Body Farm

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As rape and torture explode into murder, this family embarks on one of the bloodiest child-killing sprees in California history. Louise decided that not only did the boy have to die, but all three of them needed to take part in it. We just didn't know there could be an evil like that existing anywhere, let alone in our backyard. It's another day of endless chores on a small chicken farm for 15-year-old Sanford Clark. The child was a wreck. He was a half-starved, shrunken-looking waif. The teen freezes as he hears the farmer's car on the gravel driveway. He called out, Sanford, Sanford, I've got something. I've got a present for you. In the barn, Sanford finds a man holding a large bucket. Sanford sort of reluctantly came up closer to this bucket. Look at it. Sanford looked inside and thought it was a dead animal Look at it What he was looking at was a human head He didn't even know how to process what he was seeing It was a waking nightmare He was ordered to burn it up in the backyard Until all the flesh was gone And pound the skull into shards Take it and burn it Sanford's thinking, if I don't comply, I could be next. Covering up a murder won't be the most gruesome thing Sanford will do to please this bloodthirsty man. The worst is yet to come. George and Louise Northcott moved to Los Angeles from Canada, seeking the American dream. The Southern California area in general was really booming at the time. Folks like the Northcuts were characterized as paradise. The couple had two children, 17-year-old Stuart and 34-year-old Winifred Clark. Winifred, by then, was already grown up and starting to have children of her own. She stayed in Canada to care for her teens, Sanford and Jesse. In Los Angeles, the Northcott family seemed to be settling in nicely. Look, there's a water spot there. Mother! But the move hadn't changed Louise's unhealthy obsession with her son, Stuart. Before Stuart was born, Louise had lost a son. He was about six years old, and she was just, she was shattered. By the time Stuart came along five years later, Louise wouldn't let him out of her sight. She put everything that she had into him, so she was beyond a doting parent. A lifetime of being treated like a king turned Stuart into a tyrant. Mother, I hate it when you do that! Stuart was unimaginably spoiled. He was just horrendous. Stop it, Stuart! Don't you yell at my son! Don't you tell me what to do! Louise's obsession bothered George, but there wasn't much he could do. George was one of those very taciturn, quiet men. He was completely ineffective. This is my precious son! She wouldn't let George discipline the boy. He was hers, and it was the two of them against the world. Fine! After a year in Los Angeles, Stewart befriends a neighbor, 10-year-old Phillip Scott. He would have Philly over all the time, and Stewart developed a really intense fascination with this boy. If Stuart's parents find the age difference strange, they don't complain. As long as Stuart was happy, it was fine. Philly is flattered by the older boy's attention and rewards Stuart with the unswerving devotion he craves. He just absolutely developed this crazy obsession with Philly Scott, sort of like his mom developed with him. After several weeks, Stuart manages to get Philly alone at his house. They would play the piano together and sing. A dark urge rises within Stuart. He tried to molest the boy, but Stuart's obsession was not returned. No! Philly, Philly, wait! Wait, no! The next day, the Scott family sends a detective to question Stuart. I'm here about Philly Scott. What? No, no, I don't know anything about it. I didn't do anything. On the surface, George and Louise are shocked by the accusation, but it seems they'd been hiding a dark secret. He was beginning to show that he was a child molester with a homosexual interest in young boys. When the family moved, it was because of his interest in young boys, and so they fled, hoping to leave that behind. But of course they were bringing the problem with them. My son would never do anything like that. Louise isn't going to let police take her son away. Her whole point in life was to protect him, right or wrong, and keep him from getting caught. Precious boy would never do anything like that. That boy is lying. You have a young boy telling you stories, and then you have an adult telling you, none of that happened, the boy's just fibbing. Who are you going to believe? Her defense works. Stewart isn't prosecuted, and the Northcots successfully brush the incident under the rug. She knew what her son was doing, and she'd deliberately look the other way. George did