There is nothing in the world that you are most familiar with than your family who spends time together day and night, but a suspense case in the United States many years ago has upended this. A 13-year-old American teenager reappears after 3 years of disappearance, but he has completely changed into a different person, not only changing his appearance, changing his hair color, changing his accent, even changing the color of his pupils.
Born in France in 1974 and raised by grandparents, Frederick never felt the warmth of his family. Late one night in 1997, the Madrid Police Department in Spain received a report that witnesses had seen a 14- or 5-year-old teenager huddled in a telephone booth shivering and not answering questions. Police rushed to the scene and took the teenager back to the police station, but he remained silent.
The teenager was Frederick, and the witness who called the police was also him. He had planned all this to enter a children's shelter. The police told him that if he did not speak again, his fingerprints would be taken. Frederick casually made up a story that he was an American who ran away from home and went to Spain, because of the time difference, he could only contact his family at night, and he also asked that no one else be around when he called.
In the evening, Frederick pretended to be a Spanish police officer and called police stations across the United States saying that a missing American teenager of 14 or 5 years had been found here, hoping that the American police would provide information. He described his physical characteristics to the staff across from him, saying it vaguely, so that the other party would give more information and let him choose a more suitable one for him. Just then, Nicholas's name jumped out.
Nicholas, from the United States, was only 13 years old when he disappeared. One day in 1994, after playing basketball with his friends, he called home and asked his mother to pick him up. It was his brother Jason who answered the phone, and Jason didn't want to wake up his mother, who was catching up on sleep, so he asked Nicholas to come back, but Nicholas never came back.
After much thought, Frederick decided that he was going to be Nicholas. In order to make his identity more authentic and believable, he also made up his experiences over the years, lying that he had been kidnapped and abused.
When the Missing Children's Center sent Nicholas's identity documents and color photographs, Frederick realized that Nicholas looked completely different from himself, Nicholas was a little boy with blond hair and blue eyes, and Frederick himself had black hair and brown pupils... Frederick bought hair dye, dyed his black hair blonde, and wrapped himself tightly in a scarf and gloves. He knew he couldn't get by, first, he couldn't imitate a strange boy, and second, he couldn't fool the family he had spent with Nicholas day and night.
Who knows, Nicholas's sister Kelly was so excited when she came downstairs from the shelter that she called Nicholas's name loudly. Frederick finally went downstairs, and without a second's hesitation, Kelly took him in her arms in excitement the moment she saw him, and said with tears in her eyes: "Nicholas, are you afraid that I won't recognize you?" Everything will be fine, and I know it's you. ”
However, it wasn't enough for Sister Light to nod, the judge needed more evidence to confirm his identity, and Frederick was asked to quarantine for a test that showed him a "family photo." There were five photographs, and Frederick revealed the identities of the people in the photographs, only the last one was wrong, but the judge had confirmed that he was Nicholas by this time. Coincidentally, before that, Kelly brought some photos to the "younger brother", some of which happened to be the photos of the judge's test!
Of all the family, only the older brother Jason cared nothing about the lost "younger brother." Jason behaved strangely, he didn't think the man in front of him was Nicholas, he didn't pretend he was, he just said "good luck" to him and left.
Some time later, FBI staff met with Frederick and asked him about the kidnapping. Frederick told them that he had been taken by overseas military forces and had made up a very tragic story, and even the FBI was shocked by the experience he told, they felt that no one could sit down and make up a story with a lot of abuse, details of abuse, and frederick did have many traces of abuse. So despite some doubts, the FBI eventually believed him and took him to a psychiatrist.
Frederick sat at the psychiatrist's desk and repeated the "abuse" he had suffered, and the more the doctor listened, the more he felt that it was not right, because he did not have any changes in posture, heart rate, or pupils when he recounted the terrible memories of abuse, and he could not speak fluent English. Psychologists conclude that he is not American, much less Nicholas.
The FBI staff quickly called her sister Kelly to explain the situation, saying that the teenager is not your brother, we will watch, you do not use the airport to pick him up. But when they got to the airport, they found that Kelly was still waiting there. She acted as if nothing had happened, still chatting with her "brother" and asking him how the trip was going, and the FBI people were stunned. Kelly eventually took him home, and the FBI people were dumbfounded.
The FBI's investigation focused on the man's true identity, and they asked Nicholas's family for a sample of his blood, but Nicholas's mother lay directly on the ground to show her refusal to cooperate. At that moment, the FBI finally discovered the suspiciousness of the family, who had brought a complete stranger into life, and there must have been something to hide.
Also aware of the mistake was Frederick, posing as Nicholas, who began to suspect that perhaps the family had known from the beginning that he was impersonating him, but had concealed it well. He also remembered that when he was in Spain, he knew nothing about Nicholas, and it was the pictures that Kelly brought that made him know everything.
Who the hell is lying?
The FBI continues its investigation. Shortly after, an embassy official from Madrid, Spain, called and said, "We have confirmed his identity." He's not Nicholas, he's Frederick. All the lies collapsed, Frederick finally gave up the struggle, he confessed everything, and told the police that Nicholas's mother had told him that the real Nicholas was not missing, but was killed by his mother and his brother!
Nicholas's mom was tested for lies by the police, passing the first two times, but failing the third. As for his brother Jason, he was indifferent to the matter and refused to provide any information to the police, and died of a drug overdose shortly after.
In this way, the investigation into Nicholas's disappearance was terminated due to lack of evidence, and Frederick, who impersonated him, was sentenced to six years in prison, and Nicholas's whereabouts are still unknown.
#13-year-old#, #Missing#, #换了个人 #
Author: Alice
Editor-in-charge: Master Liu