Latest / Wicked and Grim: A True Crime Podcast / Marcus Wesson - Mass Murderer
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- 0:06Speaker 1: Well, Hello, I'm Nicole and I'm Ben, and you are
- 0:10Speaker 1: listening to Wicked.
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- 0:54Speaker 1: Ty, Calm the fuck downty. Is that what it's actually called? No,
- 0:58Speaker 1: I really hope it is. They should put that on
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- 1:00Speaker 2: It's just called Calm the fuck down. But I think
- 1:03Speaker 2: if it was called what you just said, like, they
- 1:04Speaker 2: would actually sell more.
- 1:06Speaker 1: Probably. Yeah, I'm just drinking coffee with a higher percent
- 1:11Speaker 1: of alcohol than normal. Probably it may or may not
- 1:15Speaker 1: be spiked.
- 1:16Speaker 2: Do you ever have coffee that's not spiked? Oh?
- 1:19Speaker 1: I do? Oh yeah, I actually I really enjoy black coffee.
- 1:22Speaker 2: Yeah you do.
- 1:23Speaker 1: I do, like no cream, no sugar that hits home.
- 1:26Speaker 2: But you'd enjoy it more when there's some what is
- 1:29Speaker 2: it Caroline Carolins in there?
- 1:31Speaker 1: Yeah, but not all the time. If I do it
- 1:34Speaker 1: too much, I get sick of it and I'm like,
- 1:35Speaker 1: I don't want this for a while. Like I haven't
- 1:37Speaker 1: had Carolins in my coffee for over a week. I think. Wow,
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- 1:41Speaker 2: Other than iced coffee, the bougie ice coffee, the ice coffees. Yes,
- 1:44Speaker 2: we're all about those. Love it Okay, so fun packed, fun,
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- 1:51Speaker 1: You ready for this?
- 1:52Speaker 2: This is the last podcast we're going to be recording
- 1:55Speaker 2: in our house.
- 1:56Speaker 1: Yes, next episode is officially going to be in our
- 2:00Speaker 1: tiny home because we are moving in in like five
- 2:04Speaker 1: days Saturday, So it's Monday right now as we're recording,
- 2:07Speaker 1: and Saturday we are going to be moving in.
- 2:10Speaker 2: Which is wild. So it's gonna be like a teeny tiny.
- 2:12Speaker 1: Podcast, a teeny tiny podcast, Oh god, I mean it'll
- 2:17Speaker 1: still be. We can gree it.
- 2:18Speaker 2: Will be exactly the same, but well, we'll have to
- 2:21Speaker 2: see it. Might I don't know if it will sound different.
- 2:23Speaker 2: We're gonna be sitting in bean bag chairs, which is
- 2:25Speaker 2: kind of sod.
- 2:26Speaker 1: Yeah, in a little tiny loft up in our podcast
- 2:28Speaker 1: or up in our tiny home little podcast studio we made.
- 2:31Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm actually really excited.
- 2:33Speaker 1: You guys will get a tour of that real soon.
- 2:34Speaker 1: Don't worry. We've just been so far behind we haven't
- 2:36Speaker 1: really been able to show much of that yet. Yeah,
- 2:38Speaker 1: it looks that we will and inside's a bit of
- 2:40Speaker 1: a disaster right now because we're just trying to move
- 2:42Speaker 1: stuff in. So once it's a little more organized it
- 2:45Speaker 1: looks better, then we'll show you.
- 2:47Speaker 2: We still actually have a lot of things in the house,
- 2:49Speaker 2: so we have a busy week.
- 2:50Speaker 1: Yeah we do. We're still making shelves. And I wrecked
- 2:53Speaker 1: one wall. Yeah yeah, putting up shells. The nails went
- 2:57Speaker 1: through the wall because it's just like a little like
- 3:00Speaker 1: covered sort of thickness area.
- 3:02Speaker 2: Anyways, nails garready wreck and shit, so well now I.
- 3:04Speaker 1: Got to fix the other side.
- 3:06Speaker 2: Fun Okay, I actually have something Oaks super fun to
- 3:08Speaker 2: they do.
- 3:08Speaker 1: Okay, what's up?
- 3:10Speaker 2: Okay, So I did like our Monday sneak peek or
- 3:14Speaker 2: what are what do we call, like guests the podcast
- 3:16Speaker 2: or whatever. Yeah, and it's been over an hour. No
- 3:19Speaker 2: one's guessed it.
- 3:20Speaker 1: Yes, so hopefully no one gets this case and we
- 3:23Speaker 1: can officially say we fooled you guys.
- 3:25Speaker 2: It's so funny because I actually thought people would get
- 3:28Speaker 2: this right away. But it is like a bit of
- 3:30Speaker 2: a random photo. It doesn't have a lot to do
- 3:31Speaker 2: with the case, but I was like thinking.
- 3:34Speaker 1: It's a pretty synonymous photo with this case that you said.
- 3:36Speaker 2: Right, well, I thought so.
- 3:38Speaker 1: Well, either way, we'll see if we fool them.
- 3:41Speaker 2: I think it'd be sweet if I fooled them, because
- 3:42Speaker 2: I told you the other day I'm gonna be the
- 3:45Speaker 2: one that does it, and there.
- 3:46Speaker 1: It might be. Well, that's totally fine with me.
- 3:48Speaker 2: So far, I'm winning.
- 3:50Speaker 1: We we What are you talking about?
- 3:51Speaker 2: You? Okay? Now, so it's a competition between see you
- 3:55Speaker 2: if they'll get it, and between us apparently.
- 3:57Speaker 1: Well yeah, before we dive into the case, can I
- 4:01Speaker 1: say one more thing? Of course, I want to wish
- 4:04Speaker 1: a happy belated birthday to Chili Bob, who is one
- 4:07Speaker 1: of our listeners who's been there from the start and
- 4:10Speaker 1: has actually been supporting me as a creator before the
- 4:13Speaker 1: podcast even totally. Her birthday was actually on last Tuesday
- 4:17Speaker 1: when last episode dropped. I didn't even know.
- 4:19Speaker 2: That, how rude.
- 4:20Speaker 1: I knew her birthday was like coming up, but I
- 4:22Speaker 1: didn't know when, and then I figured it out and
- 4:25Speaker 1: it was too late. So happy belated birthday out there
- 4:27Speaker 1: to Chili Bob. We appreciate you. Hope your birthday was amazing,
- 4:30Speaker 1: and hopefully the rest of the month continues to be amazing.
- 4:33Speaker 1: Birth month for you.
- 4:34Speaker 2: Happy Birthday. Boom boom done. Okay, are you ready?
- 4:39Speaker 1: I'm ready.
- 4:40Speaker 2: My hands are freezing. So we're going to see how
- 4:42Speaker 2: this goes here.
- 4:42Speaker 1: Okay, it'll work. Maybe it's because there's like ghosts in
- 4:46Speaker 1: the room.
- 4:46Speaker 2: I think there are.
- 4:47Speaker 1: It's spooky season.
- 4:48Speaker 2: Ever since the last episodes, I just have not been
- 4:51Speaker 2: the same. I just haven't been the same. Shit's just
- 4:54Speaker 2: just yeah.
- 4:55Speaker 1: She's been creeping me out to a little bit more
- 4:57Speaker 1: than normal.
- 4:58Speaker 2: It is getting better, Like I'm like, it took a
- 5:00Speaker 2: week though, apparently, like oh, Ben, like just he's off
- 5:03Speaker 2: on us.
- 5:03Speaker 1: Please Here, we're only diving into this spooky shit, especially
- 5:07Speaker 1: when October hits, and then you know we're going headlong
- 5:10Speaker 1: into that. And there's one case that I've been wanting
- 5:13Speaker 1: to cover since day one that I've been saving specifically
- 5:16Speaker 1: for Halloween.
- 5:17Speaker 2: Sounds intriguing, you know what it is? Yeah, but you
- 5:20Speaker 2: know me, I forget things really easy.
- 5:21Speaker 1: Should I tell? Should I tell them what it is?
- 5:23Speaker 1: Or should I make them wait?
- 5:25Speaker 2: Tell?
- 5:25Speaker 1: Okay, because there's going to be a bunch of stuff
- 5:27Speaker 1: we drop in October.
- 5:28Speaker 2: Yeah, October is going to be a sweet month.
- 5:29Speaker 1: You guys can look forward to this case at least
- 5:31Speaker 1: this is going to be a case of Robert the Doll.
- 5:35Speaker 1: I love this case.
- 5:36Speaker 2: Okay, I didn't know this.
- 5:38Speaker 1: Yeah, And Robert the Doll was the inspiration for the
- 5:42Speaker 1: Child's play movies. He was the inspiration for Chucky. Oh,
- 5:46Speaker 1: okay in October.
- 5:48Speaker 2: Oh I love that.
- 5:49Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 5:50Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I'm going to start this and do it.
- 5:53Speaker 2: Let's see, like, okay, if it didn't come out on
- 5:55Speaker 2: Facebook or on Instagram, on Facebook too, we have both.
