The Daily Mail
A lawyer who was the legal advisor in Charles Manson’s murder trial shot dead his wife before turning the gun on himself.
Police in Long Beach, California, are probing the deaths of Lawrence Eric Taylor, 81, and Judy Strother Taylor, 75, as a murder-suicide.
Authorities responded to a welfare check at their $3.5million home in Naples on Wednesday, after the couple stopped answering their phone and front door.
Taylor set up his own legal firm after serving as the trial judge’s legal advisor in Manson’s trial and was Supreme Court counsel in the Onion Field murder case.
His wife worked under President Richard Nixon at the now-closed White House Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention.
Long Beach Police Department found the couple dead in their home, with Judy suffering from ‘gunshot wounds to the head’ according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office
Taylor also suffered a ‘gunshot wound’ to the head, with cops recovering a firearm at the scene.
The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled Taylors’ death as a suicide and Judy’s as a murder.
Cops confirmed that the Medical Examiner will conduct an independent investigation.
The couple were both pronounced dead at the scene, and the motive for the shooting is currently unclear.
Judy worked as a youth mentor and within the juvenile justice system for more than 20 years,
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