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1. 0:05what is up ewoo crew
2. 0:06today we are taking a look at cases with
3. 0:08unexpected and surprising twists
4. 0:12some of these cases are so unbelievable
5. 0:14that you just may think they are from a
6. 0:16movie script
7. 0:17rather than real life but each and every
8. 0:20one of them
9. 0:21is one hundred percent true our first
10. 0:25case is shocking
11. 0:26and complicated with more twists than
12. 0:28you will ever see coming
13. 0:30this is not your typical story of murder
14. 0:34it is more than just one tragedy but
15. 0:36many
16. 0:37wrapped up together in an almost
17. 0:39unbelievable way
18. 0:42as a teenager sharon marshall appeared
19. 0:44to have the whole world
20. 0:46open to her she was reportedly a
21. 0:48lieutenant colonel in the rotc
22. 0:51and one of the best and brightest
23. 0:52students in her class
24. 0:54an undeniably intelligent young woman
25. 0:57with a kind heart to match
26. 0:59upon graduating from high school in 1986
27. 1:03from forest park georgia
28. 1:05sharon had earned a full ride
29. 1:06scholarship to the georgia institute of
30. 1:09technology
31. 1:09with the plan to study aerospace
32. 1:12engineering
33. 1:13so that she could fulfill her dream of
34. 1:15working at nasa
35. 1:16despite this incredible opportunity
36. 1:19sharon never went to college
37. 1:21as she was harboring a secret sharon was
38. 1:25pregnant during the
39. 1:26final months of high school by her
40. 1:27boyfriend who she never told about the
41. 1:30baby
42. 1:31sharon hid her secret well and she ended
43. 1:34up giving birth
44. 1:35and allowing a wealthy couple from texas
45. 1:38to adopt the baby boy
46. 1:40however the pregnancy had shaken up her
47. 1:43life plans
48. 1:44and at one point she apparently even
49. 1:47tried unsuccessfully
50. 1:48to run away with her boyfriend
51. 1:51after losing her chance to attend
52. 1:54college
53. 1:55sharon ended up moving to tampa florida
54. 1:57for a new start
55. 1:58with a man named franklin delano floyd
56. 2:02despite having moved with frank sharon
57. 2:05started to date another man
58. 2:07and she was soon pregnant for a second
59. 2:09time
60. 2:10she once again never told the baby's
61. 2:12father about the pregnancy
62. 2:15this time however she chose to keep the
63. 2:17child
64. 2:18and raise it with frank sharon gave
65. 2:21birth to her
66. 2:22son michael gregory marshall in 1988.
67. 2:26frank and sharon had a complicated
68. 2:28relationship
69. 2:29it wasn't quite clear if it was romantic
70. 2:32or not
71. 2:33but the two lived together and both
72. 2:35provided for sharon's son michael
73. 2:38frank worked as a painter but he
74. 2:40frequently suffered from a bad back
75. 2:42and so he was rarely able to actually
76. 2:45work
77. 2:46because of this sharon became an exotic
78. 2:49dancer to provide for them
79. 2:51but they also began to rely on welfare
80. 2:54checks to survive
81. 2:56her co-workers thought of sharon as kind
82. 2:58and friendly
83. 2:59but she was especially close to an
84. 3:01eighteen-year-old co-worker
85. 3:03named cheryl commesso despite the
86. 3:06women's friendship
87. 3:08frank and cheryl were known to have
88. 3:09frequent disagreements
89. 3:11though there were reports that the two
90. 3:13of them may have been involved
91. 3:15in a brief relationship on a weekend in
92. 3:181989
93. 3:20frank sharon and cheryl went on a
94. 3:22boating trip together
95. 3:23where a fight broke out between cheryl
96. 3:26and frank
97. 3:27following the argument cheryl allegedly
98. 3:30reported sharon to social services
99. 3:32for misrepresenting her true income as
100. 3:35an exotic dancer
101. 3:37sharon had been hiding some of the money
102. 3:39she made to still
103. 3:40get checks from the government but
104. 3:43cheryl's call
105. 3:44meant that sharon no longer qualified
106. 3:46for welfare aid
107. 3:48enraged by cheryl's actions frank went
108. 3:51to the club where sharon and cheryl both
109. 3:53worked
110. 3:54and confronted her just outside the
111. 3:56business
112. 3:58witnesses reported that frank actually
113. 4:00punched cheryl in the face
114. 4:01during the altercation shortly after
