Jevammarcsuspire

When my oldest child was about two years old, he was afraid of the dark and the monsters that lurked in the shadows. I made a huge production of grabbing up the telephone immediately and "ordering" the top-of-the-line product in at-home monster defense, a spray that would rid him and the house we lived in of monsters forever. I bought a spray bottle from the local dollar store, covered it in stickers, and labeled it "No More Monsters" with a black sharpie. I soaked orange and lemon peels in hot water (for fragrance) until the solution cooled and then poured it into the bottle. I put it in a box and addressed it to my son, sitting it out on the porch so he could collect and open his "mail". Once he collected his box from the porch, we dressed in bright clothes that in no way matched, but were super bright and fun because monsters don't like bright and happy colors. We put our boots on in case we had to stomp on one that came out of the closet or from beneath the bed trying to get us while we were applying the spray. We were armed with flashlights and the bottle of No More Monsters and went into his bedroom. I sprayed under and beside his bed and in his closet, paying special attention to any shadowy corner where a monster might hide. I sprayed around his toy box and the window and door in his room. We sprayed the hallway and the bathroom, especially behind the shower curtain, for those late-night trips that just couldn't wait. Just one bottle of citrus-flavored water and a super-fun "hunting expedition" with my son, and the monsters were gone. Never again did he express fear of the dark, or what could be hiding in it. He was safe and secure inside his home with his parents that loved him. For some kids, the monsters they are afraid of don't hide under the bed or peek at them from the closet. For those kids, the monsters are human, and their home is their hell. Marcus Wesson named himself Jevammarcsuspire, a combination of Jesus, Marcus, and vampire, and became a monster for the children in his care.

March 12, 2004, a 911 call for a custody matter sent police to 761 W. Hammond Avenue in Fresno, California. When police arrived, two women were on the front lawn with a group of friends and family members, all of them screaming for the occupant of the home to return their children to them at once. When police knocked on the front door it was answered by an enormous man with dredlocks and empty eyes. Marcus Wesson listened to the police and their concerns for a moment before he quietly and calmly closed the door and locked it. Moments later the women on the lawn, friends, family, neighbors, and police listened in horror as they began to hear gunshots from inside the house. It is worth noting that though neighbors, bystanders, and the family of Marcus Wesson all testified that they heard gunshots, not a single police officer on the scene admitted the same. An hour later and only seconds after the last of nine shots were fired, Marcus Wesson opened the front door again. Only this time, he was covered in blood. Without fanfare, emotion, or resistance, Marcus Wesson stepped out into the bright sunlight and presented his hands to be cuffed. He was quickly taken into custody without incident.

While Marcus was being handcuffed, searched, and placed into a cruiser, a few of the remaining responding officers made entry into the home that Marcus had just come out of. Every room in the home was quickly searched and cleared by the police except for the back bedroom. There, the officers found nine bodies stacked up neatly, each with a single gunshot wound through the eye. The room was also filled with antique coffins that Wesson had purchased to use as beds for his children. Nobody at that moment understood just how evil the act and the man truly were.

Dead, in a pile in the bedroom, were nine victims. On top of the pile was Wesson's daughter, Sebhrenah April Wesson (25). Just beneath the body of Sabhrenah was Wesson's daughter, Elizabeth Breahi Kina Wesson (17). The pile continued with daughter, Illabelle Carrie Wesson (8), daughter Aviv Dominique Wesson (7), son, Johnathon St Charles Wesson (7), son, Ethan St Laurent Wesson (4), son, Marshey St Christopher Wesson (1), and two more one-year-old daughters, Jeva St Vladensvspry Wesson and Sedona Vadra Wesson. Sebhrenah and Elizabeth Jr. were the daughters of Elizabeth Sr. and Marcus Wesson. All of the other children were fathered by Wesson with his daughters and nieces.

Marcus Delon Wesson was the oldest child, born to Benjamin and Carrie Wesson on August 22, 1946. Benjamin was a hard-working, hard-living, hard-drinking man with a penchant for spousal and child abuse. Marcus claims that Benjamin sexually abused him when he was a child, and a friend that grew up with Marcus said that Benjamin offered the minor $50 for oral sex. When Benjamin had enough of the family life, he left his family for a much younger male cousin, who he then lived with in a committed homosexual and incestuous relationship. Carrie was left to fend for herself and four children alone. She made the hard-thought decision to move her brood to California in the early 1960s. Marcus would attend his local Seventh Day Adventist church with his mother and siblings, as was a requirement in his mother's household. He attended high school, though he didn't finish. He quit school to join the Army in 1966. Wesson remained employed by the United States Government as a medic and ambulance driver for the Army until 1968 when he was honorably discharged.

Immediately after leaving the Army, Wesson went to San Jose, California, where he got involved with a much older woman by the name of Rosemary Solorio. Though she was married, it wasn't long before Rosemary kicked her husband out of the house and Marcus moved in with Rosemary and her eight children. Rosemary would give birth to Wesson's first child. a son, in 1971. In 1974 Wesson turned his attention to Rosemary's eight-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, grooming her to fit into his dark fantasies. Marcus insisted that the eight-year-old girl become his wife, and she did so in a ceremony that he designed and performed in the living room of the home that he shared with Elizabeth's mother and her siblings. Rosemary was present at the marriage of Marcus and Elizabeth and was just fine with what was happening to her young daughter. Elizabeth gave birth to Wesson's first child at the age of 14. By the age of 26, she had been pregnant 11 times, with one of the babies passing away at birth.

