Berchtold died in 2005, according to an obituary, which says he was a truck driver. All but 45 days of his prison sentence were suspended, and B ended up only serving 10 days in prison. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Robert Berchtold. Berchtold was a friend of the Broberg family. Let me inform you that her husband Robert Berchtold was behind the kidnapping of Jan Broberg Felt in the 1970s when she was just 12 years old. Was that after the documentary came out? I was sitting on the couch, in my pajamas, flicking through Netflix and trying to find something to watch, when I came across the documentary Abducted in Plain Sight and the face of Robert Berchtold: the man who destroyed my childhood. Directed by Skye Borgman, Abducted in Plain Sight begins in the early 1970s in Pocatello, Idaho. And how will I manipulate everybody in the room [while trying to get it]?. The Skye Borgmandirected documentary condensed this tale into 91 minutes. 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. But I didnt know what was missing in the conversation. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. And did that give you some sort of relief or closure? Once that moment happened, I believed it entirely, completely, and I knew [aliens] were watching me. In a candid conversation, Broberg tells VF about the surreal experience of seeing her abuser brought to life again. Then, on Christmas Eve, Gail Berchtold stopped by the Brobergs house and asked them to drop any charges against her husband, presenting them with affidavits to sign. In a new book, Stolen Innocence: The Jan Broberg Story, Felt's mother reveals the details of the actress's childhood memories. The [A Friend of the Family team] were sensitiveThey wanted it to be told in an honest, complete, and realistic way. That is the only reason we told our story. He talked incessantly about UFO sightings. You have a cameo in the final episode. He was a truck driver and served in the U.S. Army . I remember waking up in the morning and not feeling well at all. I really believed it. Ive watched it several times nowThat has consistently been the one [that bothered me]. 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. 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. Almost a decade ago, the world was gripped with anxiety as it watched the legal proceedings against a young Se. 2 . Part of the problem is that Abducted in Plain Sight, a 90-minute movie in a field populated mostly with six- or eight-hour series, is focused entirely on telling a story rather than illuminating it. That companion was B, and the mission was to have a child with him before Broberg turned 16 years old. Jan, Karen and Susan. Im certain its because each of those relationships helped me on my path to healing, but they werent permanent. What will I risk to get it? The documentary only slightly went into "B's" past. Every episode of ABC's award-winning talk show "The View" is now available as a podcast! I reached out to Jan after I came across her book, and we exchanged a few emails. 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. As far as the other scenes, I think I really have been able to [separate myself]. How involved were you with the making of the show? When they showed up at the front door, my dad would stick his hand out and go, Hello, doctor. And then they would come in and he would give them the corsage that he had made for me, to give to them, so they could give it to me for free. If Jan wasnt pregnant and Susan refused to take Jans place, she was going to shoot Susan and then herself. According to Newsweek, Jan Broberg grew up to become an actress and an advocate for victims of childhood sexual abuse. I met my ex-husband and we had kids. Listen and subscribe for free on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Spotify, Stitcher or the ABC News app. He first kidnapped Jan when she was 12-years-old. So Broberg was thrilled to help reframe her and her parents story in Peacocks new limited series A Friend of the Family, which was created by Nick Antosca (The Act and Candy) and invited Broberg and her mother, Mary Ann, to act as producers. Born May 17, 1930, in Beaver Falls, he was the son of the late . My sister Susan, who is an attorney, called his son Jimmy, an attorney. I never felt like I needed to be validated. 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. Jan returned home, but only briefly. Be the creator of your life. Jill and I were very close, we were like sisters. But Jan became even more withdrawn, and all the while, she was still thinking about what would happen to her family when she failed to complete the mission.. They didnt want to know. In spite of the fact that Robert (or B) was born on February 7, 1936 close to Tremonton, Utah, he spent the majority of his childhood in the Mountain West region with his mother, several of his siblings, his stepfather, and his stepfather's biological father. "Berchtold took her away in a motor home on the afternoon of Oct. 17, 1974," ABC News reported . Theyre the bravest people I know, willing to try to help the rest of you see what they didn't. 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. Karen Campbell, one of Jans sisters, comes closest to analyzing what happened when she posits that her parents are simply experts in denial. After a career of playing affable characters, the Emmy-nominated actor discusses his darkest turn yetand what made him feel okay playing a real-life bad guy. He gave her allergy medication that knocked her out and drove with her to Pasadena, California where he enrolled her in a Catholic school with the alias Janis Tobler, feeding the nuns a fake story about being a CIA agent who needed someone to care for his daughter. Looking back as an adult, Jan Broberg has called Berchtold a master manipulator. No one in her family could see it at the time, but Robert Berchtold had started grooming the family the moment they met. It was through a course that I did that helped me see that you have the rest of your life. I get to be the decision-maker of how I move forward. In one, her underwear is clearly visible. In August 1976, Berchtold convinced Jan to leave her home and come with him, creating the second kidnapping. Berchtold vehemently tried to denounce the book, claiming that they were lying about him and about the truth for a profit. Thats the only truly contact that ever has happened. Heidi Brewer on the documentary, A Friend of the Family: True Evil. The district attorneywho had basically prosecuted his showing up at that conference with a gun as a registered sex offendercalled me. What happened to the Berchtold children? With her parents keeping her apart from Berchtold, she feared that she would have no way of completing the aliens mission. After Broberg took what she thought were allergy pills before heading to the stables, she passed out in the car, and remembers nothing of the car ride. That was heartbreaking. Does anyone else know anything about his childhood? This info was at 17 min left in the doc. Although Berchtold feigned ignorance regarding Jans whereabouts, Welsh and investigators knew he was responsible for her disappearance. These Romantic Movies Are Guaranteed To Make You Cry, The Greatest Romantic Comedies That Youll Watch On Repeat, 26 Movies Every Woman Should See At Least Once. 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. With Mckenna, I see all of the emotional intelligence of someone understanding how do you, at age 15, 16, how do you even portray someone thats brainwashed? He also ensnared her parents (Anna Paquin and Colin Hanks), seducing them too into relationships that would blur their vision and later be sources for blackmail. B took the Broberg children and his own to science-fiction films in the two years prior to kidnapping Jan Broberg. And the sad thing is, unfortunately, you're getting attention from somebody. Berchtold had a family of his own, and his children would often play with the Broberg kids, including Jan, according to ATI. It was an interesting thing. Grace M. Galarraga is a writer based out of Southern California. Berchtold, it transpires, had repeatedly tried to infiltrate other families with young girls, and had been reprimanded by the high council in his church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, for doing so. I mean, he just never really stopped. Some people know him as Robert or "B," but he was Bob or Dad to me. 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. Robert Berchtold, a close friend of the Broberg family who has turned serial child abductor, kidnaps Jan Broberg, age twelve, in 1974. 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. Filmmaker Skye Borgman on the unbelievable twists and turns of the Jan Broberg kidnapping case, and the pieces of the story that didnt make it into her documentary, on Netflix. She was rescued by the FBI, who found Broberg and B in his mobile home in Mexico, according to the documentary. These guys were crazy and those stupid people, then we failed. Neither one of us were comfortable with him doing it, Mary Ann said, but it was part of his therapy.. When Jan Broberg shared the story of her stranger-than-fiction kidnapping in the 2017 documentary Abducted in Plain Sight, she did not anticipate the charged response it would elicit. Its too painful for them to realize that they allowed that to happen to her.. Instead, she blames small-town navet and meticulous grooming on the part . Its something that happened to them or someone close to themthey had been groomed or conned or manipulated, and could relate. Jake Lacy as Bob Berchtold and Hendrix Yancey as a young Jan Broberg in Peacocks A Friend of the Family. As Mary Ann described, they got a little too cozy and the first seeds of what would eventually grow into an affair were planted. It took Jan years to learn to cope with the damage Robert Berchtold inflicted on her. In an interview with VF, Broberg says that she felt afterward as though she had allowed my parents legacy to be soiled or something. Despite the distance, Berchtold kept in contact with Jan, delivering her love letters and secret sets of instructions to meet with him. They had no idea about the abuse. She was drugged on numerous occasions; I was only drugged once. Berchtold eventually moved to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where he bought a family fun center. Im home from this dance and safe. And then I start testing the waters over the next few months. We'll never know. Over the course of the next six months, Berchtold slept in Jans bed roughly four times a week. He anesthetized her with sleeping pills and raped the girl up to maybe 200 times. NetflixJan Broberg works as an actress, known for roles in Everwood and Criminal Minds. Oh dear. Generally, I am pretty happy and pretty great about 90% of the time. B blackmailed Brobergs parents, Bob and Mary Ann, into signing affidavits claiming he had consent to bring their daughter to Mexico after the first kidnapping, according to the documentary. Jan was one of three daughters born to Bob Broberg, a florist, and Mary Ann. It really was amazing. And then this really deep sorrow and sadness for all the people, all the girls, his whole familyall the people who he had affected. 