The Wineville Chicken Murders, or, as they are also known, the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders, were a series of murders of at least nine young boys that took place on a chicken ranch on the outskirts of the town now known as Mira Loma in Riverside County, California.
No entire corpses were ever found, as the bodies were allegedly dissolved in quicklime and the bones dumped in the desert. Evidence of the dastardly deeds, in the form of body parts and bloody implements of death, was, however, located in the ranch's chicken coops. The killing spree lasted from 1928 thru 1930 and ended with the arrest and, ultimately, execution on October 2nd 1930, of Gordon Stewart Northcott as well as with the arrest, trial, conviction after pleading guilty, and imprisonment for life, of his grandmother, Sarah Louise Northcott. It is interesting to note that it was Sarah Northcutt and not her grandson who pleaded guilty to murdering one of the missing boys, Walter Collins.
Northcott's and his grandmother's apprehension was due mainly to the confessions of his teenaged nephew, Sanford Clark, whom he also abused but who ultimately escaped the fate of the murdered boys. Sanford made these accusations during the course of his being investigated on a deportation charge instituted by his sister, Jessie Clark of Saskatoon, Canada, who grew alarmed about the treatment Sanford appeared to be receiving at the ranch.
No entire corpses were ever found, as the bodies were allegedly dissolved in quicklime and the bones dumped in the desert. Evidence of the dastardly deeds, in the form of body parts and bloody implements of death, was, however, located in the ranch's chicken coops. The killing spree lasted from 1928 thru 1930 and ended with the arrest and, ultimately, execution on October 2nd 1930, of Gordon Stewart Northcott as well as with the arrest, trial, conviction after pleading guilty, and imprisonment for life, of his grandmother, Sarah Louise Northcott. It is interesting to note that it was Sarah Northcutt and not her grandson who pleaded guilty to murdering one of the missing boys, Walter Collins.
Northcott's and his grandmother's apprehension was due mainly to the confessions of his teenaged nephew, Sanford Clark, whom he also abused but who ultimately escaped the fate of the murdered boys. Sanford made these accusations during the course of his being investigated on a deportation charge instituted by his sister, Jessie Clark of Saskatoon, Canada, who grew alarmed about the treatment Sanford appeared to be receiving at the ranch.
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