Gordon Stewart Northcott is the main antagonist of the 2008 movie called Changeling. It was based on real-life serial killer Gordon Northcott who, like his fictional predecessor, Northcott molested and murdered several boys for sadism in the Riverside area in the late 1920. He is portrayed by Jason Butler Harner.
History[]
Nortcott was a mechanic and chicken farmer who lived in the rural area of Riverside County, California in the 1920s. At that time he was the guardian of his nephew Sanford Clark for 15 years, both of whom were also Saskatchewan in Canada. Northcott was a pedophile who very likely molested Sanford, he would then take Sanford to the Southern California area where every day, they would kidnap 9-year-old boys and take them into the hen house, Sanford was very reluctant after Northcott would take 4 or 5 boys to the room and killed them with an ax, and even forcing Sanford to kill them with the ax for threat. At one point in the story, Northcott kidnaps a boy named Walter Collins who is the son of the movie's protagonist, Christine Collins, who along with the Los Angeles Police Department and his corruption against women's rights. Soon after, five months later, Walter disappeared, Detective Lester Ybarra of Los Angeles traveled to Wineville. To deport Sanford Clark who was illegally in the country. He soon encounters Northcott that his car was broken, he soon asks Northcott for instructions on the ranch, Northcott prepares to pick up an rifle that is hidden in the chest of the truck that Ybarra is in, Northcott soon gives up killing him after Ybarra explains that Sanford is illegally in the country, and without a US passaport. Ybarra soon arrives at the Northcott Ranch and picks up Sanford to deport him. Soon after in immigration, Sanford soon asks if he can talk to Ybarra, he soon explains that his uncle Gordon Northcott kidnapped, molested and killed several boys, and pointing out the photos of the boys one of them was Walter Collins.
Then Sanford soon showed where the corps of Northcott's victims had been interviewed for the cops. Northcott was then arrested by the police while taking a shower. During the trial Northcott pleaded not guilty, and was sentenced to death on all charges, he was visited by Christine who wanted to know where Northcott had interjected his son, Northcott revealed nothing and while she furious with him, Northcott laughed metaphorically discreetly, it was then executed.
Trivia[]
- There are many things that happened in the movie that did not happen in real life.
- Northcott is very similar with Joffrey Baratheon of Game of Thrones or also GOT, since both are irredeemadle sadistic psychopaths, that after being confronted by violence show to be cowards and to beg for mercy.