California son Camden Nicholson was found guilty of the brutal 2019 murder of his parents and a housekeeper inside a $6 million home after being released from a psychiatric ward.

California man He killed his parents and their housekeeper inside their $6 million home during a multi-day rampage that culminated in him spending hundreds of dollars on sex toys and drugs — all because they gave him an ultimatum to check into a mental health and addiction facility.

Camden Burton Nicholson, 34, was found guilty of three counts of first-degree murder in the 2019 slayings of Richard and Kim Nicholson and their housekeeper, Maria Morse, inside the gated community of Newport Beach, The Orange County District Attorney’s Office said.

Nicholson, 34, grew up a happy, normal child until he returned home from a nine-month Mormon mission at 19, severely depressed and acting strangely.

Nicholson’s parents became concerned for their son, accusing him of behaving erratically, using illicit drugs, steroids, watching too much pornography and contacting escort services. According to KTLA.

“In that short period of time, he went from being a Boy Scout to using marijuana, steroids, escorts — everything,” Nicholson’s brother, Kavin Nicholson, testified in court, the court said. Los Angeles Times.

Defending his relatives, Cavin Nicholson said his mother was verbally abusive, was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, and said things “no mentally ill person should hear,” potentially triggering his brother’s anger.

The parents hired a private investigator to find Camden Nicholson after he lashed out at them and disappeared by stealing his mother’s car in December 2018.

“They feared he had committed suicide or was in the hospital somewhere,” the private investigator told KTLA.

Nicholson resurfaced at a Marriott hotel when he began spending lavishly using his father’s credit card. The card was later declined and Nicholson’s parents urged him to return home and seek help.

Nicholson was hospitalized on February 5, 2019, for 72-hour involuntary psychiatric detention, where he told doctors that his parents were “satanic” and would try to find me and label me crazy, according to the website. Los Angeles Times.

Doctors were afraid to discharge him from hospital, but Nicholson was released at 4:11pm on February 11 and returned home to carry out the brutal killings.

Officials said the madman first confronted his 64-year-old father at home around 7pm and stabbed him repeatedly.

“At some point, Richard had to realize that he was Camden,” the district attorney said. Atty. Dave Porter said in court. “He should have known that it was his son who killed him.”

Nicholson’s mother returned home about 8:44 p.m., when he attacked the 61-year-old woman, hitting her with a 20-pound silver statue, before stabbing her multiple times and leaving her to die on the garage floor.

Officials found that Morse, 57, arrived home the next morning for her cleaning shift, but the knife-wielding maniac attacked her, repeatedly stabbed her and cut her throat before placing her body in a large plastic box in the pantry.

“Why would you do that, unless you knew exactly what you did was wrong and didn’t want to find out?” Porter asked. “There are actions on the part of this defendant that are not consistent with a psychotic break.”

The 27-year-old got into his father’s car that night and went on a shopping spree around Santa Ana, spending hundreds at a marijuana dispensary and buying sex toys.

Using his father’s car, Nicholson drove to a medical center in Irvine and called 911, saying he killed his parents in self-defense because they were trying to kill him.

Police discovered the horrific scene in the house while conducting a welfare check on the couple, and found the three victims stabbed with blood all over the house.

On Wednesday, an Orange County jury found Nicholson guilty of the special circumstance of multiple counts of murder along with the three first-degree murder charges.

The case entered the sanity phase Thursday, where officials will determine whether Nicholson was criminally insane during the triple murders.

Porter did not deny that Nicholson may have suffered from mental illness, but he had not been diagnosed with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. The Los Angeles Times reported that he received treatment for autism spectrum disorder.

Nicholson will be sentenced to either life in prison without parole or be sent to a mental institution depending on the results of the sanity phase.