Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Gordon Stewart Northcott walking with man, likely on his chicken coop ranch, Riverside, California. Northcott was accused of kidnapping, molesting, torturing, and brutally murdering three young boys and aiding in the murder of another in 1928, which his mother admitted to. She received a life sentence in jail. Northcott was found guilty on all accounts and was executed by hanging on October 2, 1930 at the age of 23. Text from negative sleeve: Eastman, George. Gordon Scoot ['Stewart' is written in below with an arrow to Scoot] Northcott murder case, 1928. nitrates.
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image
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b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_2063 ark:/21198/zz002dd030
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Subject
Serial murderers--California--Riverside Criminal investigations--California--Riverside Northcott, Gordon Stewart, 1906?-1930
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