#105 Vincent Brothers

#105 Vincent Brothers

Author: True Crime Guys August 22, 2022 Duration: 31:01
On July 6, 2003, just after 1pm, 70 year-old Ernestine Harper was lying in bed taking a nap having just returned home from church. Ernestine was an activist in the local area of Bakersfield California, and had only been lying down a little while when she was awoken by gun shots. Ms. Harper pulled an antique revolver from her nightstand that she had purchased months before, she exited her room and was met in the hallway by a killer with a gun. She was able to pull the trigger six times, but because of the age and condition of the gun, all six were misfires. And Ernestine was gunned down. Two days later the entire community of Bakersfield was alerted that a family of five had been murdered. Ernestine, her daughter Joanie and Joanie's three young children (4,2,6 weeks)were all found dead in their home. Three generations of the Harpers family had just been erased. There has been a conviction in these murders that you will not believe, but now the man originally suspected of killing the family of five is suspected to be innocent.   EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS:   https://linktr.ee/Truecrimeguysproductions Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Merch: truecrimeguys.threadless.com   Sources: https://youtu.be/xIJG77rJ-ks https://www.kget.com/news/crime-watch/vincent-brothers-notorious-bakersfield-murder-featured-in-oxygen-show/ https://www.bakersfield.com/news/he-is-no-longer-my-father/article_b5b9c480-ded6-504b-8065-d67b54968fb6.html https://www.bakersfield.com/news/q-a-with-margaret-kern-and-her-mom-shann-kern/article_460faa55-ab92-5f10-aaa1-2ae229b8ffdf.html https://www.bakersfield.com/news/15-to-20-years-on-death-row/article_0020d7ab-a19d-52ff-bd53-93aeccf6b0e2.html https://youtu.be/a33lgZ90Vyc 2:35 for audio clip    

The shadows hold more than just darkness; they contain stories that defy easy answers. Strange & Unexplained, from the team at True Crime Guys, ventures into that ambiguous space where conventional narratives fall apart. This isn't just a catalog of facts, but a thoughtful exploration of the human mysteries that linger long after the headlines fade. Each episode picks up a different thread-a disappearance that left no logical trail, a cold case with a bizarre twist, or an event that simply shouldn't be possible according to everything we think we know. The approach is self-aware, acknowledging the complexity of delving into real-life mysteries without resorting to sensationalism. You'll hear a deep dive into the details that make these cases so compelling and so frustrating, focusing on the unresolved questions that haunt families and investigators alike. It’s for anyone who finds themselves pondering the gaps in an official report or wondering about the fate of someone who vanished into thin air. By listening to this podcast, you become part of a conversation about the limits of evidence and the enduring pull of the unknown, all grounded in the true crime tradition of seeking truth, however elusive it may be.
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#92 Juliane The Jungle Girl [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 22:13
On December 24, 1971 LANSA Flight 508 from Lima to Pucallpa Peru took off against warnings of severe weather threats. The plane was struck by lightning and crashed over the Amazon rainforest, the only survivor, a 17 year…
#91 Blake & Chynna [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 31:23
On July 24 2006 After a long and stressful day at work Christina Dickus headed over to her mothers house, excited to see her son for the first time in a week. Ten year old Blake had spent the week with his Dad and stepmo…
Strange Shorts: Episode 74 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 34:26
No Andy this week! But luckily Kristen was able to fill in as Michael stumbles through the stories... Andy was still able to scrounge up some topics for this week however. Giving us an update on one of last week's storie…
#90 Lashaya Stine [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 30:19
"A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too." -Miranda Kerr Lashaya had set the quote from the former Victoria Secret Angel…
#89 Enos, The Forgotten Astronaut [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 25:26
Enos was not the first chimp in space, but he was the first to orbit the earth. Just months before Ham, the first chimp to go to space, was making headlines. Three months later, the first American appeared in suborbital…
#88 Maura Murray [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 51:38
Maura Murray went missing on February 9, 2004 after crashing her car into a snowbank in rural New Hampshire. No one knows where she was going or what she was up to. Did she wander into he snow and become a victim of the…
Strange Shorts: Episode 70 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 48:35
Questionable nutrition choice for body builder, French dad blacks out internet for whole town, naked lawyer passes the Bar, then stops at the next one, and more! Sources: https://www.mystateline.com/news/weird/woman-quit…
#87 Lauren & Brenda [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 27:21
Normally we try to give every story their individual spotlight on this show, but in this case it was necessary to mention these two women together. The cases are not legally connected. The women did not know each other.…
#86 A Killer In The Lake [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 40:28
In the late evening of August 21, 1986 a killer swept through the Cameroonian village of Nyos. This killer claimed the lives of every man, woman, child, and animal it came across. By the morning of the 22nd, nearly 2000…
#85 Who Killed Leah? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 32:11
Leah Hickman was studying journalism at Marshall University when she went missing in December of 2007. She hoped to one day be a TV news reporter, she wanted to tell stories. But unfortunately, Leah’s own story was cut s…