"During opening statements on Monday in a Santa Ana courtroom, Senior Deputy District Attorney David Porter told an Orange County Superior Court jury that Nicholson, then 27, used a variety of knives and other blunt instruments to bludgeon and stab his mother and father to death, to do the same to Morse the next day. A day later he turned himself in, the prosecutor said, and claimed he carried out the killings in self-defense."
"His mental-health issues surfaced seven years earlier when Nicholson was taking part in missionary service as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, his attorney said, prompting him to leave the mission. Nicholson ultimately dropped out of college and moved back in with his parents, the defense attorney added, and at one point stopped taking his medication, believing it was poisoning him."
Camden Nicholson, now 34, is accused of killing his parents, Kim and Richard Nicholson, and longtime housekeeper Maria Morse at their Newport Beach home in the Bonita Canyon community. The bodies were discovered on Feb. 14, 2019. Prosecutors allege Nicholson used knives and other blunt instruments across a series of slayings over two days and that he turned himself in the following day, claiming self-defense. Nicholson has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Defense counsel described a long history of depression, paranoia and psychosis, prior hospitalizations, periods off medication, and a recent mental-health hold shortly before the killings.
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