As many as 20 boys in Wineville, Calif., die at the hands of sadistic sex maniac Gordon Stewart Northcott in the late 1920s

There was once a California town that was named Wineville, in honor of its primary crop, the grape. But in 1928, something so awful happened there that it wiped the name off the map. It was a series of child killings that will forever be known as the “Wineville chicken coop murders.” As many as 20 boys may have died there at the hands of sadistic sex maniac Gordon Stewart Northcott, 21. Newspapers dubbed him the “ape man” because of the thick black hair all over his body. Crimes on Northcott’s little farm of horrors went on for about two years, and might have continued longer, had he not brought in his nephew, Sanford Clark, to care for the chickens. Clark became an unwilling accomplice in his uncle’s murders and a victim of the man’s perversions.

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