In a quiet rural stretch of Wineville, California, authorities uncovered a horrific series of crimes committed in a ramshackle chicken coop on the Northcott farm. Canadian-born Gordon Stewart Northcott had lured young boys to the property, where they were abused, tortured, and murdered with the help of his mother, Sarah Louise Northcott. The investigation began after a missing child case exposed inconsistencies and led police to the isolated ranch, where they discovered human remains and the tools of Northcott’s brutal crimes. The Winslow brothers and nine-year-old Walter Collins were among the identified victims, though investigators believe additional boys were killed. The case became infamous not only for its brutality but also for the Los Angeles Police Department’s mishandling of Walter Collins’s disappearance, a failure that later inspired the film “Changeling.” Wineville was so stained by the murders that the town eventually changed its name to Mira Loma in an attempt to distance itself from the horror.