What the records say
- When
- Mar 1928 – 19 Sep 1928
- Kind
- Murder
- Killed
- 4
- Coordinates
- 33.97° N, 117.54° W
- Description
- series of kidnappings and murders in Los Angeles and Riverside County, California
Wineville Chicken Coop murders
Series of abductions and murders of young boys
Between 1926 and 1928, Canadian Gordon Stewart Northcott abducted and murdered three boys, and was implicated, but not convicted in the murder of a fourth boy, in Los Angeles and Riverside counties, California, United States. The remains of three of the boys were found at his farm in Wineville, with the fourth being found in La Puente. The case later became known as the Wineville Chicken Coop murders.
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