In truth, Berchtold drugged the 12-year-old and staged the scene to make it seem as if the two of them had been captured and taken away against their will. And this 10% experience, you cant let it ruin the rest of your life. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? This info was at 17 min left in the doc. Berchtold, played by Jake Lacy, did not just target Jan (Hendrix Yancey and Mckenna Grace), the series makes clear. When I was 10, Bob tried to use the same alien story on me that he had used on Jan Broberg [an earlier victim who was abused by Robert Berchtold from 1972-1976. At one point, she planned on buying a gun and explaining to her sister Susan what was going to happen. Kerry Washington Goes for LaughsAnd TruthIn Hulu Comedy. He wouldn't talk directly to young Broberg, but she would curiously listen to conversations about UFOs that B and her parents had in the kitchen. He even showed up at a speaking engagement of yours with a gun. When the two saw each other again in court, she told him, My goal, Mr. Berchtold, is to educate the public about predators like you. In one, her underwear is clearly visible. It wasnt about Mary Ann. Congratulations on the seriesI definitely understand so much more about your experience. I said, Did you do some deep dive on my dad that I dont even know about? Hes like, No. The series stars McKenna Grace as Jan, along with Jake Lacy as Robert "B" Berchtold, . With a corresponding friend for every family member, the families quickly grew close to one another, and B became like "a second father" to Broberg. In October 1974, Berchtold. Photo: Courtesy Jan Broberg. The cautionary tale Broberg tells about kidnapping today, is that "it's somebody you know, love, and trust, and probably somebody your child knows, loves, and trusts.". Michael has been already been convicted and released for time served, but followup episodes happened, along with an HBO dramatization that appears further down in this list. 18 months later, while out on bail & awaiting trial for kidnapping, Robert Berchtold abducted Jan for the 2nd time, triggering FBI manhunt. I told my husband about what happened but he doesn't want to know the details. Warning: Contains SPOILERS for A Friend of the Family. Berchtold died in 2005, according to an obituary, which says he was a truck driver. He found me at college. But, according to Broberg, both parents retracted their affidavits days after signing them. I moved back to Texas to stay with one of my brothers, and my mother stayed in Utah. He, on some other level, was able to truly do what great actors do, which is to figure out what, What do I want? He found me when I lived in Florida, working for Disney World. Following the incident, he convinced the Brobergs that part of his therapy required him to sleep in the same bed as their 12-year-old daughter Jan while listening to tapes provided by his therapist. How many of Berchtolds alleged victims did you hear from? Its very close in every way to how it truthfully unfolded. The first abduction occurred when she was just 12 years old and the second, two years later, at the age of 14. Both parents claimed in the documentary that if they didnt do this, B would expose a sex act that Bob and B engaged in prior to the kidnapping. I really did find a way to hang up that very heavy coat of abuse and have it be outside of me. Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. After years of intense grooming, Jan started to gain romantic feelings towards Berchtold. Despite the distance, Berchtold kept in contact with Jan, delivering her love letters and secret sets of instructions to meet with him. The Peacock drama miniseries A Friend of the Family shows how Jan Broberg was kidnapped twice when she was a child after her abductor ingratiated himself with her parents. Jans family waited several days before notifying the FBI, and even after doing so were reluctant to accept that Robert Berchtold had actually done anything wrong. Berchtold, a frequent visitor to the Broberg household, orchestrated these heinous acts. Its a surreal experience. I was adopted. After the first kidnapping, her parents were completely unaware of the sexual abuse. The movie includes pictures Berchtold took of Jan as a 12-year-old girl, all straw-colored hair, wide eyes, and freckles. There must have been a lot of girls. I was such a happy girl. My feelings get hurt easily and I have a hard time expressing myself without crying; I'd rather just shut down and stay out of the way. You have to believe victims. NetflixRobert Berchtold had an obsession with his 12-year-old neighbor Jan Broberg, even sleeping in the same bed as her four nights a week. I wonder if he abused her at all? Due to the violence at her book tour, Jan Broberg filed a restraining order against Berchtold, which she was granted for life. The details that follow spiral