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By Their Father's Hand

The True Story of the Wesson Family Massacre

by Monte Francis

Narrator John Glouchevitch

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Length 7 hours 43 minutes

Language English

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Neighbors were unaware of what went on behind the tightly closed doors of a house in Fresno, California—the home of an imposing, 300-pound Marcus Wesson, his wife, children, nieces, and grandchildren. But on March 12, 2004, gunshots were heard inside the Wesson home, and police officers responding to what they believed was a routine domestic disturbance were horrified by the senseless carnage they discovered when they entered.

By Their Father's Hand is a chilling true story of incest, abuse, madness, and murder, and one family's terrible and ultimately fatal ordeal at the hands of a powerful, manipulative man—a cultist who envisioned vengeful gods and vampires, and totally controlled those closest to him before their world came to a brutal and bloody halt.

True Crime Nonfiction

Monte Francis is an Emmy Award-winning journalist based in San Francisco, California. The Associated Press Television and Radio Association named him Reporter of the Year in 2013 for a region covering thirteen western states. Monte has won four Emmys; the latest in 2015 for his part in NBC Bay Area's coverage of the Napa earthquake. Monte is a graduate of the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, and has a masters of fine arts in creative writing from California State University Fresno.

John Glouchevitch began honing his craft as a voice artist at age three, when to the dismay of his parents, he began to imitate the accents of their British family friends. Over the ensuing years he trained as an actor, improviser, and writer, eventually graduating with a BA in theater and English from Middlebury College. Aside from narrating full-time in Los Angeles, you can find him crooning soulful ballads at eyesmadequiet.com.