A California man has been convicted of killing his parents and the family’s housekeeper

A 34-year-old California man has been convicted of murdering his parents and the family’s maid in a violent attack. Newport Beach House.

On Wednesday, a jury found Camden Burton Nicholson guilty of three counts of first-degree murder and multiple counts of murder in the deaths of his parents, Richard Nicholson, 64, and Kim Nicholson, 61, and the family’s housekeeper, Maria Morse, 57, of Anaheim, who had worked for the family for years.

According to prosecutors, the murders took place over two days in February 2019 at Nicholson’s home in their gated community. Prosecutors detailed the sequence during their opening statements.

Senior Deputy District Attorney Dave Porter told jurors that surveillance video showed Richard Nicholson returning home around 12:45 p.m. on the day of his death. According to the Orange County Register. Inside the garage, Camden Nicholson confronts his father after his parents urge him to seek treatment for mental health and addiction issues.

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A California man has been found guilty after murdering his parents and the family’s housekeeper in their Newport Beach home. (Getty Images/Orange County District Attorney’s Office)

Porter said Nicholson, who was described as “totally dependent on his parents,” stabbed his father “over and over again.” He then took his father’s body into a small bathroom and covered the door with a towel to collect the blood.

When his mother returned home a short time later, Nicholson struck her with a metal statue and She was stabbed several times, Beat her in the garage.

“There was so much blood, the defendant tried to soak it up with a flour bag,” Porter told the judge. Investigators also found clumps of Kim Nicholson’s hair, which left her fighting for her life.

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Yachts and other boats are visible in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach, California, April 27, 2024. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

The next morning, when Morse came to work, Nicholson stabbed her repeatedly and slashed her throat before placing her body in a large plastic container in the kitchen, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said.

Prosecutors said Nicholson took his parents’ car and, after the murder, bought hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise and sex toys at a Santa Ana marijuana dispensary.

The next night, February 13, 2019, around 8:30 p.m., Nicholson drove to the Kaiser Permanente site in Irvine, where he called 911 and claimed he killed his parents in self-defense because he believed they were trying to kill him.

When Newport Beach police officers arrived at the home to conduct a welfare check, they found the home covered in blood and all three victims suffering from multiple stab wounds.

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Corona del Mar, an affluent coastal neighborhood of Newport Beach in Orange County, California. (Halbergman/Getty Images)

Nicholson’s defense attorneys argued that he had been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder and should not be found guilty. Cause of madness.

Defense attorney Richard Cheung said Nicholson’s struggles with mental health began around 2012, when he was hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital and placed on antipsychotic medication during a mission to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Florida, the Register reported.

Nicholson was living independently in Colorado in 2017, where he started hormone therapy, stopped taking his medication and regained vision and voice, the defense said.

Between December 2018 and early February 2019, Nicholson was admitted to mental health facilities, after which his lawyers argued that he was delusional and that his family had driven him to the point of murder.

The sanity phase of Nicholson’s trial began Thursday to determine whether he was legally insane at the time of the murder. The verdict will determine whether he spends life in prison without parole or is committed to a state mental hospital.

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Fox News Digital reached out to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office and Nicholson’s legal team for comment.

Stephanie Price covers missing persons, homicide and immigration crimes. Send story tips to stepheny.price@fox.com.