Men search for murder victim remains in the Mojave Desert during the Gordon Stewart Northcott case, Riverside, 1928-1929

Title: Men search for murder victim remains in the Mojave Desert during the Gordon Stewart Northcott case, Riverside, 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: Men gather outside of automobile in the Mojave Desert looking for evidence and/or bodily remains of the children murdered by Gordon Stewart Northcott on his chicken coop farm in Riverside, California. They are looking into what appears to be an oil barrel.
Possibly related to the article, "Northcott Map Basis For Hunt. Authorities to Comb Ranch for Boys' Bodies. Preliminary Study Fails to Reveal Any Graves. Riverside Officials Skeptical About "Confessions."" Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 1930: A1.
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: Criminal investigations--California--Riverside
Crime scene searches--California--Riverside County

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_2061
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dd01z
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