I just watched the documentary last night / today. I'm blown away about how oblivious the family seemed to be - or how they could accept and pretend a stranger was their son. I mean, really- they had clips, bits and pieces of the old news footage in it, and guy didn't even have a slight resemblance to Nicholas even with his horrible hair dying job. There's no way the family didn't know it wasn't Nicholas.
Even being traumatized and hurt from him being missing, there's a point beyond denial about this not being Nicholas - I mean, really. This was just the family playing along.
The older brother thing was weird too, how he apparently just stated "good luck" to the con man, and didn't treat him like Nicholas or pretend that it was him. I feel like he definitely knows what really happened to Nicholas. The investigators (I think?) also stated that the older brother absolutely refused to cooperate in any way with anything relating to his brother. Weird...
I also thought it was weird how the mother and sister denied what the investigators had asked them to do (the sister not coming to pick up the con man from his alleged interview of his false torture and rape because they confirmed it was not Nicholas - and she did anyway, pretending her and the investigators never had such a conversation - and the mother having a full blown fit rolling around on the floor and screaming like a child when asked to provide fingerprints or a blood sample or something) - how strange. She also denied failing the third polygraph essentially, although she passed the first two. When asked about failing the third, she said "I lied about stealing things and stuff, not about Nicholas. I didn't lie about Nicholas. I passed everything that had to do with Nicholas." And then the investigators state that she failed every part of the third polygraph.... Really badly.
At the end, the person who moved into Nicholas's family's old house stated that his dog kept digging in the corner of his backyard but thought nothing of it- dogs will be dogs. But then he said when he was mowing one day, he saw or caught a piece of tarp, tried to pull it up from the yard but it was so old it simply kept tearing and things- but again thought nothing of it because he didn't have a reason to. I'm disappointed that when the private investigator dug there, they found nothing it seemed. (And what a guy! He looks a bit on the older side and he was right along there digging with the young man!)
Edit: some autocorrected words, and missing words
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