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posted 11 years ago by DeeS48
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I have been shocked and saddened by many things regarding comments about this doc..... I know this family and wanted to point out a few facts... do with this information as you choose, but a fact is a fact

The Family was the ONLY people looking for Nicholas. He's Mother walked the streets and put up/handed out fliers for 4 yrs. They didn't need to cover any thing up because nobody else was looking for Nicholas, nobody cared except for the family.

Frederic and Frederic posing as a Police Officer terrorized this family for days prior to Carey leaving for Spain. While she was gone the Gibson's 2 children stayed with a friend while Bryan slept on the couch with a loaded gun, because they were told Nicholas's kidnappers knew where they lived and were threating to harm them. Carey had 3 hours sleep in 4 days when she arrived in Spain...where Frederic continued to scare her about his kidnappers.

Jason was in a very controlled Drug ReHab Program when Frederic arrived in Texas, he was unable to have any outside contact during this period. He was able to visit the Family 1 time with a supervisor from the Program. The visit was for less than an hour. Everything Frederic said about this visit is a complete lie, they were never left alone together. Jason struggled with drugs for most of his adult life, some feel was due to horrific burns and scaring he suffered from an accident when his was 13. He's official cause of death was and Accidental Overdose.

Beverly also struggled with drugs off and on. She had been drug free for the 2 years prior to Nicholas's disappearance, and for almost 3 years after. The heart ache of his disappearance eventually lead here back to the drugs. The arguments between Jason and herself were over his drug use. Just a side note, she has been drug free for 12 years now.

Charlie Parker is a Fame Hound. He will do anything to be in front of the camera, to make himself known. This is the best thing that has ever happened to Mr. Parker...he is just eating all this attention up. He told Beverly to her face that he knows she had nothing to do with Nicholas's disappearance, nor anyone else in the family. He thought a man who was Nicholas's Big Brother from the Big/Brother Big/Sister Program was the best suspect in his disappearance.

Frederic is a sociopath, liar and excellent Con Man. He mentally tormented this family the entire 5 months he was with them. You cannot say how you would react to living 24/7 with a Con Man who's number one priority was not to get caught no matter what he had to do or who he had to hurt.

In 4 years no one ever accused anyone in this family of harming Nicholas or being involved in his disappearance. Even the FBI didn't think the family had anything to do with his disappearance, until Frederic, while in jail came up with another lie in the midst of trying desperately to con others while in jail. There is NO case against anyone in Nicholas's family, because there is NO evidence that the family has any part in his disappearance. No one single piece of evidence. Just the words of a Con Man and a PI that will do anything to keep the interviews coming!

I could keep listing fact after fact, but I am done here. I agree with one writer that said the producers should be ashamed of themselves, they should. So much had been written about this from ONLY Frederic's lying mouth. The family thought they would have the chance to say what happened in their words and get Nicholas's name back out there, so maybe, just maybe they could find out what happened to Nicholas. Like all missing person cases, someone out there knows something. But all the got was false accusations, with no proof to back any of it up.

[–] splumer 9 years ago

Thanks for clearing a lot of stuff up that the film didn't really explore. I will aay, though, that the police or FBI always take allegations seriously, especially allegations of murder. They didn't know much (or anything) about Bourdin at that point, so they had to take what he said at face value. Then, if you ask yourself how he could fool a mother into believing that he was her own child, well, it looks pretty suspicious. Had Nicholas' mom or other family member known what had happened to him, why wouldn't they embrace an imposter who would take the heat off of them? (Even though there wasn't any heat)

And put yourself in the police's shoes; would you want to be the cop (or FBI agent) who didn't believe a murder accusation, and then later it turned out to be true? With most missing kids, a family member is responsible. By investigating the family, they were doing their due diligence, AKA covering their asses.

[–] TheManInOil 9 years ago

I thought the movie was fair in letting them present their arguments, and frankly, I believe them.

The people accusing them are a bunch of clowns with no evidence. People who were made to look foolish trying to deflect attention from their mistakes by implying there must be something insidious going on.

It simply doesn't make sense that they'd take this guy in for any reason other than that they desperately wanted to believe he was Nicholas.

[–] hizherz 8 years ago

Mother and son were BOTH drug addicts?

[–] murratuttila 8 years ago

I am sorry to say that nobody can really believe any of the theories. Or take any sides. Because nobody knows what the truth is, but the people truely involved.

This is just a movie or a story to outside people, and trying to solve a mystery is the big thing here. Its not about the real people behind the story.

Watching a movie without an ending is the worst thing. So you try to make one yourself.

And btw, it is really easy to go to a forum saying "Hi! I know this guy, this is the facts".

[–] Noirdame79 (107) 3 years ago

Nicholas wasn't reported missing for three days, and it also wasn't taken seriously when it was reported. He was due to appear in juvenile court on June 14, 1994, where it would be decided if he would go to a juvenile home and/or detention center. As his mother and brother were both heavy drug users and were well-known to local law enforcement (as was Nicholas) for domestic disturbances, it's very possible that Nicholas could have revealed something about his home life at that hearing that would put his mother and brother in serious legal trouble. So right there, is a possible motive for killing him. Jason's violent temper was no secret, in fact, Beverly even called the police on him at least twice in the weeks following Nicholas's disappearance; at one point, he was arrested for becoming aggressive with a police officer. Beverly even kicked Jason out of the house temporarily. I find it interesting how the family continually defends Jason and act is if he wasn't capable of violence (all the while continually portraying Nicholas as a "problem child"), and yet there are police reports that state otherwise. I don't deny that the police dropped the ball in this case when this boy was first reported missing, given that he was troubled and had run away in the past (although was typically only gone for a day or two), but it's a sad but classic example of a child falling through the cracks. No matter how you try to present it, this kid was not being taken care of and was being exposed to things that he shouldn't have been.

Nicholas's teachers were concerned enough about him that Child Protective Services were notified shortly before he disappeared. They saw bruises on his body and suspected child abuse; this fits with the domestic violence (a common occurence, according to neighbors) and regular police visits to the home, as well as Nicholas's friend Kevin Hendricks stating that Jason's presence had a negative effect on Nicholas and his relationship with his mother.

[–] Noirdame79 (107) 3 years ago

Also, the level of denial in the family is strange. They may not be the brightest people in the world, but I don't believe that they were stupid enough to believe that Bourdin was Nicholas. I get the feeling that the sister, Carey, and her family genuinely wanted to believe that the imposter was Nicholas and turned a blind eye to what was actually happening (I have a feeling that they probably did that before Nicholas went missing, regarding the issues in the household). Nicholas was 13 years old, and small for his age, possibly even malnourished. Nobody was looking out for him, which is tragic.

I'll close this post by saying that a missing child being murdered by a family member is not unheard of. In many cases, the child is reported as a runaway, referred to as a troublemaker, etc. Aundria Bowman, Alissa Turney, and Dylan Redwine are examples. All of these kids were being abused and their abusers killed them to keep them from exposing the truth. In the case of Alissa Turney, her stepfather Michael claimed he was the only one looking for her and now he's awaiting trial for her murder.