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“Whatever happened in the home was by agreement and talk. It was
totally by choice."

It was March 12, 2004. A day that had changed everything for a small
community in Fresno, California. Two women, along with their friends
and relatives, frantically shouted in the front yard of a small
home. They demanded that their children be released to them. An
enormous man, over six feet tall, tried to calm the pair of anxious
mothers. The neighbors called the police after witnessing the
commotion outside.

As the police arrived, they believed it to be a normal child custody
dispute.

However, the foreboding man with long dreadlocks walked back into
the house and locked the door.

The police demanded that he unlock the door and speak to an officer.
That’s when everyone heard the first gunshot. Within minutes, a
series of gunshots pierced the air. The police surrounded the house.
That same enormous man, Marcus Wesson, covered in blood, calmly
stepped outside into the harsh sunlight. He was disturbingly quiet
as he was ushered into a pair of handcuffs.

The Grisly Scene
The police were in for a grisly scene as they witnessed nine bodies
stacked in the back bedroom of the Fresno home. Seven of the nine
victims were children, all under the age of twelve. The other two
victims were seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Breani Kina Wesson and twenty-five-year-old Sebhrenah April Wesson.

The mothers that desperately called for their children on that
horrific day were Sofina Solorio and Ruby Ortiz. That man with
greying dreadlocks was Marcus Wesson, and those grieving mothers
were his nieces. Wesson murdered nine of his children/grandchildren
because he believed that he was Jesus and that if anyone tried to
separate the family, then “we would all go to heaven.”

Even more bizarrely, Marcus Wesson purported Jesus Christ as a
vampire. He surmised that both held the link to eternal life. He
wrote in his own homemade bible that, “drinking blood was the key to immortality.” Further reinforcing the Anne Rice lifestyle, Wesson
had also purchased a dozen antique caskets for the family, months
before the massacre. He had claimed that the funerary items were
used for wood and as beds for his children.

Abuse Within The Wesson Clan
The Wesson clan had become infamous in Fresno, California, as the
disturbing nature of their history had been slowly revealed.

The family patriarch, Marcus Wesson, was the father/grandfather of
all eighteen of his progeny. He maintained an incestuous
relationship with his daughters, Kiani and Sebhrenah, and his
nieces, Rosa and Sofina Solorio and Ruby Ortiz. Wesson also
privately married two of his daughters, and three of his nieces, and
produced a number of children with his child brides.

One of the nieces, Ruby Ortiz, testified that Marcus Wesson began
molesting her at the age of eight. She said that Wesson had
reassured her that the sexual abuse was, “a father’s way to show
affection to his daughter.”

By the time Ortiz was thirteen, Wesson informed her that she was at
the age to marry him, and that “God wants man to have more than one
wife.” He also emphasized that “God’s people are becoming extinct.
We need to preserve God’s children. We need to have more children
for the Lord.” This led to Ortiz having one child with Wesson, a
baby boy named Aviv.

Wesson also had been quite a vehement supporter of Branch Davidian
leader David Koresh, who had multiple wives and children. Koresh and
nearly 80 followers died in a fire at their Waco, Texas, complex,
ending a 51-day siege by federal agents in 1993.


Marcus Wesson’s daughters/nieces, Kiani Wesson, and Rosa Solorio,
however, insisted that the women in the household were happy. They
had claimed that “Whatever happened in the home was by agreement and
talk. It was totally by choice. We had a democratic family… There
was never any rape, nothing forcible.”

When asked by the father of their children, the girls had stated
that they conceived through “artificial insemination.”

Marcus Wesson’s Sordid History

By the age of fourteen, Elizabeth was pregnant. And by the age of
twenty-six, she had given birth to eleven children.

Wesson’s sons had a completely different experience than his
daughters, as they had claimed that their father raised them as
Seventh-Day Adventists, and that, “he’s the best dad anybody could
ever have.” One son, Serafino Wesson, expressed disbelief that his
father was the killer, as he stated that, “he looks really dangerous
… but he’s such a gentle guy, I can’t believe he did it.”

The Wesson sons were raised away from their sisters, as contact
between the sexes was discouraged. As a result, the male children of
the Wesson clan knew very little about the twisted goings-on between
their father and sisters.

And on that fateful day, when Sofina Solorio and Ruby Ortiz had come
to knock on the door of the Wesson clan home, they had heard that
Marcus Wesson was about to move the entire family to Washington
State.

In fear of losing all contact with their children, Sofina and Ruby
rushed to demand custody of their sons. When they left their sons in
Wesson’s care, they claimed that he had given his word that he would
do right by their children. But instead, their entire future was
torn apart in a hail of gunfire. And in the ensuing murder trial,
Marcus Wesson had been sentenced to be put to death by lethal
injection. He currently resides in San Quentin State Prison on death
row.

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