The Boy Who Wasn't There

On March 10, 1928, Christine Collins gave her nine-year-old son a dime for the movies and he never came home. Five months later, the LAPD called with good news: they'd found Walter. But the boy they brought her wasn't her son, and when she said so, they locked her in a psychiatric ward. What followed exposed a serial killer, a culture of institutional gaslighting, and a question that stayed open for the rest of Christine Collins' life: did they ever actually find Walter? Episode 24 of Still Unexplained explores the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders, Code 12 commitments, and one of the most haunting cold cases in Los Angeles history.