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. I did this terrible thingthat part took me until that day I hung up the coat. I was sick to my stomach and felt like throwing up. He is survived by his wife,. Without the Brobergs as witnesses, the court had no way of proving Berchtold was guilty of anything. In January 1974, just over a year after Berchtold met the Brobergs, he was reprimanded by the High Council of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints because of his involvement with another young girl. This info was at 17 min left in the doc. Berchtold allegedly raped Broberg hundreds of times. It was only five or six years ago, when I found Jan Broberg's book about her ordeal and contacted her, that I found out he had only served a year in prison after being found guilty of the rape of a child. Shes your daughter. Im so glad youve found relief. Joe alerted the FBI, and they traced Berchtold to a hotel in Mazatln where he was arrested and transported back to the United States. When the BerchtoldsGail, Robert and their five childrenmoved next door, the husbands bonded over being business and family men (so Bob Broberg said), the wives naturally gravitated to each. Not as much as I have been in past years. I never saw a psychiatrist or a therapist. In one, her underwear is clearly visible. He brainwashed her with false narratives in order to sexually abuse her. Thats when Robert asked Bob to give him some relief. Bob acquiesced, thus cementing Berchtolds hold over them all. I was so involved and so consulted and so cared for. In 1976, he spent 10 days in jail after accepting a plea deal based on the first kidnapping, then was sentenced to a mental facility for 6 months. But I could see Bob playing the tape, so I didn't believe him. So that's why Im stepping into advocacy with the Jan Broberg Foundation. I remember the first time I really understood what love was or at least what a nine-year-old could understand as romantic love. 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. The first thing she said was, "I suspected it." Bob recalled saying to her, Dear, youll regret that decision someday., She stayed in Jackson Hole for two weeks, continuing the mission and living with Berchtold. Between 1972 and 1976, he eventually kidnapped and wed her. I just thought it was what you did. The master manipulator from Utha has a lengthy history of having a particular lust for young females. In January 1974, Robert Berchtold was rebuked by the LDS . Or, see how Michaela Garechts kidnapping was finally solved 30 years after her death. Despite the outcome of her marriage to Robert, Gail found love again. One of the scenes in Abducted in Plain Sight that best encapsulates the strangeness of its story comes midway through, after the second time a teenager named Jan Broberg has been kidnapped by a close family friend. I immediately started to sob and then [had] this elation feeling. I said, Did you do some deep dive on my dad that I dont even know about? Hes like, No. Robert Berchtold began taking the Broberg kids to school every day and took Jan on activities including horseriding and family vacations. I was interviewed for two days for the documentaryI spoke with Jan for hours and then the following day I spent hours being interviewed by the journalist. 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. "That's a story I heard at Christmas time.". Over the past week, viral tweets and Reddit threads and various expressions of incomprehension have batted around the internet, as viewers try to make sense of what exactly theyve just watched. According to an online obituary, she tied the knot with former Marine James Leslie Wadman in 1988. Jan Broberg is now the executive producer on the Peacock miniseries based on her life, A Friend Of The Family. That forever changed my DNA. Before we moved to Salt Lake City, my mother had been so overprotective of me that I wasn't allowed to play in the front yard by myself. I keep telling Nick we have to do a series number two. [Berchtold] was [close to another family] when he died. Broberg was missing for roughly a month during the first kidnapping, during which she was sexually assaulted by B. Broberg told. 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. Manipulation and grooming are not understood by so many. Bob and Mary Ann, Agent Welsh states, were told to cut off communication with the Berchtolds. I dont know why, but I did.. He even showed up at a speaking engagement of yours with a gun. Robert Berchtold. It didn't take long before Bob had his own key and could come and go as he pleased. She had slowly begun to question whether the aliens were real, but a small part of her still believed in them. I could look at the coat. She was missing for several months, as he was able to trick her parents into believing that he wasn't aware of her whereabouts. And I could hang it up. 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. He took us to science-fiction movies. 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. Not. 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. The 91-minute film, originally released in 2017, has captivated an entirely new audience since premiering on Netflix this month. NetflixMary Ann Broberg described Berchtold as having a charisma that Bob didnt possess.. 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. 