Overview:
A young man kidnaps his own nephew and makes him his servant and sex slave. He abducts young boys, has his way with them, and, if they "know too much," kills them. He forces his nephew to participate in his crimes and to consign these little victims, sometimes still living, to their graves. His father is afraid of his own son. His son mocks and abuses him, falsely accuses him of incest and child abuse and still he supports his son. His mother loves her boy and will do anything to help him even commit murder. The Gordon Stewart Northcott case a part of which is fictionalized in the major new Clint Eastwood film CHANGELING, starring Angelina Jolie is still, eight decades later, one of the most nightmarish in American criminal annals. This book nearly two decades in the research and writing tells the whole story for the first time. Disclaimer: It should be noted that the film CHANGELING is not based upon this book, nor this book upon it. Both are entirely separate works, and one had no influence upon the other's creation.
About the Author:
Mr. James Jeffrey Paul's book entitled "Nothing is Strange with You" remains as one of Xlibris Best selling books and has captured interest from the media such as People Magazine, Talk Radio Production and Morning Edition
Book Teaser:
CHAPTER FOUR
"THE HEADLESS MEXICAN"
There was a Mexican’s head brought out there one day." Sanford said.
He could not fix the date, except that it was "[a]bout three months, two or three months" before two brothers named Winslow (ahout whom more later) were brought out to the ranch, which happened in May 1928. Early on the morning of this particular day (which was certainly 1 February 1928), Stewart told Sanford that he was going into Los Angeles, but did not say why. Around noon, Stewart drove his Buick Roadster back into the farm yard and told Sanford that he had killed a man-specially, a Mexican. As proof, he took a black tar pail out of the back of his car and showed him what was inside.
It was the blood-soaked head of a man with long black hair and dark skin.
Stewart set the pail down inside the door of the ranch house and changed his clothes. Later, they built a bonfire in the now-drained duck pond behind the garage, and Stewart “just dumped [the head] out in the fire" along with a bundle of the Mexican’s black clothes. He didn’t tell Sanford the victim’s name or any details about the killing except that he had shot the Mexican because he knew too much. He added that he had left the headless body by the side of the road near Puente because "[h]e had no place else to put it."
The head hurned all that afternoon until darkness fell, by which time "all but a chunk of it" had been consumed. The remaining piece was placed in a bucket and broken up with an ax, then was placed in sacks along with the ashes, which Stewart then (so he told Sanford} disposed of at the dump yard near Norco where he normally dumped his garbage. He returned about forty-five minutes later, then informed Sanford that they were going to visit his parents in Los Angeles.
Before and during the drive to his parents’ Brittania Street home. Stewart told his nephew what to say: that Stewart “had hired this Mexican out there on the ranch and he had caught him stealing money and shot him.” They needed to tell George and Louise this story "so if anybody come, they would know what to say."
Later in the trial, under questioning by his son. George would testify. “You came in there [to the Brittania Street house] one evening, I do not know what time it was. It was early in the evening. It was not very late."
"About how early?" Stewart asked.
"Uh, it might have been seven o'clock."
"Was it a Saturday evening-let's see. Was it a Thursday evening?”
“I do not know the date. I could not tell you what night of the week it was, but you came in there. Sanford done most of the talking. You said very little. The statement was you had hired a Mexican to come to the ranch to do some work." He added. "I do not know whether this Mexican came to the ranch of his own accord or whether you brought him there or Sanford or how he got there, but Sanford was not very well at the time and you apparently wanted someone to do the work and you hired him."
"At that time," Stewart asked, "there was a lot of chickens being hatched at the ranch, wasn’t there?"
“I believe there was, yes sir.” George told his son. "Anyway, he had not had his dinner, his meal of some kind. I believe it was his dinner. You started getting him his dinner. Sanford, I believe, was in the next room lying down, I understand, and you started getting him his dinner. While you were around getting him his dinner. he [the Mexican] spied some money of yours lying there loose-you almost always had some lying around loose-and you caught him in the act of stealing it. You accused him of it, and he made a run for you with a knife. He said he would get you. Sanford apparently heard it in the other room and he got up and came in and seen him running for you and he grabbed a gun and shot him, and then you fainted. Sanford cut his head off. You took him and buried the head, I believe, and then you took the body out to Puente and dropped it."
True to his roller coaster pattern of behavior, Stewart would at times admit to this killing, at others deny it; but whenever he admitted having done the deed, he always, or usually, stuck to his first alibi-that he had killed the Mexican in self-defense. His most elaborate-and darkly comic-account of the episode was given on the evening of 29 November 1928, while he was being taken from Canada back to the United States to stand trial. It was given to Earl Redwine, who retold the story in court under direct examination by Stewart himself. It bears quoting in full.
“The defendant stated to me." Redwine testified, “that he drove the Mexican to his ranch in his Buick automobile about 1:30 P.M. on February 1st. He stated that he cooked dinner, and asked the Mexican if he had had dinner. The Mexican said yes, he wasn't hungry. Defendant stated that he had stopped at Norco on
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