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Crime, Conspiracy, Cults and Murder

Ep. 60 | The Most Puzzling & Disturbing Disappearance Case

Crime, Conspiracy, Cults and Murder

Kallmekris

True Crime

4.8693 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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When Christine Collins' 9-year-old son vanished in 1928, she never gave up hope. But months later, the LAPD claimed to have found him—except Christine knew the boy wasn’t hers. In this episode, we follow along her fight for the truth against a system determined to silence her, and try to find out what happened to Walter... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It began with a boy and a dime. On a quiet Saturday morning in 1928, Los Angeles, a mother

0:35.8

handed her nine-year-old son some change and watched

0:38.6

him walk down the street to see a movie.

0:40.8

But he would never come back.

0:42.5

And what followed was a nightmare that spiraled beyond comprehension.

0:46.6

One that pulled in corrupt police officers, a grieving parent, a false reunion staged for

0:51.8

the press, and a string of horrors buried beneath a chicken coop in the California desert.

0:58.1

And at the center of it all was Christine Collins,

1:01.7

a woman who simply wanted her son back,

1:04.2

and instead found herself fighting a system determined to silence her.

1:08.5

This is the story of the boy who wasn't Walter. Crime, conspiracy,

1:12.9

cults, serial killers, and murder, all things that I love to consume. And I know you do too,

1:17.6

you sick, twisted, beautiful, intellectually minded... Rupert didn't like that. Rupert's in the

1:23.7

background right now. Sorry, buddy. He's all right. He's like, what the hell? Anyway, today is a insane case. And I actually heard about this case years and years and years ago

1:34.7

when I watched a movie called The Changeling with Angelina Jolie. Highly recommend you watch it.

1:40.2

It is heartbreaking. And I'm going to give you the background to this case, which is even more crazy than the movie.

1:46.7

But anyway, without further ado, let's unbuckle our seatbelts, go Mach 5 down the highway, slam on the brakes, and bust through this windshield into this insane case together.

2:16.1

Yeah. Christine Ida Collins was a single mother raising her son Walter in Los Angeles during the Roaring 20s. Born in 1888, Christine was independent and a determined

2:20.3

woman, which was something of an anomaly in that era, because women were often expected to be

2:26.3

submissive, if you will, as she would work as a supervisor at a telephone company specifically,

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