as well. For Stuart, the incident is an awakening. He wasn't going to stop pursuing his tastes, but he'd need an out-of-the-way place where it would be easier to cover them up. The intrepid young man comes up with the perfect plan and asks his mother for help. I want a farm. A farm? A farm. He said, I really want a farm. And he'd shown no inclination toward farming at any point in his life. But if Stuart wanted a farm, he was going to get a farm. His parents buy him an isolated chicken ranch in Wineville, California. With a wink and a nod, they were giving him a safe place to carry out the activities they couldn't stop, hoping it would all just go out there in the distance somewhere and stay invisible. Stewart quickly discovers that the chicken farm is too much work for one person. Get down! Picture a chicken ranch out in the middle of the desert, average temperature 110 degrees. hundreds of chickens, which all have to be fed, cleaned up. The eggs have to be candled and sorted and packaged. Hiring help will be expensive, so Stewart comes up with a new plan, one that might satisfy all his needs. Stewart arranges for his sister's son, 13-year-old Sanford Clark, to come from Canada to help tend the farm. Sanford was just a young boy, just ripening into puberty. And he was strong enough that he could help out with chores around the ranch. To Sanford's family in Canada, it seems like the golden opportunity for him to attend American schools and share in profit from the farm. Welcome to America He put Sanford to work helping him with the chickens to get the eggs or whatever else Just a few days after Sanford arrives at the ranch an evil itch begins gnawing at Stuart No! Child predator Stuart Northcott buys a small out-of-the-way farm in Wineville, California. What child abusers like most is the control, and that's what this chicken ranch gave him so beautifully. No one is safe from Stuart's insatiable appetite, not even family. Stuart easily overpowers his 13-year-old nephew, Sanford. No! Sanford cried out, I'm your nephew, it's me, it's Sanford, stop. After beating Sanford into submission, Stuart rapes him. He enjoyed dominating and hurting the child, almost like he got off on that. Control over Sanford was the most important part of it for Stuart, and sex was a way of controlling. After the attack, Sanford is in physical and mental agony. Sanford had an idea of what had happened to him, but, I mean, he couldn't understand, he couldn't really grasp it. He experienced shame, remorse, probably pain, fear, terror, all of those things. Don't try to run away. I'll find you and I'll kill you. The next morning, Sanford wants to leave, but there's nowhere to go. He didn't have the infrastructure to make a phone call. If he had escaped, he would have been out in the open, just on foot. Wineville was in remote scrub desert, many miles from anything. If you didn't have transportation, there was no way you could walk to anything. Come on, kid. You can dig deep for the mech. Sanford quickly finds that all of Stewart's promises of school and the American dream are lies. He's only allowed to work on the farm and serve his uncle. He was under the constant whiplash of this sadist. Stewart stood around giving him orders and getting angry with everything he did. You are worthless. Come on, work harder. He often thought he's my lackey and I'm his master. Come on, do I have to do everything around here? Geez. Stewart keeps Sanford in line with a barrage of hard labor and physical abuse. I'll do better. He beat him with whatever was at hand. Please, please stay away from me. Sanford got two different flavors of abuse. There were the beatings if Stewart just needed to dominate him. can't do anything right and then there were the seduction beatings which were the same except they ended in sex forced sex there you go my little darling wasn't that nice stewart's pet name for sanford was my little darling it was a term of control it was a way of saying, you're mine, I own you. Eventually, Stuart convinces Sanford that he's a participant, not a victim. You're a pervert. You're just like me. Because you liked it. Because you liked it. It didn't just erode his self-esteem, it destroyed it. Well, maybe Uncle Stuart's right. Maybe I am, you know, a degenerate. Maybe I am a pervert. I don't deserve anything better. It's a horrible thing to do to anyone and to a kid. It's unimaginable. Rest up. A few weeks after Sanford's arrival, Stewart's parents finally pay them a visit. Sanford, get in here! Hurry up, Sanford. My precious boy is thirsty. Louise and George came out to that ranch periodically. They had to know something was terribly wrong. He can't reach the biscuits. Get him some biscuits now. Yet there's no record that they made any protest at all. Sanford's too terrified to speak up. It's very common for children who are abused or molested to keep that a secret because of the shame around it. He knew that his grandparents, given the choice between him and Stuart, they would help Stuart and just toss him to the wolves. With no hope of rescue or escape, Sanford begins to cooperate. Thank you, darling. They call it the Stockholm Syndrome, where a victim will identify with the aggressor. If Stuart said lie, lie. Stuart told him jump, jump. There was no one there to protect him. There was no way out. Back in Canada, Sanford's mother, Winifred, and his older sister, Jessie, know nothing about his treatment. Yes, it's a letter from California. Oh, wonderful. Sanford pens the letters, but Stuart is in control of the words. Sanford was assuring them that everything was fine, that he was in school, and of course it was all crap. It doesn't sound like him. Within weeks of bringing Sanford to the farm, Stuart tires of him. I'm going out for some fresh meat. Don't wait up, darling. It shows the lack of humanity in just those few words, what children were to him, fresh meat. He would actively go out looking for young boys, what we'd call an active sexual predator today. Stuart roams rural California, looking for potential victims and finds plenty. The agricultural world was booming up there, and many of the laborers were from Mexico, and poor families were sending their children up here to work. I mean, this is a paradise for a pedophile. Do you have any more? Si. Once Stuart finds a target, he turns on the charm. It was easy enough to say, do you want to ride in my convertible? Do you want to go see the farm and see a horse? The kid would have nothing to fear until it was too late. This was the era when people had a lot more trust. Once he was in the car, they would kidnap him, take him back to the ranch. Hey! Come on! Come on! Get in there! Get in there! Sanford's helpless as Stuart drags his young victims into an empty chicken coop to have his way with them. Sanford had a classic case of survivor's guilt. Part of him, of course, is horrified. He knows what that child is about to go through. but he's a human being with a survival instinct, and a part of him is going to go, at least tonight it isn't me. When he's finished, Stuart returns his victims to the area where he grabbed them. He'd keep them for a day, sometimes he'd keep them for several days, and then he'd drop them off somewhere and just release them. The children hesitate to report the crimes, and Stuart flies under law enforcement radar. Come on! The next year and a half is a never-ending cycle of sexual torture. When Stuart isn't bringing home new victims, he continues preying upon his nephew. The poor boy was really a slave in just about every sense of the word. But nothing can prepare Sanford for the horror to come. At a roadside fruit stand, Mexican teen Julio Mendez catches Stuart's wandering eye. Fresh food for you? Oh, yeah. The boy was 15 or 16. It could be that he felt that that boy had some characteristic that he was more keen on. Stewart's captivated by the young man, his dark eyes and innocent air. Stewart may have idealized him or had this romantic notion of him. You're very strong. Hard work, sir. The 21-year-old begins flirting with Julio. He thought he could arouse him in a peer-like fashion. I have a car. Could you use a ride back home? No, I have ride. Stewart turns on the charm, but the teenager isn't so gullible. I have ride. He said, what the hell do you think you're doing? I don't want to go with you. Stewart can't stand to be rejected. As soon as you put up defiance to him, that's when you brought out the demon. Stuart runs off, but Julio hasn't won. Stuart flew into a rage if he didn't get his way. Nobody says no to me! Stuart is furious and ready to make Julio pay for his defiance. No, please, don't! The power of holding the boy life in his hands is intoxicating Please Stuart was absolutely turned on by the troll aspect of it No please Nobody says no to me No! The teenager was shot through the thorax at very close range, just a couple of feet away. This was almost certainly Stuart's first murder. It was definitely a turning point. He didn't seem at all revolted or repulsed by what he'd done. In fact, he seemed rather proud of himself. It made him feel powerful. There was nobody there who was stronger or bigger or who could stop him. Though there's no one around, Stuart fears getting caught. He comes up with a way to hide his crime. Sanford! I have a present for you. Sanford comes