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A California mother and father decapitated two of their children — and then forced their younger siblings to look at their bodies — in what prosecutors have called a “monstrous act of cruelty.”
Maurice Jewel Taylor Sr., 39, and his wife, Natalie Sumiko Brothwell, 49, were found guilty of two felony counts of first-degree murder in November 2025 for the killings of their 12-year-old son, Maurice, and 13-year-old daughter, Maliaka, inside their Lancaster home on November 29, 2020.