Tuesday, June 14, 2005

BBC NEWS | France holds 'Chameleon' impostor

This news story is fantastic, not because Frederic Bourdin was caught, but because of his earlier adventures. From the article:

Bourdin was jailed in the US in 1997 for posing as a couple's long-lost son.

The Texas couple's 14-year-old blue-eyed son had disappeared three years earlier and they travelled to the US embassy in Spain to meet "Nicholas Barclay".

Bourdin convinced them that he was their son, despite his brown eyes and strong French accent.

He lived with them for three months before his deception was exposed by a journalist and confirmed by a DNA test. He was jailed for six years.
Now, I realise three years had passed, but really... I didn't look that much different at 17 than at 14, and my eyes certainly didn't change colour!

But now he's been arrested again, because 31 year old men don't go to school. What an ace nutter.

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