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really not too hard to figure out

posted 12 years ago by nogard64
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it was very obvious Nicholas was into some bad stuff, I mean how many 13 year olds do you know who has multiple tattoos and stays out that late at night. And its very much probable the older brother Jason knew about it.

My guess is he was hanging out with the wrong crowd, like much older kids, maybe dealing some drugs, and things gone bad maybe with a local or even transient biker gang, and Nicholas was taken, probably kidnapped at first but then killed off somewhere across the border. Just feel sad for the family because eventually his body will turn up.

I'm suspecting the cops knows this too, they know this is what happened to Nicholas thats why they never took too much time and impetus to investigate it.

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[–] munecito337 12 years ago

I didn't think of this before but now that you mention it I can't stop agreeing. This is probably exactly what happened to him.

[–] rph3664 12 years ago

And a 13-year-old having tattoos would have been REALLY unusual in 1994.

(Spoiler) I don't think anyone in his family killed him, but I also think the police didn't expend much energy on looking for him because they realized this was someone the world is quite likely better off without.

[–] czarina-attrition 12 years ago

I think a family member, (the half brother I think) probably killed him, or if he didn't I think the family knows that he is dead and knows or suspects who did it, if they didn't. It was clearly a dysfunctional family and it was so obvious it was not Nicholas. I believe they went along with the rouse because they were trying to deflect suspicion from themselves. What kills me is that the sister, who was the one who went to Spain and claimed him as her brother had the nerve to get mad when it is revealed by the FBI that he was an imposter. The big thing for me is the mother. how can you know that is *not* your child?

[–] mobocracy 12 years ago

The film goes out of its way to portray the family as kind of a run-of-the-mill middle class family when I don't think they were either, run-of-the-mill or middle class.

There had to have been at least a 10 year gap in age between Nicholas and his older sister, maybe even more. The actual mother looked to be in her late 50s at the youngest. Both of them appeared to have seen a lot of hard years.I can't remember if she was mentioned as a half-sister or not (maybe it was the older brother who was a half-brother).

Either way, this family seemed like central casting's idea of a white trash family. Odds are he got caught up in drug deals or other crimes that went sideways on him and he got killed.

The family looks like they had something to do with it because of who they are, not because there's any good reason to link them. The older brother's overdose death look suspicious, but it could have been poor timing.

While I'm sure the cops short-shrifted the kid's disappearance, if the family was involved I'm sure there would have been a bunch of intel on them already regarding their police contacts, family member criminal histories, etc. They would have eliminated the family as a suspect first.

[–] StakkaDakka 12 years ago

my feeling was that he OD'd and the brother was involved, so they made it go away. Claerly a very dodgy family, was there ever any discussion at all about the father?

[–] outterspaces 12 years ago

Yep, totally agree. When a 13 yo is hanging with the wrong people and gets into trouble, the child would most likely look for help from his family. But when the wrong people is the family itself, things become very hard to control and can't tell anyone out of guilt or fear or both. Reminds me of a smaller version of the Stockholm syndrome. I suspected the family long ago. It shows many of the characteristics of other families that have killed their own children.