Men investigate an area of the Mojave Desert in search of the remains of murder victims of Gordon Stewart Northcott, Rivrside County, 1928-1929

Title: Men investigate an area of the Mojave Desert in search of the remains of murder victims of Gordon Stewart Northcott, Rivrside County, 1928-1929
Date Created: [between 1928-1929]
Date: 1928/1929
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Gordon Stewart Northcott was accused of kidnapping, molesting, torturing, and brutally murdering three young boys and aiding in the murder of another in 1928, which his mother admitted to. She received a life sentence in jail. Northcott was found guilty on all accounts and was executed by hanging on October 2, 1930 at the age of 23.
Men walk around in the Mojave Desert looking for bodily remains of the children murdered by Gordon Stewart Northcott on his chicken coop farm in Riverside, California.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Eastman, George. Gordon Scoot ['Stewart' is written in below with an arrow to Scoot] Northcott murder case, 1928. nitrates.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Location: Riverside County (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Crime scene searches--California--Riverside County
Criminal investigations--California--Riverside

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_2056
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dczvf
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