Facts Behind CHANGELING: The Gordon Stewart Northcott Affair (Part 1 of 6)

The case of Gordon Stewart Northcott – the serial pedophile and child killer in Riverside County, California in the late 1920s – inspired the recent Clint Eastwood film CHANGELING, starring Angelina Jolie as Christine Collins , the mother of one of Northcott's victims.

I'm James Jeffrey Paul, author of the first ever Northcott biography, NOTHING IS STRANGE ABOUT YOU: THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF GORDON STEWART NORTHCOTT. The book is now available on Amazon and other online sellers.

(I should add that the screenplay for CHANGELING was not based on my book, nor was my book about it.)

This multi-part video records a talk I gave on the subject to the Riverside Historical Society at the Riverside Public Library on October 26, 2008. The gentleman introducing me is Mr. Steve Lech, Director of the Riverside Historical Society.

The photograph is in the public domain and shows Christine Collins talking with Northcott at the Los Angeles County Jail hospital.

Erratum: At one point on one of these videos I say that the Winslow brothers (Northcott's last two victims) were kidnapped off the streets of Los Angeles. I should have said Pomona.