A 35-year-old Newport Beach man was sentenced Friday to three consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole for the murders of his parents and their longtime housekeeper in 2019, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office.
Camden Burton Nicholson was convicted in October on three counts of special-circumstances murder. He had pled not guilty due to insanity, but jurors determined he was legally sane at the time of the killings, authorities said. Orange County Superior Court Judge Michael Cassidy issued the sentence on Friday, March 20, and dismissed a motion for a new trial. Nicholson received credit for 2,593 days previously served.
According to authorities, Richard and Kim Nicholson became more concerned about their son in the weeks leading up to the murders. They told a private detective they hired to find him that he had been a typical, happy child until he returned from a nine-month Mormon mission at the age of 19, terribly depressed and acting strangely. By late 2018, he was on narcotics and steroids, and his conduct had grown erratic…