115. 4:05cheryl left her father's house to travel
116. 4:07to stay with a friend
117. 4:09but when she never called her dad to
118. 4:11tell him that she had arrived safely
119. 4:14he reported her missing her abandoned
120. 4:17corvette was discovered at the airport
121. 4:19and an investigation ensued to find the
122. 4:22missing woman
123. 4:24both frank and sharon were seen as
124. 4:26persons of interest but for years
125. 4:29no evidence ever arose to connect them
126. 4:32to cheryl's disappearance
127. 4:34the two quickly packed up and left the
128. 4:36area
129. 4:37which only increased suspicion
130. 4:39especially since they started using
131. 4:41different names as they traveled
132. 4:44frank and sharon ended up getting
133. 4:46married in 1989
134. 4:48and frank claimed it was to give
135. 4:50sharon's son his family name to belong
136. 4:52to
137. 4:53though the couple frequently went by
138. 4:55different aliases
139. 4:57they ended up in tulsa oklahoma where
140. 5:00sharon was once again
141. 5:01working as an exotic dancer sharon
142. 5:04easily made friends everywhere the
143. 5:06couple went
144. 5:08but no one seemed to like frank as he
145. 5:10was aggressive
146. 5:11and unpleasant reportedly frank once
147. 5:14again
148. 5:15got into a fight with another dancer
149. 5:17sharon worked with
150. 5:18and when the woman yelled that sharon
151. 5:21should leave him
152. 5:22he responded if she ever left me i'd
153. 5:25kill the
154. 5:27little did frank know sharon was making
155. 5:30plans to leave him for a man she had met
156. 5:32at the club where she worked
157. 5:35allegedly sharon would have left frank
158. 5:37earlier
159. 5:38but she was afraid of what he would do
160. 5:40to her
161. 5:41or her son michael before she was ever
162. 5:45able to leave though
163. 5:46sharon was the victim of a sudden
164. 5:48accident
165. 5:49she was found unconscious by a highway
166. 5:52and it appeared as though she had been
167. 5:54the victim of a hit and run
168. 5:56frank claimed that he was asleep at the
169. 5:58time of the accident
170. 6:00though rushed to the hospital sharon
171. 6:02never regained consciousness
172. 6:05her friends from the club would come to
173. 6:07visit her where she recovered
174. 6:09and many claimed that she was getting
175. 6:11better but frank soon banned them from
176. 6:14seeing her without explanation
177. 6:17five days after the incident sharon died
178. 6:20from her injuries but many were
179. 6:22suspicious of frank's strange actions
180. 6:25especially since sharon seemed to be
181. 6:27recovering before suddenly dying
182. 6:30the doctor was also suspicious and based
183. 6:33off of old bruises he noticed on her
184. 6:35body
185. 6:36he classified her death as a homicide
186. 6:39and even said that the head injury that
187. 6:41killed sharon
188. 6:42may not have been caused by a vehicle
189. 6:45though no one could prove that frank had
190. 6:47been the one to run
191. 6:48over sharon or that he had possibly
192. 6:51killed her while in the hospital
193. 6:53many came to that same conclusion
194. 6:56especially when her co-workers had been
195. 6:58the ones to pay for her headstone
196. 7:00rather than frank frank soon contacted
197. 7:04life insurance companies
198. 7:06to claim the 80 000 policy he had taken
199. 7:09out on sharon
200. 7:10only a few months prior to her death
201. 7:14the problem was that frank frequently
202. 7:15used aliases
203. 7:17and so the social security numbers he
204. 7:19provided never matched his name
205. 7:22after a few tries he finally provided
206. 7:24his real name
207. 7:26frank delano floyd it was then that all
208. 7:29of frank's lies began to unravel
209. 7:33it turned out that he had quite the
210. 7:34criminal history
211. 7:36when frank was 19 in 1962
212. 7:39he was convicted of abducting and
213. 7:41assaulting a four-year-old girl
214. 7:44which resulted in him being sentenced to
215. 7:46serve 10 to 20 years in prison
216. 7:49however he escaped the mental hospital
217. 7:51where he was first placed
218. 7:53by stealing a vehicle frank's shocking
219. 7:56story was only beginning
220. 7:58as the day after his escape he robbed a
221. 8:01bank
