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Personal trainer Maurice Jewel Taylor, 39, and Natalie Sumiko Brothwell, 48, of Lancaster were convicted on two counts of murder with special circumstances and child abuse after killing and decapitating their 13-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son in November 2020.

They could face life in prison without the possibility of parole and a consecutive sentence of six years and four months in state prison.

A Lancaster couple who stabbed and decapitated their son and daughter before showing the remains to their two surviving children were convicted of murder Wednesday in the Antelope Valley Courthouse.

A Superior Court jury found personal trainer Maurice Jewel Taylor, 39, and Natalie S

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