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Investigators dig for evidence at the Northcott family's chicken coop, Riverside County, 1928

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Title: Investigators dig for evidence at the Northcott family's chicken coop, Riverside County, 1928
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa September, 1928]
1928-09
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
At center, over a dozen investigators dig for evidence outside the chicken coop on the Northcott family's ranch in Riverside County. Behind them, the chicken coop enters frame at left and stretches back towards center. Gordon S. Northcott was later tried and convicted for the serial murders of young boys in the area. His mother, Sarah Louisa Northcott, was also imprisoned for assisting him.
Similar photographs of the Northcott investigation appear in a photo spread titled: "Paradoxical Situations Complicate Task of Investigators in Butcher Farm Quest: Principals and Scenes in Butcher Farm Investigation," Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 1928: A3
Handwritten text from negative sleeve: norcutt [sic] case, wineville chicken ranch NO. 129 Bx 1
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_6690
ark:/21198/zz002cwz9g
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Crime scene searches--California--Riverside County
Digging--California--Riverside County
Police--California--Riverside County
Murder--Investigation--California--Riverside County
Ranches--California--Riverside County
Serial murders--California--Riverside County
Poultry houses--California--Riverside County
Northcott, Sarah Louisa Cawthorpe, 1870-1944
Northcott, Gordon Stewart, 1906?-1930
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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