Officially, the study went on for a decade however, said Wardle, “it’s clear from some of the study records that the scientists continued to follow from a distance and collect data on the triplets’ progress for many years after this.” “It appears there were at least four a year for the first two years and a minimum of one visit per year after that,” said the film’s director, Tim Wardle. Peter Neubauer, a prominent child psychologist who had worked closely with Sigmund Freud’s daughter, Anna. And they could have helped … and didn’t.’īefore the babies were placed in their adoptive homes, the agency had told the prospective parents that the children were part of a “routine childhood-development study.” The parents say it was strongly implied that participation in the study would increase their chances of being able to adopt the boys.įor the first 10 years of their lives, the siblings were each visited by research assistants led by Dr. ‘Those who were studying us saw there was a problem happening. None of the adoptive parents knew of the other brothers. Split up at 6 months by the now-defunct Manhattan adoption agency Louise Wise Services, the boys were raised within 100 miles of each other. The triplets were born to a teenage girl on July 12, 1961, at Hillside Hospital in Glen Oaks, NY. “Three Identical Strangers” chronicles a story so wild that, as Shafran says in the film, “I wouldn’t believe if someone else was telling it.” And once the long-lost siblings found each other, their story became even more shocking as they discovered they had been part of a decades-long psychological experiment that had controlled their destiny. He called Galland’s house and got his mother, who said: “Oh my God, they’re coming out of the woodwork!” Months later, David Kellman, a student at Queens College, saw a news story about the reunited twins and recognized his own face in the photos. When the door opened, Shafran says in the film, he saw his own face staring back at him: “It was like everything faded away, and it was just me and Eddy.”īut as he would soon discover, it wasn’t. That day, Shafran and Domnitz drove to the New Hyde Park, LI, home where Galland lived with his adoptive parents. Shafran was stunned to hear a voice identical to his own on the other end of the line - and decided he couldn’t wait to meet his “new” brother. He knew Galland was also adopted, and he called him right away. Finally, a fellow student, Michael Domnitz, connected the dots after asking if Shafran was adopted: “You have a twin!” he said.ĭomnitz was a friend of Edward Galland, who’d dropped out of Sullivan the previous year. When 19-year-old Robert Shafran drove from his home in Scarsdale, NY, to the Catskills for his first day at Sullivan Community College in 1980, he was shocked to find that everyone already knew and adored him. This article contains spoilers for the documentary “ Three Identical Strangers,” opening Friday. Gay 'throuple' hopes to be second in US to officially be parentsĪdoption rights activist recalls crusade to access birth records I feed my 12 kids one big dish in a baby pool - haters say I'm 'vile' and 'insane' Dad who claims he adopted 6-year-old who was really a violent adult breaks down over 'abuse'
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