quickly from strange to appalling. Have you been in touch with them? The altered state of having been abused and how that affects your psyche and your life and your choices and your thinking and your self-worthIm worthless. He convinced Bob and Mary Ann that his subsequent treatment by a psychologist involved spending multiple nights in bed with Jan. Neither one of us was comfortable with him doing it, Mary Ann says, but it was his therapy., The parental behavior that Mary Ann and Bob freely confess to in Abducted in Plain Sight is so bewilderingly naive that the more salacious and peculiar events Borgman goes on to lay out are almost hard to grasp. I guess, in your young head, you think, "This is just the way it is. Filmmaker Skye Borgman left out a scene which featured a meet-up that Mary Ann had with Robert Berchtold in a car park, allegedly involving a firearm and her brother (via Vanity Fair). You can change your choices at any time by visiting your privacy controls. On Aug. 10, 1976, she disappeared again. He anesthetized her with sleeping pills and raped the girl up to maybe 200 times. The following two years, B kept in contact with Broberg, who said she felt she loved him. Which is how those next four years, as you see in the series, unfold, because I really did think [the aliens] would take [my sister] if I didnt do the mission. But, as Welsh described, they were duped in a terrible, terrible way. The man Berchtold saw was not a licensed psychologist his license had been revoked. Between 1972 and 1976 he groomed Broberg and abducted her twice: once at the age of 12 and the second time when she was 14. She brought him to the house for dinner and he seemed nice enough. Im not in contact with them. She recently graduated from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles with a BA in journalism and a minor in film studies. He'd told me that he had slept with her, that he had kidnapped her a couple of times, and that he loved her very much. Not as much as I have been in past years. The 1967 film Guess Whos Coming to Dinner starred Sidney Poitier and Katharine Houghton as a ne, As the open-hearted matriarch Hattie Mae in Tyler Perrys 2022 film A Jazzmans Blues, Amirah Vann demonstrates a great tenderness and fierce love to b, This story includes spoilers for Saint Omer. The story is dramatized. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. The Brobergs were going to call the police until Gail Berchtold, Roberts wife, asked them not to. Much of the outrage targets Jans parents, who participated fully in the documentary, and whose behavior in response to Berchtolds prolonged abuse of their daughter strikes many viewers as shockingly inadequate at best. The "alien" voice, which Bob pretended was coming from the car itself, said that I should be listening to Bob and doing as he told me. The encounter quickly became sexual. I didnt want to marry her, Broberg said. When I woke up and that voice was therepeople often say, How long did it take for you to be brainwashed to believe that [aliens had kidnapped you]. I said, 10 secondswhen I [first] heard the voice [in the RV]. The planting of the seeds is where all of that nefarious grooming and manipulation happened, before that moment. With her parents keeping her apart from Berchtold, she feared that she would have no way of completing the aliens mission. Watch it on Netflix. I was 10 and she was 12. Robert Berchtold, a close friend of the Broberg family who has turned serial child abductor, kidnaps Jan Broberg, age twelve, in 1974. She traveled to meet him, and he begged her to leave her husband and live with him. He didn't have to: my mother let him take me. Our two families, with the popcorn, watched Star Trek and Lost in Space. Thats why I think the documentary was a first step in some ways because it really taught me what was still missing in the conversation. In 'A Friend of the Family,' the Berchtold's had three boys plus a girl Jasper, Joel, Jacob, and Jenny but in real life, they had four boys as well as a girl: Jerry, James, Joseph, Jeff, and Jill. Thats why, she says, they didnt probe more when they knew something had happened. Berchtold then fled with Jan to Mexico, where he married her and asked her parents permission to return to the United States and be legally wed under U.S. law. "That's a story I heard at Christmas time.". She has been writing about entertainment news since she started writing journalistically in high school. Instead, she blames small-town navet and meticulous grooming on the part . I remember there was another girl that he was "seeing" at the time. Berchtold eventually moved to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where he bought a family fun center. He said he wanted me to take a vitamin. I wanted to play in the dirt and toss a football. But Berchtold did not just kidnap Broberg oncehe entrapped