Not Nicholas Barclay

The Barclays family was happy and almost started living a normal life, but everything changed after the fingerprints and DNA results came out. Everyone was shocked, the results showed that this person was NOT Nicholas Barclay. This not Nicholas individual who has been living with them as their son for almost six months was an imposter. And the scientific results were right there to prove it. But the question was if he is not Nicholas Barclay then who is this guy?

The Imposter

When the authorities got the hold of this new turn of events they found out that this imposter, in fact, wasn’t Nicholas Barclay, but a French man named Frederic Bourdin, who had been posing as Nicholas for past six months. If this wasn’t enough, he also wasn’t 16-years-old, but a 23-year-old guy. But how did he get to know about Nicholas? And how did he manage to stay in the house for six months?

How It Came To Be

Frederic Bourdin first heard about the missing American teen from a security guard who told him that they both looked very similar. After that, Bourdin gathered as much information as he could about the missing child and even adjusted his appearance to seem younger like Nicholas. He was ready to take Nicholas’ identity.

Next Step…

After he gathered all the information about the real Nicholas Barclay from the news and people, he was ready for his next step. He worked on everything that made him look like Nicholas. We can imagine the work that he put into becoming Nicholas Barclay that he stayed in the house of Barclay’s family for six months. Once his cover was blown, Frederic Bourdin made a shocking claim about why Barclay’s family so openly accepted the imposter into their lives.

Slinging Accusations

By now, it became very hard to trust any word that came out of Frederic Bourdin. But, not everyone dismissed the claim that Bourdin made about the family, they had known he wasn’t Nicholas Barclay all along and had a very hidden motive to go along with the event. All the evidence, like, the changed color of hair and eyes, his French accent and his sudden behavior change were there in front of the family but still, they ignored everything. But why?

Hidden Motive

Frederic Bourdin accused the family of knowing one of them had harmed the boy and they wanted to hide the truth and so played along to cover their dark secret. However, the family gave a very different reason to prove, why did they want to believe that he was their Nicky.