Lyndsey Michelle Brothers was three years old when she was killed on July 6, 2003, in Bakersfield, California. She died alongside her mother Joanie Harper, her brothers Marques and Marshall, and her grandmother Earnestine Harper; each victim had been shot and some, including Joanie, had also been stabbed. The family’s bodies were discovered in their home, and the killings drew intense local and national attention because of their brutality.

Investigators focused on Vincent Brothers, Joanie’s estranged husband and the children’s father, who worked as a vice principal at Fremont Elementary School. Prosecutors said he claimed to have been in Ohio but presented evidence that insect remains on a rental car he used were native to the Western United States, contradicting his alibi. Authorities charged him with five counts of first-degree murder and argued he had flown to Ohio, rented a car, driven back to Bakersfield to commit the killings, then returned to Ohio.

If anyone knew the family, their routines, or saw a rental car in the Bakersfield area around early July 2003, please share what was seen or heard.