- 6:00Speaker 2: It's Marcus Wesson and that's about all I know about
- 6:03Speaker 2: the case. So Marcus was born on August twenty second,
- 6:07Speaker 2: nineteen forty six, in Kansas, to parents of Benjamin and
- 6:12Speaker 2: Carrie Wesson. He was the oldest of four children, and
- 6:16Speaker 2: he was raised as a member of the Seventh Day
- 6:19Speaker 2: Adventist Church, which is like a Protestant Christian denomination.
- 6:24Speaker 1: Okay, gotcha.
- 6:25Speaker 2: He himself claiming that his mother was a religious fanatic
- 6:29Speaker 2: and his father was an alcoholic, was an alcoholic and
- 6:32Speaker 2: a child abuser, including sexual abuse. Oh shit, who abandoned
- 6:37Speaker 2: the family when Marcus was just a young boy.
- 6:40Speaker 1: I mean, being abandon it's never a good thing. But
- 6:44Speaker 1: if he was a a father like that, that's good.
- 6:47Speaker 1: That they're now out of their lives.
- 6:48Speaker 2: Yeah. Really I never looked at it like that. The
- 6:52Speaker 2: mother would also physically abuse the children, of course, So
- 6:56Speaker 2: I don't know. And it's interesting because it's like so many,
- 6:59Speaker 2: so many cases is that we cover, right, like or
- 7:01Speaker 2: just cases out there like the vic or the I
- 7:05Speaker 2: don't know what the bad person, the perpetrator. Yeah, there
- 7:07Speaker 2: you go, has like kind of a shitty upbringing and
- 7:10Speaker 2: that just sucks.
- 7:11Speaker 1: It seems like that's that's very what's the now, I'm
- 7:14Speaker 1: forgetting words prominent, very prominent. Yeah, their upbringing. Yeah, it's
- 7:20Speaker 1: it's something that occurs often.
- 7:21Speaker 2: I know. Well, now I'm like one of I mean,
- 7:23Speaker 2: I'm sure we've covered some cases where they've had Yeah,
- 7:26Speaker 2: we have where they've had a perfect upbringing.
- 7:28Speaker 1: I'm sure we have.
- 7:29Speaker 2: Well is there ever a nothing's perfect? There's no perfect upbringing.
- 7:32Speaker 1: A normal a good.
- 7:34Speaker 2: Upbringing, Yeah, what you would classify as normal. Yeah, So
- 7:39Speaker 2: the family would relocate to San Bernardino, California. I hope
- 7:44Speaker 2: him saying that right in the early nineteen sixties. Marcus
- 7:48Speaker 2: would eventually drop out of high school and join the army,
- 7:51Speaker 2: serving from nineteen sixty six to nineteen sixty eight as
- 7:56Speaker 2: a medical care provider cool. He was given an honorable
- 7:59Speaker 2: discharge at the end of his service. After this time
- 8:03Speaker 2: in the in the army, Marcus would meet his future
- 8:06Speaker 2: lover named Rosemary made Darnina.
- 8:11Speaker 1: Okay, like that that Rosemary over the top name that
- 8:14Speaker 1: I actually kind of fucking love the whole name. Yes,
- 8:17Speaker 1: the whole name, just as a whole Like if I
- 8:21Speaker 1: were to meet someone like named Rosemary or something like that,
- 8:23Speaker 1: it's like, that's kind of an old fashioned name. But
- 8:25Speaker 1: like Rosemary, what was it, ma Darnina or something?
- 8:28Speaker 2: They may don't may Oh, I said it right for
- 8:31Speaker 2: the beginning and now made yeah, may don't near. I
- 8:34Speaker 2: don't know. Good Lord, don't ask me if I pronounced
- 8:38Speaker 2: something right the beginning. Don't ask me to pronounce it again.
- 8:40Speaker 1: Okay. Well, regardless, that whole name.
- 8:43Speaker 2: Love it, love it. It actually sounds quite nice.
- 8:45Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 8:46Speaker 2: So Rosemary was actually married at the time, though, okay,
- 8:50Speaker 2: and a mother to eight children.
- 8:54Speaker 1: To eight kids. Oh, she's a busy lady.
- 8:55Speaker 2: M hmm. But this didn't deter Marcus, which it may
- 8:59Speaker 2: deter some, I must, but it rather thrilled him. He
- 9:03Speaker 2: was thrilled by the idea claiming they needed a shepherd.
- 9:07Speaker 1: They needed a.
- 9:08Speaker 2: Shepherd, like someone to guide them.
- 9:10Speaker 1: Yeah, well I know what a shepherd is.
- 9:12Speaker 2: Oh, it sounds like you didn't. So I was helping out.
- 9:14Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate the help, but I know what the
- 9:16Speaker 1: shepherd was.
- 9:17Speaker 2: And Casey didn't know what a shepherd was. It's basically
- 9:19Speaker 2: someone to help God you. So Rosemary would quickly break
- 9:22Speaker 2: it off with her husband, and Marcus moved in with
- 9:25Speaker 2: Rosemary and her children in their San Jose, California home.
- 9:30Speaker 2: In nineteen seventy one, they welcomed their first son together.
- 9:35Speaker 2: Doesn't seem all that crazy so.
- 9:38Speaker 1: Far, right, Well, I have some predictions going on in
- 9:41Speaker 1: the back of my head.
- 9:42Speaker 2: Here do you do? You don't know anything about this,
- 9:44Speaker 2: really do you know?
- 9:45Speaker 1: But you've already said that the father of this dude
- 9:49Speaker 1: of Marcus was an abuser and sexually assaulted past some
- 9:54Speaker 1: of the siblings, and the mother was an abuser. So
- 9:56Speaker 1: I'm assuming he is now looking at these kids like
- 10:00Speaker 1: potential victims for a sexual assault. Let's put that way, okay.
- 10:08Speaker 2: So, well, where am i? And now? Oh I'm a
- 10:12Speaker 2: pulling to you. You're okay? So shit would basically take
- 10:15Speaker 2: a turn in nineteen seventy four, Marcus would become fixated
- 10:20Speaker 2: with one of Rosemary's.
- 10:21Speaker 1: Daughters, called it, fucking called that shit.
- 10:24Speaker 2: Little Elizabeth, who was eight years old at the time.
- 10:27Speaker 1: Oh fuck what Oh, this guy's greasy as fuck. She's eight,
- 10:31Speaker 1: She's eight, God damn it.
- 10:33Speaker 2: We're going to go into more detail about this soon.
- 10:35Speaker 2: But Marcus was basically like a master manipulator. He took
- 10:40Speaker 2: on a godlike role in the family, which is why
- 10:42Speaker 2: I believe the following like was even able to happen.
- 10:46Speaker 2: Both Elizabeth and Rosemary were brainwashed by Marcus's ideas, and
- 10:50Speaker 2: he was able to convince them and when I say
- 10:53Speaker 2: them like, I'm more so made Rosemary, being that she
- 10:56Speaker 2: was the adult because Elizabeth was eight years old, that
- 11:01Speaker 2: this was God's plan.
- 11:03Speaker 1: Oh fuck, of course. It seems like a lot of
- 11:05Speaker 1: people in this sort of mindset use that excuse so much.
- 11:08Speaker 1: It's God's plan. Was old. Yeah. I understand that you
- 11:14Speaker 1: might be religious, but I do not understand the fact
- 11:16Speaker 1: that you think just because you have a point of
- 11:19Speaker 1: view or feeling one way does not give you an
- 11:21Speaker 1: excuse to say, well, God's making me do it. No.
- 11:25Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it's almost like these peop are just using
- 11:27Speaker 2: that as an excuse for them to do terrible things.
- 11:30Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, which, in that same argument, if you are
- 11:33Speaker 1: a religious individual and you say you do have these
- 11:37Speaker 1: visions from God and God wants you to do these things,
- 11:41Speaker 1: shouldn't you question it and say, Okay, the devil is
- 11:45Speaker 1: a master manipulator. Maybe it's not God wants me to
- 11:48Speaker 1: do these Maybe the devil is showing me false visions,
- 11:51Speaker 1: impersonating Jesus or God or whoever you are envisioning, and
- 11:55Speaker 1: you should question the validity of these and question how
- 11:59Speaker 1: good these things that you're being told to do are.
- 12:02Speaker 2: Because, like we should know the difference between right and wrong.
- 12:05Speaker 1: Right, So if you're being told to do bad things
- 12:08Speaker 1: by God, maybe you should question is this really God
- 12:10Speaker 1: telling me this?
- 12:11Speaker 2: That's a good point. Have you had a question that?
- 12:14Speaker 1: Yeah? I have many times. Should I slap this person
- 12:18Speaker 1: I work with?
- 12:20Speaker 2: No?
- 12:21Speaker 1: I really want to?
- 12:23Speaker 2: Okay, So, performing an at home marriage ceremony, Marcus would
- 12:27Speaker 2: declare little Elizabeth at the age of eight his wife.
- 12:31Speaker 2: Once Elizabeth was twelve years old, Marcus would begin to
- 12:35Speaker 2: sexually assault her.
- 12:37Speaker 1: Okay, at the age of eight, he declared her his wife.
- 12:42Speaker 2: Yes, not, but this was just like an at home ceremony.
- 12:46Speaker 1: That's that's still really fucked up because there's there's the
- 12:51Speaker 1: whole things of like fathers going and dates their daughters.
