The French Con Man Who Fooled The FBI — How A 23-Year-Old Impersonated A Missing Texas Boy And Lived With His Family For Months
He has dark brown eyes.
Nicholas Barclay was American.
He was born in 1980, which would have made him sixteen in 1997.
He had blue eyes.
He had a specific American accent, specific memories, specific physical characteristics.
The gap between what Bourdin was and what Nicholas Barclay should have been was not small.
It was substantial.
And yet Bourdin had to close that gap well enough to convince people who had actually known Nicholas — his mother, his sister, his friends — that he was real.
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