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the voices of the missing, the murdered, and the forgotten,
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waiting to be heard and have their stories told. This
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re visit haunting disappearances, and uncover the truths buried beneath
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the years of silence. I'm your host, Courtney Liso, and
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Hello, Hello, welcome to the next chapter in the Book
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of the Dad. Before we begin, Yes, I sound like
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death warmed over. I am sick, but we're going to
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record anyway, Four parents around the globe their worst fear
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imaginable is something happening to their child. And I don't
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just mean death. Losing sight of a child for even
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a moment can strike fear in the heart of any parent,
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let alone for years on end, or when they don't
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come back at all. But what happens when you lose
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your child twice? For one mother in San Antonio, Texas,
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she went through that very nightmare, losing a child, not
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knowing their fate for years, and then seemingly being reunited
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for a time. People did have their suspicions, but she
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was adamant that her baby had been returned to her
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until the unthinkable happened and she lost her child all
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over again. This is the disappearance of Nicholas Barclay. Now,
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if you're a longtime listener of the Book of the Dead,
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you know that I've covered this case very early on,
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but it's one that I can help checking for updates on.
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This is not the first time I've revisited episodes. I've
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gone back and read done two prior to this, but
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this is an unresolved case that I simply have not
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been able to stop thinking about. Nicholas Patrick Barklay was
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born on December thirty first, nineteen eighty in San Antonio, Texas,
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to a woman named Beverly Dollar Hyde. Beverly was a
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single mother and had two adult children from a previous marriage,
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Carrie and Jason. Growing up, Nicholas was definitely a troubled child,
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acting out and getting into trouble, and he spent many
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of his days on supervise as Beverly worked the night
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shift at a local convenience store, coming home earth early
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in the morning and typically going to sleep. Beverly also
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reportedly struggled with a substance use disorder, according to an
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article for The New Yorker, which would have contributed to
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some of Nicholas's behavioral problems. But by all accounts, she
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was doing the absolute best she could to provide for
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her family and give her children a good life. Her
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daughter Carrie said, quote, she was maybe the most functioning
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drug addict. We had nice things, a nice place, never
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went without food, as Nicholas became a young teenager, his
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behavioral problems got worse. He was constantly skipping school. He
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would curse and scream at his mother when they got
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into fights, and sometimes these fights would turn into physical altercations,
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prompting many calls to the police to intervene. By the
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time Nicholas turned thirteen, he had racked up a criminal
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record for breaking and entering as well as theft, and
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he had also acquired a few tattoos on his shoulder,
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a tea between his left thumb and forefinger, and the
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letter N on his ankle, which he most likely gave
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to himself or had one of his friends to do
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for him. That's not to say that Nicholas was some
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sort of demon child. He was reportedly incredibly sweet and
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though quite small for his age, being only around four
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foot eight and around eighty pounds with light brown hair
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and blue eyes, he had a big personality and loved music,
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especially Michael Jackson, so much so that he proudly owned
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a replica of Michael's iconic red jacket that he wore
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in his Thriller music video. At some point, whether because
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she wanted some sort of help with Nicholas, or due
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to his own struggles with substance abuse. Beverly asked her
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son Jason to move in with them for a while.
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Jason was in his twenties, and it's possible that Beverly
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hope that having his older brother around would be beneficial
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for her younger son. Jason moved in, but it's unknown
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how long he was there before four things went terribly
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wrong for the family. In June of nineteen ninety four,
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thirteen year old Nicholas had a hearing coming up to
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determine if he was going to be sent to a
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juvenile group home because of his behavior, and this was
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to occur on the fourteenth. While some reports have conflicting
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information on the exact date, presumably on June thirteenth, Nicholas
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had gone to a basketball court about one and a
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half miles from his home to play with his friends.
