The Mystery of the Lost Weekend

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True Crime, Culture, Social, Society & Culture, News

4.4 • 38K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

After Vincent Brothers’ wife, children and mother-in-law are murdered on a weekend when he was out of town, his Bakersfield, California community is shocked to learn he is a suspect. Keith Morrison reports in this Dateline classic that originally aired on NBC on July 24, 2009.

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0:00.0	They say people reinvent themselves when they move to California.
0:10.5	Something transformative, but the road west, the cities on the hills and in the valleys
0:16.2	by the sea.
0:17.2	They're not exactly the same anymore once they're there.
0:21.5	But if that's so, can you ever read any Noah Percy?
0:25.3	A person like Vincent Brothers, for example, by all accounts, popular, successful and kind.
0:34.2	I thought he was a very loving individual.
0:37.2	Thought he had a heart of gold.
0:39.0	Ah, yes, a heart of gold.
0:41.6	Your ability to know a man, know what he is or is not really capable of, is about to
0:47.5	be challenged.
0:48.5	Be my heart.
0:50.5	Hi.
0:51.5	My brother's was an elementary school vice principal, a very good one, apparently.
0:56.5	Later, big guy.
0:58.2	His wife, Joan, a school supervisor in Bakersfield, California.
1:02.3	Johnny was the sweetest, most gentlest person you'd ever meet.
1:08.1	They had three kids.
1:09.9	Vincent was the love of her life.
1:12.2	Said her brother, Eddie.
1:14.1	Vincent was very nice, very giving toward Johnny.
1:18.7	She thought he was an incredible person.
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