When Redwine asked the haggard, gray-haired Sarah Louise Northcott how many husbands she’d had, she couldn’t remember. Nor could she recall the names of her five children.

There was once a California town that was named Wineville, in honor of its primary crop, the grape. But in 1928, something so awful happened there that it wiped the name off the map. It was a serie… ...

Northcott was eventually caught trying to flee to Canada alongside his dysfunctional mother, Sarah Louise, who initially confessed to the murders before retracting her statement.

Gordon Stewart Northcott is believed to have sexually abused, ... Sarah Louise, who said she would “do anything” for her son, confessed to murdering Collins, according to the Times.

In a surprise move, his mother, Sarah Louise, who said she would “do anything” for her son, confessed to murdering Collins, ...

His mother, Sarah Louise Northcott, confessed to killing Walter Collins. The brutality of the crimes created such a nightmarish image that Wineville changed its name to Mira Loma.