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His mother had handed him five dollars to get a snack,
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and he set off on his way. A few hours later,
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Nicholas called his mom, likely from a payphone, to ask
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her to pick him up, but Jason answered, telling his
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brother that Beverly was sleeping and that he would just
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have to walk home. Of course, I do wonder why
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Jason didn't pick up Nicholas himself, but it's possible he
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didn't have a license, or perhaps he was busy or
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just didn't want to have to go out into the
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Texas heat to pick up his little brother. Either way,
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Nicholas was less than two miles away, and it was
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broad daylight, so it wasn't unreasonable to ask him to
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walk home. When Nicholas failed to return, Beverly and Jason
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weren't initially all that concerned. Nicholas had run off before,
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disappearing for up to a day, getting into mischief or
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just blowing off steam, so this wasn't all that unusual.
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Besides the fact that, according to the Sydney Morning Herald,
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Beverly and Nicholas had gotten into an argument, so she
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initially assumed her son had not come home to get
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back at her. However, three days later, when Nicholas still
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hadn't returned, Beverly called the police and reported him missing.
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But because of Nicholas's prior behavioral problems and the various
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calls to police in the past, investigators were not very helpful,
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inclined to believe that he had run away. While I
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can understand why police may have believed that Nicholas had
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gone off in his own He was still a thirteen
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year old boy, and he hadn't left the house prepared
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to be gone for more than a few hours. None
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of his clothes were missing, and he only had five
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dollars with him. That's not exactly indicative of someone planning
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to run away. Beverly herself feared that her son, while
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street wise, may have gone into a stranger's car for
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a ride home, not wanting to walk in the heat,
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and assuming that he could just tell what a person's
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intentions would be. Panicked by this point, and the police
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being less than helpful, Beverly and her daughter Carrie put
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up flyers all over the neighborhood, going door to door
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trying to find him. While Nicholas had last been seen
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in a white shirt, purple pants, and a pink backpack,
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bright colors that would stand out, no one recalled seeing him,
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and because he was only thirteen years old, there was
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no real way to track Nicholas down. When the police
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finally started to look for him. As the weeks passed
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and there was still no sign of her son, Beverly
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started behaving more and more erratically. According to The New Yorker,
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on July twelve, Beverly called the police, claiming to need help,
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but when they arrived, she told the officers everything was fine. Jason, however,
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told them that Beverly was quote drinking and screaming at
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him because her other son ran away. That September, with
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still no progress in the investigation, the police were called
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to Beverly's home again when Jason claimed that he had
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seen Nicholas trying to break into the garage, but by
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the time officers arrived, he was gone. According to ksat
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dot com. Though police searched in the area, they ultimately
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concluded that Jason had never really seen Nicholas at all.
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As the years went by and Nicholas remains missing, his
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family was heartbroken and rightfully frustrated with the lack of
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media coverage to help find him. In fact, when you
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look at articles in nineteen ninety four from Texas newspapers,
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there's no mention of him at all anywhere. The community
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just didn't seem like they could be bothered to worry
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about a young boy who had seemingly vanished in broad daylight,
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and Beverly and her two children started to resign themselves
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to the idea that they would never see Nicholas again,
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and they did what they could to get on with
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their lives. While Beverly continued working and Carrie focused on
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raising her children, Jason started struggling deeply with his substance
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use disorder, increasing his use of cocaine and getting into
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an altercation with police, eventually temporarily getting kicked out of
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his mother's home. While some speculate that his trouble stems
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from his sense of guilt for telling Nicholas to walk
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home on the day he disappeared, Jason did ultimately seek
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treatment for his addiction, entering a rehab facility in nineteen
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ninety six and staying on after acting as a landscaper
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and a counselor. By nineteen ninety seven, Nicholas's case was
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stone cold. There was no evidence to point police in
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a direction to look for him, and no one had
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come forward in the three years since he had been
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gone offering any sort of information as to what could
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have happened to him. Then that October, the unbelievable happened.
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As I said when I first covered this case, the
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mystery of what happened to Nicholas Barclay has been completely
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overshadowed by the events of nineteen ninety seven, and you
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can't search his name without this incident being attached to it.