Brobergs religious parents in such an elaborate web of trust and shame that he managed to convince the family to drop the most serious charges against him, continue letting him spend time with their young daughter, andin the most shocking twist of allkidnap her a second time when she was 14. Although Berchtold feigned ignorance regarding Jans whereabouts, Welsh and investigators knew he was responsible for her disappearance. It did. Jan, Karen and Susan. I was 9 years old when I first met Bob in 1978. The 91-minute film, originally released in 2017, has captivated an entirely new audience since premiering on Netflix this month. There was definitely relief: Okay. I didn't learn to swim because she was afraid I would drown. Oh my goodness, Mary Ann replies, in a steady, even tone, as if hes just told her that seasonal allergies might be worse than usual this summer, or that two people brought potato salads to the potluck. I don't remember much of that evening. Around the same time, Berchtold went on a drive with Bob Broberg where he complained about his sex life with his wife and expressed that his needs werent being met. Jan, now 56,. The Disturbing Story Of Robert Berchtold, The Pedophile Who Kidnapped And Assaulted His Neighbors Daughter Twice. Between 1972 and 1976, he eventually kidnapped and wed her. If they didnt, she said, then everyone would know about Bob and Roberts sexual exchange. She had that same kind of brightness. Jamie Lee Curtis Is Both Weepy and Giddy About Her First Oscar Nomination. What happened to the Berchtold children? Your family was so close to the Berchtolds for years. Jan has since said that meeting me was "validating." Grace M. Galarraga is a writer based out of Southern California. She strongly continues to spread awareness of Berchtolds crimes through the new drama series. She was kidnapped and sexually assaulted by her neighbor and family friend Robert "B." Berchtold when she was 12 and again when she was 14. My father called the sheriffs department that same night when we didnt show up, she said. Robert Berchtold had an obsession with his 12-year-old neighbor Jan Broberg, even sleeping in the same bed as her four nights a week. The Skye Borgmandirected documentary condensed this tale into 91 minutes. It was so shockingly hard for me. Vanity Fairs 2023 Hollywood Issue Welcomes You to the After-Party of Our Dreams, Inside the New Rights Next Frontier:The American West, The Strange, Sexually Charged Genesis of Gloria Swansons Legendary Memoir, The One Thingthe Royal Family Never Travels Without: Blood, NetflixsMurdaugh Murders Team Say Theyve Uncovered New Crimes, Trumps Relationship With Jared and Ivanka Is About to Get a Lot More Awkward, The Cringey Sexcapades of a Horny Billionaire, What Is Cinema? NetflixJan Broberg works as an actress, known for roles in Everwood and Criminal Minds. We will find the advocacy and the legal ways to put serial predators behind bars. Her saga was admittedly complicated: When she was 12 and living in Idaho in the 1970s, a close family friend and neighbor who was decades older, Bob Berchtold, drove off with her one day, having told Brobergs parents he was taking the child horseback riding. [It was] something that my dad did to every boy I ever dated. Idaho, who quickly become close pals with their new neighbor, Robert Berchtold, and his wife and kids. It was the thing that kept me obedient.. Without the Brobergs as witnesses, the court had no way of proving Berchtold was guilty of anything. We, Yahoo, are part of the Yahoo family of brands. He brainwashed the little girl to believe that she was half alien and half human, and that her mission in life was to have a child with him. You can live in the 90%, which is the rest of your life, and be in charge. When I moved back to Texas, I got a job and I moved on. I really believed it. After returning to her family, Berchtold kidnapped . Monday on "The View," Broberg discussed her childhood and the steps taken by family friend Robert Berchtold, who went by the nickname "B," to manipulate the family and kidnap Broberg twice. Mary Ann was involved in an eight-month affair with B post kidnapping while she was still married to Bob, even though she knew he was her daughters abductor. She was missing for several months, as he was able to trick her parents into believing that he wasn't aware of her whereabouts. As a result of his death, many feel that Robert Berchtold never fully faced justice for kidnapping Jan. Later episodes of A Friend of the Family (whose cast includes Colin Hanks) will cover one of the most astonishing facts about this case which is that Jan Broberg was kidnapped twice by Robert Berchtold within a two-year period. We will do a better job. He would pick me up from school and take me to his place, his motor home, our place or just in the car in the middle of nowhere. But this