The Imposter

2022 - 12 - 28

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As one French police captain recalled: "When he talked in Spanish, he became a Spaniard. I'm just a boy who needs love and attention." Nicholas Barclay was just 13-years-old when he disappeared and his family were distraught when no trace of him could be found. Now, his story is being shown on Netflix, in a jaw-dropping documentary called The Imposter. But it turns out the man was a Suddenly I was told 'you're free'. And in 2005 when he started living in a French boarding school with pupils half his age, he was only exposed after a teacher saw him in a documentary. He later said: "I'd been in shelters and foster homes most of my life. Soon after Bourdin was released in 2003, he returned to France and tried to pass himself off as a boy who had gone missing in 1996, aged seven. He began misbehaving at school and stealing from neighbours, and at the age of 12 he was sent to a school for young troublemakers. Born in June 1974 on the outskirts of Paris, Bourdin never knew his dad - an Algerian immigrant - and was abandoned by his mum when he was aged two. He became such an expert that when he pretended to be 14 in 2004, a doctor who examined him at the request of authorities in the French city of Grenoble concluded he was indeed a teenager – even though he was 30.

Did they ever find Nicholas Barclay? The Imposter revisited (HITC)

Did they ever find Nicholas Barclay? The 2012 documentary is getting attention on Netflix, so let's revisit the case in 2022.

You can do a limited amount of research before you sit down and do an interview, and during the course of an interview things emerge and stories develop. He was just 13 and the documentary utilizes interviews, archival footage, and beyond to paint a portrait of the surprising string of events that followed. So, of course that’s part of what a documentary is about.” It turns out that he had pulled similar acts before, pretending to be an orphan in Europe. He had a different eye color and his accent had changed. The platform has offered audiences a wealth of titles to digest this year.

The Imposter: Is new Netflix documentary a true story, where is ... (The Scotsman)

The popular 2012 documentary The Imposter has landed on Netflix and explores the mind blowing story of Frédéric Bourdin, a French man who fooled everyone ...

In 2007, Bourdin married a French woman by the name of Isabelle after a year-long courtship. A year later he posed as a missing adolescent Spaniard named Rubén Sánchez Espinoza whose mother had been killed in the Madrid bomb attacks. Bourdin was born in the French area of Nanterre, near the western suburbs of Paris in 1974. Perhaps most important are the home-brew tattoos: the letter “J” on his left shoulder, a “T” between his left thumb and forefinger, and the letters “LN” on the outside of his left ankle. Despite the media attention on The Imposter documentary, the case of missing child Barclay has gone almost completely cold and, sadly, Nicholas has never been found. With no news, the family of Nicholas were bizarrely contacted by Spanish authorities, who said they had located their son and he was waiting for them in Europe.

Netflix The Imposter: Chilling crimes of conman Frédéric Bourdin ... (Edinburgh News)

The latest in Netflix's true crime programming, The Imposter tells the chilling story of conman Frederic Bourdin who posed as missing teen Nicholas Barclay.

You have the freedom to The full 1 hour 38 minute film is available to stream on Netflix now. According to the The impersonation was discovered due to the suspicions of private investigator Charles Parker, and FBI agent Nancy Fisher. The documentary was originally released over ten years ago in 2012, and the case remains unsolved to this day. Netflix has added award-winning documentary The Imposter to their ever-expanding roster of true-crime programmes.

The Imposter: Netflix fans bowled over by 'jaw-dropping' true crime ... (The Independent)

One viewer described the 2012 film as 'one of the wildest true crime documentaries around'

Three years later, in 1997, the family were informed that their son had been found, alive and well in Spain. He was flown back to the US and returned to them, stating that he had been kidnapped and was a victim of sex trafficking. While authorities were able to identify him through the three distinct tattoos Barclay had had at the age of 13, a number of discrepancies quickly became clear.

'The Imposter' on Netflix: Why Everyone's Suddenly Going Wild For ... (Decider)

Netflix subscribers are going wild over 'The Imposter,' a 10-year-old true crime documentary that recently released on the streaming platform.

[asked](https://twitter.com/gemston65926700/status/1607884419162935297), “How is ‘I washed your brain’ not trending on Twitter? Now, viewers are taking to Twitter to express their disbelief over the “bonkers” documentary, and how he was able to get away with his impersonation in the first place. Directed by Bart Layton, The Imposter (2012) tells the true story of French con artist Frédéric Bourdin, who tricked authorities as well as a grieving family into thinking he was their son, Nicholas Barclay, who had gone missing three years prior in 1994.