222. 8:02and was subsequently captured again
223. 8:05in 1972 frank was released
224. 8:08but almost immediately he tried to
225. 8:10abduct a woman from a gas station
226. 8:13and was once again arrested this time
227. 8:16however
228. 8:17he paid his bail but skipped his court
229. 8:20date
230. 8:20a federal warrant was issued for his
231. 8:22arrest but he quickly vanished
232. 8:25and began using fake names while on the
233. 8:27run
234. 8:28that is until he finally had to give his
235. 8:31real full name to the life insurance
236. 8:33company
237. 8:35frank attempted to flee from authorities
238. 8:37but he was soon captured in georgia
239. 8:40and placed in prison to finish his
240. 8:42sentence
241. 8:43for the friends of sharon they felt that
242. 8:45frank's arrest
243. 8:46was a way to serve justice to her
244. 8:49untimely death
245. 8:50[Music]
246. 8:52during this time frank had reportedly
247. 8:54given michael to social services before
248. 8:56he went on the run
249. 8:58and michael was soon put into the foster
250. 9:00care system
251. 9:01where he was placed with a loving family
252. 9:04however
253. 9:05everyone was shocked by the little boy's
254. 9:07behavior as he appeared to be non-verbal
255. 9:10and would only scream and moan to
256. 9:12communicate
257. 9:14frank insisted he was michael's father
258. 9:16and so the child was frequently brought
259. 9:18to visit him
260. 9:19while incarcerated when michael showed
261. 9:22hesitance to visit frank
262. 9:24a dna test was eventually performed
263. 9:27even though frank initially resisted it
264. 9:30was discovered
265. 9:31that despite what frank said michael was
266. 9:34not his biological child
267. 9:36and so the visits were stopped but this
268. 9:39shocking story doesn't end here
269. 9:42and it was far from over when frank was
270. 9:45finally released from prison in
271. 9:47september of 1994
272. 9:49after serving four years he started
273. 9:52stalking michael and his foster parents
274. 9:54in oklahoma
275. 9:56he knew he would never be given custody
276. 9:58of the child
277. 9:59and so he devised a plan to take him
278. 10:03on september 12 1994 frank showed up at
279. 10:06michael's elementary school
280. 10:08and demanded to see the principal james
281. 10:10davis
282. 10:12when he wasn't allowed to take michael
283. 10:14frank pulled out a gun
284. 10:16and threatened davis michael was finally
285. 10:19collected
286. 10:19all without alerting anyone at the
287. 10:21school and frank forced the principal
288. 10:24under gunpoint to take the two of them
289. 10:26to an area
290. 10:27a few miles from the school grounds
291. 10:30there frank tied davis to a tree leaving
292. 10:33him
293. 10:34unharmed and fled with michael in davis
294. 10:37truck
295. 10:38when the abduction was finally known a
296. 10:40frantic
297. 10:41search began but it would take two long
298. 10:44months
299. 10:44for anything to be discovered frank was
300. 10:48found in louisville kentucky
301. 10:49and arrested but there was no sign of
302. 10:52michael
303. 10:53even after extensive searches there was
304. 10:56no trace of what had happened to the
305. 10:58little boy
306. 10:59and frank refused to tell anyone talking
307. 11:02about michael to the police
308. 11:04frank stated it's none of your business
309. 11:07where he is nor do i care how much any
310. 11:09of you in oklahoma miss him or
311. 11:11love him the first of many twists was
312. 11:15revealed during frank's trial for
313. 11:17kidnapping michael
314. 11:18in 1995 skeletal remains were found
315. 11:22covered in vines in pinellas county
316. 11:23florida
317. 11:25the remains weren't immediately
318. 11:26identified but an investigation
319. 11:29determined that the victim had died from
320. 11:31a beating
321. 11:32and two gunshot wounds to the head later
322. 11:35that year
323. 11:36a mechanic in kansas purchased the truck
324. 11:38at an auction
325. 11:39and inside he found a large envelope
326. 11:42filled with
327. 11:4297 photographs depicting a woman who had
328. 11:45been beaten
329. 11:46and bound the truck had once been in the
330. 11:49possession of frank floyd
331. 11:51who had stolen it while he was passing
332. 11:53through the area in 1994.
