sentences:  Brothers was also known to have extramarital affairs, and further compromised his case by lying while on the witness stand.According to Lisa Green, a Kern County deputy district attorney, Brothers killed his family because they were a financial burden and he lied on the stand 41 or more times.Brothers had flown to Columbus, Ohio for a long July 4 holiday weekend, drove a rental car approximately 2,000 miles to Bakersfield to kill his family after they returned home from church on July 6, and drove back to Ohio and North Carolina.