Capturing the Friedmans Page #2

He says, "There's nothin'

like that here."

And I said,

"You don't recognize me?"

I'd just been at

his door an hour ago.

He goes, "No."

And I took off my jacket, and I

said, "Now do you recognize me?"

"Oh, yeah. Oh, okay.

The magazine is upstairs."

So we went up to his bedroom.

In the top dresser door

was the open magazine.

Well, he thought we would take

the magazine and leave,

and I said, "No, we have

a search warrant."

We're gonna search the whole

house for child pornography."

And around that time

his wife showed up.

I thought they were

searching, like, for

marijuana or something.

I didn't know what they

were searching for,

to tell you the truth.

And I thought

it was a big mistake.

One of the first things

we went to was his office.

And I remember just as I was

about to pull out a drawer,

Mr. Friedman came

rushing in and said,

"Wait. I'll get that for you."

And said, "Here."

This is all that's there."

And it was one piece of mail

from the Netherlands,

but it was child pornography.

And he said, "That's it."

That's all there is."

And I said, "Well, that's

great, Mr. Friedman",

but we're still gonna search."

And he goes, "I don't

understand why you don't go"

when I tell you

that's all there is?"

And I said, "Well,

we don't believe you."

Well, it's not something he

sort of left lying around

on the kitchen table.

He wasn't proud of it,

and he kept it hidden.

He had his office downstairs.

It wasn't, like, right there.

You had to go downstairs

and around the corner

to get to his office.

We used to have

someone that cleaned.

He says, "Don't let

her clean in here."

It's okay. I don't want

my things disturbed."

So all right.

I never went in there.

Then one of our inspectors

moved the piano

that was in that office.

And that's where his stash

of magazines were held,

behind the piano.

And this was Arnold's secret.

He liked to look

at pictures of boys.

And it's not that he

acted on these things.

He just wanted to look at these

pictures and meditate or

And these are listings

of the magazines

that were found

behind the piano.

"Young Boys & Sodomy."

"Incest Case Histories."

something called

"Chicken Pickin's Magazine."

And in addition to that,

we found evidence

of a computer class being

taught there by Mr. Friedman.

And we did seize

some list of names

that we thought

could be students.

I remember walking

in there saying,

"Goddamn. We could

have a problem here."

Just when you think everything

is going to be dull,

something gets dropped

on your lap, you know,

and it turns out to be something

bigger than you ever thought.

What happened was one

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