- 12:53Speaker 1: You know, it's a cute see little thing.
- 12:55Speaker 2: Oh that's okay though, when you see those photos, that's
- 12:58Speaker 2: the cutest shit scene.
- 13:00Speaker 1: There's cutesy little fake ceremonies you do. You know your yeah,
- 13:03Speaker 1: playdates and stuff with your child. I understand that. But
- 13:06Speaker 1: he fucking married his daughter, yeah, unofficially.
- 13:09Speaker 2: Yeah, and then a few years later started sexually assaulting her,
- 13:13Speaker 2: and at fourteen years old, she would become pregnant. Fuck.
- 13:18Speaker 2: And at fifteen years old, Marcus would legally because apparently
- 13:23Speaker 2: at that point in time that was legal age. I
- 13:26Speaker 2: don't know. Mary Elizabeth and she would give birth to
- 13:29Speaker 2: the first of what would be eleven children. And these
- 13:35Speaker 2: eleven children were all birthed before Elizabeth reached the age
- 13:39Speaker 2: of twenty six. You're a hot shit, yeah, Like I
- 13:45Speaker 2: feel like that in itself is almost like using and
- 13:47Speaker 2: abusing like that point. Wow, No, woman didn't get a
- 13:50Speaker 2: freaking break, She.
- 13:52Speaker 1: Didn't get a fuck. She had everything taken from her
- 13:54Speaker 1: at that point.
- 13:55Speaker 2: Yeah, everything everything, Wow, because like, that's just a lot
- 14:00Speaker 2: of kids in a very short amount of time.
- 14:03Speaker 1: Yeah, and very young, and I'm assuming forced upon her.
- 14:07Speaker 2: Yeah, and then he I don't know if she, like
- 14:12Speaker 2: she knew no other way, right, and he was manipulating
- 14:15Speaker 2: her to believe that this was like the right way
- 14:17Speaker 2: of life, this kind of thing. So I don't know
- 14:19Speaker 2: if she was, like, I mean, he it was bad
- 14:22Speaker 2: what he was doing, one hundred percent, but like, I
- 14:24Speaker 2: don't know if she like knew it was bad. There
- 14:26Speaker 2: was one article that said something about like that she
- 14:28Speaker 2: liked the attention.
- 14:30Speaker 1: But you grow up learning that things from these figures.
- 14:33Speaker 1: Oh it's right, it's right, it's right. That's false information.
- 14:36Speaker 2: Yeah, we will talk about that more too.
- 14:39Speaker 1: So this is a whole fuck up situation.
- 14:41Speaker 2: Wow, Oh this is just the fucking start. Man, like
- 14:44Speaker 2: cam your titties like this, this just goes down.
- 14:47Speaker 1: I Am not going to calm my titties. I'm going
- 14:50Speaker 1: to start flapping them everywhere. And if you get hit
- 14:53Speaker 1: in the face, it's your own.
- 14:54Speaker 2: My own fault. Okay, Okay. So at one point in time, okay,
- 14:59Speaker 2: and this is where one thing that I couldn't fully find.
- 15:02Speaker 2: I think it was Elizabeth's sister, but it could also
- 15:05Speaker 2: have been Rosemary's oldest daughter. But it doesn't super matter.
- 15:09Speaker 2: One of these people suffered Okay, it doesn't matter because
- 15:12Speaker 2: of this, it's because something else. It sucks that she
- 15:14Speaker 2: suffered from a drug addiction, like not saying that's not
- 15:16Speaker 2: a good thing.
- 15:17Speaker 1: But the different differentiating between the individuals isn't necessary. Okay.
- 15:21Speaker 2: So one of them was unable to care for their
- 15:24Speaker 2: children so left them in the care of Elizabeth and Marcus.
- 15:29Speaker 2: And that individual had seven children. So this household was
- 15:35Speaker 2: just like a massive a massive amount of kids.
- 15:39Speaker 1: It's a colony at this point.
- 15:41Speaker 2: Like crazy, so basically a lot of mouse to feed.
- 15:46Speaker 1: Right, yeah, so and get this right. So far we
- 15:48Speaker 1: have Rosemary having eight kids, and of those eight kids,
- 15:52Speaker 1: two of them have had.
- 15:54Speaker 2: Okay, but no, we've jumped ahead. Now we're basically like
- 15:57Speaker 2: Elizabeth is now with Marcus.
- 16:00Speaker 1: Okay, so Rosemary's not in the house anymore. Rosemary's gone.
- 16:04Speaker 1: He left her for Elizabeth.
- 16:06Speaker 2: I don't know if she's still in the house, but
- 16:08Speaker 2: like Elizabeth, it's now we're moving on to Elizabeth's and
- 16:12Speaker 2: Marcus's story, right, Okay, he was never married to Rosemary.
- 16:16Speaker 1: Okay. See, I assumed like he was like married to
- 16:18Speaker 1: Rosemary and married to her daughter Elizabeth.
- 16:21Speaker 2: At the same time. I don't think he was ever
- 16:22Speaker 2: actually married to Rosemary. Okay, yeah, so no, we're just
- 16:26Speaker 2: like we jumped ahead a little bit here to where
- 16:28Speaker 2: she's had like twenty six or and now she's the
- 16:30Speaker 2: twenty six children, I mean eleven children before the age
- 16:34Speaker 2: of twenty six, and then now they also have like
- 16:37Speaker 2: these additional kids. So it's just like a house full.
- 16:39Speaker 2: I mean, that's like eighteen children, is it.
- 16:41Speaker 1: Outs that's a lot of kids.
- 16:43Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, that's a shit ton of kids.
- 16:45Speaker 1: I can't handle two huskies.
- 16:47Speaker 2: Yeah, I just think that we would be drowning. Okay,
- 16:53Speaker 2: where was I hear? Do Do do doo? Okay. So
- 16:56Speaker 2: Marcus was also not able to really keep a steady,
- 16:58Speaker 2: steady job, receiving most of the family's income from welfare.
- 17:03Speaker 2: This caused the family to kind of drift from place
- 17:06Speaker 2: to place with some rather unique living arrangements. I don't
- 17:11Speaker 2: know if we'll find them that unique, but some people might.
- 17:16Speaker 1: So.
- 17:17Speaker 2: At one point in time, the family lived in a
- 17:18Speaker 2: twenty six foot boat, and their dinner would sometimes be
- 17:22Speaker 2: scavenged hamburgers from a McDonald's dumpster, which I'm like, kind
- 17:27Speaker 2: of breaks my heart. And this boat would, however, get
- 17:30Speaker 2: Marcus in some trouble. He failed to disclose it as
- 17:33Speaker 2: an asset when collecting welfare, which is fraud. So in
- 17:38Speaker 2: nineteen ninety Marcus would actually serve some time in jail.
- 17:41Speaker 2: Oh shit, I think it was only like about a year.
- 17:43Speaker 2: I could never find exactly how much, but it wasn't
- 17:45Speaker 2: like a shit ton amount of time. So in the
- 17:48Speaker 2: mid mid in late nineteen nineties, the family lived in
- 17:52Speaker 2: a trailer and a large army tent in the Santa
- 17:56Speaker 2: Cruz Mountains with no running water. They also at one
- 18:00Speaker 2: point lived in a decaying sixty three foot tug boat
- 18:03Speaker 2: and a school bus. Wow. So basically, I wouldn't say
- 18:08Speaker 2: like life was super easy for the Wesson children.
- 18:11Speaker 1: No kidding. They definitely have it hard.
- 18:13Speaker 2: Yeah, but they don't know it right. So, However, by
- 18:16Speaker 2: the late nineteen nineties, some of the children were old
- 18:19Speaker 2: enough to get jobs, to which Marcus used their money
- 18:23Speaker 2: to buy an old office building in Fresno, Fresno, California, Resne.
- 18:30Speaker 2: I always want to say freshca like I had to
- 18:33Speaker 2: like practice early, but no, it's Fresno. So though some
- 18:39Speaker 2: of the living room remainement, like I said, were unique,
- 18:42Speaker 2: it was also Marcus's way of keeping the family out
- 18:45Speaker 2: of site from others. None of the kids attended school
- 18:49Speaker 2: because Marcus distrusted the public education system and if you
- 18:55Speaker 2: lived in a neighborhood and you had seen like numerous
- 18:59Speaker 2: children around midday, like you might get some questions.
- 19:02Speaker 1: Right, yeah, that's fair.
- 19:04Speaker 2: Okay, So now to dive in a bit deeper into
- 19:06Speaker 2: the story, as it's been a bit fluffy, that's that's.
- 19:09Speaker 1: Fluffy fluffy so far.
- 19:11Speaker 2: That's fluffy.
- 19:11Speaker 1: That's the fluff on the top. That's ther foam la.
- 19:14Speaker 2: There go extra phone place. Okay. So unfortunately, Elizabeth was
- 19:20Speaker 2: not the only girl Marcus would take an interest in.
- 19:23Speaker 1: I figured that was coming.
