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The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders

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Good god, is this a tough one. Monsters live among us. Gordon Stewart Northcott was wired for evil from the start. Born in Canada and moved to Los Angeles in the 1920’s, Northcott built a chicken farm with his father and lived there on his own with his nephew, Sanford Clark. Northcott, an absolute fucking monster and pure evil, subjected Clark to routine beatings and sexual abuse and from the time that they moved in, to the point when Clark was finally rescued by the cops, Northcott, aided by his mother and Clark, kidnapped, beat, molested, and murdered four boys (though, the speculated body count is as many as 20). Their dismembered bodies were buried on the farm, then exhumed and moved out to the desert where portions of the bodies were presumed to have been burned. These murders came to be known as The Wineville Chicken Coop Murders.

But things only get weirder and it’s hard to tell what’s truth and what’s a mother pulling out all the stops to protect her son, a monster and a hunter of humans who subjected kidnapped children to fates worse than their worst nightmares. Northcott’s mother sprang into action, claiming that he was innocent and that she was the one who committed the murders. For her trouble, she took the fall for only one of the murders and ended up in prison for life. During her confession and testimony she claimed that Gordon was a result of incest and after birth, he was sexually abused by the entire family, which may have been true.

In the end, Gordon stood convicted of three murders and was sent to San Quentin where he awaited his execution by hanging, a fate too good for this creature.

Episode: 36

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