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A French serial imposter convinced everyone he was a missing Texas teen. This PI convinced him to confess
- Three years after Nicholas Barclay, 13, vanished from San Antonio, law enforcement and his family believed they’d found the teen in Spain and returned him to his normal Texas life. Then a PI with a penchant for suspenders took “Nicholas” out for hotcakes - and got the French fraudster who’d been impersonating the teen to confess. But that was just the tip of the iceberg, writes Sheila Flynn
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