Joanie was found face-down on her bed, dead from several bullet and stab wounds to her head, chest and back. Lyndsey lay on her left side at the foot of the bed in her little blue dress. She had been killed with a single gunshot wound to the back. Marques was beside his mother on the bed and was covered by a sheet. Police theorize that he awakened before the murders. He was found with his eyes open and a gunshot wound to the right side of the head. Authorities say he had been so frightened immediately before his death, that he had bitten his right hand down to the bone.
Marshall was thought to be missing, but after a search, he was found under a pillow near his mother. He had been shot in the back, just as his sister had.
Police tracked down Vincent Brothers at his mother’s home in North Carolina and broke the news about his family’s murders. Although he was the only person suspected of the crime, he had left for vacation four days prior to the murders and police couldn’t immediately disprove this alibi.
However, a neighbor in Bakersfield reported seeing Vincent near the Harper home around the time of the murders. Rental records for the car Vincent rented in Ohio showed that he put 5,400 miles on it, which was more than enough to travel from Ohio to California and back.
In addition, entomologist who examined the car found bug parts from species only found west of the Rocky Mountains, although Vincent maintained he had never left the eastern part of the country.
One of his alibis was a pair of store receipts for items bought in North Caroline on the day of the murders. Upon examination of those credit card receipts and store surveillance, it was found that Vincent’s brother Melvin had been using Vincent’s card and forging his signature. Initially, Melvin lied when confronted about it, but later admitted that he had done so at Vincent’s urging.
The prosecution alleged that Vincent had carried on several extramarital relationships and that his motive for the killings was greed; Vincent had wanted to relieve himself of the burden of supporting his growing family.
On May 15, 2007 Vincent Brothers was found guilty of five counts of first degree murder and a special circumstance of multiple murders and on September 27th he was sentenced to Death by Lethal Injection by Judge Michael Bush.
Does Vincent Brothers deserve Hell?
- Yes (98%, 399 Votes)
- No (2%, 9 Votes)
Total Voters: 408
Loading ...
98 Comments »
OMG!!! Those poor babies. There are just no words.
Why? Has he even given a reason why?
My kids are my world, my everything. Even when i growl at them i feel like a queen bitch…..gotta go find a tissue.
BURN 5 TIMES FUCKER BURN!!!!
I don’t know what to say. Kill him someone. ..Please! He NEEDS to meet Satan ASAP! This story hurts me just reading it so I can’t begin to imagine how the friends and family of the victims feel.
Did the court get a psychiatrist to examine this man? He must have been psychotic to think he could get away with killing 5 family members. And he was a vice principle of a high school ????? And his motive was that he wanted to be relieved of the burden of supporting his family??? Yikes.
So the reason was to save some $$$.
That just makes his actions worse. How do you put a price on your children?
Im gobsmacked. I hope the bastard rots in hell.
Sorry to nitpick, but its entomologist, not etymologist
Is Malcom X an entomologist? Whoa.
So it is….I’ll fix that right away. Thank for the 411 Dude.
thanks, max. i saw that at work but didn’t have time to fix it.
are you happy now, your royal nit-pickiness pain in the arse?
As horrible as this is, it sounds like most died quickly. Some ofthe other stories have people being burned to death.
So I will go easy on this POS – firing squad. Quick, easy, and gone.
Little to say, little needs to be done, it’s just that simple
The little boy bit clear down to the bone out of fear? Quick? No no no……torture him. Put him in a cell with the Uki boys.
You’re right on the story – someone was tortured in some way. I read thru many stories and my point is that I failed to make is that this guy is cold he killed them quickly for the most part.
In other stories, the victims were set on fire….
I am not advocating that this POS deserves a quick death, but I am advocating putting him to death quickly.
Seems to me in the USA we are so concerned that the criminal may experience some pain on the way to hell! What’s another 10 seconds of pain esp when looking at burning for the rest of eternety?
At the rate we are going, the only way we will be able to kill a crimonal may be to feed the bastard big Macs and let them have a heart attack!
y.d.l.m.b.- exactly. in no way was that a quick ordeal for at least one of those innocent children, and honestly, there’s no telling how long it took the younger two to die from gunshot wounds to the back. vincent doesn’t deserve anything quick and easy. i hope his suffering is long and drawn out over years and i hope he sees his babies every minute of it. and not as they were in life. i hope when they haunt him, he sees the end result of what he did to them and it eats him from the inside out. he needs hell on earth.
but someone as twisted as him probably breathes easy every night.