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While I'm still reluctant to go over every detail of
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what happened, it's impossible to discuss his case without mentioning it,
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as it's so interwoven with his story. On October seventh,
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nineteen ninety seven, Beverly received a phone call from the
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San Antonio Police telling her, which he had been waiting
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so many years to hear, they believed that Nicholas possibly
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was alive. According to the police, they had received a
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call telling them that a social worker named Jonathan Dorian
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for children's shelter in Lianara, Spain, near Granada, claimed that
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a boy they believed to be a lost American had
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been found. The boy was described as having a slight
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build with a prominent chin, brown hair, and gapped teeth.
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Jonathan had called to see if this child matched the
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description of any missing children in America, so the National
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Center for Missing and Exploited Children sent over a flier
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of Nicholas, and he confirmed that the child's appearance was
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a match. Jonathan said that the boy answered to the
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name Nicholas Barclay and claimed that he had been abducted
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by pedophiles in San Antonio sometime in nineteen ninety four.
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After a few days of battling the language barrier at
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the shelter, Carrie finally got through to Jonathan, asking if
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the boy they had found was really her brother. He
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confirmed this was true, and that Nicholas told him he
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had escaped from the traffickers who had smuggled him across
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the world, and he had endured unspeakable horrors. Then Nicholas
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self got on the phone and, according to the Sydney
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Morning Herald, simply asked his sister to take him home.
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Carrie volunteered to fly to Lanaris to get Nicholas, as
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Beverly did not like flying, and the company she worked
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for kindly funded the trip. When Carrie arrived, though, there
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was a significant amount of red tape to get through
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before she could be reunited with her brother and bring
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him home. First, a judge with the Spanish Quurts was
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not convinced that the boy in the children's shelter was
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really Nicholas Barklay, so Carrie went to the shelter to
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meet him. When he was brought in, Nicholas was wearing
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sunglasses and a hat with a scarf around his face.
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While this was definitely strange, Carrie was just so excited
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to see her brother and she hugged him tightly. She
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showed him photos of their family members and he was
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able to correctly identify them, much to Carrie's relief. The
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boy also at the scene tattoos as Nicholas, and his
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nose looked similar to an uncle's, While the boy did
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have an accent, and from what she could see of
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his face, he looked a little bit different. It had
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been three years since she had last seen her brother,
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and she was confident in telling the courts and the
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US embassy that this really was Nicholas. When Spanish immigration
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said that the boy could not leave without a passport,
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the FBI and the State Department expedited the process so
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that Nicholas could finally return to his family. On October eighteenth,
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eleven days after they got the call, Nicholas returned home,
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welcomed back by his mother, his brother in law Brian,
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and his niece and nephew Chantal and Cody. At the reunion,
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Chantal told The New Yorker that she recalled her grandmother
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seeming wary when Nicholas came home. She said, quote, she
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just didn't seem excited the way you'd expect for someone
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seeing her son. And this is an understandable reaction. Nicholas
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had been gone for so many years. He was not
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the boy Beverly remembered, being older and experiencing so much
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trauma and horrors in the time he had been missing,
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so they would both be weary around each other, not
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quite knowing how to react now. Because Beverly was still
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working nights, Nicholas moved in with Carrie and her family
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so that someone was always with him. The family reported
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noticing that Nicholas was more standoffish than they remembered, but
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they attributed this as being some sort of trauma response.
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Nicholas was enrolled in high school, he started going to church,
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and even started building a better relationship with his mom,
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so things seemed like they were really looking up for
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the family. But they, of course now had the media
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to contend with, who were absolutely foaming at the mouth
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to get an exclusive interview with Nicholas, as well as
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the FBI, who wanted to get more information on this
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trafficking ring. This is where Charlie Parker comes in. Charlie
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Parker was a former police officer turned private investigator from
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Corpus Christie who had moved to San Antonio some years prior.
