Gordon Northcott showing crime scene to Undersherrif Rayburn and Deputy Brown, Riverside County, 1929

Title: Gordon Northcott showing crime scene to Undersherrif Rayburn and Deputy Brown, Riverside County, 1929
Date Created: [circa 1929]
Date: 1929
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description: Gordon Northcott (middle) smiling with hand clasped with Undersherrif Rayburn (left) and Deputy Brown (right) holding onto him. They appear to be standing in front of a fence at the Northcott Residence.
Northcott was later tried and convicted for the serial murders of young boys in the riverside county area. His mother, Sarah Louisa Northcott, was also imprisoned for assisting him.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Northcott, Gordon murder case nitrates [handwritten:] Box 26

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Brown, Jack
Rayburn, Carl Francis, 1892-1966
Northcott, Gordon Stewart, 1906?-1930
Location: Riverside County (Calif.)
Longitude: 33.973433
Latitude: -117.540353
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Police--California--Riverside County
Prisoners
Serial murders--California--Riverside County

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_6683
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cwz2v
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