Hey um…YOUR DAD LICKS MY BALLS, I am going to have to come back to your comment later. I am still having a bit of a hard time getting past your username. :o) Okay…
Lol if his skin was a bit more white he would look like that phycho killer from the T.V. show Boston Legal.
Oh my.
I guess the mother could not have known what he was capable of. I just wished people could realize there is true happiness out there and not to settle for crap from anyone. Sure wished she would have kicked him to the curb in the beginning. I’ll bet if not for her, it would have been another mother though. The guy is a special kind of evil to shoot your own children. I hope their faces come to him every time he shuts his eyes, and never allow him a moment of rest.
this guy sounds so cold that it would not matter.
Just cremate him alive – why waste the time killing him with drugs – the creamation will kill him and get rid of his corpse.
good point fred, I guess if he didnt care enough about them not to kill them, then it probably wouldn’t let his actions cause him to loose any sleep. He’s a demon and his mind doesn’t work like the rest of ours!
It’s nice to see someone else use a worl rather than sick.
Love your choice of words and that last sentence!
Wow! V man racked up the numbers only to take them out one-by-one.
Who said he wasn’t a hard-working man?
___________________________________________________
This guy had rage and I could feel it as I read the story. Nice write-up eternal! I really could feel his rage.
I bet the mother-in-law got it first…don’t they all?
V man, you should have used some prevention like a condom or having the wife get that shot (no pun intended). Ironically, YOU will get the shot so you won’t be making babies anymore. :)
Oh and a Bush sent you to hell lol
thanks, turtle. actually, what you felt was MY rage. i started this one 2 weeks ago and lost a lot of sleep over it, especially knowing what poor marques’s last moments must’ve been like, so afraid and alone, knowing what his father did and what he was going to do…
that being said, i hate vincent brothers and all he stands for. to say that i want him to suffer as the harpers suffered and then burn in hell would be a serious understatement!
and although i’m not 100% sure who he killed first, i believe it was earnestine. the articles made it seem that way, as did the story as it was told when i saw it featured on t.v.
Hehehehe. No eternal. It was his rage not yours.
Here’s why:
“The marriage was annulled in 2001, with Vincent Brothers citing irreconcilable differences and Joanie citing fraud…”
“and those who did certainly never knew the extent of his capabilities.”
“Although Vincent had moved out of the family’s home in April due to discord between he and his mother-in-law Earnestine…”
“The relationship between Vincent and Joanie had not been without it’s share of troubles.”
“Joanie gave birth to Marques Juwan in 1998 (Vincent was not present for his birth)”
“Lyndsey Michelle later that year (Vincent was again absent from the delivery).”
“First, police found Earnestine. She had been shot twice in the face at close range…”
These words helped build the “monster”. And through those words I was able to be in his rage as he entered that house looking to end it all. It’s hard to explain.
But if it were YOUR rage, it probably would’ve been you throwing barbs at him in your story. …something that you didn’t do.
You get what I mean? I could go into more detail.
oh, yes, i get you now. it was quite hard to refrain from throwing barbs at him. i’m glad you picked up on that stuff. the point i wanted to make was that he was a monster all along, but no one saw it until it was too late. but i tried hard to be objective and leave my opinion out because stormy said my last story was too emotional and i shouldn’t try to sway the readers with my personal feelings.
so this time i tried to detach myself while writing. i wasn’t successful though. i’m still not sleeping well. i keep thinking of marques huddled under the covers, biting his little hand, hoping everytime he blinks that when he opens his eyes, the boogeyman will be gone… but he wasn’t :(
I as well enjoy this story. I infact had to scroll down to confirm it was your story mid-way through.
I liked the disconnect…It is how we were able to get a better mental picture.
It’s not like you were an emotional basket case on the others, just a different style that’s all.
Thanks for flexing your style, it is appreciated…however the other style is cool as well, well put together either way.
Does no one think of the poor Prince of Darkness’ feelings? All he did was think he was as cool as God. These dicks…sigh…these dicks.
My littlest one told me she loves me today.
I wonder if Vincent has any idea what he’s missing.
The best feeling in the whole world is when my youngest climbs into bed beside me in the mornig, wraps his arms so tightly around my neck i can barely breathe and says, ” your my huggy bear mummy.Squeeze my guts out.”
Not only does he not care what he is missing…he doesnt even care.
He should be happy now, there are no financial responsibilities in prison. Tax payers will provide his food and lodging right up until he takes his last breath. Ill gladly pay for his injection.
