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 ...

As many as 20 boys may have died there at the hands of sadistic sex maniac Gordon Stewart Northcott, 21. Newspapers dubbed him the “ape man” because of the thick black hair all over his body.

But the accused kidnapper, Gordon Stewart Northcott, and Northcott’s mother, Sarah Louise, had fled. Stanford Clark told authorities that Northcott had kidnapped little boys and, after molesting ...

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 ...

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 ...