DNA evidence links Bakersfield school official to slaying scene

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. A criminologist testified this week that the D-N-A of a former Bakersfield school administrator accused of killing five family members was found in a plastic glove left at the crime scene.

Criminalist Brenda Smith testimony came yesterday during the Kern County trial of Vincent Brothers.

The genetic material of Vincent Brothers and at least two others was found in the glove tip.

Prosecutors accuse Brothers of using plastic gloves to cover up his role in the July 2003 murders of his estranged wife, Joanie Harper, their three young children and his mother-in-law.

Brothers, the sole suspect in the vicious slayings, faces a possible death sentence if convicted.

The former vice principal has pleaded not guilty and claims he was out of town when the bodies were found.