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Episode 331 - The Friedmans: A Family Affair

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True Crime

4.5 β€’ 18.2K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 18 January 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The Friedmans were your average upper-middle-class family in β€˜70s America, but everything changed when one day accusations of mass child sexual abuse landed on the father and one son.

What followed was a chaotic investigation of slippery memories, attempted hypnosis, coercive police questioning, disturbing confessions, folk devils and real-life villains – nothing about this case is black-white.

In this episode, we tell you the story of the Friedman family as we know it, not that we can say we know the truth.


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