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The Wineville Chicken Coop Murders—also known as the Wineville Chicken Murders—was a series of abductions and murders of young boys that occurred in in the city of Los Angeles and in Riverside County, California, between 1926 and 1928. The case received national attention.〔 == Murders == In 1926, Gordon Stewart Northcott, a 19-year-old Canadian-American chicken ranch owner, took his 13-year-old nephew Sanford Clark (with the permission of the boy's parents) from the boy's home in Canada. After taking him to Wineville, California (known today as Mira Loma), Northcott beat and sexually abused him. In August 1928, Sanford's older sister, 19-year-old Jessie Clark, visited Sanford, now aged 15, in Wineville. She was concerned about his welfare. At that time, Sanford told her that he feared for his life. One night while Northcott was asleep, Jessie learned from Sanford of the horrors and murders that had taken place at Northcott's chicken ranch. Jessie returned to Canada about one week after that. Once in Canada, Jessie informed the American consul there about the horrors in Wineville. The American consul then wrote a letter to the Los Angeles Police Department, detailing Jessie Clark's sworn complaint. Because there was initially some concern over an immigration issue, the Los Angeles Police Department contacted the United States Immigration Service to determine facts relative to Jessie's complaint. On August 31, 1928, two United States Immigration Service inspectors, Judson F. Shaw and Scallorn, visited Northcott's chicken ranch in Wineville. They found 15-year-old Sanford Clark at the ranch and took him into custody. Northcott had seen the agents driving up the long road to his ranch. Before fleeing into the treeline, he told Clark to stall the agents, or else he would shoot him from the treeline with a rifle. During the next two hours while Clark stalled, Northcott kept on running. Finally, when Clark felt that the agents could protect him, he told them that Northcott had fled into the trees which lined the edge of his chicken ranch property.〔Paul, James Jeffrey, "Nothing is Strange With You", p.88〕 Northcott and his mother, Sarah Louise, fled to Canada but were arrested near Vernon, British Columbia on September 19, 1928. Sanford Clark testified at the sentencing of Sarah Louise Northcott that his uncle, Gordon Northcott, had kidnapped, molested, beaten, and killed three young boys with the help of Northcott's mother (Sarah Louise Northcott) and of Clark himself. Clark stated that, in addition to these three young boys, Northcott had also murdered a teenage Mexican boy without the help of his mother or himself. Northcott had forced Clark to help dispose of the head of the Mexican boy by burning it in a firepit and then crushing the skull. Northcott stated that he "left the headless body by the side of the road near Puente (La Puente, California), because he had no other place to put it."〔Paul, James Jeffrey, ''Nothing is Strange With You'', p. 43〕 Sanford Clark said that quicklime was used to dispose of the remains and that the bodies (of Lewis and Nelson Winslow and of Walter Collins) were buried on the Wineville chicken ranch. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wineville Chicken Coop Murders」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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