Changeling Stories — Part 4

Posted on August 7, 2011 by lmharnisch
Los Angeles Times file photo

Louisa Northcott, the mother of Gordon Northcott, isn’t portrayed in “Changeling,” but played a key role in the actual case. Above, she’s booked in jail.

Los Angeles Times file photo

Louisa Northcott with one of her attorneys (she was represented by Norbert Savay, A.H. De Tremaudan and J. McKinley Cameron).

Los Angeles Times file photo

Deputy P.H. Peterson and his wife escort Louisa Northcott to San Quentin for her role in the killings.
Los Angeles Times file photo
Louisa Northcott, December 1928. She was paroled in 1940.

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3 Responses to Changeling Stories — Part 4

  1. eve says:
    August 7, 2011 at 7:46 am

    You know, those “adorable” 1920s flapper hairstyles, hats and fashions were not flattering to ANYONE who wasn’t Clara Bow or Louise Brooks.

    Just sayin’. Glad I wasn’t around then.

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  2. Mary Mallory says:
    August 7, 2011 at 8:16 am

    When you see stories like this, you realize that there were lunatics and demons even back then, nothing has really changed.

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  3. Ronald Emmis says:
    August 8, 2011 at 12:52 pm

    Mary Mallory is right – this kind of stuff has always gone on, and if you look it was reported in all of the media sources that existed at the time. I had an idea for a book, composed just of old news stories about crimes like this, from original sources, to be titled “Nothing Has Changed.”

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