Overview
- A Superior Court jury found Maurice Jewel Taylor Sr., 39, and Natalie Sumiko Brothwell, 48, guilty of two counts of first-degree murder with the special circumstance of multiple murders.
- Jurors also convicted the couple of two counts of child abuse after prosecutors said they forced their younger sons to view the victims and confined them without food for several days.
- Firefighters discovered the bodies inside the Lancaster home five days after the killings while responding to a report of a possible gas leak, authorities said.
- The district attorney’s office said the defendants face an additional consecutive term of six years and four months tied to the abuse convictions.
- Taylor has been jailed since his Dec. 4, 2020 arrest, and Brothwell was arrested in Tucson in September 2021 and returned to Los Angeles County; prosecutors declined to provide an update on the surviving siblings.