333. 11:56before eventually abandoning it the
334. 11:59photos were compared to the unidentified
335. 12:01remains
336. 12:02and a wound to the photographed woman's
337. 12:04cheekbone matched one on the recovered
338. 12:07skull
339. 12:08the skeleton was soon named as belonging
340. 12:10to cheryl commesso
341. 12:13frank was convicted for kidnapping
342. 12:15michael who still hadn't been found
343. 12:17but was classified as missing and he was
344. 12:20consequently sentenced to 52 years in
345. 12:23prison
346. 12:24he then went on trial for the murder of
347. 12:26cheryl commesso
348. 12:27where he was found guilty and sentenced
349. 12:29to the death penalty
350. 12:32but the photos uncovered in the truck
351. 12:34revealed something else
352. 12:35even more shocking bringing to light
353. 12:37another twist
354. 12:38in this case the pictures also showed
355. 12:42frank assaulting a young girl
356. 12:44but these images were much older than
357. 12:46the ones of cheryl
358. 12:47a search began to find the identity of
359. 12:50the girl
360. 12:52this is where the case took an alarming
361. 12:54turn
362. 12:55it wasn't until 2014 that sharon's true
363. 12:59identity was officially uncovered
364. 13:02to find the truth about sharon and the
365. 13:04pictures we have to go back
366. 13:06after being released from prison and
367. 13:09while he was on the run for attempted
368. 13:10abduction
369. 13:11frank got married in the mid-1970s to
370. 13:14sandy chipman
371. 13:16at the time he had used the alias
372. 13:18brandon williams
373. 13:20and so sandy hadn't known who he really
374. 13:22was
375. 13:23the marriage was far from romantic
376. 13:26especially as it had begun with them
377. 13:28tying the knot at a truck stop
378. 13:30sandy had four kids at the time and she
379. 13:33herself
380. 13:34didn't have the cleanest record she left
381. 13:37her kids in frank's care
382. 13:38when she had to spend 30 days in jail
383. 13:41after being caught
384. 13:42passing bad checks when sandy was
385. 13:45finally released from prison
386. 13:47she found that her house was empty and
387. 13:50her children
388. 13:51gone it appeared that frank had taken
389. 13:54them
390. 13:54and moved it took sandy years to figure
391. 13:57out where her children had ended up
392. 13:59but she eventually found two of her
393. 14:01daughters alison and amy
394. 14:04living with a social services group
395. 14:06despite this
396. 14:08sandy couldn't locate her oldest
397. 14:09daughter suzanne
398. 14:11or her son phillip her son was
399. 14:13eventually found when as a grown man
400. 14:16philip came forward and had a dna test
401. 14:18to reveal that they were related
402. 14:21frank had put him up for adoption but
403. 14:23what happened to sandy's oldest daughter
404. 14:26is even more shocking sharon marshall's
405. 14:29real name
406. 14:30was suzanne marie savarkis and she was
407. 14:33the daughter
408. 14:33of sandy chipman in a truly alarming
409. 14:37twist
410. 14:38frank had taken sandy's children and
411. 14:40split them up
412. 14:41over different social services groups
413. 14:43but ray suzanne
414. 14:44is his own daughter frank and suzanne
415. 14:47moved frequently
416. 14:48and across several different states
417. 14:51frank told many different stories to
418. 14:53those around him
419. 14:54about how he had come to care for the
420. 14:56young girl but in most
421. 14:58he claimed to have rescued her when she
422. 15:00was abandoned by her parents
423. 15:03at this time he was calling her by the
424. 15:05alias of
425. 15:06tanya hughes yet by the time that the
426. 15:09young girl graduated from high school
427. 15:12she was going by the name of sharon
428. 15:14marshall
429. 15:15it turns out that sharon was kidnapped
430. 15:18as a child by frank
431. 15:19her own stepfather who raised her
432. 15:22frequently assaulted her
433. 15:23later married her when she was an adult
434. 15:26possibly killed her
435. 15:27and then kidnapped her child after she
436. 15:30died
437. 15:32it was a twist that investigators found
438. 15:34too unbelievable to be real
439. 15:36and yet it was true also revealed in
440. 15:402014
441. 15:41was that after almost 20 years of lies
442. 15:44frank finally admitted to what many had
443. 15:46suspected by this time
444. 15:48that he had murdered michael by shooting
445. 15:51him while on the run
446. 15:52he had hidden his body along interstate
447. 15:5535
448. 15:56but an intensive search didn't reveal
449. 15:58anything
450. 15:59it was later concluded that michael's