time you were seeing an actor bring your abuser to life, witnessing two actors portray you during this traumatic period, and seeing actors portray your family. He turned sideways and you could almost see him reaching back to start a tape recorder. Now, Jan said, she sees that it was likely because she wasnt a little kid anymore. Robert Ersol Berchtold, 69, of Logandale, died Nov. 11, 2005. Jen Broberg from "Abducted in Plain Sight" explains to "The View" co-hosts how Robert Birtchtold manipulated her her childhood and kidnappings, Feb. 25, 2019. Jan begged her parents to let her work with Berchtold for the summer. A friend sent it to them. A recording began to tell her the story of how she was half-alien, and the extra-terrestrial species' survival depended on her to procreate with the male companion of their choosing. If she did, he said, her dad would be killed, her sister Karen made blind, and Susan taken in her stead. But six other women came forward with their own stories about Berchtold, and Jan Broberg filed a stalking injunction against him after he was arrested at one of her speaking engagements. You have a cameo in the final episode. [Berchtold] was [close to another family] when he died. I hope theyre doing okay, especially his kids. Either it happened to you, Julie, or it happened to somebody close to you. Jan Broberg went on to be the subject of her mothers retelling of her story, Stolen Innocence: The Jan Broberg Story and was part of the 2019 Netflix true-crime documentary Abducted in Plain Sight, detailing the twisted affair. Of course, my insecurities show, and my anger pops out. On Oct. 17, 1974, Robert Berchtold picked up his young neighbor Jan Broberg from her piano lessons in Pocatello, Idaho, so he could, he claimed, take her horseback riding. Berchtold went from seducing both Bob and Mary Ann, driving them apart while learning their weakness simultaneously. Peacocks new drama miniseries, A Friend of the Family, is based on the real events of what happened to Robert Berchtold and the Broberg family in the 1970s. A few people in the movie vaguely assert that it was the 1970s, and no one really understood what pedophiles were, or that intimate friends and family members could also present a real danger to children. So I didn't feel wanted. Through therapy, she learned to forgive them for not stopping the years of abuse she endured from B. SANTA CLARA, Utah (ABC4 News) - Jan Broberg does not blame her parents for her abductions and rape at the hands of trusted family friend Robert Berchtold- even though many who watched the explosive documentary "Abducted in Plain Sight" on Netflix do blame them. All he ever got was a slap on the wrist, and then he was able to continue as before. As far as the other scenes, I think I really have been able to [separate myself]. She was drugged on numerous occasions; I was only drugged once. (2001), Listen toVFsLittle Gold MenPodcast for Unrivaled Awards-Season Coverage, 2023 Cond Nast. Wish he had gotten help somehow if he indeed suffered terrible abuses himself. As Jan Broberg later described in the documentary Abducted In Plaint Sight, Everyone had a best friend.. Hows your family?. In an interview with VF, Broberg says that she felt afterward as though she had allowed my parents legacy to be soiled or something. "Everybody loved him.". By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. The abuse went on for seven-and-a-half years. The following article contains discussions of sexual violence and suicide. I remember waking up in the morning and not feeling well at all. He was born February 7, 1936, in Tremonton, Utah to Leonard N. and Lucille Grover Berchtold. It is made up of one wild story after another about 12-year-old Jan Broberg who went missing when a family friend, Robert "B" Berchtold, abducted her one sunny afternoon in 1974. In October 1974, Berchtold offered to pick Jan up from her piano lesson and take her horseback riding. Taylor Swifts opening act on her debut album, Trumps Relationship With Jared and Ivanka. Berchtold managed to keep her captive with an elaborate ruseclaiming they had been abducted by aliens, and that Jan needed to cooperate with the aliens (i.e. Berchtold killed himself in 2005, before being sentenced for simple assault, criminal trespassing, and disorderly conductcharges stemming from that conference where he showed up with the gun. [My sister] Karen isnt blind. In time, the Broberg children took to calling Robert Berchtold B, and Jan had started to think of him as a second father. I did this terrible thingthat part took me until that day I hung up the coat. But . In truth, Berchtold drugged the 12-year-old and staged the scene to make it seem as if the two of them had been captured and taken away against their will. Then, when I was 17-and-a-half, I dated a guy who wanted to have a relationship with me. They