A 34-year-old Newport Beach man has been convicted in the gruesome murder of his parents and their housekeeper more than six years ago, officials with the Orange County District Attorney’s Office announced.

In the weeks before their deaths, Richard and Kim Nicholson grew concerned that their then 27-year-old son was behaving erratically, using illegal drugs, steroids, watching a lot of pornography and contacting escort services.

The couple told a private detective they hired to find their son that he’d been a normal, happy child until he spent nine months on a Mormon mission at the age 19 and returned severely depressed and began acting strange.

In Dec. 2018, following a heated confrontation with his parents about checking into a mental health and addiction treatment facility, Camden Bu

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