451. 16:01body may have been eaten by
452. 16:03wild hogs in the area frank floyd was
453. 16:07never found guilty of sharon's murder
454. 16:09though popular consensus believes he is
455. 16:11also guilty of this crime
456. 16:14to this day he refuses to talk about
457. 16:16sharon's death
458. 16:18frank is still awaiting his penalty for
459. 16:20cheryl's murder on
460. 16:22death row
461. 16:25our next case is no less shocking or
462. 16:27tragic
463. 16:29on august 24th 1980 gregory vilman was
464. 16:33born to his parents
465. 16:34jean-marie and christine vilman the
466. 16:37family lived in la panch servaion in
467. 16:40eastern france
468. 16:41where jean-marie worked as a factory
469. 16:43foreman after being promoted
470. 16:46the couple had just moved into a newly
471. 16:48built home
472. 16:49soon before welcoming their bright baby
473. 16:51boy
474. 16:52by all accounts the family was happy and
475. 16:55successful
476. 16:56but then things took a startling turn
477. 17:00the vilmon family began receiving
478. 17:02anonymous threatening letters and phone
479. 17:04calls
480. 17:05promising revenge against jean-marie
481. 17:08the letters and calls never specified
482. 17:10what the sender wanted revenge for
483. 17:13only that they were seeking it over four
484. 17:16years the threats continued
485. 17:19and expanded to include jean-marie's
486. 17:21parents as well
487. 17:23then on october 16th 1984
488. 17:27while playing in the garden
489. 17:28four-year-old gregory
490. 17:30disappeared christine quickly noticed
491. 17:33that her son
492. 17:34wasn't on the front yard anymore and
493. 17:36called the police
494. 17:39as the police began their search
495. 17:41christine drove around the nearby small
496. 17:43village in a panic
497. 17:45no trace of the four-year-old could be
498. 17:47found
499. 17:49as the search continued gregory's uncle
500. 17:51received an anonymous phone call that
501. 17:53stated
502. 17:54i've kidnapped the boy i've strangled
503. 17:57him and i've thrown him in the river
504. 17:58bayonne i have my revenge
505. 18:02the next day before anything could be
506. 18:04further explored
507. 18:06jean-marie found a letter that appeared
508. 18:08to be posted to them
509. 18:09at the time gregory was taken it read
510. 18:13i hope you die of grief boss your money
511. 18:16won't bring back your son
512. 18:18here's my revenge you
513. 18:22gregory's body was found later that day
514. 18:24near docel
515. 18:25in the bayonne river only seven
516. 18:28kilometers from his home
517. 18:30he had been drowned with his hands and
518. 18:32feet bound and his wool hat pulled over
519. 18:35his face
520. 18:36his family was absolutely devastated
521. 18:41the case of gregory's murder which
522. 18:43horrified the french public
523. 18:44became known as the affair de gregory
524. 18:48the killer was soon referred to as le
525. 18:51carbo
526. 18:52or the crow based off of a famous french
527. 18:54film that had a similar theme to the
528. 18:56threatening notes the family had
529. 18:58received
530. 19:00after intense investigation police had a
531. 19:03suspect
532. 19:04narrowed down by handwriting experts who
533. 19:06analyzed the ominous letters
534. 19:08and a key witness statement in 1985
535. 19:12bernard laroche jean-marie's cousin was
536. 19:15arrested and questioned
537. 19:17based on a statement from his
538. 19:18fifteen-year-old sister-in-law
539. 19:21but laroche denied being the crow and
540. 19:24soon his sister-in-law
541. 19:25took back her statement saying that it
542. 19:28had been coerced
543. 19:30even though laroche was eventually
544. 19:32cleared and freed
545. 19:33jean-marie stood in front of reporters
546. 19:36and made a vow that he believed laroche
547. 19:38was guilty of murdering his son
548. 19:40and that he would kill him but the case
549. 19:44took another shocking twist
550. 19:46on march 25th 1985 when the handwriting
551. 19:50experts determined that gregory's own
552. 19:52mother christine
553. 19:53may have written the threatening letters
554. 19:56only four days later jean-marie went to
555. 19:59laroche's work
556. 20:00determined to avenge the death of his
557. 20:02son and not believing that his wife was
558. 20:05guilty
559. 20:07there he shot and killed his own cousin
560. 20:09as he was leaving the building
561. 20:12jean-marie was convicted of murder and
562. 20:14sentenced to five years in prison
563. 20:17in july of the same year christine was
564. 20:20charged with the murder
565. 20:21of their son she was pregnant with twins