I spent the weekend with my daughter. She showed me her last report card and she had a bad grade in math. Well we had our little talk and I had to take away her internet access. She told me she hated me and all that.
20 min later she came back, said she was sorry and that she loved me very much.
Later that day a friend of hers came over and she told her friend that I am the best dad in the whole world.
People you can take all the drugs you want. There is no better “high” than that. I was walking on clouds the rest of the weekend!
i don’t have any kids of my own yet but i do have custody of my 11yr old nephew. he was in an abusive home w/ his mom and it took me years upon years to finally win custody of this little boy. We have always been close and I have always been a part of his life but he only moved in full time nov. 10th of this year so we are still working through the transition but just last night he grabbed me and said “i love you so much, give me your leg and let me squeeze it” haha I can tell he is so thankful to be out of that house and in a caring loving one. he tells me at least 33-40 times a day that he loves me and when i say i love you too he asks me why. he needs constant reassurance which breaks my heart because i know whatever his mom did to him had affected him greatly. These poor babies in all of these stories go through this as well and it saddens me that there isn’t anyone out there to save them. I thank God daily that he gave me what i needed to save my nephew.
My kids tell me on a regular basis that they hate me lol. If i send their friends home for bad behaviour, they hate me. If i make them eat their vege’s, they hate me. If i take away TV veiwing, they hate me. If i send them to their room, they hate me.
But they love me, and i know its only words. My usual reply to ‘i hate you,’ is ,’really, thats sad, cause i adore you.’
I don’t believe Vincent realizes what he is and will be missing…He probably just blocked everyone (his family) out during their short lifes and encounters together…Life being just a blur, moving quickly around him…I imagine the only real thing grasping his attention would have been the other woman he had relations with. Making his family just a hinderence, an interuption to his corrupt process.
His one tracked mind destined to get rid of the wife, and kids finally snapped into action…He never cared.
Hollywood could turn this into a movie.
But in the end, V Man suffers a more violent death than a sissy needle.
Here’s my take on his ending:
V Man is caught in a high speed chase with the police. He’s going down one way streets, knocking over mailboxes, and crashing recycle bins etc. So now they’re in a residential area with V well in the lead. All of the sudden he takes his eyes off the road and crashes into a car thus ejecting him from the car (wear your seatbelts folks). He immediately finds his way into a roaring tree cutter/shred machine conveniently parked on the street side.
This interupts the men working and they watch in absolute horror as V Man violently shakes and screams as he gets shredded into little pieces and his chunks blown out the tall snout on the other end of the machine.
And then the lawyers show up, hit the stop button and sues all tose involved. V-Man becomes almost as rich as Donald Trump.
Sorry to spoil a good dream with the reality of a lawyer….
Hey – it’s a movie Fred lol
You’re a funny guy with your “lawyer” thing.
I should have known. :)
At some point there is a lawyer whose story needs to go in here. I need to do some research and calm myself becasuse at this point I’d waste too many bits & bytes with 4 letter words!
really fred. i don’t understand how these lawyers sleeo at night, defending shit like vincent brothers and the edenfields. if i was a lawyer, there would be no amount of money that would make me take them. it’d be too dirty to me.
and if i worked for the county and the court appointed me, i’d quit.
Amen
who the hell keeps voting no? i really just want to know why not?
Lesson number one – never make out with a guy missing his eyebrows.
That’s a no brainer
I know a lady with no eyebrows. She shaved them off to look cool for a David Bowie concert when she was a teen, and they never grew back, lol. Now she pencils them on with blue eyeliner. It looks really bad and the kids know her as ‘the eyebrow lady.’
Eyeliner? She should use her pubic hairs.
HAhahaha, i should suggest that to her
Why… blue? What in the hell would make her use BLUE for her eyebrows?!
Who knows…she is, how do i put this nicely? She is a very special kind of a person.
Ya gotta see her to believe her. Her makes up makes her look like a drag queen…actaully i have seen better looking drag queens.
What’s up with the tattooed on brows?
You would think it would be an old lady thing, but this gal I know just got it done…Funny thing is she’s blond, naturally, so they are all like orangeish. (she’s an excop, actually, fired for not turning in her lesbian lover for having an illegal weapon…part that sucks, is she is a great person who did not deserve to loose her job, she was the one that turned her in and arrested her. Because it took her 7 days to do so, they felt she was guilty as well. Poor her, hey she has her eyebrows…tatooed on forever. That’s something :o( ) Nothing to do with her eyebrows, I know. Her story is just interesting to me, + Coffee = Countless Words :o)
:o) I love eyebrows…Speaking of eyebrows, Edward Cullen the character from Twilight, OMG best eyebrows ever! If I must, his real name is Robert Pattinson, owner of the edible eyebrows!
