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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) - A former school administrator plotted an elaborate alibi where he would appear to be thousands of miles away when his wife, three children and mother-in-law were killed, a prosecutor said at Wednesday's start of his murder trial.
Vincent Brothers, a former elementary school vice principal, faces the death penalty if he is convicted in the July 8, 2003, slayings of his estranged wife Joanie Harper, their three children — Marques, 4, Lyndsey, 2, and Marshall, 6 weeks — and Harper's mother, Earnestine, 70.
Brothers, 44, has pleaded not guilty to the slayings and said he was visiting his brother in Ohio at the time. His attorney, Michael Gardina, has suggested that other suspects were responsible for the murders, and that evidence that would clear Brothers was ignored.
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