Murder suspect father 'had mass suicide plan'

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.

Murder suspect father 'had mass suicide plan'

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.

One of Marcus Wesson’s surviving daughters said that under the plan, “the older ones would kill the children and would commit suicide”, according to Carlos Leal, a Fresno murder detective who interviewed the 20-year-old woman.

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