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
But the preparation, while impressive, was not perfect.
It was supplemented by something more powerful: the needs of the people he was deceiving.
The Psychology Of Why People Believed Him
The question that this case has generated most consistently over the years — the question that the 2012 documentary The Imposter made its central subject — is: how did people believe him?
How did Carey Gibson, who had known Nicholas since he was a child, look at this dark-eyed young man with a French accent and see her missing brother?
How did Beverly Dollarhide bring a stranger into her home and accept him as her son?
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