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He was the founder of the Find Anyone agency and
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had been hired for various jobs tracking spouses, debtors, and
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even volunteering his time to look into ansult murders, but
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his particular interest was working to find missing children. On
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November one, nineteen ninety seven, Charlie received a call from
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the producers of hard copy who were interested in covering
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the story of a teenager who had miraculously been found
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after being kidnapped three and a half years prior. According
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to The Sydney Morning Harold. Charlie contacted an FBI agent
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named Nancy Fisher, who specialized in cases of child abuse,
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and she confirmed that this boy and his story were real,
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though she wouldn't confirm the boy's name. Charlie did what
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he did best and tracked down Nicholas Barkley, allegedly building
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up a bit of a rapport with him. But something
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about Nicholas nagged at Charlie. First, the boy had a
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foreign accent, not a Texas one, which he found to
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be odd, and Nicholas's ears were different to photos Charlie
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had seen of him. In Charlie's experience, the first tell
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that someone may not be who they say they were
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was to look at the ears. While many physical attributes
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can be altered, you really can't change a person's ears.
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A few weeks after Nicholas's return, Charlie convinces him to
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give an interview to hard Copy, and he shows up
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the television crew as they're filming. Charlie just observes, categorizing
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things that stood out to him as being odd. In
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the room were old pictures of Nicholas on the mantel,
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as well as an old missing person's fire, and as
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Charlie made comparisons, he was alarmed to see so many differences.
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There was a notable difference in the shape of Nicholas's
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jaw and chin compared to the older pictures, his hair
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was the wrong color, and besides the shape of the
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ears in the strange accent, Nicholas's eyes were wrong. In
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the photos, he had blue eyes, but the teenager sitting
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in front of him had brown eyes. After the interview.
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Charlie contacted Nancy Fisher again, and she agreed that something
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was not right. She had interviewed Nicholas herself, and while
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he was very forthcoming about the torture and assault he
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had endured, he outright refused to give any information about
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his subductors, something that Nancy found unusual compared to other
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cases she had worked. In fact, she had brought Nicholas
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to a child psychologist in Dallas, who determined after several
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hours that the boy was not American, but rather Spanish
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or French. Fisher tried to explain this to Beverly, but
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she refused to listen, insisting that this boy was her son,
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finally snapping at Fisher, saying that the FBI was just
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trying to steal her son away from her. Again, frustrated,
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Fisher convinced Nicholas to give a blood sample in order
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to have a DNA test done, but when they got
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to the hospital, Nicholas stormed out, saying he was being
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looked at as if he were a freak, and the
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sample was never taken. Charlie, convinced that the person claiming
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to be Nicholas Barclay was an impostor, started digging into
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his claims in order to verify his suspicions. First, Nicholas
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claimed that he had been forbidden from speaking English while
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being held captive in Spain, and was punished any time
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he tried, which altered his accent. Charlie contacted a dialect
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expert from Temple University, who did agree that it was
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unlikely that a thirteen year old would have developed a
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new accent after his native one was already established, but
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he did specify that it wasn't impossible. Regarding the change
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in hair and eye color, Nicholas claimed his hair had
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been dyed and that while he had been held captive,
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he had been experimented on, and his kidnap had changed
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his eye color, injecting it would die. Now in twenty
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twenty six, you can change a person's eye color surgically,
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but in the nineteen nineties this wasn't possible. In consulting
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with optomologists, Charlie learned that no procedure would actually alter
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the pigmentation of someone's eyes, though it was possible that
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they could grow darker with a specific type of glaucoma medication.
