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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 1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Investigators including Deputy Jack Brown (second from right) standing near file cabinet.
Date:: [circa 1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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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 1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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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 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: About a dozen investigators stand in the desert near the Northcott family's chicken ranch and watch as Riverside County an unidentified man begins to dig for evidence. The man digging stands 3rd from the right and holds a shovel. He bends over as he digs into the ground. Several more investigators stand to the left of him. 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 Stewart Northcott and his mother Louisa were accused of kidnapping, abusing & murdering 4 boys on their chicken ranch in Riverside County. Louisa confessed to killing one boy; Walter Collins and was sentenced to life in prison. Gordon was tried and convicted on 3 counts for murdering Louis & Nelson Winslow & an unidentified Latino boy. He was executed by hanging on October 2, 1930.
Date:: [circa 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Gordon Stewart Northcott was accused of kidnapping, abusing & murdering 3 boys on a chicken ranch in Riverside County. His mother, Louisa Northcott, confessed to killing one boy, Walter Collins, and was sentenced to life in prison. Gordon was tried and convicted on 3 counts for murdering Louis & Nelson Winslow & an unidentified Latino boy. He was executed by hanging on October 2, 1930.
Date:: [between 1928-1920]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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:: Gordon Stewart 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

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