People voted No to hell for this guy. Losers. He will ROT there if there is any justice in the after-life. I can’t imagine what in God’s name a tiny baby did to this man to make him shoot him. I keep picturing that poor darling in my mind and it makes me cry every time. The little girl in her blue dress shot in the back. What a fucking low-life coward to shoot helpless infants IN THE FUCKING BACK!!!! It’s wrong to hate people I’ve been told, but who cares. I HATE THIS GUY WITH ALL MY HEART!!!!
Kick his ass, Kim.
i wish someone would kick his ass. sadly, he’s probably not in gp… they don’t allow people on death row into gp, do they?
Why is it that the worst criminals get the most protection? Assed up if ya ask me.
Dont worry, im sure he’ll crap in his scrungies when his time comes.
i know you’re right, but it’s not coming fast enough, or violently enough for my personal satisfaction.
That makes two of us.
What the fuck. I am so sick and tired of the “No” Option actually working for these cunt scabs. We should set it up so when they push NO they get Anti-Virus2009 downloaded onto their computer….
Then the computer will begin to shoot flames with each key stroke… Douse them with gasoline & shove a grenade up their ass!!!
I’m so pissed at these 5 fuck crusts that I can’t even think about this hemrhoid scab right now.
i feel the same way but i would never have been able to express it as eloquently as you. it’s probably the racist trolls. there have been quite a few “no” votes on this and the edenfield post as well. but i have noticed that in the latest stories about the white children, the votes for hell have been unanimous. i’m not one of those people who likes to throw around the race card, but with people making comments like the ones that were made about christopher in the edenfield post, i stand behind my theory.
Lethal injection is so easy for this peice of shit. At least the little ones would have had a chance to grow into someone worth something. Maybe. Vincent Brothers should have stayed in the ghetto. I can’t even imagine that he was in a school surrounded by children on a daily basis!
Everytime I see his picture I think to myself, “He has some big ‘ol soup coolers!”
sherry, what is wrong with you? seriously, i don’t want to hate you, especially since you’re correct on the fact that vincent does deserve to die.
but does everything you say have to have such racist undertones? i don’t know if i should feel bad for you and overlook it because you don’t know any better, or smack you because you’re doing it purposely to rile us.
remember, human shitstains come in ALL colors. white is no exception.
There you are my little dingleberry!
I’m sorry my opinion bothers you so much. A lot of the diarrhea that comes out of your face makes me want to shove my fist down your neck but you don’t see me following you around commenting on everything you say. I ignore you. Try it.
Run along now….
see what happens when i try to be nice to you, you fucking ugly, fat ass racist meth-head cunt bitch? i’ll be sure that never happens again. it’s not your opinion that bothers me, you idiot twat. i guess your low i.q. makes you incapable of comprehending that, no matter how many times i express it to you. but i now have my answer loud and clear- you DO do this shit to ruffle feathers. but you probably can’t help it. your yokel mother was too busy giving blowjobs to your uncles for the spare change needed to feed you 10 times a day to pay you any real attention. that’s why you seek it out so actively here. it’s obvious by your choice of this story to comment on, even though you swore ages ago you would give a wide berth (sort of like you wide ass, only a tad smaller) to anything i had to say. you just couldn’t help yourself here. you crave eternal. so there, i’ll admit it- you tricked me into thinking you had a shred of decency and a half a shred of intelligence so i actually tried to have a civil conversation with you. i hope you feel special and validated :) but only momentarily because it won’t happen again. even if YOU do hunt down EVERYTHING that I write, evident once again by your presence here.
now go choke back some shit and die, you miserable cross burning bitch. you are a lost cause and i’m done with you.
oh, btw, thanks for being my proof that human shitstains also come in the color white :D
i could say it a million times, but it takes you opening you penishole to really drive the point home!
and NOW you are dismissed.
God Sherry, I don’t think anyone is trying to follow you around. It’s just some of your comments are so intolerable something has got to give…
Last time I called you out on being such an evil bitch it seemed to work for awhile. Let’s try it again. “Sherry you are an evil bitch.” I can feel it in my bones…
You are that fucked up lady that does not let anyone in on the road (it’s why we don’t use blinkers in CO), not cool what so ever…right now I am actually imagining you as that crazy bitch that just tried to get Adolf Hitler on her son’s 3rd birthday cake (it’s his fucked up name). Oh, yeah they have a daughter named Joycelynn Aryan Nation too! Ha ha. That’s you Sherry…:o)
Why don’t you explain to us exactly what you mean by “He has some big ‘ol soup coolers!” so you most of all can reflect upon your awful words once again.