- 19:24Speaker 2: At an early age. He would go on to molest
- 19:28Speaker 2: and have children with other young girls in his life,
- 19:32Speaker 2: other girls being his daughters and his nieces. Marcus sexually
- 19:38Speaker 2: us two of his daughters and three of his nieces,
- 19:41Speaker 2: all beginning at the age of eight years old, which
- 19:45Speaker 2: is very interesting to think that he would wait till
- 19:48Speaker 2: they were like eight, Like, what what's with the eight
- 19:51Speaker 2: you know? Like to me, that's still like fretting young at.
- 19:53Speaker 1: Shit, that's stupid young. But Tim, he's like eight legal, fuck,
- 19:57Speaker 1: maybe you need to add teen at the end of that.
- 19:59Speaker 2: Yeah, he's like a sick monster, like so inappropriate, Like,
- 20:03Speaker 2: oh my gosh, I even.
- 20:05Speaker 1: Have left trouble picturing like people with eighteen when it's like, oh,
- 20:09Speaker 1: this is a forty something year old dude and she's eighteen.
- 20:11Speaker 1: I'm just like just because don't mean, it's not fucking nasty.
- 20:15Speaker 2: Issue now, I know. Oh, let's just not like, let's
- 20:19Speaker 2: just not go there with our minds. So each of
- 20:23Speaker 2: these five girls would go on to have Marcus's children.
- 20:27Speaker 2: It's believed he fathered at least seventeen children, and I
- 20:31Speaker 2: say at least because I don't know, people don't know
- 20:33Speaker 2: for sure with seven different women. So because that's including
- 20:37Speaker 2: one with Rosemary and eleven with Elizabeth, right, so we're
- 20:40Speaker 2: assuming that he had one with each of these five
- 20:42Speaker 2: other girls, but other reports said there was more, so
- 20:46Speaker 2: I don't know. So, as I mentioned earlier, Marcus was
- 20:50Speaker 2: a master manipulator, and his time leading and controlling the
- 20:57Speaker 2: family was often compared to be like cult like. He
- 21:01Speaker 2: was fascinated with David Kerr Carress, who was a famous
- 21:06Speaker 2: American cult leader, which, yeah, I'll just leave it at that.
- 21:11Speaker 2: Maybe we'll have to do his story.
- 21:12Speaker 1: One day or some do we at least know what
- 21:13Speaker 1: cult he led?
- 21:16Speaker 2: What was it? I don't know if I, oh, shoot,
- 21:19Speaker 2: I did look at the name.
- 21:20Speaker 1: You did, you don't have written down, That's okay, But
- 21:24Speaker 1: it was.
- 21:25Speaker 2: What I did have written down that he played a
- 21:27Speaker 2: central role in the Waco Sea siege or massacre or
- 21:31Speaker 2: whatever of nineteen ninety three.
- 21:34Speaker 1: Okay.
- 21:34Speaker 2: Interesting, So I don't know. And Marcus was fascinated by him,
- 21:39Speaker 2: which is like probably someone you should not be fascinated
- 21:41Speaker 2: by or look up to, right, Yeah, uh so Marcus
- 21:46Speaker 2: made his family his own little personal cult. He described
- 21:51Speaker 2: himself as Jesus Christ and police officers as Satan.
- 21:56Speaker 1: I would describe him as many other things, many things.
- 22:01Speaker 2: He also believed that Jesus was a vampire, interesting choice,
- 22:06Speaker 2: which is very interesting. He had a fascination with the
- 22:10Speaker 2: undead and seeing similarities between undead creatures and Jesus.
- 22:16Speaker 1: Well, I mean technically Jesus rising from the grave.
- 22:19Speaker 2: I mean, I know, I guess, I guess you could go.
- 22:21Speaker 1: There, But that parallel has been drawn a few times
- 22:26Speaker 1: pop culture and stuff. I mean zombie Easter. Once in
- 22:29Speaker 1: a while will say happy zombie Jesus Day.
- 22:31Speaker 2: Oh I never heard that actually, Okay, anyway, I was
- 22:35Speaker 2: just reading a loud I was like, that's fuck.
- 22:37Speaker 1: Well, Jesus' resurrection.
- 22:39Speaker 2: I know it makes sense, it will ish. I'm just
- 22:42Speaker 2: not even gonna go there because like we might get
- 22:44Speaker 2: in trouble from people just kidding.
- 22:47Speaker 1: We are not saying Jesus is a zombie, no, but
- 22:50Speaker 1: we can understand how some people might think of it.
- 22:52Speaker 2: Yeah, so I guess we can get the correlation between him,
- 22:56Speaker 2: but I still think it's weird as fuck.
- 22:57Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 22:57Speaker 2: So this led him to collect coffins, which she found
- 23:00Speaker 2: at antique stores.
- 23:03Speaker 1: Hey, coffins aren't cheap. This motherfucker is supposed to be
- 23:05Speaker 1: broke as shit.
- 23:06Speaker 2: Yeah, but they're I think they're like he thrifted them,
- 23:09Speaker 2: so maybe they're.
- 23:09Speaker 1: Still How do you thrift a coffin? It's like, oh,
- 23:13Speaker 1: this one's slightly used. Did you get a question that?
- 23:16Speaker 2: Yeah, because he stored them in his house and he
- 23:17Speaker 2: had like ten, so I don't know where the oh yeah,
- 23:22Speaker 2: oh what Maybe I'm assuming they were knew but maybe not.
- 23:26Speaker 1: You I don't. I would assume so as well, but
- 23:29Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 23:30Speaker 2: No, my brain's going a wild here.
- 23:32Speaker 1: So I didn't realize thrifting coffins was.
- 23:34Speaker 2: A thing, yeah, because generally it's you shit.
- 23:39Speaker 1: Surplus coffins, you know, yeah, or like.
- 23:43Speaker 2: Or maybe it's that someone bought them and then could
- 23:46Speaker 2: make the final payment.
- 23:47Speaker 1: I guess, yeah, what is that called?
- 23:49Speaker 2: People do that on houses, So I can't remember. I
- 23:52Speaker 2: don't know. But anyway, he collected coffins, he thought they
- 23:55Speaker 2: were sweet, and he even went as far as naming
- 23:59Speaker 2: and giving some of his children vampire names, one being Jieva,
- 24:05Speaker 2: which is a combination of Jesus and vampire. Interesting, which
- 24:11Speaker 2: it's like, not a terrible name, but then if you know,
- 24:14Speaker 2: if you know the background of it, you're like, oh,
- 24:15Speaker 2: I mean it's interesting.
- 24:16Speaker 1: Honestly, I'm not going to knock that because, like you say,
- 24:19Speaker 1: Jeeva is not a terrible name. I've heard much worse. Yeah,
- 24:22Speaker 1: and I don't mind that name particularly. And if he
- 24:25Speaker 1: wants to combine Jesus and vampire, I mean, it's.
- 24:27Speaker 2: Two of his interests.
- 24:28Speaker 1: I guess it's an odd choice, but go for it. Yeah,
- 24:30Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with unique names.
- 24:33Speaker 2: Yeah, there we go, Jieva. Maybe that will start a trend.
- 24:37Speaker 2: Let's name the kids Jeeva. So the children were homeschooled,
- 24:41Speaker 2: and I'm like not really sure to what extent. I
- 24:44Speaker 2: never found any reports of him teaching them subjects of
- 24:47Speaker 2: like math and science, but.
- 24:48Speaker 1: You never sex said, you never know.
- 24:52Speaker 2: But he he would do Bible studies with them.
- 24:55Speaker 1: Well at least he did that, so.
- 24:56Speaker 2: Numerous times a day Marcus would get to become the preacher.
- 25:00Speaker 2: And he always dreamed, apparently of being a preacher teaching
- 25:04Speaker 2: hit them from his own handwritten Bible that focuses on
- 25:09Speaker 2: Jesus being a vampire. So he put his own spin
- 25:12Speaker 2: on it, and it was his interpretations of the Bible
- 25:14Speaker 2: and Seventh day Adventist beliefs. So he just kind of
- 25:18Speaker 2: like made his own religion in a sense.
- 25:22Speaker 1: Really, this is a cult. This is not a quasi cult.
- 25:26Speaker 1: This is just a small thing, but it's a cult.
- 25:29Speaker 2: I guess it's a cult. But then I also I
- 25:30Speaker 2: guess the way I sort of view cults more so
- 25:34Speaker 2: is like he's forcing everyone in his family to just
- 25:37Speaker 2: be part of his cult. But it's still not like
- 25:40Speaker 2: bringing in outsiders or anything like what I feel like
- 25:43Speaker 2: most cults kind of do attract.
- 25:45Speaker 1: Well, I mean, he's sheltering his following from the outside
- 25:50Speaker 1: world and others. Oh yeah, he is claiming he is
- 25:52Speaker 1: a messiah and he is falsifying information. However he gets
- 25:56Speaker 1: said followers is kind of irrelevant. He just as followers,
- 26:00Speaker 1: shelters them and claims to be said messiah. That that's
- 26:04Speaker 1: a fucking cult.
- 26:06Speaker 2: I know it well because what was his what's one
- 26:08Speaker 2: of his nicknames? Oh, my gosh, douche Canoe, vampire, king
- 26:13Speaker 2: of of douches. What's the town Freshco? Freshco? I was
- 26:18Speaker 2: gonna say it wrong, an Fresco.
