The imposter

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THE IMPOSTER

Thirteen-year-old Nicholas Barkley was last spotted playing basketball in San Antonio, TX on June 13, 1994, but he never made it home that night. Three years later, a young man from Spain who claimed he was Nicholas contacted police and told him that he’d escaped from a kiddie sex-slave ring. He was flown from Spain and reunited with the Barclay family in Texas. Problem was, “Nicholas” was actually a French conman named Pierre Bourdin, who had an odd habit of impersonating missing children because he said he needed to find a family that would love him. Bourdin was sentenced to prison but later returned to Europe and continued impersonating missing children. A 2012 documentary about Bourdin was called The Imposter.

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