Raising Suspicions
“The ears were close, but they didn’t match,” Parker said, he also called several ophthalmologists and asked if it was possible for eyes to be changed from blue to brown by injecting chemicals. Obviously, the doctors said no. Parker also spoke to a dialect expert who told him that even if someone was held in captivity for three years, he would regain his native accent quickly.
Parker passed on his suspicions to the authorities, despite the fact that the San Antonio police already declared that “the boy who came back claiming to be Nicholas Barclay is Nicholas Barclay.” Worried about a dangerous stranger living with the Barclay family, Parker called Beverly and told her what he discovered. “It’s not him, Ma’am. It’s not him.”