- 26:20Speaker 1: Yeah, vampire king of douches. I like that better though. Okay,
- 26:24Speaker 1: we just took a really quick pause break because we're
- 26:27Speaker 1: pretty sure we're saying that name of the city wrong.
- 26:31Speaker 2: No, No, I'm like, what was I saying this whole time?
- 26:34Speaker 2: It's Fresno, Californias.
- 26:36Speaker 1: Yeah, we've got Fresca in her mind, messing us up.
- 26:39Speaker 1: So it's Fred's No, I'm gonna literally write this on
- 26:42Speaker 1: my hand, fres No.
- 26:43Speaker 2: So we apologize. We're tired, and I'm actually like, we'll
- 26:48Speaker 2: probably go back and listen and maybe we were saying
- 26:49Speaker 2: it right. I don't know now, I can't even remember
- 26:51Speaker 2: how I was pronouncing it, but it's Fresnel, California. So anyway,
- 26:54Speaker 2: he had the nickname of the Vampire King of fres
- 26:57Speaker 2: Snow was like nickname that he had. I didn't really
- 27:01Speaker 2: even throw that in there, but I was like, but
- 27:03Speaker 2: you seem to really be onto this that he's cult.
- 27:05Speaker 2: But I'm like, he's just like forcing people to be
- 27:08Speaker 2: in there.
- 27:08Speaker 1: So I'm like, still a cult?
- 27:10Speaker 2: Is it?
- 27:11Speaker 1: It is? He has followers, right, his family is following
- 27:14Speaker 1: him and worshiping him and following his word, believing.
- 27:18Speaker 2: Him, like the cult. I didn't want to give him
- 27:22Speaker 2: that much credit, but okay, here we go. So he
- 27:25Speaker 2: would tell his children that he was God and have
- 27:29Speaker 2: them because he would have them refer to him as
- 27:33Speaker 2: master or lord. So okay, he because he had David,
- 27:37Speaker 2: that guy like he looked up to him, which was
- 27:40Speaker 2: a cult person. But I'm just like he wanted to
- 27:43Speaker 2: have a cult, but like he's just using his own family.
- 27:46Speaker 2: But okay, okay, still a cult. I didn't want to
- 27:50Speaker 2: give him that much credit. But we're doing it, I guess,
- 27:52Speaker 2: and I don't love that.
- 27:54Speaker 1: So he also that's not credit. That's just showing how
- 27:56Speaker 1: much of a fucking douchebag this guy is. That's not credit.
- 27:59Speaker 1: That's that's us credits. It's good credit.
- 28:02Speaker 2: That makes them just go down even more.
- 28:03Speaker 1: Oh definitely.
- 28:04Speaker 2: Okay. So he also taught them to be prepared for armageddon,
- 28:10Speaker 2: which was very interesting. So like that was like their studies.
- 28:13Speaker 2: I think, how to be prepared for armageddon and listening
- 28:17Speaker 2: to this MOBOs fake bible that he.
- 28:19Speaker 1: Created, Well, there's nothing wrong with being a prepper.
- 28:22Speaker 2: Okay. There, that's probably actually good things that should be
- 28:26Speaker 2: taught in school, but we don't know how he taught them.
- 28:29Speaker 2: They should also be taught how to study math, maybe
- 28:31Speaker 2: end times, but you never know the.
- 28:33Speaker 1: Fact that he's obsessed with the undead and he's preparing
- 28:36Speaker 1: them for armageddon. I guarantee you he's probably preparing him
- 28:39Speaker 1: for the zombie apocalypse. So I saw, like, we're gonna
- 28:42Speaker 1: rob Costco. Get your shotguns, boys and girls, let's go
- 28:45Speaker 1: out and practice or shoot.
- 28:46Speaker 2: Does cost go down there have guns and stuff?
- 28:49Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm just people.
- 28:51Speaker 2: I think the Costcos have booze and ourses and have booze.
- 28:55Speaker 1: Yeah, Canada kind of sucks well, we just have.
- 28:58Speaker 2: We finally have a liquor store, one liquor store in
- 29:01Speaker 2: the whole city that has wine. But that's it.
- 29:05Speaker 1: No, we have a grocery store that has wine.
- 29:08Speaker 2: Oh sorry, what did I say? Okay, sorry, I already
- 29:12Speaker 2: said I was tired. Okay, we have one grocery store. Finally. Hold,
- 29:17Speaker 2: we have a lot of all of them wine. We
- 29:20Speaker 2: live in it are down is a down of five thousand.
- 29:23Speaker 2: We have one liquor store.
- 29:25Speaker 1: No, we're definitely large.
- 29:26Speaker 2: Okay, no, but it was sweet because our one grocery store. Okay,
- 29:29Speaker 2: we have more than one. We have more than one
- 29:30Speaker 2: grocery store. I'm like, I just need to shut the
- 29:32Speaker 2: hell up here. But we finally got like it has wine.
- 29:35Speaker 2: So it's kind of one one stop shop ish for
- 29:37Speaker 2: me anyway, because I like wine. Geez, I don't know.
- 29:43Speaker 1: That was a whole train wreck, really was I hope
- 29:47Speaker 1: you guys are still listening. Oh my gosh.
- 29:49Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna share photos of of Marcus too on
- 29:53Speaker 2: our Instagram because I'm like, not super intimidated by a
- 29:58Speaker 2: lot of people, but like he's scarce shit out of me,
- 30:01Speaker 2: Like he's like scary, So I don't know, he also
- 30:04Speaker 2: has that intimidation factor I think with his family, like
- 30:07Speaker 2: he probably scared them a little, right, Okay, So all
- 30:11Speaker 2: the girls were raised and groomed to believe that they
- 30:14Speaker 2: were destined to be Marcus's future wives. Of course, from
- 30:18Speaker 2: the time that they were basically born, the marriage ceremonies
- 30:23Speaker 2: would consist of the couple putting their hands on a
- 30:26Speaker 2: Bible and reciting marriage vows. Seems legit, right, Oh totally so.
- 30:33Speaker 2: As I mentioned earlier, he married two of his daughters
- 30:36Speaker 2: and three nieces, all which would have his children. Along
- 30:41Speaker 2: with isolating the children from the real world, Marcus also
- 30:44Speaker 2: isolated them amongst the group themselves. Being particularly possessive of
- 30:50Speaker 2: the females, The girls were not allowed to talk to
- 30:54Speaker 2: their male siblings. This was apparently to prevent further incest,
- 31:01Speaker 2: which at least okay. Initially I thought like, that's disgusting,
- 31:05Speaker 2: but like the family maybe thought that was okay, right,
- 31:08Speaker 2: so it could have Yeah, more of that could have happened.
- 31:11Speaker 2: Who knows.
- 31:12Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I'm pretty sure it's more so Marcus not
- 31:15Speaker 1: preventing further incests, it's preventing anyone else from getting the
- 31:19Speaker 1: daughters he wanted. To keep for himself, not to prevent incest,
- 31:23Speaker 1: but to prevent him not getting other daughters.
- 31:26Speaker 2: Well, and then to maybe one of those brothers could
- 31:30Speaker 2: have like maybe the brothers didn't even know it was happening,
- 31:33Speaker 2: which I think could definitely be, and then they would
- 31:36Speaker 2: be like what the heck or whatever? Right, and then
- 31:38Speaker 2: there was like a whole little war. So he would
- 31:42Speaker 2: tell his daughters and his nieces this was how a
- 31:45Speaker 2: father showed his love. It was a normal father daughter relationship.
- 31:49Speaker 1: Of course, that's what he said.
- 31:50Speaker 2: Oh like that just makes me want a.
- 31:51Speaker 1: Bar fight and under isolation like that, you don't know
- 31:53Speaker 1: any different.
- 31:55Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, it actually makes me nauseous. I feel like
- 31:58Speaker 2: a lot of times when we're talking about cases, I
- 32:00Speaker 2: feel mauxious. That's just the thing. They were also not
- 32:04Speaker 2: allowed to speak to their mother, Elizabeth. Marcus prevented her
- 32:07Speaker 2: from participating in the children's upbringing. Really Yeah, so I
- 32:13Speaker 2: don't know exactly how he did this, but he had
- 32:15Speaker 2: a way of doing this other than having the girl's
- 32:18Speaker 2: weight on marcus hand and foot. This mofo was also abusive.
- 32:24Speaker 1: Of course, he would which I'm sure.
- 32:26Speaker 2: Doesn't surprise anyone here. He would use brutal force to
- 32:30Speaker 2: keep the children in line, hitting them with electrical cords. Well,
- 32:34Speaker 2: I guess whipping them with electrical cords baseball bats.
- 32:38Speaker 1: And his fists baseball bats. Jesus fuck.
- 32:43Speaker 2: And like he was not a small man, so a
- 32:46Speaker 2: spoiler alert at the end. At the time of his arrest,
- 32:50Speaker 2: he weighed over three hundred pounds. Apparently the man really
- 32:56Speaker 2: liked fast food.
- 32:57Speaker 1: That's a big boy.
- 32:58Speaker 2: Yeah. There was even some that said four hundred, but
- 33:00Speaker 2: most said three hundred, so it was like three hundred
- 33:03Speaker 2: and four hundred pounds.
