Talk:Capturing the Friedmans

Where are they now?
From reading the article, I can't find out whether Friedman, the Friedman who is the brother of Jesse and the son of Arnold, is accused of being a pedophile or not. It's a bad idea to identify one person by last name when he shares it with two other men!158.38.66.123 16:30, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Jesse Friedman voluntarily pled guilty to numerous charges of sexual abuse after his father also chose to plead guilty rather than stand trial. Had he chose to go through with a trial, Jesse was facing possibly the rest of his life in prison.  He worked out an advantagious plea bargain that included an admission of guilt as well as a confession that his father had molested him.  he made these statements under oath.  Jesse Friedman served 13 years in State Prison and has since been released.  He has now recanted his admission of guilt and is seeking a new hearing of his case based on popular sympathy for his case generated by the film.  He is reported to be attending Hunter College and finds having to comply with Meghan's law annoying. He maintains his previous statements under oath as to his guilt were not truthful.


 * David Friedman, the oldest brother, has changed his name to David Kaye was NOT ever accused of being a pedophile. He works as a child's Birthday Clown called "Silly Billy" in New York City.  In light of his family history, some people find his work with children troubling.  It should be noted that David had been involved in stage magic since long before his father and brother's cases came about.  Still, some people find his hostile clown character disconcerting after seeing the footage of his rages in the film.   His business is still thriving and he maintains a website here:

Silly Billy


 * The middle brother, Seth, was also never accused of any wrongdoing and declined participation in the film. Neither David nor Seth speak to their mother elaine who has since remarried.

172.148.61.130 06:45, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

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Suicide Life Insurance?"

 * Arnold Friedman committed suicide in 1995, leaving a $250,000 life insurance benefit to his son.

I thought life insurance policies didn't cover suicides, how could this occur? Tyciol 12:17, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
 * The film doesn't go into specifics (and since it's in the plot section, we probably don't need to worry about it) Begeun (talk) 03:45, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
 * From personal experience, at least one of my life insurance policies covers death from any cause, including suicide, after the policy has been in effect for 2 years. It doesn't seem that implausible.  &mdash; Arthur Rubin  (talk) 04:24, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

If you pay attention to the movie you'll learn that Arnold's policy allowed payment for suicide if committed AFTER a set number of years. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.160.174.24 (talk) 22:11, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

I concur with the previous comment. I just watched the film again last night (4 Jan 2010) on ABC Channel 2 Tv (Australia). The film explicitly says that the policy excluded suicide in the first 2 years (from memory) but not thereafter. And the film also said that he suicided with an overdose of antidepressants. All this should be in the article IMO. 203.122.223.121 (talk) 01:24, 5 January 2010 (UTC)


 * In the United States, life insurance policies become incontestable due to fraud or suicide after two years. As long as the premiums have been paid and the original owner had good insurable interest, the carrier has to pay out. Uucp (talk) 15:48, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Recent deletion of ELs to page
Recently these three ELs were deleted:


 * Capturing the Friedmans: annotated Bibliography from the Leadership Council on Child Abuse and Interpersonal Violence


 * Additional information on Capturing the Friedmans
 * Case of Arnold Friedman and Jessie Friedman

for the reason: "only marginally reliable or relevant"

The Leadership Council is shown to be a reliable source by their board at : http://www.leadershipcouncil.org/1/us/about.html This board includes many of the top names in the field. The relevancy is that the site is a large annotated bibliography of articles about the movie.

The second site lists a variety of proven facts about the movie.

The third site lists their board at : http://theawarenesscenter.org/board.html with a number of experts in the field of child abuse. The relevancy of the site is that it lists 60 or more articles on the movie and the case. ResearchEditor (talk) 01:55, 24 March 2008 (UTC)


 * The Leadership Council has been shown to be an unreliable source, both as to being biased, and to misquoting its sources. You've been misinterpreting consensus again.
 * The AOL "site" is a personal site, showing "facts" about the movie. Its reliability cannot be confirmed (or denied)
 * The third site is plausible. I'd like to believe that, being Jewish myself, that a Jewish center could put truth above getting the desired result.  However, the board, although it may include "many of the top names in field", it also includes people whose qualification is stated as "survivor of clergy abuse".  I think more evidence would be required before it could be considered acceptable.
 * &mdash; Arthur Rubin (talk) 06:16, 24 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Agree about the AOL cite. I am confused about the statement above about consensus. I didn't mention consensus. At WP:ELNO - Links normally to be avoided,  there is no statement about bias. And I have not seen an example of the Leadership Council misquoting a source. Please cite one. At the awarenesscenter site 12 of the 19 professionals listed are not survivors of child abuse.


 * This is what others have said about the Leadership Council on wikipedia:
 * from Recovered Memory Therapy talk in regard to the Leadership Council:
 * Hm. The board members does look pretty notable. Was there anywhere you thought the link should be added? We'll have to be careful how it's used but given that level of expertise, it could definitely be used for citing some basic info. WLU (talk) 02:32, 4 February 2008 (UTC) I support acceptance of the Leadership Council as a reliable source, after reviewing their site. I agree that it's prefereable to cite the original sources when available. In general, I don't see any reason not to cite Leadership Council when their information is relevant. --Jack-A-Roe (talk) 04:12, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * from repressed memory talk
 * My apologies. That suggests reliablility, although still indicates a clear bias in favor of the accusers, rather than the accused, regardless of accuracy. Their name must remain in the site, rather than being an unadorned title, until a full citation template can be added. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 13:36, 4 December 2007 (UTC)


 * I will be re-adding the two sites to the article as ELs, deleting the third as a compromise. If this compromise doesn't work, we could look into a WP:3O or a WP:RFC. ResearchEditor (talk) 02:35, 31 March 2008 (UTC)


 * You should provide a better justification for the Awareness Center. Any board members whose qualifcation is "survivor of clergy abuse" makes the organization clearly non-professional.  Without a sign of peer-review, I think it falls below the level of reliablility required for an WP:EL, especially in an article which relates to the real people depicted in the film.  Considering that this does refer to real people, unreliable sources in ELs become questionable.  &mdash; Arthur Rubin  (talk) 02:57, 31 March 2008 (UTC)


 * You make a good point above about the Awareness Center. There are two criteria from WP:EL that could apply here:
 * "Sites that contain neutral and accurate material that cannot be integrated into the Wikipedia article due to copyright issues, amount of detail (such as professional athlete statistics, movie or television credits, interview transcripts, or online textbooks) or other reasons."
 * "Sites which fail to meet criteria for reliable sources yet still contain information about the subject of the article from knowledgeable sources." The first criteria appears to apply to the Awareness Center site, since it is predominately large newspaper articles or court documents. ResearchEditor (talk) 03:13, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

New legal activity regarding this case
Read this here 98.118.62.140 (talk) 03:44, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Removed "recent developments" from intro paragraph
More than half of the introductory section concerned later legal developments in the Friedmans' legal case, which is only marginally relevant to this article. That material is better suited to the article about the Friedmans' trial itself, not the article about this documentary. If there is no such article yet (I haven't checked) then feel free to create one. But again, this article is about the film, not the case, so please keep that in mind when making edits here.--Xiaphias (talk) 06:21, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

I agree, but I would go further and remove the recent developments section altogether - this article should be about the film and matters explicitly dealt with by the film. If there is an article about the case it could be moved there. --81.23.54.142 (talk) 00:19, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

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