Yes Sherry, I’ve reserved saying anything about your comments because I thought you might just be a bit misguided, but probably not an openly racist person. And in a way I was right. (Please forgive me for being blunt, but I don’t know any other way to be.) You’re much, much worse than that. You’re only difference between you and a card carrying member of the Knights of the Klu Klux Klan is the KKK guy knows where he stands and doesn’t pretend to be anything else. But you, I can almost hear you protest, “But some of my best friends are Black!”. You hide your brand of racism behind alot of liberal BS and pat yourself on the back for being so “tolerant” of people of color.
Tolerant. now there’s a word that can have a bunch of different meanings, but I’ve come to believe in the world of racial relations it’s had it’s day. Being “tolerant” of my Black neighbor sounds great until one really thinks about it. What am I supposed to be tolerating? His dark skin? Is he less than a human being than the great white I Am, so I allow him the privilege to live next door to me? It’s a bullshit concept and I don’t like the idea it conjures up in my mind.
So that’s my opinion Sherry, for what it’s worth. I don’t believe I know everything, but I’ve been down the road you’re on now, and I hope you take some time for self examination, and maybe open your mind to some different ideas. I really like eternal, as a person, and you might go back and re-read some of her replies to you. I don’t see her caring enough about everyone that comes along to bother trying to get through to them like she’s tried to do with you. I think possibly she saw the potential I see for a formidable person, if only you’d let go of some an antiquated and, frankly, ignorant principles you probably learned during childhood (as I did).
It doesn’t matter to me what any of you think about me. eternal, you called me a shitstain. How was that being nice? Yes, part of your post was nice and I appreciate that.
So I don’t have to further explain this, see my reply to whiteiris in the Cassandra whats-her-face article.
I PROMISE I WILL NO LONGER MAKE RACIAL COMMENTS OUT OF RESPECT FOR EVERYONE ELSE’S FEELINGS.
Yeah!!!
“He has some big ‘ol soup coolers!” LMAO
I think you are talking about his lips.
I don’t see anything wrong with it though.
His NOSE is what makes him an asshole.
He should have smelled his own shit and got some professional help.
how can ppl kill children?? smfh…shooting a 6 week old..?? those poor babies..
what the hell???
this person, does not have feelings like a normal person,
just like the wind does not think about what house to blow down.
he would only have a responce to these murders, if it was someone
else that had killed their family. a lion does not have remorse about eating its cub, the river does not have shame about drowing someones child, and fire does not weep when it burns a mother to death. remember satan has his people here also.
vincent brothers was one of satans special children
Just saw this story on Dateline. Very sad and sick. Vincent Brothers has a spot in Hell for sure with the likes of Eric Harris/Dylan Klebold, Ted Bundy, and 9/11 Terrorists. Worthless is thy name.
Im not convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is guilty. They have not convinced me. whoever made the 911 call , I guess supposedly the sister, Im not saying she did it, but she found the bodies and she made an unemotional call to 911, someone should look at that, maybe they have but nothings been said. if shes innocent too then I apologize for the implecation but this is how the media made it look in my eyes. But somehow I feel an innocent man got convicted wrongly.
I voted no. Too many holes in case. Stories don’t say that the bug broad admitted on cross examination that those bugs could be found in the midwest. Isn’t that where Ohio is?
Also, from personal experience, i know how cops and DA’s can threaten witnesses to get them to changes stories. I’ll leave this one for God to sort out instead of the idiots that think they have the power to condemn.
“Idiots”, really? You voted too, Jim. That makes you just as idiotic according to your statement.
Good catch Moop =)
Nothing like a good hypocrite to start the day, eh? LOL
He didn’t do it. The proof that the prosecution offered was that there was a lot of mileage on his car. There was no weapon presented, no forensic evidence, etc.. He was in Ohio about 2300 miles away from Bakersfield when the crime was committed. How are you all sure he did it?
This is exclusionary evidence.
1. Why did he have his brother concoct an alibi for him in North Carolina, and why did he impede an investigation into his wife and children’s murder by lying about it?
2. Why did his rental car have bugs on it from WEST of the rockies?
That’s actually more evidence that his alibi was weak.
3. What motivation did anyone else have to kill his wife and children?
4. Why did someone see him next to his family’s home in Bakersfield?
Who are you? What is your relationship to Vincent?
