Yesterday night, I went to cinema with my housemates at Pavilion. The movie called “Changeling.” It was a true story.
It was a painful story about a mother who had dedicated so much loves to her missing son.
God Bless.
Christine Collins, a single mother lived in Los Angeles with her sons, Walter Collins. Story back to 9 March 1928, her 9 years old son was kidnapped. She found her son was missing after she came back from shifted work as a supervisor in telephone company. She reported to the police about her son disappearance, but the police department was taking no action and assumed that it was a normal cases which happened everyday in town. In addition, the police department had claimed that they would start an investigation after 24 hours.
Walter Collins disappearance received attention of nationwide, and Los Angeles Police Department followed up on hundred of leads without success. The police faced negative arguments and publicity pressure toward the case, until five months later after Walter’s disappearance, when a boy claimed that to be Walter was found. The reunion was organized by the police to negate bad publicity of their inability to solve the cases. But Christine Collins told the police who had in charged of the case, Captain J.J Jones that the boy wasn’t his son. But he told her to take the boy back to home and try him out for a couple of weeks. Christine Collins insists she would know her own son when she saw him but Captain J.J Jones told that she was in shocks and he sure that she was mistaken, he convinced her that the boy changed after few months gone.
Christine Collins persisted that the boy wasn’t Walter, even though she was armed with dental records proving her case. Christine Collins finds an ally in the Rev. Gustav Briegleb, a Presbyterian pastor who uses his pulpit and radio program to rail against corruption and lawlessness within the Los Angeles Police Department.
Captain J.J Jones had Christine Collins committed to the psychiatric ward at Los Angeles County Hospital under a “Code 12″ internment—a term used to jail or commit someone who was deemed difficult or an inconvenience.
Sanford Clark told a detective that Gordon Steward Northcottmay have killed 20 boys. Digging for bodies, police uncover ribs, pelvic bones and a tiny shoe at Wineville Chicken Coop.
Later, the enigma boy who pretended as Christine Collins’s boy has been identified. He was Arthur Hutchins from Iowa. Gordon Stewart Northcott is convicted and sentenced to death.
Walter Collins’s body has not been found. Christine Collins hoped her son was still survived. She was not stop finding her son during her life.
This is because of—HOPES.
Christine Collins
The real Walter Collins
The pretender of Walter Collins, Arthur Hutchins from Iowa with his stepmother
The murderer, Gordon Northcott was convicted and hangged to death
