Missing Boy Returns Three Years After Abduction—But He's Hiding a Dangerous Secret

Frederic Bourdin

23-year-old Frederic Pierre Bourdin was a French citizen posing as 16-year-old Nicholas Barclay. Bourdin was known by Interpol as "The Chameleon."

Interpol had been in pursuit of Bourdin for years. Bourdin spent his entire life impersonating missing children, posing under at least 500 different false identities and aliases. When Bourdin got wind of the Nicholas Barclay case, he knew it was the perfect ruse.

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