Hollywood producer's son charged with the 'gruesome' murder of wife and in-laws after hiring day laborers to dispose of bags full of body parts

• Samuel Haskell, the son of a Hollywood producer of the same name, has been charged with murder.
• He was arrested after workers he hired reported trash bags they were moving were full of body parts.

Samuel Haskell, the 35-year-old son of a Hollywood producer of the same name, has been charged with the "gruesome" murders of his wife, Mei Haskell, and her parents, Gaoshan Li and Yanxiang Wang, prosecutors announced Monday.

Haskell was arrested November 8 after a group of day laborers he'd hired to help dispose of trash reported that the bags they were tasked with moving were full of body parts, Insider previously reported.

"I started seeing body parts, a belly button," one worker told NBC Los Angeles. "I was astonished. Of course, I felt bad. We had been tricked."

The same day the laborers reported the dismembered body parts, "Haskell was allegedly observed and photographed a short distance from his home disposing a large trash bag into a dumpster in the 16000 block of Ventura Boulevard," according to a statement from the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office. "On November 8, an individual who was looking through the same dumpster found a torso in a trash bag and called 911."

Representatives for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider.

Haskell, whose father is an Emmy-winning producer behind hits like "Fresh Prince of Bel Air" and "Everybody Loves Raymond," has been charged with three counts of murder. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of life without the possibility of parole.