Mass Murder Suspect Wrote Book on His Life

A man accused of killing nine of his children wrote a book about his life -- a life prosecutors have argued included polygamy, incest and abuse of his children.

In a letter he sent to the Fresno Bee this week, Marcus Wesson talked about the book, titled “In the Night, of the Light, for the Dark,” and gave the paper permission to look into it.

Wesson said in his disjointed letter that he had sent the manuscript to Vantage Press, a New York publishing company whose editors passed it up, saying it was unintelligible.

A printed and a handwritten copy of the book were kept in the yellow school bus that had been parked outside the Wesson family home, the letter said. The bus was towed after Wesson’s arrest.