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Police investigate bedding while searching for evidence at a ranch visited by Gordon Northcott, Santa Clarita, circa 1928

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Title: Police investigate bedding while searching for evidence at a ranch visited by Gordon Northcott, Santa Clarita, circa 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.
Two investigators are viewed close-up as they investigate bedding while conducting a crime scene search on a ranch in Mint Canyon which was once used by Gordon S. Northcott. A cot angles into frame from the lower right corner. Some bedding lies atop it. On the opposite side of the cot, the 2 officers crouch down. Both look towards the bedding as they hold it. Gordon S. Northcott was later tried, convicted and executed for the serial murders of young boys in the area.
Possibly related to the article, "Mystery Shack, Boys' Shoes Found in 'Death Farm' Hunt: OFFICERS TAKEN TO CANYON HUT Clark Lad Leads Them Also to Filled-up Well Net Being Drawn Closer on Northcott Fugitives Other Clews Being Revealed in Grewsome Case," Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 1928: A2
Text from negative sleeve: Northcott, Gordon murder case nitrates [handwritten:] (Box 27) 3
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_6706
ark:/21198/zz002cwzvr
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Crime scene searches--California--Santa Clarita
Police--California--Santa Clarita
Serial murders--California--Los Angeles County
Serial murders--California--Riverside County
Beds
Evidence (law)
Ranches--California--Santa Clarita
Northcott, Gordon Stewart, 1906?-1930
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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