Resource Type: still image / Location: Riverside County (Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: At center, over a dozen investigators dig for evidence outside the chicken coop on the Northcott family's ranch in Riverside County. Behind them, the chicken coop enters frame at left and stretches back towards center. Gordon S. Northcott was later tried and convicted for the serial murders of young boys in the area. His mother, Sarah Louisa Northcott, was also imprisoned for assisting him.
Date:: [circa September, 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Gordon Northcott (middle) smiling with hand clasped with Undersherrif Rayburn (left) and Deputy Brown (right) holding onto him. They appear to be standing in front of a fence at the Northcott Residence.
Date:: [circa 1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Prado, California, a "doomed" town relocated due to construction of Prado Dam.
Date:: July 3, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
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.
Date:: [between 1928-1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Northcott was later tried and convicted for the serial murders of young boys in the riverside county area. His mother, Sarah Louisa Northcott, was also imprisoned for assisting him.
Date:: [circa 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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