Subject: Serial murderers--California--Riverside / Genre: Portrait photographs / Names: Northcott, Gordon Stewart, 1906?-1930 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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Description:: Photograph of three images of Gordon Stewart Northcott during his trial. He 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.
Date:: [between 1928-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection