He was charged with passport fraud and perjury in federal court.

His arrest was not the end of the strangeness.

It was, in many ways, the beginning of a new layer.

In the aftermath of the arrest, Bourdin began making claims about the Barclay family.

He alleged that the family had known from the beginning that he was not Nicholas — that they had accepted the impostor knowingly, in order to protect a secret about what had really happened to Nicholas.

He pointed specifically to Jason, the older brother, and suggested that Jason might have been responsible for Nicholas’s disappearance.