In this mini episode, I'll tell you about one of the strangest missing person cases of all times--the disappearance of little Walter Collins. What was truth and what was fiction?

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SOURCES

Associated Press. “Collins Boy Found After Long Search.” The Pasadena Post (Pasadena, California), August 4, 1928. www.newspapers.com.

Associated Press. “Northcott Is Being Sent to L.A.” Daily Palo Alto Times (Palo Alto, California), September 20, 1928. www.newspapers.com.

Bartle, Trisha. “Is Angelina Jolie's 'Changeling' Based on a True Story?” Creepy Catalog. Creepy Catalog, July 7, 2022. https://creepycatalog.com/is-changeling-based-on-a-true-story/.

“Boy Denies Being Walter Collins.” Daily Palo Alto Times (Palo Alto, California), September 20, 1928. www.newspapers.com.

“Boy Identifies Kidnaper.” The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California), August 21, 1928. www.newspapers.com.

“Christine Collins.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, December 9, 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Collins#:~:text=in%20September%2C%201918.-,Disappearance%20of%20Walter%20Collins,hundreds%20of%20leads%20without%20success.

“Experts Watch Kidnaped Boy.” Los Angeles Evening Express (Los Angeles, California), August 22, 1928. www.newspapers.com.

“Fake Collins Boy Is Known.” Los Angeles Evening Post-Record (Los Angeles, California), September 21, 1928. www.newspapers.com.

“Folsom Convict's Son Kidnaped In Revenge Plot.” The Sacramento Bee (Sacramento, California), April 5, 1928. www.newspapers.com.

International News Service. “Kidnaped Boy Is Home After Many Months, Taken by Alleged 'Father'.” Contra Costa Gazette (Martinez, California), August 18, 1928.

“U.S. Joins In Murder Farm Search.” Los Angeles Evening Express (Los Angeles, California, September 19, 1928. www.newspapers.com.

United Press. “Jurors Hear Collins Boy Case Secrets.” Los Angeles Evening Express (Los Angeles, California), September 28, 1928. www.newspapers.com.

United Press. “Stop Vagrants In Police War On Vagrants.” Monrovia Daily News (Monrovia, California), April 9, 1928. www.newspapers.com.

“Walter Collins Expected Home Tonight.” Lincoln Heights Bulletin-News (Los Angeles, California), August 16, 1928. www.newspapers.com.

“Walter Collins Home, Changed So Mother Hardly Recognized Him.” Lincoln Heights Bulletin-News (Los Angeles, California), August 23, 1928. www.newspapers.com.

“Wide Search For Boy.” Los Angeles Evening Post-Record (Los Angeles, California), March 16, 1928. www.newspapers.com.

“The Wineville Chicken Coop Murders.” Crime Museum, August 13, 2021. https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/serial-killers/wineville-chicken-coop-murders/.

SOUND SOURCES

Al Jolson. “I’ll Say She Does.” www.pixabay.com/music.

Lucille Hegamin and The Dixie Daisies. “Cold Winter Blues.” www.pixabay.com/music.

Sophie Tucker. “Reuben Rag.” www.pixabay.com/music.