consulted with me constantly. I think people get [now how] we were so close to the [Berchtold] family.. Broberg said he managed to justify it to her parents (and convince them he hadnt abused her) by saying they werent allowed to cross the border to come back to the U.S. together without being married. More than 50 years ago, Jan was kidnapped and abused by a family friend, Berchtold, who had affairs with both her parents in order to cover up his actions. I dont know why, but I did.. No word and many, many years have gone by and, you know, can you imagine how awful it would be to discover that this was your dad? I was invited into the writers room to give very detailed suggestions that made it just that much more real. He brainwashed her with false narratives in order to sexually abuse her. Mckenna Grace, 16, plays teenaged Jan Broberg opposite pedophile Robert Berchtold (Jake Lacy) in "A Friend of the Family" -- and said she wanted to "vomit from how gross it is." This is happening everywhere right now in 2022. By Nicky Idika. I immediately started to sob and then [had] this elation feeling. Jan has this very colorful story of what happened to her, and none of that happened to me. Berchtold vehemently tried to denounce the book, claiming that they were lying about him and about the truth for a profit. The Corpsewood Manor Murders: A Story Of Satanism, Sex Parties, And Slaughter, Denver Man Convicted Of Gunning A Woman Down With An AK-47 Because Her Dog Pooped Outside His Home, What Stephen Hawking Thinks Threatens Humankind The Most, 27 Raw Images Of When Punk Ruled New York, Join The All That's Interesting Weekly Dispatch. If Jan wasnt pregnant and Susan refused to take Jans place, she was going to shoot Susan and then herself. So if we can find that community of support and do that, then that will not only raise awareness, it will prevent future abuse. Ive met her and talked to her. I made statements and, because I was a minor, I didn't have to testify in court. He was a truck driver and served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. He was raised with half siblings, one of which looked very much like Jan, the "little girl" he said he took care of when his Mother left home when she was sick. Berchtold, who was a local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints leader, drugged and brainwashed Broberg when she was just 12 years old. Her sons were quite a bit older than methe youngest was seven or eight years older than meand I don't remember them being in the house much. It was Jan.. Heidi Brewer on the documentary, A Friend of the Family: True Evil. I wanted to crawl into the backseat and find the tape recorder and Bob got upset with me. That is my goal.. Brewer feels she did not get a chance to properly tell her story. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. All but 45 days of his prison sentence were suspended, and B ended up only serving 10 days in prison. Directed by Skye Borgman, Abducted in Plain Sight begins in the early 1970s in Pocatello, Idaho. 2 . Im so glad youve found relief. But I could see Bob playing the tape, so I didn't believe him. After the chaos of the events, she went on to share her story by speaking at various events and warning people of the dangers of others-even those who seem completely trustworthy. You can never blame them or their family members who didnt know. The day after the series premiered, Broberg says she feels huge relief that a more complete version of the story is available. A staff writer for All That's Interesting, Austin Harvey has also had work published with Discover Magazine, Giddy, and Lucid covering topics on mental health, sexual health, history, and sociology. Robert Berchtold passed away at age 69 years old on November 11, 2005. Meanwhile, her parents blamed themselves for these events. Berchtold, who was now living in Salt Lake City, Utah, had enrolled Jan at an all-girls Catholic school in Pasadena, California. In his February 11 special, the comedian reflects on the loss of his partner, Lynn Shelton, while also tackling hot-button issues like abortion and fascism. I could read the scripts. Robert Berchtold began taking the Broberg kids to school every day and took Jan on activities including horseriding and family vacations. We never called em pedophiles; Im sure it was in the dictionary someplace, Agent Welsh says. I think that's the sick thing, when you come from a family that walks past and ignores you; it's attention, good or bad. The first time Berchtold kidnapped Broberg, he took her to Mexico and married her. If she failed to do this, the aliens warned, her sister Susan would be chosen instead, and harm would come to the rest of her family. He drove her to California, where he enrolled her in an all-girls Catholic school claiming that she was his daughter. Because maybe if I had known what I know