Forensic
science has a few tricks up its sleeve that we would never know about
unless they are used to solve some crime we are following. Cracked
collected stories of crimes that were pulled off by seemingly competent
criminals with little conclusive evidence, until some genius hi-tech
crimefighting capability was launched. Solving these crimes took both
modern technology and the investigators' imagination to use them. Look
deep enough, and they can find their way around even the most clever
perpetrator.
Vincent Brothers was a bad man. Not
Shaft bad, but "commit mass murder on your own family and then smugly
lie about it in court" bad. In July of 2003, the elementary school vice
principal flew from California to Ohio to supposedly visit his brother,
but in reality, the trip was his planned alibi. Once he landed in
Columbus, he rented a car, drove back to Bakersfield, CA, and waited for
his wife to come home with his three children and his mother-in-law. He
then shot and/or stabbed all of them to death, including his
six-week-old son. Once he finished staging a break-in at the house, he
drove the rental car back to Ohio and enjoyed the rest of his trip like
nothing happened.
So how did they convict Brothers?
By bringing in entomologist Lynn Kimsey to examine the insects on the
front of the rental car, which told the story of exactly where that car
was driven, fortunately before it was washed. She could even tell what
time of day he drove by the bugs! That's just one of
seven such stories of great detective work, in a list at Cracked.
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