

In 1997, Bourdin took Barclay's identity and was flown to the United States. Barclay never made it home and has not been seen or heard from since. Nicholas Barclay, aged 13 at the time he went missing, was last seen playing basketball with his friends in his home town of San Antonio, Texas, on 13 June 1994. He never knew his father, who his mother stated was a married Algerian immigrant named Kaci. Early life īorn in Nanterre, Bourdin was raised by his grandparents in Nantes until he ran away and eventually went to Paris. He began his impersonations as a child and claims to have assumed at least 500 false identities, three being teenage missing people. Frédéric Pierre Bourdin (born 13 June 1974) is a French serial impostor the press has nicknamed "The Chameleon".
