Three Identical Strangers is the shocking and incredible story of young men who discover that, after being kept apart their whole lives, they were actually identical triplets.
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It might sound like a soap opera sub-plot, but it’s true, and it’s tragic: brothers and triplets Robert Sharfran, Eddy Galland and David Kellman were separated at birth as a part of a twisted social experiment.
Their story has been told via a documentary called Three Identical Strangers, and here’s what you need to know if you want to tune in as it airs in the UK tonight…
When is Three Identical Strangers on TV?
Catch Three Identical Strangers at 9pm until 11pm tonight on Channel 4. The DVD is also available for pre-order, but it won’t be on general sale until 24 June 2019.
The documentary, which previewed at Sundance Film Festival in 2018, re-traces all of the brothers’ lives, and discovered that they had been monitored as part of the experiment since they were children.
New York psychiatrist Peter Neubauer ran the experiment, and oversaw dozens of newborn twins and triplets being separated and placed in similar households to study the impact of nature versus nurture.
The adoptive parents of each of the boys were never told that the babies were separated triplets – only that their son was part of a study into child development – and they were furious when they found out.
Sadly, one brother, Eddy, ended up committing suicide when he was 33-years-old.
The brothers reportedly discovered a family history of mental illness that was kept from their adoptive parents.
Dr Neubauer insisted he had done the right thing all the way up until his death in 2008, however the two surviving brothers, now 56, have said they were ‘victims’ not ‘participants’.
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