Defense Attorney Anthony Bryan calls to the witness stand Brothers’ mother Margaret Brothers.

Vincent has two sisters and seven brothers.

Vincent was the first one born in New York.

She lived in Calverton or Bayton Hollow. Then they lived in Riverhead a couple years or more and then moved in Belport.

Bryan showed Margaret Brothers a series of photos.

She does not remember when she moved into the house in Belport. Donde is 40 and they moved to that house when he was a baby.

Thearl was still there. At some point there were 10 children living in the house. It had 3 bedrooms. The family went to church, not as regular as they should have, Margaret Brothers said.

She required the children to go to church at times.

“I noted he loved school and he loved reading and things like that,”

She would have Vincent help the other children with his homework.

Brothers would babysit for his sister “and clean too.”

“I didn’t like his cleaning,”

“I told him go where he thinks would be best for him,” Margaret Brothers said.

She knew of his sporting activities.

She does not remember about his scholarships.

He would return for holidays.

She remembers when he went to California.

He would stay in touch through the telephone and letters.

“I’m a person, I believe in doing a lot of writing,”

She met his first wife Angela. He was going to California and she took her home a couple of weeks before.

She found out they were divorced.

She knew of the marriage to Sharon.

She knew that was over.

She knew of her granddaughter Margaret who she talked to a few times on the phone.

She would mostly talk to her mother, Shann Kern.

She never met Joanie, but she spoke to her three or four times on the phone.

They spoke a little before the murders. She talked with Vincent and her on the phone before and after Joanie had the baby when Joanie was still in the hospital with Marshall.

Vincent told her about the birth of his two other babies, before and from the hospital.

She spokes to Marques and Lyndsey on the phone, Lyndsey didn’t talk that good, but Marques would say a few words. Vincent would arrange those calls.

“Sure I love my son, I love all my kids,”

She did not really work while the children were in school.

She bought their clothing at good will, but they did not know it.

Vincent Brothers is wiping his eyes.

She last saw her husband in July 1996. Vincent offered for her to fly out many times but she did not want to because she was afraid of flying.

She did not even want to go on Amtrak.

Vincent talked about bringing the family out around the Fourth of July of 2000 but she thought the baby was too young.

Vincent Brothers helped support her. She bought a new car and she was out of disability for 18 or 19 months. Vincent paid the car off for her in 1989. She bought a new Nissan Sentra. “He would send me extra money,”

“He would send me extra money every month,” “He would just send it.”