Evil dad killed his own children in cold blood after raping them for decades
WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Marcus Wesson abused his wife and their children for decades
Marcus Wesson, who appeared to the outside world as a loving father, committed a crime over 20 years ago so horrifying that those who witnessed the aftermath have never recovered.
For three decades, the former soldier abused his wife and her children, including several he fathered. After serving in Vietnam, Wesson began a relationship with Rosemary Solorio and moved in with her and her eight children.
By 1971, Rosemary had given birth to Wesson's son and just three years later, this twisted individual began sexually abusing Elizabeth, his partner's daughter, who was only eight years old. When Elizabeth was 14 and Wesson was 34, they married and four months later she gave birth to their first child.
In total, the couple had 10 children, including one baby who sadly passed away. Additionally, one of Elizabeth's younger sisters left her seven children with the couple, claiming her drug issues made her incapable of caring for them.
Wesson was a brutal husband and father. He never worked and lived off welfare payments and the money he forced his children to earn and give directly to him, reports the Mirror.
By 1989, he had been convicted of welfare fraud and perjury, and the family were often forced to live in abandoned houses, dilapidated shacks and even boats.
However, it was the horrifying events that took place behind closed doors that were most shocking. Wesson mistreated his wife and their children, forbidding Elizabeth from having any input in the upbringing of her family and insisting they all be home schooled.
Wesson wrote his own warped version of the Bible, asserting Jesus had been a vampire, and convinced his children that he was God. They were compelled to address him as Master or Lord and the entire family was instructed to prepare for Armageddon.
His daughters were informed they needed to ready themselves to become his future wives and their school lessons included being taught how to perform oral sex from as young as eight. Wesson violated his two daughters and three nieces, resulting in all five of them falling pregnant.
The children's household duties included washing Wesson's dreadlocks, armpits and head, and siblings were prohibited from speaking to their brothers or sisters of the opposite sex or their own mother.
Then, in 2004, Wesson announced the entire family would be relocating from Fresno in California to Washington, where his parents resided. On March 12, members of his extended family, along with two of his nieces who had rebelled and escaped the house of horrors, arrived to demand the children be liberated.
Police were summoned to what officers believed was a child custody case and when officers arrived, Wesson told them to wait at the door and went back into his house. When he returned, his clothes were soaked in blood.
Despite their claims of not hearing any gunshots, police were met with a horrifying scene when they forced entry into the house.
Nine bodies were discovered in the bedroom, surrounded by antique coffins, each victim shot directly through the eye.
All of his victims - daughter Sebhrenah April Wesson, 25, daughter Elizabeth Breahi Kina Wesson age 17, daughter and granddaughter Illabelle Carrie Wesson, eight, daughter and grand-niece Aviv Dominique Wesson, seven, son and grand-nephew Johnathon St Charles Wesson, seven, son and grand-nephew Ethan St Laurent Wesson, four, son and grandson Marshey St Christopher Wesson, one, daughter and granddaughter Jeva St Vladensvspry Wesson, one and daughter and grand-niece, Sedona Vadra Wesson, one - were his own children.
The current Mayor of Fresno, Jerry Dyer, who was the police chief at the time, admits that the scene still haunts him.
Mr Dyer said: "It was just horrific, the worst mass murder that we had experienced in the history of our city, and it wasn't just the fact that nine people were killed, it was how they were killed, the lifestyle that was occurring in that household, Marcus Wesson convinced his family that he was God, that Jesus was a vampire."
Defence attorney Ralph Torres, who worked on the court-appointed Wesson defence team, also carries the dreadful memories of the crime. He said in his extensive 34-year career it is the one he will never forget.
Mr Torres said: "I see all the evidence, it was the most gut-wrenching part of the case where I was just a young father. I had a five-year-old young boy, and there was a boy that looked from behind, like my kid.
"It was life-changing; I've never seen anything like it. I've done 16 murder trials since then and there is nothing like it."
As reported by ABC 30, the house where the murders occurred has been demolished, leaving only an empty plot of land.
"There's no way that that property could have existed or continued to exist without bringing back horrible memories, and property values would have been devalued," Mr Dyer commented.
Marcus Wesson, now aged 79, remains incarcerated at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center after being sentenced to death on 17 June 2005. He no longer faces execution following Governor Newsom's 2019 suspension of capital punishment in California, which also led to the dismantling of death row.
However, for Dyer, who visited Wesson in prison in 2008, his anger persists over the fact that Wesson continues to live.
"Marcus Wesson was an evil person. He is somebody, as I said then to national media, he deserved the death penalty then, and he deserves the death penalty today. Unfortunately, that doesn't look like it's going to be the case," Dyer said.