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With all of this evidence gathered, Charlie brought his suspicions
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to the police, who dismissed him, citing that the family
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had confidently identified Nicholas Barclay and they didn't have good
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enough reason to believe they were wrong. When Charlie tried
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to explain what he had found to Beverly and Carrie,
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again they denied the evidence they were presented with. Nicholas
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had given them reasonable explanations, and the experts themselves said
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that the changes in his eye color an accent weren't
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completely impossible phenomena. As Nancy and Charlie's suspicions grew, nicholas
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behavior became more and more erratic. He was acting out again,
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getting suspended from school, getting into fights with Carrey's son, Cody,
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and he racked up a two thousand dollars phone bill,
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making calls all over the US as well as to
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France and Spain. He also stole his sister's car and
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drove it all the way to Oklahoma before he was
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apprehended by police and brought home. Charlie convinced him to
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take a polygraph test, and the results were inconclusive, though
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according to the Sydney Morning Herald, while there was a
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sixty two percent chance that Nicholas was lying, he had
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answered multiple questions about the family with complete certainty. Nancy, meanwhile,
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had gotten a warrant for a blood sample to be
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taken from Beverley Nicholas, as well as his fingerprints, and
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she contacted Interpol asking them if they had any suspects
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in their database that matched Nicholas's description and for any
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fingerprints of them on record. For her part, tried to
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prevent the DNA and fingerprints from being taken, but she
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was unsuccessful. On March fifth, nineteen ninety eight, Interpols sent
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fish or fingerprints of a man they had been looking
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for who had been apprehended multiple times for falsifying his identity.
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That same day, Beverly received a call from a friend
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of hers that lent way to any doubt she was
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beginning to have about the boy that was currently staying
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with her daughter. You see, Beverly from the get go
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was a bit wary of the boy that had come
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home from Spain. As they said earlier, Nicholas, even with
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all of his behavioral problems, was also very sweet and
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was very affectionate, known for giving out hugs and kisses
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to his family. According to what she told the New
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Yorker the Nicholas that had come home was not this way.
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His hugs were stiff, and he was not the affectionate
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boy she had once known. While Beverly very much wanted
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to believe her intuition room was wrong, she can no
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longer deny what was being told to her. When her
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friend had called after giving Nicholas a ride home, this
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friend told Beverly that during the drive they had passed
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an apartment complex that Nicholas and his mother lived in
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when he was six years old until the age of ten,
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and he had known every child in the apartment. But
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when the friend pointed this out to him, Nicholas had
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no idea what she was talking about and couldn't answer
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any questions about his time living there. Beverly, distraught, called
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Charlie Parker and told him that she did not believe
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that this boy was really her son. The next day,
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determined to get the boy to crack, he took Nicholas
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for breakfast at a restaurant down the street from Beverly's home.
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As they ate, Charlie told him how Beverly had called
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and said she was very upset, and this boy said, quote,
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She's not my mother, and you know it. So Charlie
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asked who he was, and the boy said, quote, I
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am not Nicholas Sparklay, I am Frederick Bardon, and I
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am wanted by Interpol. Charlie excused himself from the table
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and called Nancy Fisher and she confirmed that the story
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was true. The fingerprints taken had matched the ones sent
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by Interpol. The person masquerading as Nicholas Barclay was in
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fact Frederick Bardon, a twenty three year old man from
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France who had made a career of lying about who
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he was, coming up with all sorts of incredibly sad
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stories to go with his various identities. Frederick Bardon was
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arrested and sentenced to six years in prison for passport
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fraud and perjury, and he claimed that he had come
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clean with his Khan because it was starting to eat
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away at him that he was deceiving this family. He
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also explained that his cons were purely emotional. He wasn't
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doing it for money, he was doing it for the
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love and affection he had been denied as a child,
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which was confirmed by his mother, Gieshlaine. She said that
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she did not particularly like her son and had given
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him to her parents to raise when he was around
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five years old, and he had bounced around ever since.