- 33:04Speaker 1: Like that's a big dude, right, Yeah, no kidding, So.
- 33:07Speaker 2: A punch from him would definitely sting a bit. One
- 33:11Speaker 2: child was beaten for thirty days because he ate a
- 33:16Speaker 2: spoonful of peanut butter without permission. Wow, so you and
- 33:21Speaker 2: me would be like getting beaten daily.
- 33:23Speaker 1: Yeah, peanut butter is loud, glad that holds us together.
- 33:27Speaker 1: So I don't know, first spoonful peanut butter, it might
- 33:30Speaker 1: be worth thirty days of torture.
- 33:32Speaker 2: Well just wait, that was a joke. Just well, I'm
- 33:35Speaker 2: just gonna say, like, it's not just like a little
- 33:39Speaker 2: beating like some of the So how the beatings would
- 33:41Speaker 2: work was it You got hit sixty three times a day,
- 33:45Speaker 2: twenty one hits in the morning, twenty one hits in
- 33:48Speaker 2: the afternoon, and twenty one hits in the evening for
- 33:52Speaker 2: however many days your punishment was and it was up
- 33:55Speaker 2: to you to remind Marcus it was time for your spa,
- 34:00Speaker 2: as the kids would call it. Wow, like that's disgusting,
- 34:06Speaker 2: like gross. He also didn't discriminate on age, oh my gosh,
- 34:13Speaker 2: which we kind of already knew. But he beat one
- 34:16Speaker 2: of his one month old infants what until his legs
- 34:21Speaker 2: bled because he wouldn't stop crying, And when the mom,
- 34:24Speaker 2: Marcus's niece and wife, tried to leave, he stabbed her
- 34:28Speaker 2: in the chest.
- 34:29Speaker 1: What the fuck?
- 34:31Speaker 2: Like a one month old baby was just crying.
- 34:34Speaker 1: Oh, I didn't think this dude could get any worse.
- 34:38Speaker 2: And he just fucking scum. He's just scum.
- 34:41Speaker 1: Holy shit, Fuck this guy.
- 34:44Speaker 2: He makes me uncomfortable. So now is mentioned earlier, everyone
- 34:48Speaker 2: in the household was expected to do hard work, and
- 34:51Speaker 2: you were if you were of age to get a
- 34:53Speaker 2: job that was expected of you, with all of your
- 34:56Speaker 2: earnings going to Marcus of course, yah, which okay, allowing
- 35:01Speaker 2: the children to attend jobs. Seem like it could have
- 35:04Speaker 2: been kind of risky, right, but he had them under
- 35:07Speaker 2: such control, and I think like the control was basically
- 35:10Speaker 2: fear based that no one shared their dirty laundry, not
- 35:14Speaker 2: to police or anyone that they were working with. So
- 35:18Speaker 2: his income came from his kids and welfare. Wow. Yeah,
- 35:25Speaker 2: like just crazy. At one point in time, two of
- 35:29Speaker 2: the girls, well I guess they were be women at
- 35:34Speaker 2: this point, decided this lifestyle wasn't for them, Ruby and Sophia,
- 35:39Speaker 2: so they were the nieces of Marcus and his wives. Like,
- 35:43Speaker 2: it's just fucked up. Like I just like I think
- 35:45Speaker 2: I keep explaining that, but you guys get it.
- 35:47Speaker 1: Yeah, we know it's fucked. We know it's really fucked.
- 35:51Speaker 2: They had attempted to run away before but were never successful,
- 35:54Speaker 2: but this time they begged Marcus to let them go,
- 35:58Speaker 2: which he ultimately did, but under the condition that they
- 36:02Speaker 2: would leave their sons behind. This left them no choice,
- 36:06Speaker 2: so they left, and they left their sons behind.
- 36:08Speaker 1: That's a difficult choice.
- 36:09Speaker 2: Wow, I know, Like that's just oh. I just couldn't imagine.
- 36:15Speaker 2: They tried to move on with their lives, but the
- 36:17Speaker 2: trauma they had from the previous lifestyle was a lot
- 36:20Speaker 2: to deal with. Like in two thousand and four, they
- 36:25Speaker 2: decided to go back for their sons. It was also
- 36:28Speaker 2: mentioned that Marcus may have intentions to move the family
- 36:32Speaker 2: to Washington State, as this was where his parents lived,
- 36:38Speaker 2: which could have been another reason why, like the parents
- 36:40Speaker 2: were or those women were coming back for their children
- 36:43Speaker 2: right because he was taking them out of state basically,
- 36:48Speaker 2: So they connected with family outside of the family cult
- 36:52Speaker 2: to help them, and all together showed up at the
- 36:55Speaker 2: home of Marcus. Marcus handled the situation quite calmly, but
- 37:01Speaker 2: the family inside the house was screaming at the women
- 37:04Speaker 2: because in their brainwashed minds, they were traders, right. Yeah,
- 37:09Speaker 2: So the police were then called. When the officers arrived,
- 37:13Speaker 2: both Ruby and Sophia told them that Marcus was going
- 37:18Speaker 2: to hurt the kids. I guess there was a suicide
- 37:23Speaker 2: pack that was regularly discussed. Oh shit in the household.
- 37:29Speaker 2: Shit if anyone in law enforcement showed up, the women
- 37:34Speaker 2: were ordered to kill their children and themselves.
- 37:39Speaker 1: Holy fuck.
- 37:41Speaker 2: When the officers spoke to Marcus, he did agree to
- 37:45Speaker 2: let the kids go, but asked if he could say
- 37:48Speaker 2: goodbye first.
- 37:49Speaker 1: Oh shit.
- 37:51Speaker 2: The officers agreed. Marcus shut the door, and the officers
- 37:55Speaker 2: waited an hour and a half for Marcus to return.
- 37:59Speaker 2: Once he were turned he was covered in blood. Now,
- 38:05Speaker 2: this part is beyond fucked up, and I like cannot
- 38:08Speaker 2: comprehend it.
- 38:09Speaker 1: This part's beyond fucked up.
- 38:11Speaker 2: The part I'm just to say is neighbors say they
- 38:16Speaker 2: heard gunshots during the period that Marcus was inside saying
- 38:21Speaker 2: his goodbyes, but none of the officers claimed they heard anything,
- 38:28Speaker 2: So like that just doesn't make any sense, Like I
- 38:32Speaker 2: don't get that, like they were outside.
- 38:35Speaker 1: Waiting, yeah, but also why would they wait that long?
- 38:40Speaker 1: I know, like it's literally a hostage situation.
- 38:43Speaker 2: Well not necessarily because they didn't really have any grounds
- 38:46Speaker 2: to like barge in. I guess like they didn't have
- 38:49Speaker 2: the warrants and shit that they need it. But I
- 38:53Speaker 2: mean people were in danger technically in there, So I
- 38:56Speaker 2: don't know. The whole thing just seems fucked up. But
- 38:58Speaker 2: he got that extra time to go in there, so ready.
- 39:06Speaker 1: I'm just wondering if anyone survived, or if anyone left,
- 39:09Speaker 1: So would you walk out or anything? You know.
- 39:12Speaker 2: Marcus was obviously immediately arrested as he was covered in blood,
- 39:17Speaker 2: and the officers entered the building. What was inside was
- 39:20Speaker 2: absolutely heartbreaking. A pile of bodies in the back room,
- 39:25Speaker 2: all intertwined. The bodies were so entangled that it took
- 39:29Speaker 2: hours for police to confirm the number of dead bodies.
- 39:34Speaker 2: It was thought there may have been some kind of
- 39:36Speaker 2: ritual involved. I don't know exactly what the suicide pack entailed,
- 39:44Speaker 2: but this was the aftermath. Nine were dead, ranging in
- 39:48Speaker 2: age from twenty five to one years old, and each
- 39:52Speaker 2: person had a gunshot wound through the eye, So everyone
- 39:58Speaker 2: in the house.
- 39:59Speaker 1: Ye, I find it hard to believe that officers didn't
- 40:02Speaker 1: hear gunshots.
- 40:03Speaker 2: Oh yeah, See, that just makes no sense, does it. Yeah,
- 40:08Speaker 2: I don't know. But then other because other people reported
- 40:11Speaker 2: hearing the gunshots, so I don't know. Basically, there was
- 40:16Speaker 2: nine dead. The victims were uh Sapirrina, who you'll hear
- 40:22Speaker 2: more about. She was age twenty five, Elizabeth age seventeen,
- 40:27Speaker 2: Illabel age eight, av Aviv Sorry I might be pronouncing
- 40:33Speaker 2: that wrong, age seven, Jonathan age seven, Ethan age four,
- 40:38Speaker 2: Marshi age one, Jieva age one, and Sedona age one.
- 40:46Speaker 1: Wow.
- 40:46Speaker 2: M hm. The first and older two victims were Marcus's daughters,
- 40:52Speaker 2: and the other seven were children. Of his daughters or nieces,
- 40:56Speaker 2: so I guess some of them would be his children
- 40:58Speaker 2: and his grandchildren, which is really yucky.
- 41:03Speaker 1: Just wow, Like I'm fucking speechless right now. Holy shit.
- 41:07Speaker 2: Yeah, well you're about to get even more speechless. Some
- 41:11Speaker 2: other weird shit happens.
