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Description:: 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.
Date:: [between 1928-1930]
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:: Men walk around in the Mojave Desert looking for bodily remains of the children murdered by Gordon Stewart Northcott on his chicken coop farm in Riverside, California.
Date:: [between 1928-1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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:: <a href="http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=2827154">UCLA Catalog Record</a>
Date:: c1933
Resource Type:: cartographic
Collection:: Henry J. Bruman Map 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:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Similar photographs of the Northcott investigation appear in a photo spread titled: "Paradoxical Situations Complicate Task of Investigators in Butcher Farm Quest: Principals and Scenes in Butcher Farm Investigation," Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 1928: A3
Date:: [circa September, 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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