“I killed Alvin Gothea on the ranch on Feb. 2, 1928. No self-defense. Gordon Stewart Northcott will plead guilty to the above charge in Riverside County tomorrow.” Northcott’s ...

On this day, Feb. 8, in 1929, Gordon Northcott was found guilty ... checked a tip about a kidnapping at the Northcott chicken ranch in Wineville, Calif. Police found a library book checked out ...

Gordon Stewart Northcott is believed to have sexually abused, and murdered 20 boys and teens Getty Before the Zodiac Killer and the Grim Sleeper terrorized California, there was the Chicken Coop ...

NEW YORK (CBS) As a child of thirteen, Sanford Clark was sent from his home in Canada to live with his uncle, Gordon Stewart Northcott, on a chicken ranch in Wineville, California. It was there ...

When he was 15, Sanford Clark became the main witness against his uncle, Gordon Stewart Northcott, who kidnapped boys from the Southland in the 1920s then molested and killed them at a chicken ranch ...

There, he built a chicken ranch with the help of his young nephew ... Nevertheless, it was enough to convict Gordon Northcott of murder. The man was sentenced to death, while his mother received ...

Gordon Stewart Northcott, 23, was hanged in San Quentin Prison in 1930 after being convicted the year before of kidnapping, sexually abusing and killing two boys and a teenager. Though he was only ...