The proud mom shared the love, shouting out her "supportive son" in an Instagram reaction post to seeing Peacock's A Friend of the Family trailer for the first time. " This relationship is not possible based on lifespan dates. Sign up forOxygen Insiderfor all the best true crime content. Powered by. DRUGGED and tied to a bed, the last thing 12-year-old Jan Broberg remembers, she tells new Netflix documentary Abducted in Plain Sight, was family friend Robert Berchtold slipping her a sleeping pi Bob and Mary Ann come together to bring Jan home from Wyoming, and just . If you have experienced sexual. 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. 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. According to Reveille, the real events happened in 1972 when the Broberg family met Berchtold at church, and their families grew close. The male companion selected for her was Robert Berchtold. Where is Joseph Fritzl now? The First Abduction. It all started in 1972 when Berchtold met the Broberg family at a church service in Pocatello, Idaho, and quickly became an esteemed family friend. But what happened to to the real life Berchtold after the events portrayed in A Friend of The Family? You may not upload any more photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 20 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 5 photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 30 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 15 photos to this memorial. Family members linked to this person will appear here. He denied the allegations to ABC. Robert Berchtold continued his manipulation by calling the Brobergs and saying Jan was not with him and that he was worried about her whereabouts. To use this feature, use a newer browser. Then you would only be 12 years old in order to be married in Mexico. The age of consent was 12 in Mexico at the time, so. Save to an Ancestry Tree, a virtual cemetery, your clipboard for pasting or Print. Skye Borgman adds: This one indiscretion really gave Berchtold the ammunition he needed to blackmail the head of the household. The american girl, Jan Broberg was only 12 years old when she was kidnapped, brainwashed, and raped several times by one of her parents ' male friends, who the. Gail Berchtold divorced Robert after the 1974 kidnapping and took their 5 children with her. the Family Broberg. There is a problem with your email/password. A Friend of the Family on Sky: The new TV series based on the horrifying true crime story. Stolen Innocence: The Jan Broberg Story details not only the frightening acts of a dangerous pedophile, but also shows warning signals and teaches many of the tough lessons that parents, neighbors and society must learn in order to better protect our children. He was a truck driver and served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. Robert 'B' Berchtold kidnapped 12-year-old Jan and took her in a camper to Mexico in 1974. Mary Ann finally bought her a plane ticket to go see him. To view a photo in more detail or edit captions for photos you added, click the photo to open the photo viewer. Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. 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Jan returned home to her family, and Berchtold did serve a minimum sentence for kidnapping charges. He continued to manipulate Jan through love letters and phone calls, which led Jan to demand her parent allow her to work at the centre for the summer. Jan has continued to have a successful career in acting. The Brobergs believed that Jan genuinely did write the letter and, fearing public shame from the press and their peers, they took two weeks to report Jan missing. Jan agreed as she was so under Berchtolds control. After two weeks of visiting Berchtold, Jan returned home before disappearing for a second time on August 10, 1976 (via ATI). Just like the name of the show A Friend of the Family, Robert Berchtold was a family friend. Release date to be announced. He drank that and died.". He had bildt them in, using a fake psychologist that it would help him to get over his own trauma of being raped by an aunt when he was a child. Shortly after, he moved to Utah for work. Berchtold molested the child and convinced her she was part-alien, the site reports. If I did, my family would die.". Berchtold persuaded the parents, Bob and Mary Ann to not to report him for kidnapping and rape, because he threatened to reveal her sexual relationship with both of them. A system error has occurred. There is 1 volunteer for this cemetery. Mary Ann and Robert obviously refused, but Joe had given the FBI permission to tap the call and they were able to trace the location of Roberts motorhome. 