Horror in Los Angeles: wife of man who beheaded his 12 and 13-year-old children in front of his younger brothers has been arrested

The mother of two boys found beheaded at her Lancaster home late last year has been arrested in Arizona and charged with murder.the authorities announced on Wednesday.

Natalie Brothwell, 44, was arrested at her Tucson home Tuesday, a day after prosecutors filed charges against him, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. She faces two counts of murder and felony endangering a minor.

Brothwell has been jailed in Pima County, Arizona, pending his extradition to California, according to a press release from the sheriff. His bond was set at $ 1 million.

Brothwell is the wife of Maurice Taylor Sr., 35, arrested after the murders of his 12-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter, whose bodies were discovered in the 45,000 block of Century Circle in Lancaster on the morning of December 4, 2020.

The children’s father, Maurice Taylor Sr., 35, is believed to have fatally stabbed the two children on November 29, the Sunday after Thanksgiving. He is said to have kept the bodies of the murdered children in the house for days and He allegedly showed his two other sons, aged 8 and 9, the bodies of their siblings, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.

The youngest children were also forced to stay in their rooms for several days without food, prosecutors said.

Maurice Taylor Jewelry, a personal trainer living in Lancaster, Los Angeles, He was accused of beheading two of his sons and forcing two others to watch him murder his older brothersconfirmed the district attorney’s office.

The authorities accuse him two counts of murder against Maurice Taylor Jr., 12, and Malaka, 13. On the other hand, they are also charged two crimes for child abuse in circumstances that could cause serious injury or death to your two other children.

Maurice Taylor Jr. worked at a physiotherapy center in Santa Monica, they reported CBS Los Angeles and Los Angeles Times. In addition, they noted that the coach is generally described as a “personable” and “trustworthy” person.

Additionally, police said that to their knowledge, the Los Angeles County Department of Child and Family Services had not been involved with the family. However, one person who does not consider Maurice to be “nice” is Debra Brothwell, the children’s maternal grandmother.

Debra Brothwell was living the worst fear of all grandmothers: her daughter, son-in-law and four grandchildren left the state. Before the move, Debra saw her grandchildren almost every day. After moving to California years ago, the distance has grown.

Over the years, Debra has seen and heard less and less from her family, she said they were “taken away by a controlling son-in-law”. Then, in November, Debra got an unimaginable call.

At around 8 a.m. on Friday, December 4, Los Angeles County firefighters came to the house to reports of a possible gas leak. It was once inside the building that one of the firefighters found the bodies.

“It was pretty brutal” Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris himself told the outlet when he confirmed the two children had been beheaded. Further, the sheriff’s department added that in both bodies had been identified “with lacerations and wounds caused by a knife”.

both parents were arrested and taken for questioning without resistance. The mother of the minors was released after testifying before the authorities.

On the suspected gas leak, The fire department noted that it was Taylor’s customers who called to report it, as the coach had not answered calls for a long time and they were trying to contact him.

“We are concerned about a possible gas leak. There are four children and two adults, and we are concerned for their safety, ”said Howard Kern, a client of the inmate for seven years. Los Angeles Times.

According to The temperature, other customers described Taylor as a kind, hardworking and hardworking person. Because of this, they announced that they feared the man and his family could be poisoned with carbon monoxide from the possible leak.

The owner of the house where the family lived pointed out that for years he had started noticing strange behavior from his tenants. “Other neighbors spend time outside or say hello from time to time. This family was strangely silent“, noted.

Mayor Parris said that information about the fact is always sought, but much of the evidence indicates that due to the pandemic, the economy, the closure of schools and public places, the environment within the family had become stressful.

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