She was asleep.

His brother told him to walk.

He walked.

He never arrived.

More than thirty years later, the world still doesn’t know why.

And until it does — until the question of what happened to Nicholas Barclay is answered — the most extraordinary fraud in the case is not Frédéric Bourdin’s deception.

It is the deception of a family by whatever took their child from them on a June night in 1994 and has been keeping the truth hidden ever since.

That deception has never been solved.

It is the one that matters most.