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

Description:: Gordon Stewart Northcott walking with man, likely on his chicken coop ranch, Riverside, California. 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.
Date:: [between 1928-1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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

Description:: Almost identical image 21198/zz0002pjxt has typed note on negative which states "I PLEADE NOT GUILTY." ..."Left to right; District Attorney Buron Fitts; front row standing: Dep. Dist. Atty. Clifford Thoms; Norbert Savay, chief defense counsel; Northcott, and A.H. DeTremaudan, defense attorney."
Date:: [between January 1, 1929-February 7, 1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Gordon Stewart Northcott standing at the front of a courtroom during his murder trials. 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.
Date:: [between January 1, 1929-February 7, 1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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