running when his uncle arrives home. Stuart had a big tar bucket and said, Oh, Sanford, come here, look at this. Look at it. And Sanford looked inside and thought it was a dead animal. And Sanford realized it was a human head. Look at it. Look at it! The head belongs to the boy Stuart just killed. They'll never figure out who it is now. Stuart had no way of disposing the body, so he just dumped it on a roadside. Take it, burn it. For Sanford, it was the worst possible scenario because now he knew that Stewart was capable of murder. His life wasn't worth any more than the headless guy. Less than two months after the murder, Stewart is once again on the prowl. He was accelerating, and now, like any junkie to get his fix, he needed more than one victim. As Stewart hangs around a neighborhood near his parents' house, he spots nine-year-old Walter Collins. This is, you know, kind of a sweet-natured kid, just a regular boy. He and his mom lived on their own. Stewart recognizes the child's face from a store where he worked as a teen. Walter'd gone to the market many times for his mom, and Stewart noticed him. He is immediately attracted to the innocent boy. What Stewart wanted, he wanted right then. So he just said, you know, I want Walter Collins right now, and by golly, I'm going to have him. Do you remember me? Yes, Mr. Northcott. He's entering into risky territory. I have a farm with a bunch of horsies and ponies. Stuart was starting to come a little unwrapped. He knew this kid. This wasn't a migrant worker. This was someone who was going to be missed very much. Stuart falls into his usual M.O. Do you want to go for a ride? Oh, wow, yeah. Stuart says, I have a pony ranch. Come on with me, I'll give you a ride and a pony. Can't tell your mom, though, she might not let you go. So the boy goes, oh, okay, let's go ride a pony. By the time Walter's mother begins looking for him... Walter! ...the two are long gone. Sanford! Sanford, darling! Where are the horsies? I want to see the horsies. There are no horses here. This is a chicken ranch. At that point, the boy began to realize he was in trouble. I don't understand. You will. Help! Help! Help! No one can help Walter, and Sanford's too afraid to try. He knew that he was capable of murder, and he really believed that Stewart would, in fact, kill him. In L.A., Mrs. Collins reports Walter missing, and the case makes headlines. His mother knew he wasn't able to run away, and so she was making a big stink. And it was starting to be a little embarrassing for the police. But there's nothing tying Walter to Stewart or the farm. Stewart! Out of the blue, Stewart's mother, Louise, shows up for a three-day stay. I didn't expect you. So good to see you. Oh, you look so good. Thank you, thank you. Louise would often visit the farm unannounced. What's been going on here? Of course, Stuart panics at this point. Let's go to the house, shall we? Stuart's afraid Louise will catch him red-handed with a boy who knows him and his family. He does everything he can to keep her out of the backyard because the boy's still in there. For a couple of days, Stuart manages to keep Louise away from the chicken coop, but his mother isn't blind. Louise sees him go back and forth to this chicken coop, and she starts to wonder, she knows her precious boy, and what's he up to? Louise finally slips out to see what her son is hiding. The door is locked, but she can see Walter Collins asleep inside. She knows exactly what's going on. It's obvious it's Walter Collins in pretty bad condition. He's been beaten. He's been sodomized. So she makes a decision. It'll be okay, honey. Louise rushes back inside to confront her son. What is the matter with you? She comes back in and for the first time, she struck her son in the head, knocked him to the floor. Are you crazy? This ends tonight. Louise storms off to the chicken coop. Sanford! Sanford, get in here right now! Louise breaks the lock off the shed and finds Walter fast asleep. He sees this woman, he thinks, I'm rescued. I'm safe. She strikes the first blow to Walter's head. Mother! Walter is motionless in a pool of blood. We all three have to do this. We're all guilty. Walter could have made a true identification, and then Stuart would have been sentenced to prison. Sanford knew how much his grandmother was devoted to her son. I don't think he was very surprised. It gave Stuart great pleasure to see his mother instigate this murder because spreading misery is what he was all about. He was like a human germ. It's Sanford's turn. No. No. Do it. No. Do it or you're next. No. Stewart knocked Sanford in the head with the broadside of the blade. And of course, broke the