Gordon Northcott Murders
Gordon northcott was sentenced to death and his mother to life in prison.
Gordon northcott murders. Northcotts first known murder victim was an unnamed mexican boy who he shot to death. Murders arrest and execution. The case received national attention and events related to it exposed corruption in the los angeles police department.
Police say the pair may have been responsible for the murders of many other boys who were never found. 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. Northcott was hanged in 1930 at the age of 23.
Northcott was born in bladworth saskatchewan canada and raised in british columbia. Using his unwilling. Because christine collins never recovered the body of her son she never completely accepted that he was dead.
It is believed that he had the help of his mother and his canadian nephew to commit these crimes. The wineville chicken coop murders also known as the wineville chicken murders was a series of kidnappings and murders of young boys occurring in los angeles and riverside county california in 1928. When he was eighteen.