- 41:12Speaker 1: Okay, Wow, it just keeps getting We're going like down
- 41:16Speaker 1: this major spiral. I keep thinking, like we've hit the
- 41:18Speaker 1: fucking mother load of like disaster.
- 41:20Speaker 2: That was the main spiral. There's just one tiny other one.
- 41:25Speaker 2: So it was the largest mass killing in the history
- 41:28Speaker 2: of Freshnel. Okay, so fresh No. I was like, did
- 41:32Speaker 2: I say their own noise in it? Which is the city?
- 41:35Speaker 2: Which is a city of about half a million, so
- 41:37Speaker 2: it's on a small city. I've never heard of the city. Actually, no,
- 41:40Speaker 2: I have, Oh have you? Oh it's about three hours
- 41:43Speaker 2: from San Francisco.
- 41:45Speaker 1: Been to San France.
- 41:46Speaker 2: I've been to San fran But yeah, I'm like, I've
- 41:47Speaker 2: never heard of the city. It's like it seems like
- 41:49Speaker 2: a large city, but I don't know if is that
- 41:51Speaker 2: a large city in the US.
- 41:53Speaker 1: Well, compared to San Francisco, it's definitely not.
- 41:56Speaker 2: A I guess, yeah, Like in I don't even know
- 42:00Speaker 2: we don't have a ship ton of large cities in Canada.
- 42:03Speaker 2: I feel like, well, we.
- 42:04Speaker 1: Do have a couple, like we got Toronto, Toronto, well like.
- 42:08Speaker 2: Vancouver and saftly, I feel like each province has like
- 42:11Speaker 2: a large city.
- 42:12Speaker 1: Yeah Calgary, Calgary, gosh.
- 42:17Speaker 2: What are you doing over there? And people could only
- 42:19Speaker 2: see how you were trying to pronounce these words?
- 42:21Speaker 1: Just too much Calgary, I know, I know. But anyway,
- 42:25Speaker 1: but like for us though, like you drive hours to
- 42:29Speaker 1: try and reach a large city, the closest one for
- 42:31Speaker 1: us is Vancouver, and that's over eight hundred klometers away,
- 42:34Speaker 1: and we are in the province as far as Northern
- 42:38Speaker 1: British Columbia, we are the largest city in Northern BC
- 42:41Speaker 1: and Prince George of the eighty thousand people, I.
- 42:44Speaker 2: Think it's about that. So yeah, yeah, so I don't know,
- 42:48Speaker 2: it's just different. Okay. So, as I said, Marcus was
- 42:52Speaker 2: arrested and he was held in the Freshnel count Each
- 42:57Speaker 2: jail on a nine million dollar bail, which I'm like,
- 43:00Speaker 2: that's working a lot. He's not gonna have any friends
- 43:03Speaker 2: that can do that things.
- 43:04Speaker 1: I really hope not.
- 43:06Speaker 2: He was charged with nine murders and fourteen counts of rape.
- 43:11Speaker 2: When he appeared at his trial a year later, he
- 43:14Speaker 2: looked like a different person, though he had his dreadlocks,
- 43:18Speaker 2: which were described at the time of his arrest. Arrest
- 43:21Speaker 2: as looking like one greasy long dreadlock were so they
- 43:26Speaker 2: were cut short, and he was nearly half the size.
- 43:29Speaker 1: Oh wow.
- 43:30Speaker 2: Yeah, So I don't know. You could say jail wasn't
- 43:32Speaker 2: agreeing with him, but maybe it was agreeing with him,
- 43:37Speaker 2: even with the many Even with this, many potential jurors
- 43:41Speaker 2: were excused from the trial after claiming to be terrified
- 43:44Speaker 2: to be in the same room as Marcus. So even
- 43:46Speaker 2: after like kind of cleaned up his appearance slightly, I
- 43:49Speaker 2: guess the dude was just like a scary mofo. Wow, Like,
- 43:53Speaker 2: I don't know, he's scary.
- 43:56Speaker 1: I mean, I don't mind the fact that some people
- 43:58Speaker 1: left because they were terrified with him, because that only
- 44:00Speaker 1: means the fact that we are getting jurors who are
- 44:03Speaker 1: not intimidated by this fucker. Try. Yeah, so that that
- 44:06Speaker 1: would be like a bonus.
- 44:07Speaker 2: A dream dur job. I feel like, if I'm ever
- 44:11Speaker 2: going to be an injury, I want the case to
- 44:13Speaker 2: just be fucked, just fucked, because I would end up
- 44:17Speaker 2: if you end up be in there and it's a
- 44:18Speaker 2: real boring one, like I'd fall asleep.
- 44:20Speaker 1: I want you here because Judy Marie Santiago did not
- 44:24Speaker 1: paid her parking ticket on the date of January fourth,
- 44:28Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three.
- 44:30Speaker 2: Yeah, I would just like fall asleep. So I need
- 44:33Speaker 2: it to be really interesting.
- 44:34Speaker 1: I really hope that Judy is listening and it's like, hey,
- 44:38Speaker 1: that's me.
- 44:39Speaker 2: That's me, and I did get a parking ticket. Okay,
- 44:43Speaker 2: So Marcus, Marcus, he actually pleaded not guilty to the charges.
- 44:47Speaker 2: Do you want to know why why? The defense was
- 44:52Speaker 2: that his twenty four or twenty five year old daughter, Sabrina,
- 44:57Speaker 2: had been the one to kill them all and then
- 45:00Speaker 2: she killed herself, which is stupid. Yeah I should add that.
- 45:08Speaker 2: And I hope her name is actually Sabrina, but it
- 45:11Speaker 2: seems like it is, but I, like, I don't know,
- 45:13Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure it is. She also in everyone that
- 45:17Speaker 2: was like dead, her eighteen month old son was one
- 45:20Speaker 2: of them, so she would have had to kill her
- 45:23Speaker 2: own son. The murder weapon was a zero point twenty
- 45:27Speaker 2: two caliber handgun.
- 45:30Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, now keep going. I'm going to touch on
- 45:33Speaker 1: that in a minute.
- 45:34Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I'll break here in a second was found
- 45:37Speaker 2: with her body. Her DNA was present on the gun,
- 45:40Speaker 2: but there was mixed reports whether her fingerprints were also
- 45:43Speaker 2: found on the weapon. But even if there were, you know,
- 45:48Speaker 2: damn well, it was Marcus who was one hundred percent
- 45:51Speaker 2: behind this. It was his brainwashing that led to the
- 45:54Speaker 2: incident to happen. The whole suicide pack was not something
- 45:57Speaker 2: that Sabrina would have come up with her.
- 46:02Speaker 1: Also, the fact that clearly he came out covered in blood.
- 46:05Speaker 1: He was present, Yeah, he was present, so he allowed
- 46:07Speaker 1: it to happen. He definitely tampered with a crime scene.
- 46:10Speaker 1: Even if Sabrina was the one pulling the trigger, he
- 46:12Speaker 1: would have been piling the bodies or whatever he did, right,
- 46:14Speaker 1: So he's covered in blood, so there's something there. Second
- 46:17Speaker 1: of all, it was a twenty two caliber bullet. You said,
- 46:20Speaker 1: twenty two's are really small guns. They do not make
- 46:23Speaker 1: a lot of noise, do they not? They do not.
- 46:27Speaker 1: Oh so, if you have someone firing a twenty two
- 46:29Speaker 1: caliber handgun inside a residence, okay, and you have officers
- 46:35Speaker 1: waiting over the course of an hour, I'm pretty sure
- 46:38Speaker 1: they're not standing at the front door. They very well
- 46:40Speaker 1: might be sitting in the squad car with maybe even
- 46:42Speaker 1: the radio playing to kill the time. If that's a scenario,
- 46:46Speaker 1: which is unlikely scenario, I guarantee you they would not have.
- 46:49Speaker 2: Heard that twenty Seriously, it's that quiet.
- 46:52Speaker 1: It's a very small caliber gun.
- 46:54Speaker 2: But it's enough that if one shot through the head
- 46:56Speaker 2: would kill you.
- 46:57Speaker 1: It's enough that the bullet will enter the head, but
- 47:00Speaker 1: the bullet will not exit the head. It was actually
- 47:03Speaker 1: used in mafia because the twenty two caliber will not
- 47:07Speaker 1: exit the head, so when they execute someone, the bullet
- 47:09Speaker 1: will actually bounce around inside the skull. Oh god, I'm
- 47:13Speaker 1: sure is killing someone and it does not leave a
- 47:16Speaker 1: mess for cleanup because you have no exit wound.
- 47:19Speaker 2: Okay, so how would he have gotten this blood? Okay?
- 47:22Speaker 2: So would there have been like spray when these people
- 47:24Speaker 2: were shot?
- 47:24Speaker 1: Well, like they're shot to the eye, so they're bleeding out.
- 47:27Speaker 2: The eye, so there would be some blood that way.
