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The mom killed the kid.....

posted 11 years ago by sockscats
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So much of the story points to that. We are led to believe it might have been the uncle, Jason the mom's brother who lived with her and Nickolas but he has been dead for 16 years so why the need to protect him?

Why would the sister especially go to such great effort to protect a drug addicted older brother who killed her younger brother? She would not. She would protect her own mother though.

The mother had a heroin problem at the time. She has said that Nickolas was very troubled and violent towards her. I doubt it would be premeditated but perhaps she struck him in a rage and he hit his head or something. The brother Jason probably helped do something with the body.

I totally agree with investigator Charlie Parker who believes that the kid was killed in that home. He's trying to find the body but the authorities don't seem to care.

FYI something that was not mentioned in the film but i have read online is that the 1998 death of the uncle Jason by a drug overdose may have been suicide. Charlie Parker believes that his investigation caused this. I wished this was mentioned because it matters.

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[–] sANdi_chEEks 10 years ago

Sounds like you have a more personal connection to this story?

[–] jlprizm86 10 years ago

There's problems and then there's this family. You can call him full of *beep* but at least he noticed something was off unlike the FBI which had more connection to the story then he did.

[–] lornamd-1 10 years ago

We don't know the sister did protect anyone. Maybe she really thought that it was her brother because she wanted to believe it so much. Who says she wouldn't protect her brother? If she loves her brother (Jason was the boys brother, not uncle, believes he's sorry and wants to protect her family from the knowledge that Jason murdered Nicholas she might have. Bottom line is that we don't know.

[–] Illyngophobia 10 years ago

I don't think we're ever going to get closure, since most missing kids don't resurface; and with it being 20 years since he vanished, it's pretty much ice cold.

Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing. -- Orson Welles

[–] veronicalodge71 10 years ago

Jason was Nicholas' brother, not the mom's brother.

[–] MoviemanCin 9 years ago

It certainly is fishy.

Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar, and / or doesn't.

[–] TheManInOil 9 years ago

Yeah. Everything points to it except even a single piece of evidence, any reasonable argument or even common sense. Everything other than that though.

[–] CarlCarlson 9 years ago

I would suspect the kid also tried heroin and OD'd; therefore, killing himself making it easy for them to play dumb and along with the imposter. They won't get found out their lying because they know the child is dead.

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[–] affliction504 8 years ago

LOL. The imposter was out of his mind and people seem to believe that lunatic.

[–] SvenViking 8 years ago

Those were my thoughts also. My take on it here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1966604/board/nest/206842104?p=2&d=218691891#218691891

It's also worth bearing in mind that, if the family knew Nicholas had died (by any means) and therefore weren't fooled by the imposter, all they needed to say after meeting him is "this is clearly not Nicholas." They weren't under any sort of suspicion or investigation. No need to take in a seemingly crazy, potentially-dangerous stranger that looks nothing like Nicholas and bring massive publicity down on themselves (putting him on TV etc.)