Wineville chicken coop murders movie
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Introduction
I find myself sitting here amidst stacks of Briegleb family history in the form of newspaper articles and photographs, which are evoking memories of years gone by. Some good, some not so good. I will attempt to put the foregoing on this site in the days, months and years to come. The 30 or so years of my family’s and others experiences at El Mirage could undoubtedly fill volumes. But it won’t. I have my limits. To begin with, the reader will learn about some of my ancestors, most noteworthy, my Grandfather, Gustav Arminius Briegleb (GAB), my father William Gustave Briegleb (Gus) my mother Annie Briegleb, and brother Ken. The narrative will then follow my family’s journey from Van Nuys, California to the Mojave Desert where my Dad purchased from the War Assets Administration an ex army airfield known as Mirage Field Auxiliary #3. The viewer, reader of this site will notice a section of pictures that will eventually accompany the story of my experiences in homebuilt/experimental aviation in which I’m still active. My father was always inv
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Monday morning, March 16, 2009
It’s not common for a mainline denominational pastor to be a hero in an academy award winning film, but that’s what happened this year. What’s even better is that the real life character that inspired the screen actor is grandfather to two friends of mine (they are cousins).
This preacher feared no one. In the roaring twenties, when the consumption of alcohol was a violation of federal law and Al Capone ran Chicago and the Patrick J. Kennedy ran Boston, Los Angeles kept pace with the other major cities in America. Crime went unchecked. Guns and grit controlled the streets. These were the days of economic boom. Values were high. The stock market made millionaires. Unemployment was virtually non-existent. Parties were extravagant and frequent. Some consider it a period of moral and ethical anarchy.
“Fighting Bob Shuler,” pastored the largest Methodist Church in Los Angeles. His technical guys set up a broadcasting tower on the roof of the church and secured a clear channel on the radio. Shuler’s pe
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Wineville Chicken Coop murders
Series of abductions and murders of young boys
The Wineville Chicken Coop murders,[2] also known as the Wineville Chicken murders,[3] were a series of abductions and murders of young boys that occurred in the city of Los Angeles and in Riverside County, California, United States between 1926 and 1928. The murders were perpetrated by Gordon Stewart Northcott, a 19-year-old farmer who had moved to the U.S. from Canada two years earlier, as well as his mother, Sarah Louise Northcott, and his nephew, Sanford Clark.
Northcott was arrested while visiting his sister in Canada in November 1928. The case received national attention because one of the assumed victims was Walter Collins, the nine-year-old son of Christine Collins, who had gone missing in March 1928. While authorities initially considered the possibility that the total number of boys killed might have been as high as 20, this theory was eliminated as the investigation began to unfold. Northcott was found guilty of three of the murders in February 1929 and was execut
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