Gordon Stewart Northcott Sanford Clark
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 father and his nephew sanford clark.
Gordon stewart northcott sanford clark. He also said northcott had forced him to watch the beating and murders of walter collins nelson and lewis winslow and other boys. Northcott asked his father to purchase a plot of land in wineville california. Author anthony flacco is writing a book about clark who served time at whittier state school for boys then later fought in world war ii worked for the canadian postal service and raised two sons.
On march 10 1928 walter collins disappeared. A man named gordon stewart northcott kidnapped sexually abused and murdered at least three and possibly as many as twenty young boys. Clarke was soon subjected to severe sexual abuse inflicted on him by both his uncle and his great aunt sarah louise.
After arriving at his wineville california farm located in present day jurupa valley northcott beat and sexually abused him. Gordon stewart northcott was born in bladworth saskatchewan canada and raised in british columbia. He moved to los angeles california with his parents in 1924.
Not much is popularly known about the young gordon northcott but it was said that he had three inch long hair all over his body thus earning him the nickname the ape manboy in the press years later. On this land gordon built a chicken ranch and a house with the help of his father who was in the construction business and his nephew sanford. Sometimes he even made him participate in these acts.
Unbeknownst to his family northcott desired far more than cheap labor. From 1926 to 1928 gordon stewart northcott committed at least 20 murders on a chicken ranch outside of los angeles. His nephew sanford clark was held captive there from the age of 13 to 15 and was the sole surviving victim of the killing spree.
Gordon northcott the ape man of wineville ranch. In 1926 13 year old sanford clark was taken from canada to wineville california by his 21 year old uncle northcott to work on the mans chicken farm. On september 15 1928 sanford told investigators that his uncle kidnapped him and had beat him.
Sanford clark 15 testified against his uncle gordon stewart northcott who kidnapped boys then raped and murdered them at a chicken ranch in wineville in the 20s. It is believed that he had the help of his mother and his canadian nephew to commit these crimes.