GUILTY CA - Five Lei family members brutally murdered, San Francisco, 23 March 2012

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SF man suspected of 5 murders gets new lawyer
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_20280097/da-charges-man-5-counts-murder-sf-killings

 

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http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Man-sent-to-trial-in-San-Francisco-quintuple-6139773.php

When San Francisco police crime scene investigators entered the Ingleside home where a mother, a father, a daughter, a son and his wife were killed in March 2012, they found the scene flooded with water and deluged with bleach, soap, paint and cooking oil. But in the week it took them to process the compromised crime scene, they also found one fingerprint, left behind on an empty Windex bottle.

According to testimony in a four-day preliminary hearing in San Francisco Superior Court, that print matched the left index finger of 38-year-old Binh Thai Luc. On Tuesday, Judge Samuel Feng held Luc to answer on five counts of murder, sending him toward a trial that could put him in prison for the rest of his life...

The preliminary hearing provided some insight into one of the deadliest attacks in San Francisco history. Assistant District Attorney Michael Swart painted a portrait of a man with a gambling problem who viciously murdered the family of a friend in order to steal money from their home to clear a debt.

 

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Trial begins in 2012 massacre of five people in SF home

http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Trial-begins-in-massacre-of-five-people-in-a-San-12267933.php

The man behind one of the deadliest attacks in San Francisco history slaughtered five members of the Lei family by bludgeoning each in the head repeatedly, then flooded the house and poured bleach, paint and shampoo over the bodies in an attempt to cover his tracks, a city prosecutor said Tuesday.

But despite his attempts to contaminate the evidence, investigators were able to find DNA proof that Luc “is connected to this crime in many ways, from the beginning, middle and end,” Fleming said.

Mark Goldrosen, Luc’s attorney, asserted in his opening statement that the evidence against the defendant is circumstantial at best. He said the homicide inspectors who zeroed in on him as a suspect within hours never established a crucial aspect of the case: a motive strong enough to explain why a man would massacre an entire family.

 

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Quintuple homicide trial to close in SF court

http://www.sfexaminer.com/quintuple-homicide-trial-close-sf-court/

The murder trial of a man accused of slaying five people at an Ingleside home is wrapping up in San Francisco Superior Court with attorneys set to deliver closing arguments Tuesday.

Both the prosecution and defense declined to comment on the trial with closing arguments approaching.

 

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Closing arguments are scheduled to begin today

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...t-in-trial-for-2012-quintuple-murder-suspect/

 

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A San Francisco Superior Court jury today found Binh Thai Luc guilty of murder for the grisly slayings of five people in a home in the city's Ingleside District in 2012.

The jury announced its verdict late this morning after starting deliberations on Nov. 29. Luc was convicted of five counts of first-degree murder as well as attempted robbery and burglary charges. He was acquitted of robbery charges.

http://www.ktvu.com/news/jury-reaches-verdict-in-ingleside-quintuple-murder-trial

 

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http://www.sfweekly.com/news/jury-finds-defendant-guilty-in-2012-quintuple-homicide/

Despite having lost his money gambling at Artichoke Joe’s, and with only $1 in his bank account, he managed to give his mother $1,000 for rent the day of the homicides — a piece of evidence, Prosecutor Eric Fleming claims, that he took money from Lei’s home. When police arrested him in San Mateo, he had $6,500 in cash on his person.

“I don’t have to prove a motive, but I did just prove a motive,” Fleming told the jury during final arguments.

Motive aside, the evidence was just too damning. Lei’s blood was found on jeans at Luc’s house and in Luc’s car. Luc’s fingerprints were on a Windex bottle at the home on Howth Street, which was used to cover up evidence of the crime. And his skill as a plumber was displayed proudly for police to see, with the disassembled sinks that then flooded the place.

 

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S.F. Man Sentenced to Five Consecutive Life Sentences For Quintuple Homicide

On Thursday morning, Judge Carol Yaggy handed out her verdict for the homicides: five consecutive life sentences, without the possibility of parole.

“Your actions on that horrific night were calculated, vicious, and unusually cruel,” Yaggy told Luc directly. “When you attack individuals you victimize an entire community. Finally, after six heartbreaking years, this part of the heartbreak is over.”

http://www.ktvu.com/news/5-consecutive-life-sentences-for-2012-murder-of-5-people-in-sf-home#/

The victims were all related. They were found around 7:45 a.m. the following morning when Vincent Lei's sister, Nicole Lei, stopped by so her daughter could pick up something for school.

She wrote a victim impact statement, which was read aloud in court this morning saying, "The pain is still in my heart and it will be with me for the rest of my life."