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The Puzzling Story Of Walter Collins, The Young Boy Whose Disappearance Led To An L.A. Police Scandal On March 10, 1928, nine-year-old Walter Collins vanished while walking to a movie theater near his home in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. Though his disappearance came in the midst of several similar cases in the area, police didn't make a connection between the incidents. In fact, they botched young Walter's case so badly that they identified a 12-year-old impostor in Illinois as the missing boy and forced his mother, Christine, into a psychiatric facility when she insisted that he was not her son. Go inside the strange disappearance of Walter Collins — and the even more bizarre events that ensued — by following the link in our profile.⁠ On March 10, 1928, nine-year-old Walter Collins asked his mother, Christine, for some money to see a movie. She handed him a dime and sent him on his way — but she never saw him again. Los Angeles police quickly began searchi...