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Bardon has lied about how he became Nicholas Barclay a
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few times, first telling Nick Davies of the Sydney Morning
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Herald that he had been kidnapped by men in Spain
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and he had met the real Nicholas Barclay while being
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held in Madrid, and they had become close friends, bonded
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by their trauma. He claimed that Nicholas was the one
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who urged him to take on his identity to escape
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and repair the family he may never see again. But
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this story quickly fell apart when police and Madrid could
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not verify his story, nor could they find this alleged
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famous American that Bardon claimed helped him escape. Finally, a
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version of what could likely be the truth emerged. Bardon
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had been living in a children's home in Lanaris, pretending
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to be a made up child, but he knew that
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Interpol was closing in on him and he needed a
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way to works escape. He had always wanted to live
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in America and heard that Seattle was quite nice, so
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he called the police department there, claiming to be a
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social worker named Jonathan Dorian, saying that a sixteen year
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old American child had shown up and claimed to have
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been abducted a few years prior. He said this because
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he knew if he pretended to be a child that
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had gone missing recently, he would not be able to
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successfully take on their identity. The Seattle Police told Barton
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to contact the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children,
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and they said that the boy he was describing could
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possibly be Nicholas Barclay, and they sent a missing person
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flower to him to compare. Bardon gave himself Nicholas's tattoos,
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dyed his hair, and made up a story about being
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experimented on to change his eye color, fishing for information
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as the social worker when speaking to carry on the
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phone in order to fool Nicholas's family. He also grilled
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Cody for information when he arrived in San Antonio and
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dug through whatever he could find in Beverly and Carrey's
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homes when he was left alone to find more information.
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After Bardone's arrest, the FBI began looking into Nicholas's disappearance,
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concerned as to why Beverly was so adamant that Bardon
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was really her missing son. Beverly was given a polygraph test,
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which she passed, but there were concerns that she had
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taken the test under the influence of drugs, so it
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was administered a second time. This time she failed. Beverly
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was furious when confronted with the results, allegedly saying, quote,
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this is so typical of Nicholas. Look at the hell
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he is putting me through. The FBI also learned that
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while it was true that the police had been called
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to her home multiple times prior to Nicholas's disappearance, some
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of the ex visits were welfare checks conducted after Nicholas's
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teachers called CPS to report concerns they had about his
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safety in his mother's home. THEBI he also interviewed Nicholas's brother, Jason,
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as Bardone had told them that he was the only
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one who didn't seem to believe his story. Allegedly, Jason
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told investigators that he knew that Bardon was lying the
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entire time, but he wasn't going to be the one
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to break the news to his family. While the police
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were suspicious of Jason, believing that he possibly knew more
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than what he was saying about what happened to his brother.
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If he had any answers to GiB he took them
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to his grave. A few weeks after his interview with police,
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Jason died of an overdose, which some speculate was suicide,
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as Jason had been in recovery since nineteen ninety seven.
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One of the biggest questions surrounding this case was why
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Beverly believed that Bardon was her son, even when confronted
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with evidence to the contrary, and she told the San
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Antonio Express it was because she felt so guilty and
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so awkward around him due to what he said he
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had endured. She said, quote the personality. He was wrong,
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but I kept telling myself it was because he was abused,
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he was hurt. While many believed that Nicholas's family so
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desperately wanted to believe Bardon's story due to Hope Board denial,
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there are those that believe that the family was so
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on board for a more sinister reason. Some believe that
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the family was responsible for Nicholas's disappearance, with Jason or
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Beverly being the main suspects for his possible murder, and
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one of the believers in this theory is Frederick Bordon himself.
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He claimed to Charlie Parker that while he had no evidence,
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he strongly believed something terrible had happened to Nicholas Barclay
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in his home and it was being covered up. Bordon
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said in the film The Impostor about his con quote,
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they knew I was not Nicholas. They didn't believe a
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word that I said, but they were good at not
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showing it. I remember in Spain, Carried did everything for
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me when I didn't know something. She told me that's
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the house we used to live in. That's my daughter,
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your niece. Do you remember that? Remember that? Remember that?
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Remember that? Over and over again. She wanted to put
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it in my head so I would never forget. She
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couldn't say that I wasn't her brother. Did she believe
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it or not? If you ask me, no, she did
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not believe for a second that I was her brother.
