After seeing the trailer, I am left intrigued and hanging. What happens next? Did she ever find her child? And so, like any other curious teenager living in the new millenium, I googled Christine Collins' story. Interestingly, it led me to: The WIneville Chicken Murders.
It is an infamous kidnapping and murder case that occurred in Los Angeles from 1928 through 1930. The case exposed corruption in the Los Angeles Police Department and received nationwide attention. Among the boys who disappeared were 10-year-old Walter Collins, who vanished on March 10, 1928, twelve-year-old Lewis Winslow and his brother Nelson, 10, who went missing from Pomona on May 16, 1928.
After a 27-day trial, Gordon Stewart Northcott was found guilty of killing Lewis and Nelson Winslow and an unidentified Mexican boy. The jury heard that he kidnapped, molested, tortured, killed, and dismembered these and other boys throughout 1928. On February 13, 1929, Judge Freeman sentenced Northcott to be hange and the sentence was carried out. Later Louisa Northcott, Northcott's mother, admitted killing Walter Collins. She was sentenced to life at San Quentin State Prison although it is believed Northcott coerced his mother into committing the killing. In the Monday, February 11, 1929 issue of Time magazine, it was reported that "Gordon Stewart Northcott, while on trial for abusing and murdering four boys, heard his mother testify that she was not his mother, but his grandmother."
The Los Angeles Police Department was also involved in a scandal as a result of this case. Arthur Hutchins, Jr., a runaway from Illinois and originally from Iowa, claimed he was the missing Walter Collins so he could get a free trip to California. The police considered the case closed and tried to convince Walter's mother, Christine Collins, that Hutchins was her son. When she refused to believe it, she was placed in the psychiatric ward of the Los Angeles County General Hospital. Only after Hutchins admitted he was not Christine Collins' son, ten days later, was she released.
Investigators found an axe and bones, hair, and fingers from three of the victims buried in lime near the chicken house at the Northcott ranch near Wineville, hence the name "Wineville Chicken Murders". Wineville changed its name to “Mira Loma” on November 1, 1930, due in large part to the negative publicity surrounding this case. Wineville Avenue, Wineville Road, Wineville Park and other geographic references provide reminders of the community's former name. (source: wikipedia)
I just wonder how truthful the movie is to the actual story of Christine Collins and her son.
02. How to lose friends and alienate people
On the lighter side of things, I also look forward to this comedy. Why you ask? Because Simon Pegg is one hilarious brit. I love his movie "Run Fat Boy Run" and this is one of those lighthearted, chill out movie you can laugh off with your friends. A definite must-see i say!
you can call me ES. i'm a vagabond. i like to wander, and so do my thoughts. rock, paper, scissors? i choose paper. i can express myself better through it. whether it be through words, fashion, or music, the important thing is to make a statement. be bold, be beautiful, be no one else but you.
i'm the queen of one-liners, or so i've been told// shoes always fit. numbers never lie. music is used when words fail. love is the great reversal. emotions are fickle. passion is consistent. God's love is constant. God instills passion.
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