The Imposter

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.

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.

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.

One of the most chilling documentaries, The Imposter has been released on Netflix UK and tells the story of Frédéric Bourdin, who stole the identity of ...

The American and Spanish governments had no doubts after Carey, Nicholas' elder sister, claimed that he was her younger brother. After obtaining Nicholas' details, Bourdin realized that he was trapped in his own lies. However, Jason refused the ride and asked Nicholas to walk home. Nicholas often got into trouble with the law and even had a juvenile criminal record from an early age. The teenager was Caucasian with light brown hair, blue eyes, and weighed around 79 pounds (36 kgs) and was 4'8'' tall. He began assuming false identities very early in his life and claimed to have assumed at least five hundred false identities, out of which three were missing teenagers.

In 1997, Frédéric Pierre Bourdin impersonated Barclay, who went missing three years ago and stayed with the latter's family before a sleuth and an FBI agent ...

The case was eventually reopened for a homicide investigation, marking Jason as a suspect. A few months later, in September of that year, he apparently told police that he thought Nicky was attempting to break into their family’s garage. Beverly filed a complaint three days after he went missing, but the cops didn’t take her seriously given their problematic family history (Nicky's unstable behavior and Jason and Beverly's drug addiction). The distance between his house and the courts was hardly 1.5 miles. The Casual Criminalist added that police often dropped him off at home with a warning. Everything was fine until a private detective and an FBI agent smelled something fishy, leading to Bourdin's arrest.