Investigators search for evidence on a ranch visited by Gordon Northcott, Santa Clarita, 1928

Item Overview

Title

Investigators search for evidence on a ranch visited by Gordon Northcott, Santa Clarita, 1928

Date Created

[circa September, 1928]

Date

1928-09

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

The camera looks from above towards several investigators searching for evidence in the area outside a chicken coop in Mint Valley. Chicken wire-lined pens occupy the foreground and stretch back on an upward angle towards the right. Beyond the pens, investigators scour the nearby brush. A house stands in the far distance at center. Gordon S. Northcott was later tried, convicted and executed for the serial murders of young boys in the area. His mother, Sarah Louisa Northcott, was also imprisoned for assisting him.
Similar photographs of the Northcott investigation appear in a photo spread titled: "Paradoxical Situations Complicate Task of Investigators in Butcher Farm Quest: Principals and Scenes in Butcher Farm Investigation," Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 1928: A3

Caption

Handwritten text from negative sleeve: norcutt [sic] case, wineville chicken ranch NO. 129 Bx 1

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

Northcott, Sarah Louisa Cawthorpe, 1870-1944
Northcott, Gordon Stewart, 1906?-1930

Location

Mint Canyon (Santa Clarita, Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Serial murders--California--Riverside County
Crime scene searches--California--Santa Clarita
Poultry houses--California--Santa Clarita
Serial murders--California--Los Angeles County
Police--California--Santa Clarita
Ranches--California--Santa Clarita