Keeping Up the Charade
Bourdin began his impersonations as a child, and he has claimed to have assumed at least 500 false identities throughout his life (he is now 45). Three of those identities were of real missing teenaged boys. He had been wanted by Interpol for years. Bourdin is clearly an experienced criminal. He has even written something as creepy as this: “When you fight monsters, be careful that you do not become one.”
Source: Facebook / Frederic Bourdin
When Bourdin heard the story of a distraught American family looking for their son, he easily slipped into the persona. But it wasn’t even his initial idea. Bourdin later admitted that he got the idea when a Spanish cop said that he looked like the missing boy from Texas. He then went down a dark and slippery path. A path he was all too familiar with…