Familiar Strangers: Walter Collins, Part 2

Once Upon A Crime

Esther Ludlow

Truecrime, History, True Crime, Crime, Criminals, Criminology, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 7 August 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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On this second part of a two-part episode we continue the story of 9-year-old Walter Collins who went missing from Los Angeles in 1928. In part two, we discover that a serial killer, Gordon Stewart Northcott, has been preying on boys and young men in the LA area. Was Walter Collins a victim of Northcott's? Resources: The Wineville Chicken Coop Murders, retrieved online at crime museum.org. https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/serial-killers/wineville-chicken-coop-murders/ The Disappearance of Walter Collins, by Gabriela Serrato for STMUhistorymedia.org. https://stmuhistorymedia.org/author/gabriela.serrato/ Movie: Changeling (2008), Written, directed, and produced by Clint Eastwood for Imagine Entertainment. Starring Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Jeffrey Donovan and Amy Ryan. Links: www.patreon.com/onceuponacrime Fruit Loops: Serial Killers of Color Podcast - https://fruitloopspod.com

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0:00.0	This podcast details true crime cases.
0:03.0	It contains adult themes and may contain descriptions of violence.
0:07.0	It is not intended for children.
0:09.0	Listener discretion is advised. Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime.
0:22.1	This is part two of a two-part episode. me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime.
0:23.0	This is part two of a two-part episode, so if you haven't listened to part one yet, you'll
0:27.5	want to go back to episode 177 and listen to that first.
0:32.2	At the end of last week's episode, we left off with Arthur Hutchins, who claimed
0:36.4	to be the missing boy, Walter Collins, finally identified as a runaway from Illinois and sent home.
0:42.4	Christine Collins had insisted to the police from the beginning. away from Illinois and sent home.
0:42.6	Christine Collins had insisted to the police from the beginning that the boy was not
0:46.4	her son.
0:47.7	She was punished for it by being locked in a psychiatric ward.
0:51.5	Once released, she sued the LAPD and won. But the question that still remained
0:57.0	was where was her son Walter Collins? In this episode, as the story continues, we'll discover that Walter was not the only boy reported missing in 1928.
1:07.0	A predator had been stalking and kidnapping boys from the greater Los Angeles area.
1:12.0	His identity and the chilling fate of Walter
1:14.8	Collins would soon be uncovered. Just an additional warning. This episode
1:20.3	describes crimes against children.
1:22.6	If you are particularly sensitive to this subject, please use discretion before listening.
1:28.1	This is part two of familiar strangers, the disappearance of Walter Collins. In September 1928,
1:45.0	1928, Jesse Clark traveled from her home in Saskatchewan, Canada to
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