Sarah louise northcott biography
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REAL CRIMINAL
Name
Gordon Stewart Northcott
Alias
The Wineville Chicken Coop Murderer
The Boy Butcher
Birth Date
November 9, 1906
Place of Birth
Bladworth, Canada
Date of Death
October 2, 1930 (aged 23)
Place of Death
San Quentin, California
Occupation
Chicken ranch owner
Modus Operandi
Shooting (first murder)
Bludgeoning (later)
Post-mortem dismemberment
No. of Victims
3-20+ killed
4 raped
Span of crimes
1926-May 16, 1928 (confirmed)
Apprehended
September 19, 1928
Status
Deceased
(executed bygd hanging)
| “ | The Winslow boys were never on my farm. inom didn't kill them. | ” |
— Northcott | ||
Gordon Stewart Northcott, a.k.a. "The Wineville Chicken Coop Murderer" and "The Boy Butcher", was a Canadian-born American pedophilic and hebephilicserial killer, serial rapist, and abductor who perpetrated the infamous so-called Wineville Chicken Coop Murders.
Background[]
Northcott was born in
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Gordon Stewart Northcott
Canadian serial killer (1906–1930)
Gordon Stewart Northcott (November 9, 1906 – October 2, 1930) was a Canadian serial killer, child rapist, and child abductor who was convicted of the murders of three young boys in California, U.S., and confessed to the murders of nine in total. Sentenced to death, he was executed on October 2, 1930.
Biography
[edit]Gordon Stewart Northcott was born in Bladworth, Saskatchewan, and raised in British Columbia. He moved to Los Angeles with his parents in 1924.
Northcott asked his father to purchase a plot of land in Wineville, California. On this land, he built a chicken ranch and a house with the help of his father—who was in the construction business—and his nephew, Sanford Clark. It was under this pretext that Northcott brought Sanford from Bladworth to the United States.
Wineville Chicken Coop murders
[edit]Main article: Wineville Chicken Coop murders
While residing at his chicken ranch, Northcott abduct
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Wineville Chicken Coop murders
Series of abductions and murders of young boys
The Wineville Chicken Coop murders,[2] also known as the Wineville Chicken murders,[3] were a series of abductions and murders of young boys that occurred in the city of Los Angeles and in Riverside County, California, United States between 1926 and 1928. The murders were perpetrated by Gordon Stewart Northcott, a 19-year-old farmer who had moved to the U.S. from Canada two years earlier, as well as his mother, Sarah Louise Northcott, and his nephew, Sanford Clark.
Northcott was arrested while visiting his sister in Canada in November 1928. The case received national attention because one of the assumed victims was Walter Collins, the nine-year-old son of Christine Collins, who had gone missing in March 1928. While authorities initially considered the possibility that the total number of boys killed might have been as high as 20, this theory was eliminated as the investigation