now, what Im trying to tell the whole world now [with the series]that these predators dont stop [on their own]maybe the girls [Berchtold abused] after me wouldnt have [been abused]. The Berchtold family also had a baby girl when they met in the Peacock dramatization. Jan Broberg is now the executive producer on the Peacock miniseries based on her life, A Friend Of The Family. My sister Susan, who is an attorney, called his son Jimmy, an attorney. There's somebody else who's doing it.". Yet only 10 minutes of my story made the documentary. Theyre the bravest people I know, willing to try to help the rest of you see what they didn't. The new Peacock drama miniseries, A Friend Of The Family, tells the true story of how kidnapper Robert Berchtold ruined Jan Brobergs childhood. This info was at 17 min left in the doc. Berchtold made them believe his therapist had advised him to work through his pedophilia by sharing a bed with Jan. And how will I manipulate everybody in the room [while trying to get it]?. He took us to science-fiction movies. After the war, he returned to Utah, got married, had children, and settled in the small town of Pocatello, Idaho, where he ran a furniture store. S, Welcome to Love Like This?, a romance column where we, Kathleen Newman-Bremang and Ineye Komonibo, revisit some of the most romantic or not, in hindsig, Whether its the iconic early-aughts film Love Dont Cost a Thing or her 2021 Netflix hit Resort to Love, Christina Milian has solidified herself in th, This story contains spoilers for Netflixs You People. Berchtold continually raped Jan as he drove his motorhome to Mexico, where the minimum age requirement for marriage was only 12 years old. Broberg continued to believe the make-believe alien story up until her 16th birthday. He said because we wanted to come home, they would not let me come back across the border if I did not have her married to me. I didn't know it was wrong right away. When the Brobergs met the Berchtolds at a church service, it seemed like a match made in Heaven. At home, Jan was distant. In August 1976, Berchtold convinced Jan to leave her home and come with him, creating the second kidnapping. The movie includes pictures Berchtold took of Jan as a 12-year-old girl, all straw-colored hair, wide eyes, and freckles. . How is this possible? I never in a million years thought this guy was stupid enough to show his face [around me]. The series itself elegantly and subtly captures in a vivid way the crimes of Berchtold but also the naive air of the 1970s and the seeming inability to comprehend the disturbing nature of such predatory crimes. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. He holds a bachelor's degree in screenwriting (widely considered to be a bad move) from Point Park University. Almost a decade ago, the world was gripped with anxiety as it watched the legal proceedings against a young Se. They are curious about where the real Robert Berchtold is now. Things That Didnt Make It Into Abducted In Plain Sight, Over the decades, popular culture has created dominant narratives of the Dominican Republic that are most often synonymous with poverty, crime, or state vi, This story contains spoilers for Ant-Man: Quantumania. My little sisters not missing. In January 1974, Robert Berchtold was rebuked by the LDS Church for a relationship with a young girl. Do.. He first kidnapped Jan when she was 12-years-old. I never saw a psychiatrist or a therapist. Broberg told. Robert Berchtold was ultimately given a prison sentence, but rather than face life behind bars, he downed a bottle of heart medication with Kahla and milk and ended his life. All rights reserved. Let me inform you that Read More Robert Berchtold Wiki, Wife, Age, Family, Brother . October 5, 2022. That womans two daughters had been raped and molested [by him], and they ran away from home. In the 1970s, Broberg was kidnapped twice by . A Friend Of The Family: What Happened To Kidnapper Robert Berchtold, Dahmer Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story Sparked An Important True Crime Debate, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story Can Solve 1 True Crime Show Problem, Criminal Minds: Evolution May Have Finally Set Up Spencer Reid's Return, The Last of Us Episode 8 Trailer Reveals Original Joel Actor's New Role, Disneys Double Show Cancellation Hints At Big Disney+ Changes. His brother Joe had even visited while Jan was there, and he noted that Robert, looked happier than hed ever been.. Generally, I am pretty happy and pretty great about 90% of the time. "When people ask me about the brainwashing, I'm like, 'It took 10 seconds.' The result is a documentary that exposes them for public scrutiny without pausing to really interrogate their actions. 24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events. 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