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. Warning: Contains SPOILERS for A Friend of the Family. The series stars McKenna Grace as Jan, along with Jake Lacy as Robert "B" Berchtold, . And yet several local families had been troubled enough by Berchtolds attempts to get close to their children that the church intervened. For years, actress Jan Broberg kept the story of childhood sex abuse she endured at the hands of a family friend mostly private. I was such a happy girl. The affidavits compromised the FBIs case against B. Robert Berchtold Wikipedia Bio. I had a fixation for Jan. [It was] something that my dad did to every boy I ever dated. They consulted with me constantly. Hes so funny and kind and warm. Average Age & Life Expectancy Robert E Berchtold lived 5 years shorter than the average Berchtold family member when he died at the age of 69. The new Peacock drama miniseries, A Friend Of The Family, tells the true story of how kidnapper Robert Berchtold ruined Jan Brobergs childhood. Find out more about how we use your information in our privacy policy and cookie policy. This is happening everywhere right now in 2022. It was the thing that kept me obedient.. October 5, 2022. From then on, the abuse happened dailywhenever he had the chance. I wanted this for a long timeto tell the story in a way that would affect the most change and the most understanding so that people could avoid this happening in their own life or help any traumatized young person get to a healthy, happy place. Years later, Bob told me that he gave me the sleeping pill to physically manipulate me so he would be able to have intercourse with me without tearing. He holds a bachelor's degree in screenwriting (widely considered to be a bad move) from Point Park University. Berchtold and his family often had sleepovers with the Broberg children. By Nicky Idika. I entered into a homosexual relationship with her father in order to have access to Jan, Berchtold later admitted. 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. I got to have meetings with the art department, the costume departmentI went to the location of the home they found. How did you find out about his suicide? [Id get] phone calls and other scares. . Robert Berchtold and Jan Broberg. With the emotional adventure of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever closing out the controversial fourth, Minor spoilers ahead. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. He told her she had been abducted by aliens and that if she didn't have his baby, her sister would go blind and her father would be murdered. 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. Jan Broberg: I was very involved. He hoped to give Zachary a glimpse of his father. I didnt know people wouldnt get it. Taylor Swifts opening act on her debut album, Trumps Relationship With Jared and Ivanka. But I didnt know what to do in my 20s and 30s and 40s. When Brobergwas 12, Robert Berchtold kidnapped her and played a recording that told that she was half-alien, and that she had to have a baby with Berchtold by the time she was 16 to save the extra-terrestrial species]. It was so shockingly hard for me. Abducted in Plain Sight viewers learned B kidnapped Broberg a second time from her parents home in Idaho in 1976 when she was 14. I was shy, so I didn't really speak to him a whole lot. It was a terrifying thought, Jan said. [The older sister] came to the conference when he showed up with the gun. Robert Hites Berchtold, 90, of Beaver Falls, formerly of New Brighton, died Thursday, September 10, 2020, in Providence Care Center. He served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. 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. 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 don't remember much of that evening. 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. I sat down. B took a particular interest in 12-year-old Jan as well, often showering her with gifts and inviting her on trips. I get to be the examiner. Every hand goes up. His brother Joe had even visited while Jan was there, and he noted that Robert, looked happier than hed ever been.. Robert kidnapped Jan Broberg, who was only 12 years old girl. I was 10 and she was 12. Her dad owned Atkin Florist, while her mother was a homemaker. Their childhood was . "Many harmed by child sexual assault. Vanity Fair: Your story is so complicated, but the show does a great job at laying out this elaborate abduction plan beat by beat to show how Berchtold targeted your whole family. 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. He found me when I lived in Florida, working for Disney World. They were just extraordinary. After years of intense grooming, Jan started to gain romantic feelings towards Berchtold. . I didn't learn to swim because she was afraid I would drown. He wanted to talk on the phone and to go out, and Bob didn't like it. 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. Robert Berchtold is an abuser who groomed the Broberg family in order to become close to their 12-year-old daughter Jan. If you can [watch] and go, That would never happen to me. The 31-year-old Belgian filmmaker tackles the crisis of connection among teen boys in his second film, now an international feature Oscar nominee. He had a sick obsession with Jan, which eventually led to her kidnapping when she was only 12 years old in October 1974. Some viewers hit the roof, wondering how any parent could let their kid be taken by the same person twice. Gail Berchtold Career . On the day that I was filmingIm on set and I have a little scene with ColinIm standing there, talking to those two [actors] and all of a sudden, Colin sticks his hand out to Nick and he says, Hello, doctor. And I looked at him and I went, Oh, my gosh, how did you know? [That was one of] my dads funny phrases. 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. 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