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
The Chameleon: Frédéric Bourdin Before Texas
To understand how Frédéric Bourdin managed to impersonate Nicholas Barclay for as long as he did, it helps to understand who Frédéric Bourdin was before he ever heard of Nicholas Barclay.
Bourdin was born in 1974 in Moulins, France, to a teenage mother and a father who was largely absent.
His childhood was marked by poverty and instability, and by his own account — accounts that must be treated with appropriate skepticism, given his demonstrated willingness to construct narratives — he felt unloved, unwanted, and fundamentally unseen in the world.
What he discovered, sometime in his teens, was that he could be seen.
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