Yeah, it’s impossible to drive from Ohio to Bakersfield, CA and make it back over two days.
It’s relatively impossible to drive there and back in 2 days, but not that hard to do it one way. In fact, that’s what was proven.
The bug parts were said to be also found in the midwest, the brother was abusively questioned by the police (causing differing statements), no one testified at the trial about seeing Vincent near the crime scene, the car dealership for Vincent’s rented car was known for entering fraudulent mileage reports, etc..
It’s wasn’t found that Marvin “forged” Vincent’s signature. It was only proven that Vincent let Marvin use his credit card.
To fashion or reproduce for fraudulent purposes; counterfeit
coun·ter·feit (kountr-ft)
v. coun·ter·feit·ed, coun·ter·feit·ing, coun·ter·feits
v.tr.
1. To make a copy of, usually with the intent to defraud; forge: counterfeits money.
2. To make a pretense of; feign: counterfeited interest in the story.
v.intr.
1. To carry on a deception; dissemble.
2. To make fraudulent copies of something valuable.
adj.
1. Made in imitation of what is genuine with the intent to defraud: a counterfeit dollar bill.
2. Simulated; feigned: a counterfeit illness.
I haven’t heard that there was any actual evidence against him. But that never stops juries in America from convicting. Another case of conviction by way of rumour and innuendo.
Get lost troll-boy – I saw all three of your comments from today, and only a troll looking to stir up some shit would write what you did. You obviously know nothing about this case, because the cops had a mountain of evidence against Vincent, including his own brother testifying that he made purchases in North Carolina with Vincent’s credit card so they could establish his alibi. So go away asshole, I’m way ahead of you.
God, willing, I won’t see him in hell. :)
He needs to burn in hell and I hope he is raped every single day in prison. What a devil. How could he kill his kids like that. Burn in hell!
I saw this story on TLC and was shocked….I cant believe someone would kill their own babies…may he burn in hell…God bless those babies, their grandma and mother
Ugh-god, I am so sick of people like this ass-hat. He would have been better off (well they all would have been better off) if he would have just left. I find it almost humorous that these people kill their children/families to relinquish themselves of the responsibility of taking care of a family, or give themselves freedom from their kids. And now they are all enjoying their “freedom” behind the walls of a jail cell. How’s that working out for you? Morons. He so deserves hell. And I hope his wife and his precious babies are enjoying heaven.
You should not believe everything you read. There was no way that Vincent could have driven non-stop to California, kill his entire family, and then drive non-stop back to Ohio. It’s impossible. No one could do it and arrive safely back in one piece. This website isn’t telling the whole story. I believe, from the evidence presented, that Vincent was wrongfully convicted.
You should not pin all of your hopes on the one armed man theory. 5400 miles is 5400 miles; did he do 5400 miles doing doughnuts in the parking lot or did he do them crossing from California to Ohio and then back again? Why did he have his brother make purchases with his credit card? Why play these games?
You should read more so you’re not as easily duped by murdering scum.
Really? Then explain how they found the insect fragments for species found only in the Rocky Mountain States stuck in Vincent’s radiator and grill. Why did he tell his brother Melvin to make purchases in North Carolina with his (Vincent’s) credit card? Why did he lie about being in an accident in Ohio, when it was actually a person named Tamba Levvie who hit the boy on the bike? Why did the defense try to intimidate Tamba Levvie to prevent her from coming forward, so Vincent could claim he was the driver? He definitely put the proper amount of mileage on the rented Neon for a round trip to California.
I’m not sure what evidence you’re looking at, unless you believe some of the defense experts – I found them to be nothing but hired guns and extremely biased. Even so, there’s a mountain of evidence, including several people who testified they saw Vincent Brothers in Bakersfield at the time of the murder. One guy actually testified about a very short conversation he had with him.
Oh yeah, he did it, and he belongs on Death Row. Maybe you should take a look at the KGET Website – they covered the entire Vincent Brothers trial as it happened. You won’t find more details about this case unless you get an official transcript.
http://community.kget.com/blogs/brotherstrial/default.aspx
It’s sites like these that make it possible for me to destroy the arguments of people like you. What you brought to the table was just opinion; worthless really, but I showed you some facts. They can’t be changed and they can always be verified. Contrary to what you thought, this story was based on facts, not a bunch of newspaper articles.
“Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.” –Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Well said Max, well said
Yeah….what they said :)
joannie and p- if and when you ever have the urge to settle down and have kids, please resist. because you 2 are picking and choosing what you want to see instead of looking at the facts for what they are like the rest of us. and those choices could be just as dangerous and detrimental to any child you choose to bring forth as joanie harpers’ unfortunate choice in a mate was to marques, lyndsey and marshall. the fact is, vincent brothers is a lying, manipulative demon who premeditated and then carried out the murders of his entire innocent and unsuspecting family in cold blood. in the interest of time and space i did not list every shred of evidence authorities were able to produce for vincent’s successful conviction, but i urge you to research it and see for yourself. marques, his own little son was AWAKE for god’s sake. he probably looked into that little boy’s eyes and saw him biting his hand in fear before he put the gun to his head. and he didn’t feel a thing about it, didn’t alter his plan, didn’t hesitate to carry out his evil act. he felt not the tiniest urge to comfort that child like a normal, loving parent. then he just covered him with a sheet like he was placing a tissue over a spill. no earthly justice could ever be served for that family, but the police, judge and jury worked hard to come close. how dare you try to rob those 2 women and 3 children of their justice by suggesting that vincent did not do what it is apparent he did do!
Not so hard to believe it happened in Bakersfield. We also had the guy who bit his kid’s eye out and the McMartin Preschool case.
Maybe people just go crazy here because it’s so friggin boring to live in this town.
i just watched this show last night. i am a huge watcher of crime shows. i watch them everyday. out of all my years of watching those shows, THIS is the worst. it has touched me in ways none have.
the other two that stick out in my head was a little girl lured, raped, and strangled. another was a guy who killed his son as his son ate his cereal/breakfast for insurance money. he later commited suicide while in jail. an admission, that he did kill his child, and it did not bring him the money.
but this crime is absolutely unbelivable. i went to bed thinking about it until i fell asleep. that man is simply insane. to kill his own children. and the little boy biting his hand bcz he was so scared. it brings tears to my eyes. and an infant?? why???? the baby can’t talk. can’t say daddy did it. so why not let him live? oh yeah. he’d have to take care of it. selfish bi**h.
they’re all in heaven. and that motherfu**er is in Hell.
I hope there really is a special place in hell for this dirtbag.
this punk deserves only the whitest hot,as in the kind of white hot that just ooozes flames.
What a beautiful family….there was no evidence of them being horrific monsters, so what motivation did he have? Just saving a few bucks? Sheesh. The people who can appear normal on the outside and do things like this on the sly are dangerous. Thank goodness this one was caught and has been sentenced to death.
Dear Citizens,
I just want to raise your awareness about LAPD holding on to information about two serial killers in Los Angeles for twenty-seven years. It was only recently as of February 2009 that this information was released to the public about the killer’s crimes dating back to 1983. The Grim Sleeper Killer’s sketch was released in December of 2009 although it was created in 1988. I want you to know that if you look at the alleged crimes of the most recent Grim Sleeper Killer locations, that you will notice that there is a pattern of victims located at the first available unlocked alley from the south direction of the nearest Los Angeles Unified School (LAUSD). If you do not see a consistent pattern of distance and you were to look closely at the routes, you will find that there was no alley or the alley has a locked gate. This pattern is the same for the South Side Slayer. This is a problem, because this could mean that this man is the South Side Slayer and that is what he wants the public to know. If you drive the routes or paste the addresses into Google maps, you will see that most of the victims were discovered in the southward geographical direction of the nearest LAUSD School, with the exception of the ones Down Town, and the Chester Turner victims. The Golf course near the crime scene on 102nd Street surrounds a LAUSD Elementary School. The difference between the three bodies found on 89th Street, 94th Street, and 95th Street south of LaSalle Elementary School (LAUSD) is that the 89th Street alley is sometimes locked until you reach 94th Street. It could be possible that he did some work for the schools each time or picked them randomly. The same is for fourteen-year old Princess Berthomieux, who was found in the alley on 81st Street & Van Ness south of 74th Street School (LAUSD) at the first available alley. You will have to drive the routes to see this in more details. This man has spoken loudly and I do not think he wants to share the publicity with anyone. http://www.communitywalk.com/map/10147
Almost ten years to the date of the Nicole Brown Simpson & Ronald Goldman crime at 875 South Bundy Drive in Brentwood CA, which is also on the first block at the first alley south of Brentwood Science Magnet School (LAUSD), a similar incident happened July 6, 2003 in Bakersfield CA. If you look at the Vincent Brothers (Joanie Harper) case in Bakersfield, at 901 3rd street, you will see the same resemblance and the house located at the first alley south of McKinley Elementary School. Both locations are within five minutes of a VA hospital. Two latex gloves, a knife, and gun became the key issues in this case. That would make this tragedy the twenty-year anniversary and the Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman tragedy the ten-year anniversary from 1983. This man or a co-conspirator could be a sex-offender living near the Bakersfield crime location and trying to make a statement. In addition, Jeff Nicholson a Barbara shop owner in Los Angeles was killed five hours earlier on the same day as the Harper family. Jeff was the manager and relative of a NFL football player and the suspects fit the same description of the three suspects seen in Bakersfield five hours later on the same day.
