Gordon Northcott Chicken Coop Murders
Gordon stewart northcott a chicken farmer turned serial killer lived and worked in the small town of wineville ca.
Gordon northcott chicken coop murders. Canada born northcott had moved to southern california in 1924 with his parents. Gordon northcott the wineville chicken coop murderer october 2nd 2018 headsman on this date in 1930 gordon stewart northcott hanged in californias san quentin prison for the wineville chicken coop murders. The wineville chicken coop murders may sound like something out of a crime novel yet the acts that caused a nationwide sensation in 1928 are true.
Two years later at age 19 northcott asked his father to purchase a plot of land in the community of wineville located in riverside county california where he built a chicken ranch and a house with the help of both his. Wineville chicken coop murders murders. Gordon stewart northcott was born in bladworth saskatchewan canada and raised in british columbiahe moved to los angeles california with his parents in 1924.
Canadian police arrested gordon stewart northcott and his mother on september 19 1928. A man named gordon stewart northcott kidnapped sexually abused and murdered at least three and possibly as many as twenty young boys.