Juliana BarbassaFresno

A man charged with killing nine of his children, allegedly fathered through polygamy and incest, planned a mass suicide as early as 1995 if authorities came to take his family away, a California detective said.

Six coroners, three times the typical weekend staff, worked in shifts to identify the nine victims of a mass killing in California.

A man suspected of murdering nine members of his family was apparently involved in polygamy and incest, fathering two of the victims with his own daughters, police said.

A man has been arrested after the bodies of a woman, a teenager and seven children were found in a home, police in California said today.