What clues did the South Side Slayer leave for them to know he was the same man covering such a large area over such a long period? DNA was not available when this information showed up in the newspapers in the eighties. I suspect that he or the other man, if there is one, worked for LAUSD or a subcontractor because of the number of victims on or near a school campus and the other victims found in trash bags or trashcans. Both articles mention schools but not the same victims. You will also see on the link where they admit that he made one telephone call before the popular 911 call in 1987. We now know there were many anonymous calls. We also know that the orange or rust color car with the white stripe was seen with both serial killers. They divided the killers up because of the method in which he killed the victims, however; how can somebody explain his intentions of killing his victims and placing them south of the nearest LAUSD School. I did my research from this website; however, you will have to select the “All”, “Show description” and “Show address” options before scrolling through the list of names of the victims in order to see all the locations of the crimes. I wanted to bring this to your attention since the citizens of Los Angeles are often kept in the dark about important investigations like this. As you will see here, he did not take fourteen years off. http://www.communitywalk.com/map/10147
Since the press release in the fall of 1985 a number of people, including an employer and co-workers, have come forward with the name of a known male sex-offender who confessed to being at the scene of the crimes committed by the South Side Slayer. He also confessed to owning and driving the orange GT Vega with a white stripe on the hood identified by witnesses and victims of both serial killers, however; it was mistakably identified as a Pinto. This man spoke openly and his spirit was very loud. LAPD will not discuss the outstanding crimes and cases of the South Side Slayer, DNA, fingerprints, evidence, anonymous calls, gloves, victims, witnesses, evidence such as notes left at the crime scenes, and suspects. There is a chance that the Grim Sleeper could be a fictitious person made to look as if the South Side Slayer and a man using a knife does not exist and is limited to killing only prostitutes in South Central LA. The incompetence of the entire investigation is a modern genocide, a weapon of mass destruction, domestic terrorism, and an injustice to the community. Satan and corruption has reared its ugly head. This man has seemingly been calling out for attention and has been denied attention by wrongfully prosecuting other men, pretending he took a fourteen-year break and there is a new serial killer called the Grim Sleeper with a gun on the loose. There is strong evidence that he has struck possibly operating with another man and woman. This has become more political and road blocked possibly for racial disparity and what could be for federal and state contracts of monetary gain.
The witnesses and the sole surviving victim of the Grim Sleeper and surviving victims of the South Side Slayer have agreed that the information on the Grim Sleeper investigation is false and misleading to the public. They strongly believe that they are talking about the same man or individuals and there is evidence to prove it. Forcing individuals who have come forward to only speak to the agency in charge of the investigation is just a way of keeping control on what may have already been covered up. Do not assume that this person will only kill in his own community, woman of a certain status, minorities, and people of a particular race. A threat to somebody is a threat to everybody. In addition, do not blame faithful fathers, husbands, friends, citizens, innocent individuals, gang members, and the educated members of society for things you and others claim to understand because of their profile, criminal background, and history of spousal abuse. There is a strong suspicion of using open cases to finger future bad people as a means to an end. Every citizen should be able to live in a community of competent law enforcement professionals that are free of corruption, cover-ups, criminals, and serial killers regardless of what someone thinks their only targeted market to be. You now know more of the story and can make a more informed decision on how to correct this wrong. Thank you for your time and consideration. God bless America and I do mean all of America, South Central Los Angeles included.
I used to be in foster care in Bakersfield at a place called Unicorn Gardens, a group home where Mr. Brothers worked part time. I knew him for several years and he was a punk and a bully. Funny how he was a principal at an elementary school. He used to walk around in a wifebeater undershirt and flash around his horseshoe brand on his arm with a tattoo of a karate guy silhouette and push us around. What a punk you turned out to be. What kind of chicken shit asshole would do such a thing like kill your family by shooting them in the back and while sleeping. Hell deserves a guy like you.
Well Mr. Brothers, enjoy your icewater while you can.