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
By 1997, Beverly Dollarhide had been living with this for three years.
The case had gone cold.
The police were not actively investigating.
The possibility that Nicholas was dead, or that he would never be found, had become the ambient backdrop of her existence.
Into this situation came a phone call from Spain.
Hope.
The psychological force of that hope — after three years of waiting — is almost impossible to overstate.
The human mind, under those circumstances, does not approach the returning person with skeptical detachment.
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