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.

 

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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