Gordon Stewart Northcott Wineville Chicken Coop Murders
Police say the pair may have been responsible for the murders of many other boys who were never found.
Gordon stewart northcott wineville chicken coop murders. On march 10 1928 walter collins disappeared. Gordon northcott was found guilty of the murders of three of the boys sentenced to death and hanged in 1930. Gordon northcott was sentenced to death and his mother to life in prison.
Gordon stewart northcott november 9 1906 october 2 1930 was a canadian serial killer child rapist and child abductor biography. 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. The wineville chicken coop murderer and the boy butcher was a canadian born american pedophilic and hebephilic serial killer serial rapist and abductor who perpetrated the infamous so called wineville chicken coop murders.
Wineville chicken coop murders. Image via murderpedia dectectives dig for bodies on the northcott ranch. Canadian police arrested gordon stewart northcott and his mother on september 19 1928.
In 1926 gordon stewart northcott a 19 year old canadian chicken ranch owner took his 13 year old nephew. It is believed that he had the help of his mother and his canadian nephew to commit these crimes. Gordon stewart northcott a chicken farmer turned serial killer lived and worked in the small town of wineville ca.
Wineville chicken coop murders murders. Gordon stewart northcott was born in bladworth saskatchewan canada and raised in british columbia. Death by hanging gordon northcott life imprisonment sarah louise northcott the wineville chicken coop murders also known as the wineville chicken murders were a series of abductions and murders of young boys that occurred in the city of los angeles and in riverside county california between 1926 and 1928.
Because christine collins never recovered the body of her son she never completely accepted that he was dead. A man named gordon stewart northcott kidnapped sexually abused and murdered at least three and possibly as many as twenty young boys. From 1926 to 1928 he abducted assaulted and murdered young boys with the help of his mother sarah louise northcott and his nephew sanford clark.
Gordon stewart northcott aka. 1928 northcott farm site. Northcott was hanged in 1930 at the age of 23.