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She decided that I was going to be her brother. However,
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with Jason dead in a complete lack of evidence, as
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well as nobody ever being found, a homicide investigation cannot
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be conducted. What I find so baffling about this case
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is that for one that was so unbelievable. It spawned
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a twenty twelve documentary that was wildly popular. There has
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been not one single useful update on this case in decades.
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Nicholas Marclay has been missing for almost thirty two years,
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and there's absolutely nothing in terms of evidence. And that's
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in to me. How did a boy wearing very noticeable
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clothing just to vanish in broad daylight and no one
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in the area saw anything. It makes no sense to me,
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And it makes no sense that after everything with Bordoun
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came to light and with all the accusations he was making,
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true or otherwise, no one came forward after they were
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made public to offer any information. As of today, Nicholas's
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case is classified as a runaway, though foul play has
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not been ruled out. At the time of his disappearance,
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Nicholas had very light brown hair and blue eyes. He
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was four foot eight and around eighty pounds, and he51200:31:42.039 --> 00:31:44.880
was last seen wearing a white T shirt, purple pants,51300:31:44.960 --> 00:31:49.000
and a bright pink backpack. He had three tattoos, one51400:31:49.039 --> 00:31:52.119
on his shoulder, on his left hand, and on his ankle.51500:31:53.400 --> 00:31:55.839
If you have any information, you can call the San51600:31:55.839 --> 00:32:00.839
Antonio Police A two one zero two zero seven seven four.51700:32:02.079 --> 00:32:04.480
I just don't believe that there is no one out51800:32:04.519 --> 00:32:08.000
there that didn't see anything. And if he made it51900:32:08.039 --> 00:32:11.400
home that day, then maybe Bordona is right and something52000:32:11.519 --> 00:32:14.920
very very bad happened in that house. I want to52100:32:14.960 --> 00:32:18.440
believe that this was a case of stranger abduction. I52200:32:18.480 --> 00:32:20.599
even want to believe that maybe he really is a runaway,52300:32:20.880 --> 00:32:25.920
but something very bizarre happened that day, and I don't52400:32:25.960 --> 00:32:28.599
believe that no one out there has not a single52500:32:28.680 --> 00:32:33.440
answer that could helps solve this case. As always, I52600:32:33.480 --> 00:32:36.000
thank you so much for listening, and I hope you52700:32:36.079 --> 00:32:40.839
have a wonderful week. Again, I apologize if I sound terrible,52800:32:41.720 --> 00:32:44.160
but hopefully next time you hear from me, I sound52900:32:44.240 --> 00:32:48.839
a lot better. But with that I will see you53000:32:49.039 --> 00:32:51.599
in the next chapter of the Book of the Dead.53100:32:52.440 --> 00:32:57.640
Bye guys. Another page closed, But the story isn't over53200:32:58.680 --> 00:33:01.759
for the families left behind. The pain doesn't end when53300:33:01.759 --> 00:33:05.400
the headlines fade, and for the victims, we owe them53400:33:05.400 --> 00:33:09.680
more than silence for our on solved cases. If you53500:33:09.720 --> 00:33:13.079
have any information, please reach out to local authorities or53600:33:13.200 --> 00:33:17.359
visit our show notes for links and resources. Someone out53700:33:17.359 --> 00:33:22.480
there knows something, maybe it's you. Thank you for listening53800:33:22.519 --> 00:33:25.400
to the Book of the Dead. If this story moved53900:33:25.480 --> 00:33:28.000
or spoke to you in some way, talk about it,54000:33:28.519 --> 00:33:33.160
share it, keep their names alive. Until next time, I'm54100:33:33.200 --> 00:33:39.119
Courtney Liso. Stay safe, stay curious, and stay vigilant, and54200:33:39.240 --> 00:33:43.039
remember the dead may be gone, but their stories will54300:33:43.079 --> 00:33:44.160
not be forgotten,
