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During the 1920’s in California, Gordon Stewart Northcott a Canadian child rapist, child abductor and suspected serial killer, murdered four young boys though he is suspected of killing up to twenty. His killings known as the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders or the Wineville Chicken Murders, were a series of abductions and murders of young boys in Los Angles and Riverside County, California between the years of 1926 and1928. So, how did Gordon Stewart Northcott become such a sinister mind?

References:

A Chicken Coop Became a House of Horrors — and a Terrified Boy Was Forced to Do the Unthinkable

Gordon Northcott | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers

The Wineville Chicken Coop Murders - Crime Museum

The Wineville Chicken Coop Murders Were So Shocking, The Town Changed Its Name

During the 1920s, Boys Became the Prey of a Brutal Killer - Los Angeles Times

The Wineville Chicken Coop Murders: The Northcott Family Case Facts

Gordon Northcott: Astonishing Story of the Chicken Coop Killer

The road out of hell : Sanford Clark and the true story of the Wineville murders : Flacco, Anthony,Clark, Jerry, 1946- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Gordon Stewart Northcott's handwritten confession, Riverside, 1928 - UCLA Library Digital Collections

Gordon Stewart Northcott Turned a Chicken Coop into a House of Horrors

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