scalp and drew blood. Get up! Get up! Get up! Do it! To save himself, Sanford does what he's told. The killing is a major turning point for Sanford because he moved from being a victim to, in his mind, being a perpetrator. Stewart finally joins in the bloodbath It's okay Mommy will take care of everything She had no remorse, no guilt As long as it was going to save her precious boy, who cares? Sanford Sanford Clean this up Stewart orders Sanford to bury Walter's body By now, the brutalization process was so complete that he didn't protest what he was asked to do. Clean this up. His guilt is just absolutely off the charts at this point. Now he really believes himself to be the horrible person that Stewart was telling him he was all along. Stewart is on the hunt again. Back then, a guy could hang around and be creepy, and other adults wouldn't call them on it. Let's head home. You boys be home in a few minutes, okay? Yes, sir. Stuart has his eye on two boys. Twelve-year-old Louis Winslow and his ten-year-old brother, Nelson. Stuart's behaviors were escalating. He was so narcissistic that he would steal two boys. You boys want to go for a ride in my car? Sure. Let's go. When he invites the boys to go for a ride in his convertible, you kidding? No problem. They just get right in the car and go with him. When the Winslow brothers don't return home, their parents begin a futile search. There were no Amber Alerts, so looking for your child kind of consisted of driving around and asking your neighbors, none of which was going to work in this case. After six days of raping and beating the Winslow brothers, Stewart grows tired of them. It's almost like he related to them as toys in a toy box. Sanford Sanford get in here When he had a toy in the toy box and it wasn pleasing him anymore he would break it so he could play with the next one He ready to get rid of the brothers While Sandra was talking to the brothers, Stuart buries the axe in the other boy's head. These little boys had to die because they knew too much. You do the other one. No, I won't. I won't. Do it. I won't. Do it. I won't. Or you're next. He told Sanford, you're going to have to strike some of the blows so that you'll share in my guilt. With one swing, Sanford could kill his uncle and end everything. Will he seize the moment? Now! He was terrified. He thought he was next. Stewart had been drumming it into him that he's had his hand on that axe and so that that binds him to this whole conspiracy he wasn't a victim he was evil he was bad he was guilty Sandra didn't care what happened to him because he was already convinced he was beyond help Two months later, a surprise visitor shows up at the farm. Sanford's 19-year-old sister, Jessie. So good to see you! She'd grown extremely suspicious of the letters Sanford was sending home. She started to feel uncomfortable about them. I mean, it's his hand, but it's not him. It doesn't sound like him. I have to go and find out what's happening with my baby brother. I have to find out. How are you? How's school? Good, I'm fine. Yeah? Yes. Stuart is worried Jesse could spoil everything. He had Sanford under his thumb, but this was Sanford's beloved sister. And if anyone could get him to talk, it would be her. Yes. Stuart was afraid that his slave, his helper, would be taken away from him. Head up to the house. You're sleeping in Sanford's room. you say one word to her i will murder her in front of you please no get her bag go he feared for her safety if his uncle stewart is capable of killing all of these boys he could easily be capable of killing a younger female over the next several days sanford pretends everything is normal. Sanford doesn't want to tell her what's been happening to him. He's lazy. Can't do anything with him. But something in Jessie's gut is telling her otherwise. She could tell it was some kind of a performance. She could see her brother was concealing something but didn't know what. What happened to your lip? Go on. Tell her what happened. I fell on some tools. You'll have to be more careful, darling. Jesse seems to have been smart enough to know better than to make a scene. That night, while Stuart is sleeping, Jesse confronts her brother privately. Look at these bruises. What happened to you? Nothing. Tell me what's going on or I'm going to walk into the other room and I will wake him up. You can't. You can't. He'll kill you. Sanford's just sick with fear and worry. He's like, you can't do that. You can't do that. He'll kill you. He will kill you. He kills both. Jesse Clark knows something is wrong with her brother Sanford and confronts him about it. Look at these bruises. What happened to you? Nothing. She