The Imposter Page #5

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They would hang out, talk on the phone

and he'd kinda get blushy-red

when we talked about her.

The only person I hadn't met

in the Barclays' family

was, erm, Jason, his other brother,

the brother of, erm, Carey.

And finally he came to see me.

He didn't look at me like Nicholas and he

didn't pretend to look at me like Nicholas

and, er,

he said good luck to me and he left.

We didn't even talk about

what had happened to him over there,

because we felt, like, when the time was right

he would open up to us.

I did not receive any telephone calls

from the family

saying, you know, "Nicholas is back.

Please come over and talk to us.

We need help."

And I felt like it was imperative

that he be interviewed quickly.

So I'd agreed to meet Nicholas

at the San Antonio missing children's centre

to conduct our first interview.

I introduced myself to Nicholas

and then told him why I was there,

and that the purpose of this interview

was to get his account of his kidnapping

and for his assistance

in locating his abductors.

All I knew about Nicholas

was what I had read

on some of the missing posters.

Not that people

can't change in three years,

but this person in general

did not appear to be 16.

He had a shadow of a beard,

a dark beard,

that I doubt if Nicholas would have had

a shadow of a dark beard at the age of 16

since he had blond hair.

He appeared to be quite nervous

and he just seemed very uncomfortable

this entire time.

I told them that, um,

I was taken by military overseas

and I was abducted and put in a van,

then fly over to some places

that I never knew where it was.

That, er, we were kept in a room

with different kids.

They'd get chloroformed,

and, er, they wake up and they're, er...

you know, in a place

they don't know where they're at.

They were subjected by

high-ranking military to sexual abuse.

Every night all of the kids were raped

and molested by men.

These men were American,

Mexican and European.

They broke my hands, especially

my right hand, with a baseball bat.

They kept burning him

and giving him insects to eat.

- We were tortured.

- They broke his fingers.

- His left foot was broken with a crowbar.

- I was raped.

They keep these kids in line

by doing military scare tactics.

We were experimented on.

They would put needles in his eyes.

Headphones on their heads screaming

and yelling, er, different languages.

Spanish kept playing over and over

and a voice kept saying, "You are not you."

If he spoke English, he was beaten.

They moved these kids around

in military planes.

We never saw where we were going.

The boys' identities were changed

by either changing their hair color,

eye color or other ways.

They were always in uniform.

A solution was put in his eyes.

They would sell him for money for sex.

His eye color was changed from blue

to brown by the use of this solution.

The door wasn't shut and I left by that door.

I ran in the big hallway

and there was another door.

Somehow I managed to go outside

and outside I ran, I ran, I ran

and hours after that

I, I discovered that I was in Spain.

We've got a kid here

which is about 14, 15 years old.

He doesn't have no ID.

He's no documents on him

but you can see he's very young.

And he's very scared.

She was professional

but you could see that she was horrified.

This was a horrendous interview

and when I left I was shaken by it

because it had all the horrific,

emotional side effects

that go with listening to such a story.

He knew about this type of activity.

I mean, a normal person

doesn't sit down with a story

and make up horrendous...

that's not what you lie about.

You don't go into detail about torture

and the murdering of children or whatever.

None of that seemed normal.

He was tortured.

I mean, he had torture written all...

He had a broken hand

that was never medically attended to,

he walked with a limp,

erm, he had cigarette burns down the back

of his head to the back of his ankles.

This person is either, erm,

had been the victim himself

or he was a fantastic actor

and I didn't

know which of those titles applied to him.

I let them know that I was very sorry

about what had happened

and we were going to locate

the people who had done this

and put an end to the trauma

that he had been through.

This was the last border.

It's like you...

I won. You know, the game is over.

I had passports, everybody in the family

say I am Nicholas Barclay.

Nobody was investigating me.

Nobody was suspicious that I know.

Hell, I was happy.

I was, you know...

I couldn't believe my luck.

My name is Charlie Parker.

I'm a private investigator.

Hey, how are you doin'?

Say, I want you...

I want you to do something for me.

I got a call back in November and, erm,

from a television producer for Hard Copy

and he said that a boy

who had been missing earlier for four years

had turned up

and he wanted me to track him down

so they could get an interview with him.

First I had to find out where his mother lived.

Found her and then we drove out to

the north of San Antonio to do the interview.

I had repeatedly asked him,

please do not contact the media.

If anything that Nicholas was telling us was true,

if any of it had any accuracy,

and if there was any military officer

possibly involved,

the last thing that we wanted it to be put

was on the front page of the newspaper

or on television

so that that abductor would know

something about our investigation.

This is Eyewitness News at 10.

He disappeared without a trace three years ago.

Tonight a San Antonio boy is back home.

Nicholas Barclay is now 16 years old.

He vanished when he was 13...

Nicholas says he was kidnapped

and taken to Spain.

He says for three years he was repeatedly

drugged, beaten and raped,

all part of a sex slave operation

involving dozens of missing children.

Well, Bob, the FBI is not taking this case lightly...

The reason?

Somehow a 13-year-old boy from San Antonio

ended up in Spain without a passport.

June 19th 1994,

Nicholas got into a fight with his family,

so he came here to Fort Sam Houston

to play basketball.

Two young boys approached him,

they started talking.

The next thing he knew, there was a cloth

over his mouth and Nicholas passed out.

He claims his captors

changed his appearance

to make him unrecognizable.

He was no longer allowed to speak English.

Did they rape you all every night?

Me? No.

Because they didn't rape me every night.

Some of them, they liked more.

Some of the kids they liked more.

They rape them

usually two or three times a week.

I wanted the media's attention, so that

I would make Nicholas even more real,

that people would really believe

that I'm Nicholas

and they would love me even more for that.

They set him up, put a microphone on him

and had the cameras on him

and I moved over behind a booth.

And it was almost fate.

Behind that booth was a picture

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