The police said Saturday that a Fresno man, Marcus D. Wesson, would be charged with murdering nine of his children, a crime so gruesome and distressing that police officers wept at the sight of the bodies.
On Friday, the police found six female and three male bodies in Mr. Wesson's home in a middle-class neighborhood. Three of the children were 1 year old and four others were younger than 9. The other two were a 17-year-old girl and a 24-year-old woman, the police said.
Chief Jerry Dyer of the Fresno police said investigators had an idea of how the nine were killed, but he refused to disclose their theory. The bodies were found in one small bedroom, some of them in a pile.
"This is the worst mass murder we've ever had," Chief Dyer said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/14/national/14FRES.html
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