Deadly Devotion

About this book

For decades the family of Marcus Wessonhis wife Elizabeth and seventeen childrenlived sequestered in a social and emotional prison enduring his tyrannical reign of physical sexual and mental abuse. Then came the terrible day when a family confrontation erupted into a harrowing standoff: with police and SWAT teams descending on a small blue house in central Fresno Marcus Wesson murdered nine of his children. Television reporter Alysia Sofios got the first tip about Wessons arrest and was witness to every twist and turn of the horrific case through to Wessons trial. Risking her job and her life to offer friendship and support to the traumatized family membersscarred by memories and guilt reviled for having the Wesson nameSofios chronicles the case that shocked the nation and gives voice to their astounding stories of survival. This is a stunning account of healing from one mans unimaginable acts and how each in time learned to break free from a deadly devotion.