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

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Line of automobiles on Gordon Stewart Northcott's chicken coop ranch in Riverside, California, where an investigation was in place in search of evidence and/or bodily remains of his murder victims. 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, and 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.
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[between 1928-1930]
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still image
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Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Automobiles in the Mojave Desert during a search for murder victim remains during the Gordon Stewart Northcott case, Riverside County, 1928-1929