When the missing Texas teenager Nicholas Barkley was found after three years of his absence in Spain, no one could believe that it was him. Such a happy ending to a terrible story has become too good to be true. And that was really so. Too good to be true. And it really was.
Today, the real and incredible story of Nicholas Barclay about his alleged abduction, return and appearance of the impostor is already known for certain.
Disappearance
After the thirteen-year-old Nicholas Barkley, who lived in San Antonio, Texas, disappeared, no one panicked. The teenager had already run away from home. This was a problematic boy with a cruel and unpredictable character, who managed to commit many crimes in his life. After all, just at that time, hearings were expected, after which he was supposed to be under house arrest as a juvenile delinquent. That is why both his parents and law enforcement officials believed that the sudden disappearance of a teenager was nothing more than an escape from punishment.
However, soon everyone realized that this was not so. After Barclay was not at home for more than a day, his family began to worry and turned to the police, where they opened a case of the missing person. However, no one knew how to look for a boy. After all, without a phone, a car and a credit card, tracking Barclay was quite difficult. But the police continued his search. However, there were no clues in this matter. And only at a certain moment did the hope appear that the boy would be found. This happened after his uncle called the police and reported that Barclay was trying to get into his garage. However, when the police arrived at the scene, they did not find the boy there. He managed to escape. After that, there was no news of Nicholas, and his family began to lose hope that someday he would see him again.
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Homecoming
And yet, three years later they called the Barkley family. In a small Spanish village, which was reached from Texas only by crossing the ocean, Nicholas was found alive. He was found not far from the railway station and assigned to a youth shelter, which was located in Linares (Spain). The guy refused to say who he was. Nevertheless, a few weeks later he was identified by a photograph in the Register of Missing Persons, like Nicholas Barclay. His sister immediately flew to Spain to identify Barclay and take him home. After the son returned, the parents saw a strange and scared teenager. And there was something suspicious about this boy.
The story of a teenager
After three years of separation from the family, Barclay said that on the eve of his disappearance, he played basketball with friends. The boy claimed that he was abducted when he went home after the game. Unknown people took Nicholas to the airport and put him on a plane. So he ended up in Europe. Here a teenager got into the network of child trafficking.
But after some time he was able to escape, after which he was discovered by European law enforcement agencies. This allowed him to return home. However, he was no longer the same as before. Nevertheless, the parents were happy with the return of the son and did not pay attention to the strangeness in his appearance and behavior.
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Suspicion
Nevertheless, some members of a large family had a lot of questions for the boy who called himself Nikolos. How did he end up in Spain? Why did the color of his hair and eyes change? Why did the angry and cruel teenager become kind, collected, and calm before? The teenager immediately had answers to most of these questions. He claimed that the abductors had specially dyed his hair and changed the color of his eyes to make him unrecognizable. But calm behavior is the result of psychological trauma. Besides that, there was something else that made Barclay recognizable. These are three of his tattoos. With them, he disappeared. With them he returned home.
Continuation of the investigation
Despite the convincing stories of the teenager, not everyone agreed to see Nicholas in him. I did not believe the boy and private detective Charlie Parker. He was part of a film crew that recorded the moment of family reunion. Charlie Parker noted discrepancies in the story and behavior of Barclay. First of all, when a guy talked about his psychological trauma, one could see calm in his behavior. In addition, according to the detective, it is unlikely that the abductors could be engaged in repainting the child’s hair so that it becomes unrecognizable. Incredible was the story of the teenager about the change in eye color.
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Charlie Parker began to carefully compare photographs of Nicholas who ran away from the house and that guy who returned to his family. It turned out that their ears were of different shapes and sizes. These strange inconsistencies were compounded by the fact that Barclay categorically refused to take fingerprints or blood samples for investigation. Nevertheless, after Parker's findings, the court ordered Barclay to submit them. So the truth was discovered. Nicholas Barkley, returning to Barclay's house, was not a missing boy.
Serial impostor
The man who returned to Barkley's house was not Nicholas. Instead, the family got 23-year-old Frederick Pierre Bourdin. This man turned out to be a serial impostor from France, who in his short life had already managed to introduce himself as more than a dozen people. He was known to the police as a criminal named “chameleon” who was wanted by Interpol.
Often, he played the role of missing children. Moreover, the Barkley family by this time was far from his first victim. Pierre Bourdin had a lean physique and childhood features. Thanks to this, at his age he was successfully included in the image of a child on the World Register of Missing Persons.
What did the young man get with this? For Bourdin, it was just a job, giving him shelter and food. But for those families whom he managed to deceive, the revealed truth became a real nightmare. The Barclay family was no exception.
