Subject: Criminal investigations--California--Riverside - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Mrs. Northcott is held in custody being jointly accused with her son Gordon Northcott of murdering Walter Collins.
Date:: [circa 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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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:: 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

Description:: Mrs. Northcott is held in custody being jointly accused with her son Gordon Northcott of murdering Walter Collins.
Date:: circa 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Mrs. Northcott is held in custody being jointly accused with her son Gordon Northcott of murdering Walter Collins.
Date:: [circa 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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:: 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

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