Their child, Nicholas Barclay, had been missing from Texas for 3.5 years. Out of the blue, the family got a call from Spain saying he had reappeared.
They world-renowned child psychiatrist knew beyond a shadow of a doubt the man couldn’t be from America 
because at 13 years old, his Texan accent would be cemented. Speech is developed primarily until age 7-8. Even three years of being forced to speak French wouldn’t erase the initial dialect patterns formulated in early childhood.
The second big tip-off was the ears. Ears maintain their shape throughout the lifespan. And this imposter had Darwin’s tubercles. The Texas missing boy didn’t. The ears were diffierently shaped, so everyone knew the two could not be the same.
Come to find out the imposter, Bourdin, had stolen youth identities over 500 times in 15 different countries. In France, they called him, “le chamillion.”
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