Lancaster

Couple found guilty of murdering two of their children as prosecutors describe the 2020 California case, as extreme cruelty that devastated the family.

Californian couple has been convicted of murdering two of their young children in a case that prosecutors say exposed an alarming pattern of abuse and left an entire community shaken. A Los Angeles County jury found Maurice Jewel Taylor Sr. and Natalie Sumiko Brothwell guilty of killing their 13-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son at their Lancaster home in November 2020.

Prosecutors said the couple’s two youngest sons, then aged eight and nine, were forced to witness the