on this episode of Compelled, we take a look at three identical stranges, the story of triplets that were separated at birth and learned about each other's existence through circumstance and the fallout that happened because of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Identical_Strangers

Three Identical Strangers is a 2018 documentary film directed by British filmmaker Tim Wardle examining the lives of a set of triplets who were separated at a young age and adopted by three separate families, with the adopting families not being informed that each child had brothers, and with the separations being done as part of a scientific experiment to track the development of triplets raised in differing circumstances. The documentary reveals how the brothers discovered each other at age 19, and thereafter sought to discover the circumstances of their separation.[1]

The three brothers were born to a single mother in 1961, and were separated at the direction of psychologist Peter B. Neubauer, and intentionally placed in homes with different economic classes, one blue collar, one middle class, and one upper class. They were raised by their respective adoptive families as David Kellman, Bobby Shafran and Eddy Galland.[2] They discovered each other by chance in 1980, and thereafter became very close, but all three had struggled with depression throughout their lives, which ultimately led to Galland's suicide in 1995.[2]

The film premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival,[3] where it won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Storytelling.[4]

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