Marcus Wesson
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Wednesday July 12, 2006
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FRESNO, Calif. - The house where a convicted murderer molested and killed nine of his own children was demolished on Monday.
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Friday February 3, 2006
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February 3, 2006 - It was the evidence used to convict Marcus Wesson of murdering nine of his children. Now, newly released family diaries are giving new insight into the convicted killer.
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Thursday February 2, 2006
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February 2, 2006 - A judge has denied a request by the wife of Marcus Wesson to give back hundreds of items seized from the family's home in Central Fresno.
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Thursday August 4, 2005
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The trial of condemned mass murderer Marcus Wesson cost Fresno County more than $1 million that could have paid for law enforcement or to fix up parks and rural neighborhoods.
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Thursday July 28, 2005
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FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - Marcus Wesson was sentenced to death Wednesday for the murder of nine of his children, many of whom were born of incest and sexual abuse.
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Judge R.L. Putnam rejected Marcus Wesson’s requests this morning for a new trial or a reduced sentence from the death penalty to life in prison.
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Thursday July 21, 2005
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Defense lawyers want Judge R.L. Putnam to grant Marcus Wesson a new trial or reduce his death sentence to life in prison, according to Fresno County Superior Court documents made public Tuesday.
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Wednesday June 29, 2005
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FRESNO, Calif. — Marcus Wesson, the domineering patriarch of a large clan he bred through incest, should die for the murders of nine of his children, a jury decided Wednesday.
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Tuesday June 28, 2005
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FRESNO, Calif. - Marcus Wesson's defense attorney addressed the men and women who found his client guilty of slaughtering his children and pleaded for his life, saying Wesson was a flawed man and his crimes were inexcusable, but his death would not bring back any of those he killed.
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Saturday June 18, 2005
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Wesson's conviction on nine counts of first-degree murder makes him eligible for the death penalty.
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Thursday June 9, 2005
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The judge in the Marcus Wesson case dismissed an alternate juror for hardship on Wednesday.
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New developments in the Marcus Wesson trial Tuesday, as there were unexpected moves by both the prosecution and the judge in the trial.
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Sunday June 5, 2005
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Jurors is the Marcus Wesson trial requested information from the judge on Friday and an important ruling was made on whether Wesson's family will be in the courtroom when the verdicts are read.
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Friday May 27, 2005
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Jurors will begin deliberating the fate of accused mass murderer Marcus Wesson next week, a Fresno County Superior Court judge said Wednesday.
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Monday May 23, 2005
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Psychologists will not testify, judge rules.
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Friday May 20, 2005
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May 19, 2005 — Police say one gun killed all nine children in Fresno's worst mass murder. But Thursday, the jury learned something else about that gun that could clear Marcus Wesson of murder charges.
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Wednesday May 18, 2005
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The prosecution's case against accused mass murderer Marcus Wesson will end soon, Judge R.L. Putnam said Tuesday in Fresno County Superior Court.
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Tuesday May 17, 2005
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Marcus Wesson and his family lived on an decrepit tugboat moored in Tomales Bay and kept to themselves, his neighbors in the northern California town of Marshall told a Fresno jury this morning.
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Thursday May 12, 2005
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Another niece of Marcus Wesson testified in Fresno County Superior Court that Wesson molested her as a young child and later had sex with her so she could have "babies for the Lord."
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Wednesday May 4, 2005
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Wesson daughter could have shot herself, witness says.
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Monday May 2, 2005
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Marcus Wesson’s nine children were fatally shot in one of their eyes at close range and were homicide victims, a forensic pathologist testified this morning in Fresno County Superior Court.
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Friday April 29, 2005
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Jurors in the murder trial of Marcus Wesson learned this morning that one of the nine victims killed in his Fresno home in March 2004 was shot twice in the right eye.
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Monday April 25, 2005
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Daughter testifies they had saved $105,000 in cash.
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Friday April 22, 2005
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Accused mass murderer Marcus Wesson may have spoken about "dying for the Lord," but his family's religion preached the same thing, Wesson's daughter told a Fresno jury this morning.
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Wednesday April 20, 2005
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Murder suspect's daughter refuses to incriminate father in emotional testimony
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- House where Marcus Wesson killed nine of his own children demolished
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- Wesson Diaries, Other Evidence Released
- Judge sentences Marcus Wesson to death
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