566. 20:24at the time
567. 20:25but went on a hunger strike to protest
568. 20:27her innocence
569. 20:29for 11 days she refused to eat and she
570. 20:32was eventually freed after an appeal
571. 20:34found that she had been convicted with
572. 20:36flimsy evidence
573. 20:37and no real motive however
574. 20:40christine's tragedy wasn't over yet
575. 20:43as she was released she collapsed and
576. 20:46reportedly miscarried one of her babies
577. 20:49she wasn't officially cleared of all
578. 20:51charges until 1993
579. 20:54and jean-marie was released from prison
580. 20:56after serving only two and a half years
581. 20:59in 1987. after so much turmoil
582. 21:03the wilmon family was still no closer to
583. 21:06knowing who had killed gregory
584. 21:09for decades after gregory's death the
585. 21:11case continued to haunt france
586. 21:14and was reopened and re-examined with
587. 21:16tests done to the letters
588. 21:18the rope used to bind him and dna
589. 21:20testing on gregory's clothing and the
590. 21:22saliva on the stamps used to post the
591. 21:25letters
592. 21:26but it was no use all was found to be
593. 21:29inconclusive
594. 21:31in 2017 the case was once again
595. 21:35reopened and this time there was new
596. 21:37evidence which resulted in three arrests
597. 21:40once again shocking france gregory's
598. 21:44great aunt
599. 21:44great uncle and his aunt were taken in
600. 21:47for questioning
601. 21:48along with others including more family
602. 21:51members
603. 21:52the ant was eventually released but the
604. 21:55great aunt
605. 21:56and great uncle refused to speak to
606. 21:58police at all
607. 22:00none were convicted a different tragedy
608. 22:03soon struck when the magistrate
609. 22:06jean-michel lambert
610. 22:07who was in charge of the first
611. 22:09investigation took his
612. 22:10own life because of the pressure and
613. 22:13criticism he faced with the case still
614. 22:15being unsolved
615. 22:1633 years after gregory's death
616. 22:19[Music]
617. 22:20the why of gregory's death has never
618. 22:22been answered
619. 22:23but some cite jealousy within the wilmon
620. 22:26family as a possible cause
621. 22:28and others suggest that the fact that
622. 22:30the letters called jean-marie
623. 22:32boss could mean it had to do with his
624. 22:34work
625. 22:35either way no real evidence or suspect
626. 22:38has been found
627. 22:40but almost everyone in the vilmon family
628. 22:42has been under suspicion
629. 22:44at some point in december of 2020
630. 22:48the case was once again reopened but
631. 22:51this time police are determined to
632. 22:53uncover the real
633. 22:54identity of the crow once and for all
634. 22:57new interviews have been conducted and
635. 23:00police are relying on a brand new
636. 23:02technology called
637. 23:03stylometrics which looks at the style
638. 23:06syntax
639. 23:07punctuation and turns of phrase used in
640. 23:09the threatening letters to identify the
641. 23:12killer
642. 23:13a new suspect has been identified but so
643. 23:16far
644. 23:16has not yet been named it appears that
645. 23:20the murder of gregory vilman
646. 23:22may soon be solved
647. 23:26our next case is not a normal missing
648. 23:28person's case
649. 23:29and has a twist that seems too
650. 23:31surprising to possibly be true
651. 23:34and yet it is nicholas barclay was born
652. 23:38december 31
653. 23:391980 as the youngest to two older
654. 23:42siblings
655. 23:43he had a rather normal childhood in san
656. 23:45antonio texas
657. 23:47but as a pre-teen he started to develop
658. 23:49a reputation
659. 23:50as a troubled kid nicholas was known to
660. 23:54have a history of fighting physically
661. 23:56and verbally with his mother
662. 23:57skipping school threatening his teachers
663. 24:00stealing shoes
664. 24:02and even breaking into a convenience
665. 24:04store
666. 24:05by only 13 nicholas had a juvenile
667. 24:08criminal record for his antics
668. 24:10and allegedly three tattoos that his
669. 24:12friends had given him with an
670. 24:13unsterilized needle
671. 24:16at some point nicholas was diagnosed
672. 24:18with attention deficit disorder
673. 24:21his mother was reportedly so exasperated
674. 24:24with his demanding supervision
675. 24:26that she asked her older son jason to
676. 24:29come and live with her to aid in the
677. 24:31young boy's caretaking
678. 24:33on june 13th 1994 nicholas called home
679. 24:37looking for someone to pick him up after
680. 24:39playing basketball in his neighborhood
