Detectives thwarted an unassuming California school principal’s attempt to cover up the quintuple murder of his family with an out-of-state flight by thoroughly examining the car he rented in Columbus, Ohio.
Vincent Brothers, who turned 61 on death row in San Quentin State Prison this year, was convicted on five counts of first-degree murder in 2007.
To this day, he denies killing his estranged wife Joanie Harper, mother-in-law Earnestine Harper, 4-year-old son Marques, 2-year-old daughter Lyndsey and 6-week-old baby Marshall on July 6, 2003.
Retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit special agent Mark Safarik broke down the lengths detectives took to disprove Brothers’ seemingly solid alibi and secure his conviction on the Fox True Crime Podcast.
Former FBI Behavioral Analyst Mark Safarik, pictured, recalled his investigation of the crime scene in an interview with The Fox True Crime Podcast. (Provided)
“If the kids are alive, you’ve got three kids that are very young. You’re going to be paying child support for the next 20 years. And he had a relationship. And essentially Vincent just… wanted a clean slate,” Safarik said.
Although Brothers cried on the stand, Safarik said, the former FBI behavioral analyst “got the sense that the person he’s crying for is not his family — it’s for himself that he got caught and essentially his life is over.”
“I really don’t think somebody who could kill their own children in that gruesome way could really feel remorse,” he said.
The California Department of Corrections did not respond to an inquiry on the impending execution.
Christina Coulter is a U.S. and World reporter for Fox News Digital. Email story tips to christina.coulter@fox.com.
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