Wineville Chicken Coop Murders

Im sure many of you have seen the movie the Changeling and know that it is based on a true story. The reason I am so drawn to this story is because I have a young son and it breaks my heart for any child to be taken from their parents and tortured and murdered and harmed in anyway. When you are a child all you have and know is your parents they make everything better when you are afraid or sad or hurt, so to know that there are still monsters out there who prey on children and enjoy their suffering makes me so angry and sick. It just makes me keep my son closer to me and trust less people because you dont know who you can trust. Gordon Stewart Northcott is as sick as they come. Born in 1906 and raised in British Columbia. He moved to Los Angeles with his parents in 1924, in later years Gordon made a claim that his father sodomized him at age 10 , his father spent his final years in a psychiatric hospital. By the time he was 21 Northcott was living on a poultry ranch near Riverside, California, sharing a house with his mother and his 15-year-old nephew Sanford Clark, who he would beat, molest and forced to kidnap and commit murders. Northcott would use his nephew to lure young boys into his car, it is unknowen how many victims there has been , he was knowen to kidnap young boys from Pomona and East Los Angeles. He would take the boys back to his secluded ranch where he was hiding them out in the chicken coop behind his home , renting his victims to wealthy Southern California pedophiles. When he got bored of the boys, they were shot or hacked with an ax, their flesh dissolved with quick lime and their bones taken into the desert for disposal. Gordons mother was well aware that her son had sexually abused boys. Walter Collins who was 9 at the time of his abduction and murder,he was killed with a blunt end of an axe  while he was sleeping on a cot in the chicken coop. Gordon,his mother Sarah and Sanford Clark (against his own will) each delivered the fatal blows to Walter, that way none of them, Sanford, Gordon, or Sarah, could go to the police and implicate the two others without placing themselves at risk. The Winslow Brothers ,Lewis age 12 and Nelson age 10 were beleived to be killed in the same manner. A torso of a young Mexican teen was found in a sack in La Puente and was never identified.Only partial-body parts have been collected, along with blood stained clothing a finger , blood stained axe , baseball mitt and a toy ukulele beleived to have belonged to Nelson Winslow. Immigration officials came took Clark into custody on a complaint from his Canadian parents, and the boy was telling the autoritys about tales of murder and Where they would be able to find graves. The Detectives dug up blood-soaked earth and bone fragments.Northcott ran off to Canada, but he was captured there and extradited back to Riverside. Northcott was sentenced to death in San Quentin he was sent to the  gallows on October 2, 1930. On his last morning, Northcott began screaming and trembling. His hands shook ,"Will it hurt?" he asked softly.He was dragged into the gallows room, pleading with guards, "Please, don't make me walk so fast." he climbed the 13 steps to the platform. Northcott had to be hauled up a step at a time, moaning louder at each step. Seconds before the trap was sprung, Northcott screamed, "A prayer -- please, say a prayer for me."  Sarah Northcot Died of old age in prison and Sanford Clark was sentenced to five years at the Whittier State School, he was only there for 23 months then sent back to Canada ,he served in World War II and passed away 1991 at age 78. The house from the Chicken Coop Murders still stands today this is the address if you care to check it out 6330 Wineville Road, Mira Loma, CA.