- 47:29Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mean going through the eye. Actually it's
- 47:32Speaker 1: going through the orbits. There's not much bone tissue it's
- 47:35Speaker 1: going through. So there very well could have been exit
- 47:37Speaker 1: wounds in this case because the bone entry wound is
- 47:40Speaker 1: what prevents the bullet from continuing through the outside, so
- 47:44Speaker 1: in this case there might be exit wounds, so it
- 47:46Speaker 1: might be why it's so messy. But still, a twenty
- 47:49Speaker 1: two caliber bullet did not make much noise.
- 47:52Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
- 47:53Speaker 1: Okay, to put it into perspective, twenty two calibers are
- 47:56Speaker 1: used for hunting things like grouse and rabbit.
- 48:00Speaker 2: Hmmm. So wow, that's very interesting. Thank you for that.
- 48:04Speaker 2: The more you know, because I didn't research if that
- 48:07Speaker 2: gun made much noise, which I guess I should have had.
- 48:10Speaker 1: Oh and if you have a neighbor sitting nearby who's
- 48:13Speaker 1: maybe sitting down reading a book.
- 48:15Speaker 2: Or even if they were just like having conversations the
- 48:17Speaker 2: police officers, they may not have heard it. Ah, so
- 48:21Speaker 2: huh eh okay with that.
- 48:26Speaker 1: Sorry.
- 48:27Speaker 2: So there were some members of the cult family. I
- 48:31Speaker 2: just hate saying that cult. I don't know. I okay,
- 48:33Speaker 2: it's a cult. We've accepted that, who initially still believed
- 48:37Speaker 2: and trusted Marcus and would like defend him in court.
- 48:41Speaker 2: They were just so brainwashed, right, Like I mean, like
- 48:44Speaker 2: just so brainwashed. The jury, which took more than two
- 48:48Speaker 2: weeks to deliberate, declined to find that Marcus fired the
- 48:53Speaker 2: fatal shots, but found him guilty anyway, finding that he
- 48:57Speaker 2: had persuaded his children to enter into a suicide pack.
- 49:03Speaker 2: So guilty on nine counts of first degree murder and
- 49:06Speaker 2: fourteen counts of raping and molesting seven of his daughters
- 49:10Speaker 2: and nieces. He was sentenced to death on June twenty seventh,
- 49:15Speaker 2: two thousand and five. Jeez it, however, is now twenty
- 49:21Speaker 2: twenty one.
- 49:21Speaker 1: Of course, of course I know where you're going, yep.
- 49:24Speaker 2: And Marcus is still alive, sitting on death row. Yeah,
- 49:30Speaker 2: just waiting, I guess, and costing us money. It might
- 49:33Speaker 2: be not aust he's American, well, but costing I guess
- 49:37Speaker 2: that would be to I'm assuming taxpayers down there, yeah,
- 49:40Speaker 2: to their money. Right.
- 49:41Speaker 1: Well, he's taken up facility rooms, he's taken up resources
- 49:45Speaker 1: such as you know, food, medical, And why does it
- 49:48Speaker 1: take so long for someone sitting on death row to
- 49:50Speaker 1: receive their sentence received the penalty?
- 49:53Speaker 2: I guess it seems like sometimes the criminals wanted But
- 49:56Speaker 2: like I couldn't find anything about him doing appeal or anything,
- 50:01Speaker 2: so like for this, I don't know.
- 50:02Speaker 1: You know, Well, because most people end up sitting on
- 50:05Speaker 1: death row, they generally end up passing away of natural
- 50:07Speaker 1: causes or that's.
- 50:09Speaker 2: Medical expenses too, right there.
- 50:13Speaker 1: I wonder why that is.
- 50:14Speaker 2: I would like to know. Actually, how can we find
- 50:16Speaker 2: that out?
- 50:16Speaker 1: We should research that. You'd think that being podcasts hosts
- 50:20Speaker 1: of true crime, we might know that.
- 50:22Speaker 2: But well, yeah, because okay, so it was two thousand
- 50:25Speaker 2: and five, so that's like sixteen years.
- 50:29Speaker 1: Wow, that's like a long time, no kidding.
- 50:33Speaker 2: Okay. So it took his children years and I mean
- 50:38Speaker 2: years of deprogramming and separation from Marcus to finally understand
- 50:43Speaker 2: the horrors they lived through. While Marcus was going through court,
- 50:48Speaker 2: a few of the boys had said that he was
- 50:51Speaker 2: such a great dad and that he would never hurt
- 50:53Speaker 2: his kids.
- 50:54Speaker 1: Unless it was with a baseball bat.
- 50:57Speaker 2: Or if you had peanut butter.
- 50:58Speaker 1: Oh. Snap.
- 51:00Speaker 2: Today they are finally able to say that their father
- 51:05Speaker 2: was psychotic, narcissistic, and deluded.
- 51:08Speaker 1: Wow that's some progress there.
- 51:11Speaker 2: Well, progress that needed to be made. So I'm glad
- 51:13Speaker 2: they're getting the help or whatever they d As disturbing
- 51:17Speaker 2: as all of this is, most of the children were
- 51:20Speaker 2: born into the family cult and not having a lot
- 51:22Speaker 2: of access to the outside world, they had no clue
- 51:26Speaker 2: that their lives could be any different.
- 51:29Speaker 1: Yeah, well, how do you know otherwise you're sheltered from
- 51:31Speaker 1: everything else. That's literally all you know.
- 51:33Speaker 2: That's their normal.
- 51:33Speaker 1: Well, the individual who's causing all this abuse in their
- 51:36Speaker 1: life is the one who taught them growing up that
- 51:38Speaker 1: it's okay and the way the world is and you
- 51:42Speaker 1: don't see anything.
- 51:42Speaker 2: Else, the nasty mofo.
- 51:43Speaker 1: He is you nasty nasty.
- 51:47Speaker 2: Two of the girls were interviewed about his lovings. Yeah,
- 51:52Speaker 2: which is s barb really at the discuss at the
- 51:56Speaker 2: age of eight, and one girl admitted that when Marcus
- 52:00Speaker 2: started she thought it was okay, with the other girl
- 52:03Speaker 2: saying when it was happening to her, she felt it
- 52:06Speaker 2: was wrong. So that's basically this story.
- 52:11Speaker 1: Oh, I feel so bad for these kids.
- 52:13Speaker 2: If you want to dive a bit deeper, which for
- 52:16Speaker 2: this one, like I actually think I will. There's a
- 52:18Speaker 2: book called Deadly Devotion. It was originally published as Where
- 52:22Speaker 2: Hope Begins. It was written by Alicia Sophias, who was
- 52:28Speaker 2: a reporter and covered the case at the time, and
- 52:30Speaker 2: she ultimately welcomed the family into her home to like
- 52:33Speaker 2: help them. So she got like some serious first hand
- 52:37Speaker 2: knowledge and wrote this book. So I meant, I mean
- 52:39Speaker 2: it's probably super interesting. It's a shame we always when
- 52:44Speaker 2: I found out about the book, I was like, oh,
- 52:45Speaker 2: should I postpone this case? But I was already like
- 52:48Speaker 2: pretty deep into it, and we always find out too late.
- 52:51Speaker 1: Well, that's kind of a one of the downsides of
- 52:54Speaker 1: us right now doing podcasting on the side is we
- 52:57Speaker 1: only have about a week or so to research each case.
- 52:59Speaker 1: We don't have time to really dive in ahead of schedule,
- 53:04Speaker 1: so we just research one case like mad for an
- 53:06Speaker 1: entire week and then post it out there. So when
- 53:09Speaker 1: we do find that there's a book, it's like, it's
- 53:10Speaker 1: almost too late. Yeah, we have like two days to
- 53:12Speaker 1: get this out, this episode out. We got to find
- 53:15Speaker 1: the book, read the book, and then work it into
- 53:18Speaker 1: our research in two days. It's just not manageable. So
- 53:22Speaker 1: with a new life coming up, we're doing our own
- 53:24Speaker 1: gigs and leaving the nine to fives and sitting in
- 53:27Speaker 1: the tiny home podcasting more often.
- 53:29Speaker 2: There you go, hint, hint, this.
- 53:31Speaker 1: Might be something that we can start diving into and
- 53:33Speaker 1: do it more of getting these books read before podcasting.
- 53:35Speaker 2: I actually used to have like reading as a hobby
- 53:38Speaker 2: when I was younger, but then I started university and
- 53:41Speaker 2: my reading of became just textbooks, and I think it
- 53:44Speaker 2: was ruined it for me. So it is only I
- 53:47Speaker 2: want to get back into. So there we go. We'll
- 53:50Speaker 2: have time.
- 53:50Speaker 1: We're going to do it, because I know there's I
- 53:52Speaker 1: can't remember the name of the individual, but the little
- 53:54Speaker 1: girl who was lost at sea for like three days.
- 53:57Speaker 1: There's a book on that one as well, and I
- 53:59Speaker 1: want to read that one.
- 54:00Speaker 2: Stay so that those would be both good books. They
- 54:03Speaker 2: would maybe THO should be our next books.
- 54:05Speaker 1: Maybe let's do it.
- 54:07Speaker 2: And this is the last podcast in the house.
- 54:10Speaker 1: Last one we're doing in this house. The rest of
- 54:13Speaker 1: your run out is going to be in the tiny home.
- 54:15Speaker 2: So until then, my friends
- 54:17Speaker 1: Make sure you guys stay wicked.