said, tell me what the hell is going on here. And he's trying, he's scrambling because he's trying to save her life. Sanford's plan is about to fall apart. Sanford decides the only way to save his sister is by coming clean. He beats me. He touches me. What are you talking about? There were others too, but he killed them. All he told her about the murders was that Stuart had killed a couple of little boys. We have to get you out of here tonight. No, no, no, no, I can't. Yes. I can't. Yes. One, you had Sanford-Stockholm syndrome to work against, and two, was his very legitimate fear that Stuart would have hunted them down and killed them. Promise me that you'll leave and you'll be safe. I'm going to get you out of here. Please don't say anything. Promise me, okay? Several weeks later, Jesse finally heads home. There you are. Let's go. She never confronts Stewart. The only reason she left alive was that she had obtained that information in secret. If he knew, he couldn't have let her go. When Jessie arrives back in Canada, she's afraid police won't take her seriously. So she comes up with this plan. I'm going to talk to immigration authorities. My brother, Sanford Clark, is in the United States illegally. She said he's not going to school, they'll deport him. And in those days, that was what was going to get a response, not some accusations of some unbelievable murderers going out on a chicken ranch. He needs to come home! After Jesse's departure, Stuart is a nervous wreck. Sanford! Get all this stuff packed up. We're leaving for my parents in an hour. Everybody knew the jig was up. Stuart knew, his parents knew, they right away began planning their escape. Alerted by Jesse, local authorities arrive to check on Sanford. Liar! I knew you said something! No, I didn't, I swear! Stuart told Sanford to delay them to give Stuart time to escape. Stall them. If you say a word, I'll kill you. Agents waste time searching the house while Stuart gets away. They eventually find Sanford hiding in a closet. Initially, like so many of these captives do, he doesn't cooperate and won't tell them what's going on. I don't know anything. Hurry up, Mother. Sanford doesn't know that Stuart is already picking up Louise. Does anybody know you're here? No. She abandons her husband to flee to Canada with her son. Let's go, Mother. She loved Stuart and would sacrifice herself for him, protecting her boy was her reason for existing. Several days later, Sanford finally opens up to authorities. He raped me, and there were others. Once he felt safe that Stuart wasn't coming back, he sang like a canary. He told the police about all the horrors he had experienced. I can show you the graves. Sanford reveals that three boys were murdered on the farm. Sanford is able to identify the kids. He tells them their names, who they were, where they'd been picked up. When they started to excavate on the property and look for clues, they found bits of human flesh. Stuart had gone out and moved the bodies to who knows where, but there was still evidence of human remains or bone fragments found. They knew this was now a murder case, and now law enforcement was fully involved. Four days after Sanford's confession, Louise and Stuart are captured in Canada without incident. Northcott was interviewed by my father in Canada. He was arrogant, his eyes were lifeless, and he said that they would never convict him of these murders, they would never extradite him, and nothing would ever happen to him. Mother will fix everything. In November 1928, mother and son are extradited to the U.S. Louise tries to make the ultimate sacrifice for her precious boy. Don't know what you're talking about. I killed him. I did it. I killed Walter Collins. She took blame for all the murders, as if this would save Stuart. But everybody saw through her story. Louise Northcutt does plead guilty to Walter Collins' murder. She is then sentenced to life in prison. On January 2, 1929, Stewart stands trial for the murders of the Mexican boy he beheaded and the Winslow brothers. He is found guilty of all three murders. On October 2, 1930, he's executed by hanging. The last two words he spoke were, no, don't, and then he fell. He died probably speaking the same two last words that many of his victims did. And he got the same level of mercy. Though it's been nearly 100 years, nobody can forget the gruesome crimes committed by Stewart and his mother. Nowadays, kids are brought up, you know, don't speak to strangers, don't take candy from strangers. it's because of the Northcutt family. People are still fascinated with the case because it's just so much evil in one place on Earth it's hard to fathom.