Though Marcus refused to work, he required all of his children that were of legal working age to work and give him the money from their paychecks. In return, he kept his family in rundown and downright derelict homes with no running water or basic amenities, though he did finally use the funds of his children to purchase the house that the family lived in on that fateful March day. He was often found eating fast food while the children under his care went hungry, or had very little to eat. Neighbors testified that he and his children could often be found digging through the garbage outside of local restaurants so that the children could eat. Marcus ruled his home with an iron fist, demanding that his children read the bible that he had handwritten himself. Apparently, the actual bible was not thorough enough for Marcus and he began to write his extended version that would then be required learning for all of the members of his household. His "bible" claimed that Jesus was a vampire and that Jesus demanded that he take multiple wives. Wesson was obsessed with David Koresch, even going so far as to make the children watch the siege on the Branch Davidian Complex in Waco, Texas. While the family watched television coverage of the Branch Davidian siege, Mr. Wesson told the children, “This is how the world is attacking God’s people. This man is just like me. He is making children for the Lord. That’s what we should be doing, making children for the Lord.” He insisted to his children that it was the will of God that should the police ever come to their door, they would all die together and go to heaven to live in peace. He referred to himself as God and holy and the police as Satan and evil. Every child in Marcus' household grew up with a suicide pact with their father in place. He believed himself to be God and demanded that his children call him "Master" or "Lord".

Marcus lived his life out loud, though it would do little to deter Elizabeth's younger sister from dropping off seven of her children to Marcus for him to raise, believing it would be better for the children to be with him than their drug-addicted mother. With 17 children under his care, Wesson was free to abuse and force his will on each, and at his leisure. One by one, he began to introduce the girls to the sexual curriculum portion of his handwritten bible. That particular training would start as each of his daughters and nieces turned eight years old. "Home training" was started at a very young age for each of the children entrusted to his care, and chores were given out on a regular basis that included washing Wesson's dredlocks, scratching his head for extended periods of time, and scratching his armpits. His bible explained that each of the females within his household was destined to become his wife. The rules placed upon his children were delusional, as the female children were not permitted to speak with their mothers or any males in the house, except for him. None of the children were permitted to go to school, essentially locking them in a derelict house with an abusive father all of the time.

For twelve years, Wesson housed his female children in a large canvas Army tent that he had his children erect on land owned by some friends of his. The boys lived in an RV on another part of the land, away from the females in the family. This ensured he would have to pay little to nothing for him and his children to live day to day, and that his sons and daughters wouldn't follow the same incestuous path that Marcus took. He forced his brood to live in a rundown boat, where the children were forced to spend four to five months at a time below deck, lest anyone see that the children weren't in school. The children would learn to live with no luxuries. They weren't even permitted basic amenities such as running water. Food was kept under tight watch by Marcus who at one point beat his son, Serafino, for 30 days straight for sneaking a spoon of peanut butter. Using a cable wire, Marcus levied 63 strikes against his son daily that he would carry out over three sessions. Twety-one strikes in the morning, twenty-one strikes at noon, and twenty-one strikes at night before bed. Bible study was conducted for hours at a time, predicating his points with his sons with leather whips and sticks he cut off of trees. He reinforced his biblical teaching with his daughters and nieces in a very different way. The method he used with the girls he referred to as "loving", and since the girls grew up with his behavior and were so isolated from their community, they believed it to be normal.

News of Marcus' arrest spread quickly and his older sons, who weren't home that day, defended their father with a passion. All three would insist to reporters that they didn't understand how their father could have committed the rapes, sexual assaults, and murders that he was charged with. As Alysia Sofios, a local television news reporter, listened to the surviving children tell their stories, she couldn't help but be drawn to the girls. Although Alysia knew that she was breaking protocol and overstepping boundaries by miles, she took into account that the girls had never been to school in any manner and had no means to care for themselves, their house was a crime scene and they had nowhere to go, and invited them into her home. Once away from the direct influence of their father, the supporting children withdrew their support of Marcus, and now live with the truth that their father was a monster.

Marcus claims he didn't murder the children, and the evidence seems to lend credence to his story. Marcus taught his children from his handwritten bible, that one day a devil with a badge was going to show up at their door and try to separate them. When that happened, he told his children, they would all have to die in order to be together in heaven, never separate from one another. As with everything else Marcus had taught his children, they believed their father, and the children that were old enough to understand entered a suicide pact with "Master". It is Marcus' claim that his oldest daughter, Sebhrenah, hurried the children into the bedroom, shooting each one in turn and then herself. Sebhrenah was found on top of the pile of bodies, with the gun that was used in the murders and a knife underneath her body. All of the children had been shot through the right eye, except for Sebhrenah's son, who was shot in the left eye. Her DNA was on the weapon, and absent from the weapon was the DNA of Marcus. The jury didn't find that Marcus pulled the trigger, but nonetheless thought him guilty of the murders for forcing his children into a suicide pact through years of brainwashing.

Marcus Wesson was convicted by a jury of his peers in June 2005 of nine counts of murder and 14 counts each of rape and sexual assault. He was sentenced to death and is housed in San Quentin State Prison.