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

Denying the Truth

Parker was in communication with veteran F.B.I agent Nancy Fisher, who shared his original conviction that Bourdin wasn't Nicholas Barclay. When Fisher tried to inquire whether Beverly might know who abducted and sexually abused Nicholas, she became "surly and uncooperative."

Fisher understood that Beverly and the rest of the Barclays missed Nicholas dearly, and they would go to any lengths cling to the illusion that he had returned—but when Fisher tried to persuade Beverly and Bourdin to submit blood samples for a DNA test, she was met with tense resistance.

"How dare you say he's not my son," Beverly told Fisher. Later, when Fisher returned with a warrant, Beverly had begun to spiral.

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