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Walter Conrad Collins was a 9-year-old American boy who went missing in 1928. Five months after Walter went missing, a different boy claimed he was Walter. When Walter's mother Christine Collins refused to believe this claim and insisted the boy was not her son, she was committed to a mental hospital for ten days until the impostor confessed.
Gordon Stewart Northcott was born in Bladworth, Saskatchewan, Canada and raised in British Columbia.He moved to Los Angeles, California with his parents in 1924. Two years later, at the age of 19, Northcott asked his father to purchase a plot of land in the community of Wineville, located in Riverside County, where he built a chicken ranch and a house with the help of his father and his nephew ...
Changeling is a 2008 American mystery crime drama film directed, produced, and scored by Clint Eastwood and written by J. Michael Straczynski. [1] The story was based on real-life events, specifically the 1928 Wineville Chicken Coop murders in Mira Loma, California.
Gordon Stewart Northcott (November 9, 1906 – October 2, 1930) was a Canadian serial killer, child rapist, and child abductor who was convicted of the murders of three young boys in California, U.S., and confessed to the murders of nine in total.
The true attackers are unknown, although the sole identified gunman, Thomas Hagan, named four others who he claimed were involved with him. James Reeb (38), a Unitarian minister from Philadelphia, died on 11 March 1965, in a Birmingham, Alabama hospital of injuries sustained during a beating at a restaurant outside Selma four days earlier ...
Christine Butcher Windsor, Berkshire Seven-year-old Butcher vanished on 8 July 1951 when she went to see the boxer Sugar Ray Robinson, who was staying at Windsor's Star and Garter Hotel ahead of his fight on 10 July with Randy Turpin at Earl's Court, London. Butcher's body was found two days later in a meadow close to Windsor Castle. She had ...
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
The Mystery of the Blue Train is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the United Kingdom by William Collins & Sons on 29 March 1928 [1] and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. [2] [3] The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) [4] and the US ...