681. 24:42his older brother jason answered the
682. 24:44phone but refused to wake up their
683. 24:47mother who had been working
684. 24:48late nights and instead told nicholas to
685. 24:51walk home
686. 24:52but he never arrived unfortunately
687. 24:56with nicholas's reputation few believed
688. 24:59something was
689. 25:00wrong when the 13 year old couldn't be
690. 25:02found
691. 25:03most were inclined to believe he had run
692. 25:05away and he would return at some point
693. 25:08soon this theory was given credence by
694. 25:11the fact that the day after he vanished
695. 25:13he had a court hearing to decide if he
696. 25:15would be sent to a rehabilitation center
697. 25:18but still after not returning for longer
698. 25:21than normal
699. 25:22and with his mother's pleading an
700. 25:24investigation to find nicholas
701. 25:26was finally started for months there was
702. 25:30no sign of him
703. 25:31the only clue was three months after
704. 25:33nicholas's disappearance when jason
705. 25:35called the police to say that he could
706. 25:37hear his younger brother
707. 25:39breaking into their garage yet when
708. 25:41police arrived
709. 25:43there was no evidence of forced entry
710. 25:45nor
711. 25:46any sign of nicholas but they couldn't
712. 25:48understand
713. 25:49why jason would lie about such a thing
714. 25:52after years past the barclay family
715. 25:55started to come to terms with the fact
716. 25:57that they may never see nicholas again
717. 26:00that is until this case took a
718. 26:02surprising and unusual turn
719. 26:06few missing children's cases end in the
720. 26:08child being found
721. 26:10and yet in 1997 three years after he
722. 26:14went missing
723. 26:15the barclay family was told that
724. 26:17nicholas had been found alive
725. 26:19and safe despite this joyous news
726. 26:23there was something rather strange about
727. 26:25the phone call
728. 26:26nicholas was said to have been found in
729. 26:28lenati spain
730. 26:30after having been taken by a child
731. 26:32trafficking ring
732. 26:33that had moved him all the way to europe
733. 26:36after years of being held captive
734. 26:38nicholas had managed to escape
735. 26:41the police told the barclays that
736. 26:43nicholas had been forced to speak
737. 26:45only french for the three years he was
738. 26:47gone
739. 26:48and had been hurt during his time away
740. 26:50from them kerry
741. 26:52nicholas's older sister flew to spain to
742. 26:55identify and retrieve
743. 26:56her missing brother things did not go as
744. 26:59planned though
745. 27:00as nicholas appeared afraid of his
746. 27:02sister especially the fact that she
747. 27:05might not recognize him
748. 27:06and force him to remain in spain when he
749. 27:10finally allowed carrie to come and see
750. 27:12him
751. 27:12he kept a baseball hat and sunglasses on
752. 27:15yet carrie said that she knew he was her
753. 27:18brother
754. 27:19the two spent some time together to get
755. 27:21reacquainted
756. 27:23as nicholas claimed that he had very
757. 27:25little recollection of his life
758. 27:27before being taken as his mind had
759. 27:29blocked it out
760. 27:30as an emotional response when carrie
761. 27:33showed him family photos
762. 27:35nicholas appeared to remember certain
763. 27:37things and people
764. 27:38such as asking her if grandpa was still
765. 27:41in
766. 27:43before he was allowed to return home
767. 27:44with carrie though
768. 27:46nicholas had to pass a test where the
769. 27:48police showed him family photos that
770. 27:50carrie hadn't gone over with him
771. 27:52and he had to correctly identify the
772. 27:54people in them
773. 27:56nicholas only made one small mistake
774. 27:59and so he was allowed to return home to
775. 28:01texas with carrie
776. 28:04even though the barclays were delighted
777. 28:06to finally have nicholas back
778. 28:08there were a few things that they
779. 28:10couldn't ignore
780. 28:11one being the most obvious which was the
781. 28:14fact that their brother had been blonde
782. 28:16with blue eyes
783. 28:17when he was taken but the boy who came
784. 28:19back from spain
785. 28:21had dark hair and brown eyes
786. 28:24nicholas had an extraordinary
787. 28:25explanation for his change in appearance
788. 28:28he said that to keep his identity a
789. 28:30secret the people who had taken him had
790. 28:33performed experiments to change his hair
791. 28:35and eye color
792. 28:37so that no one would recognize him as
793. 28:39nicholas
794. 28:40he also spoke with a heavy french accent
