![]() ![]() ![]() Letters and photographs were exchanged before Christine Collins paid for the boy to be brought to Los Angeles. Then, five months after Walter's disappearance, a boy claiming to be Walter was found in DeKalb, Illinois. The police faced negative publicity and increasing public pressure to solve the case. Walter's disappearance received nationwide attention, and the Los Angeles Police Department followed up on hundreds of leads without success. They had a son, Walter, in September, 1918.Ĭollins' son disappeared on March 10, 1928, after she gave him money to go to the cinema. ![]() Collins was born Walter Joseph Anson, and hid his past from her. Her search for the whereabouts of her son was the subject of the 2008 Clint Eastwood film Changeling, in which she was portrayed by Angelina Jolie.Ĭhristine Collins was born in 1888 as Christine Ida Dunne. During the trial testimony of Gordon Northcott, the state of California concluded that Collins's son had been murdered in the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders, which were led by a man named Gordon Stewart Northcott, who was executed at San Quentin in 1930. Christine Ida Collins (Decem– December 8, 1964) was an American woman who made national headlines during the late 1920s and 1930s after her nine-year-old son, Walter Collins, went missing in 1928. ![]()
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