📍(1928–1930, California) The Wineville Chicken Coop Murders

📍(1928–1930, California) The Wineville Chicken Coop Murders

Taken directly from contemporary reporting, The Los Angeles Times documented that Northcott initially claimed to have killed nine boys. In a subsequent written confession, he narrowed that to a single victim—unnamed but described as “Alvin Gothea,” believed to be the Mexican youth—hence allowing investigators to connect his crimes to the remains found at the Wineville chicken ranch.
Source:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-oct-31-me-then31-story.html?utm_

Between 1926 and 1928, a quiet chicken ranch in Wineville, California, became the center of one of the most disturbing murder cases in American history. Beneath the coops, authorities unearthed quicklime pits, bone fragments, and the belongings of missing children.

The man accused, Gordon Stewart Northcott, smiled for photographs as the charges mounted. His teenage nephew, Sanford Clark, revealed in court how he was forced to lure victims and help conceal their remains. Northcott’s mother confessed to a murder the state could never prove. And one boy — Walter Collins — was never found.

The case was so infamous that in 1930, Wineville erased itself from the map, changing its name to Mira Loma in an attempt to bury the memory.

This is not folklore. This is drawn from court transcripts, police reports, and contemporary newspaper accounts — including the People v. Gordon Stewart Northcott trial records preserved in the Riverside County archives.
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While rooted in historical themes, certain elements of this story have been fictionalized to enhance narrative flow and psychological depth.

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