Wineville Chicken Coop Murders

series of kidnappings and murders in Los Angeles and Riverside County, California

Wikidata: Q719153
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16 images featuring Wineville Chicken Coop Murders

Digging for bodies

Herald Examiner Collection

1928

Deputy Sheriff Ben B. deCrevecoeur and Riverside Sheriff C. A. Sueeter digging beneath the garage floor at the Wineville murder farm for Northcott mu…

Digging for victims

Herald Examiner Collection

1928

Accused murderer Gordon Stewart Northcott, shackled to an officer, watches the process of digging being done by Deputy Sheriff Ben deCrevecoueur of R…

Farm near Wineville

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1928

The "murder farm" of Gordon Stewart Northcott near Wineville in Riverside County. The panorama shows in detail the exact places where dark deeds tran…

Murder chicken coops

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1928

View from the road looking east along chicken coops where the three Northcott murder victims' graves were found. Gordon Stewart Northcott's environme…

Sarah Louise Northcott

Herald Examiner Collection

1928

Mrs. Louise Northcott, mother of Gordon Stewart Northcott, accused jointly with her son of murder in connection with the probe of the "murder farm" n…

Alvadrez home

Herald Examiner Collection

1937

Arrows point to the Northcott home and a location where a car stood. Evidently in the foreground is the Alvadrez home in Mira Loma.

Mystery hole in shed

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1928

J. L. "Barney" Barnard discovers a hole of mystery inside a shed on the murder farm. It was sawed or hacked through the wooden floor and then dug int…

Nelson Winslow's hair

Herald Examiner Collection

1929

A sample of Nelson Winslow's hair, furnished to police chemist Rex Welch by parents of the missing boy.

Northcott murder farm

Herald Examiner Collection

1929

Prosecutors say Gordon Stewart Northcott carried bodies of his victims into this chicken house for burial. In the foreground is what officers say was…

Walter Collins

Herald Examiner Collection

1929

The real Walter Collins before he was kidnapped. Sanford Clark maintained he was killed on the "murder farm". The boy impostor who came backas Collin…

Wineville murder farm

Herald Examiner Collection

1929

A farmhouse near Wineville (later Mira Loma), where Gordon Stewart Northcott killed his victims.

Northcott murder farm

Herald Examiner Collection

1928

The Northcott chicken ranch, viewed from the south, showing house, garage, chicken coops and high fence, near Wineville in Riverside County.

Louise Northcott

Herald Examiner Collection

1928

Mrs. Louise Northcott, Gordon's mother, holding a pet rooster on the ranch near Wineville. Murder charges were issued at Riverside September 18, 1928…

Northcott at prison

Herald Examiner Collection

1929

Sarah Louise Northcott, left, as she arrived at San Quentin Prison in the custody of Mrs. Clem Sweeters, wife of the Riverside County Sheriff, to ser…

Northcott in court

Herald Examiner Collection

1929

Gordon Stewart Northcott, the opposing batteries of attorneys, his four guards and some of the witnesses at his trial in Riverside for the murder of …

Northcott leaving jail

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1929

Northcott signing out in the "big book" at the Los Angeles County Jail as he departed for Riverside to go on trial as the slayer of the Winslow broth…