![]() "It's the smokescreen that a master manipulator creates," Broberg warned. They didn't find out about the “alien mission” B convinced their daughter of until 1978 after she turned 16. 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 daughter’s abductor. "But I knew they had been groomed and manipulated too." "I had my moments of being angry and upset," Broberg says about resentment towards her parents. Through therapy, she learned to forgive them for not stopping the years of abuse she endured from B. Today, Jan Broberg has a "wonderful relationship" with her parents. "It happens before the actual incident occurs." "You have to think again how the grooming happens," Broberg explained. This kidnapping lasted for approximately four months, until she was rescued again by the FBI.īroberg continued to believe the make-believe alien story up until her 16th birthday. He brought her to California and enrolled her in a Catholic school, posing as her father and a CIA agent, according to the documentary. “Abducted in Plain Sight” viewers learned B kidnapped Broberg a second time from her parents’ home in Idaho in 1976 when she was 14. The following two years, B kept in contact with Broberg, who said she felt she loved him. All but 45 days of his prison sentence were suspended, and B ended up only serving 10 days in prison. He was sentenced to five years’ probation and five years in prison. The affidavits compromised the FBI’s case against B. Both parents claimed in the documentary that if they didn’t do this, B would expose a sex act that Bob and B engaged in prior to the kidnapping. We also learn how the filmmakers got ahold of the kidnapper's audio journals and we share more of these never-before-heard tapes.After Broberg’s first kidnapping, B blackmailed her parents, Bob and Mary Ann, into signing affidavits claiming he had consent to bring their daughter to Mexico. In episode 1, we catch up with Jan who shares how her life has changed in the year since Abducted in Plain Sight premiered and she shares new insight into how she found the courage to tell her story. We'll share clips of a truly insane plot line left out of the film, you'll hear Jan read an excerpt of an unpublished manuscript written by Berchtold about his affair with her mother, you'll hear from Joe Berchtold-the kidnapper's brother and the only member of the Berchtold family willing to speak to the filmmakers-, and we'll discuss new information that led to Jan Broberg being kidnapped twice. ![]() ![]() In episode 2 we're taking a hard look at the kidnapper, Robert Berchtold. We'll share new interview clips of Jan's parents talking about their sexual and emotional infidelities with Berchtold, you'll hear a new story from Jan's dad about how he thinks Berchtold to get him out of the way, we'll share more from our new interview with Jan-including tough questions about her parents' relationships with her kidnapper, and we take a deep dive into Jan's dad's sexual encounters with Berchtold and what, if anything, they mean. And if you're looking for more great podcasts, go here to see all the podcasts made by the Obsessed Network.Įpisode 3 is all about Jan's parents-their choices and mistakes. So we decided that Skye and James should sit down and have a conversation about what should stay, what should be cut, and how the storytelling helped propel this small, independent project into a worldwide phenomenon.Īll four episodes of Obsessed With Abducted in Plain Sight are available to binge right now! To learn more about Skye Borgman and Top Knot Films, go here. When it came time to take all the material they had and make a movie out of it, how did they do it? How did they decide what the core story was and how to tell it? Over the course of putting this podcast together, one of the names that kept coming up as someone who was key to the storytelling of the film was the editor, James Cude. After all the research, interviews, casting, and shooting. This four-part series goes behind the scenes of the documentary and shares new interviews with Jan and her parents, deleted scenes, shocking plot lines cut from the film, never-before-heard audio journals from the kidnapper and his wife recovered by the FBI, and so much more.Įpisode 4 is all about how the film Abducted in Plain Sight came together. It's been a year since the smash hit documentary Abducted in Plain Sight premiered on Netflix and set the internet ablaze with shock, fascination, disbelief, and rage over the story of 12 year-old Jan Broberg who was kidnapped TWICE by her neighbor and family friend Bob Berchtold. ![]()
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