795. 28:43but this was explained away with his
796. 28:45story of being forced to only speak
797. 28:47french for the three years
798. 28:50the family was so relieved to finally
799. 28:52have nicholas home
800. 28:53that they actively ignored some of the
801. 28:55things authorities raised concerns about
802. 28:58and even told investigators to close the
803. 29:01case
804. 29:02a film crew heard about the amazing
805. 29:04story and asked to follow the barclays
806. 29:06around
807. 29:07to document how nicholas was adjusting
808. 29:10to returning to his family
809. 29:12they agreed and that was when everything
810. 29:15started to fall apart
811. 29:17a local private detective was working
812. 29:19with the crew
813. 29:20and became increasingly suspicious of
814. 29:22the french-speaking
815. 29:23dark-haired nicholas he began his own
816. 29:26investigation
817. 29:27and took a picture of nicholas's ears to
818. 29:29compare to earlier photos
819. 29:32he found that they didn't match and his
820. 29:35ears don't age or
821. 29:36change he took his concerns to the
822. 29:38authorities
823. 29:40by february of 1998 after nicholas was
824. 29:43back living with the barclays for five
825. 29:46months
826. 29:46the fbi became involved when they
827. 29:49obtained a court order to investigate
828. 29:51when nicholas's fingerprints and dna
829. 29:54were taken
830. 29:54it was determined that the man the
831. 29:56barclays believed to be their nicholas
832. 29:59was actually a 23 year old frenchman
833. 30:02named frederic pierre bourdon frederik
834. 30:06was a notorious con artist with over 500
835. 30:09different identities
836. 30:10and the nickname the chameleon despite
837. 30:14this shocking revelation
838. 30:15the barclays refused to believe that
839. 30:18frederick wasn't nicholas
840. 30:20even when in court frederick admitted to
841. 30:22being an imposter
842. 30:24and pleaded guilty to passport fraud and
843. 30:26perjury
844. 30:28he was imprisoned for six years
845. 30:31questions swirled around this revelation
846. 30:34where was the real nicholas how had the
847. 30:37barclays been fooled
848. 30:39and why did frederik do it
849. 30:42though this case is utterly shocking the
850. 30:44imposter
851. 30:45is not the only twist investigators were
852. 30:49concerned by the barclays behavior
853. 30:51during the entire incident
854. 30:53and their willful acceptance of frederik
855. 30:56frederique himself later weighed into
856. 30:58the controversy
857. 30:59saying that even he couldn't believe
858. 31:01that the barclays accepted him so easily
859. 31:04rousing even more suspicion of the
860. 31:06family
861. 31:08frederick even claimed that the barclays
862. 31:10knew he wasn't nicholas
863. 31:12but that they had all pretended and
864. 31:13played along with his scheme
865. 31:16and he couldn't understand why he
866. 31:19reported that when he met carrie
867. 31:21she had fed him knowledge about the
868. 31:22family telling him who
869. 31:24everyone was and what to remember
870. 31:28she had allegedly helped him pass the
871. 31:30police's test
872. 31:31before being allowed to go to the u.s
873. 31:34frederick also said that jason had never
874. 31:36accepted him
875. 31:37nor pretended to in fact all he had said
876. 31:40to frederik upon meeting him was
877. 31:43good luck the phone call jason had made
878. 31:46three months after nicholas disappeared
879. 31:48suddenly became a clue as police said
880. 31:51that those types of calls aren't unusual
881. 31:54when someone has been murdered
882. 31:56as the murderer often attempts to make
883. 31:58it seem like the victim may still
884. 32:00be alive after killing them
885. 32:03and this is exactly what the private
886. 32:05investigator in frederick believe
887. 32:07happened
888. 32:08he believes that the family accepted him
889. 32:10so willingly
890. 32:11because they had killed nicholas or
891. 32:13jason had
892. 32:15and were more than happy to cover it up
893. 32:17by claiming
894. 32:18he was the real nicholas before jason
895. 32:21could be investigated
896. 32:23he died from a drug overdose it is
897. 32:26reported that he had long been battling
898. 32:28a cocaine addiction no other evidence
899. 32:31appeared
900. 32:32and the case went cold frederick
901. 32:34finished his jail sentence
902. 32:36and went on continuing to steal
903. 32:38identities across europe
904. 32:41nicholas has still never been found
905. 32:44but his story has inspired the popular
906. 32:46netflix documentary
907. 32:48the imposter