United for 'Changeling'

November 20, 2008 A few years ago, J. Michael Straczynski, a one-time journalist who had become an established writer on television shows like "Babylon 5," got a call from an old source at Los Angeles City Hall. Straczynski rushed downtown, where he was handed a transcript of a City Council welfare hearing in the long-forgotten case of Christine Collins, a single mother whose 9-year-old son Walter went missing in 1928. After five months of waiting, Collins was notified by the Los Angeles Police Department that they had located Walter in Illinois.

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