Hmm...well I know the Christine Collins from the movie only had the one son during that time, and her husband/his father was in prison at the time he was abducted. If she had other sons/children by another man later on, then I don't think her name would have still been Collins? Unless she didn't marry the man, but that was unlikely in those days. You said that your friend's mother remembers a lady by the last name Collins...does she remember her first name being Christine? If so, that would seem to be a huge coincidence if it wasn't the same lady. So maybe it was!! I guess that doesn't help you about Glendale, CA though...sorry, I wish I knew.

well..who knows she might waited or got pregnant after a year....

"The" Christine I. (Dunne) Collins was born on 12-4-1888 and died on 12-8-1964 in LA. Her son's DOB was October 1918 and, strangely enough, a date of death is listed as 'April 16, 1928'. All this info is per: ancestry.com, using "Christine I Dunne" in the search, family tree.

He wasn't 28 when he went missing. he was 8. So he had to have been born in 1922.

Walter Collins was 9 when he went missing. It showed it on the back of his picture the police officer that actually did some investigating had. And why didn't they investigate it any further with Sanford Clark to find out if they ever caught the other 2 boys that did escape that night as well? That would have been one of the questions I would have asked him.

I am sorry I do not mean to be picky. The comment above yours was way more accurate then yours. Walter was actually 9 when he went missing in early 1928, his birthday has been stated in quite a few articles as September 23rd, he would have turned 10 in September 1928 which means he would have been born in september 1918!!!! His mother actually held a birthday party on september 23rd 1928 for her missing son!

The "definitive" article on Christine I. Collins' fate is to be found in a December 08 LA Times piece, which is at this url: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/2008/11/chang...

The film was EXTREMELY accurate, but took a couple (minor if you like) liberties; among them:
* Christine was historically released after the kid impersonating her son, Walter, Arthur Hutchens, confessed to police (including the loathsome Capt JJ Jones, played in the movie terrifically by Jeffrey Donovan) that he was an imposter; in the film, Collins was already released from the psychiatric ward when Hutchens admits his lie;
* There's no evidence that any child escaped the Wineville Chicken ranch, and it's possible that Gordon Northcut was responsible for as many as two dozen brutal sado-sexual murders.