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. Are you sure that you want to report this flower to administrators as offensive or abusive? cemeteries found within miles of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. There was an error deleting this problem. GREAT NEWS! Are you sure that you want to delete this memorial? In 1970s Mormon Utah, this would have had major ramifications on the family, so they signed an affidavit which acquitted Robert Berchtold of any wrongdoing. or don't show this againI am good at figuring things out. Robert "B" Berchtold takes advantage of the Broberg family's trust, driving parents Mary Ann and Bob apart while turning their own daughter Jan against them. He told ABC News he was there to talk to members of a group called Bikers Against Child Abuse. However, he was accused of attacking a biker with his minivan, leading to charges of simple assault, criminal trespassing and disorderly conduct, ABC reported. He ultimately ended up in a mental institution on an insanity charge and was released after only six months, the site reported. Previously sponsored memorials or famous memorials will not have this option. Berchtold then later moved to Wyoming and opened his own business, and Jan persistently asked her parents to work for him in the summer. For fans of the unbelievable true story of Netflix's Abducted in Plain Sight, the life of Robert Berchtold is somewhat frustrating. Robert Ersol Berchtold, 69, of Logandale, died Nov. 11, 2005. I was so happy to watch it in the comfort of my home hand in hand with my mother MaryAnn (who will be played by @_annapaquin in the series) and my supportive son Austen. 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. That has some viewers wondering: What happened to Robert Berchtold? Jan and Mary Ann went on a nationwide speaking tour in the hopes of raising awareness about the prevalence of sexual abuse but were repeatedly interrupted by none other than Berchtold himself, who publicly denied several of the claims made against him. On a drive with Bob Broberg, Jan's father, Berchtold complained about his sex life with his wife and asked Bob to pleasure him, which started an affair between the two. After the second kidnapping, Robert Berchtold moved to Salt Lake City, Utah. Robert Berchtold was born to his parents in Utah. Where is Robert Berchtold today? As the Brobergs had previously signed the paperwork which confirmed that the previous kidnapping in 1974 was a misunderstanding, Robert Berchtold was able to get a plea deal. It was around this time that Robert Berchtold began to abuse Jan Broberg sexually. The pair didnt actually begin an affair until AFTER Jans abduction. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate, or jump to a slide with the slide dots. Once they returned to the states, Berchtold was arrested then released, after blackmailing the Brobergs into not only refusing to testify against him, but signing legal affidavits claiming they'd actually given him permission to leave the country with their daughter. After the realization, Broberg did not see Berchtold again until 2004, when she was an adult and wanted a restraining order against her former kidnapper, according to Oxygen. When questioned by Berchtold about her motives in a hearing for a restraining order against him in 2004which, according to the documentary Abducted in Plain Sight, was their first direct encounter in almost three decadesJan responded by saying, "My goal, Mr. Berchtold, is to educate the public about predators like you.". Eventually, Berchtold began seeing Jan less often, and Jan was scared that they would not complete the "mission" and that the world would be destroyed because her 16th birthday was coming up. I suppose this is ostensibly NOT about an unresolved mystery, per se, but there are certain twists and turns in the official version of this story that I find difficult to swallow, to say the least. Verify and try again. FCI - III. Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Before he died, Berchtold denied some of Brobergs claims and got into a bizarre incident with bikers who were trying to protect her. . The two had a sexual affair with one another, and Berchtold told Bob of the affair. Biography ID: 79842312 . While Jan was reluctant to discuss her alleged kidnapping the first time it happened, she told investigators what Berchtold allegedly did to her the second time around. It was reportedly back on June 7, 1961, that Gail blissfully tied the knot with then-active Army official Robert (or B) in a beautiful ceremony at the Latter-day Saints (LDS) Logan Temple in Utah. He also scared her into believing that her family would be killed if she did not have his baby by her 16th. 1 . In that time, Robert Berchtold actually married Jan Broberg in Mexico. Copyright 2023 Heavy, Inc. All rights reserved. It would have triggered a huge scandal for the religious Broberg-married couple, if it had come forward, that Bob had had a homosexual relationship, to Berchtold, and to Mary Ann in a period of time had been his mistress. During his time in Utah, Berchtold convinced Mary Ann Broberg to visit him. Berchtold stayed away from the Broberg family until 2003 when Mary Ann and Jan were publishing her story in their book. Broberg is on Twitter, where she calls herself, Actor||Producer||Mother||Survivor. She has written about the upcoming Peacock show. Can You Travel From Barbados to OBX By Boat? What goes through the mind of a child when she is far from home, helpless to determine her own destiny? But the FBI had tapped the Broberg family home phone and monitored Roberts continued calls to Jan. Mr and mrs Bob and Mary Ann with their three daughters. Learn about how to make the most of a memorial. When Jan was finally returned to her family, Berchtold managed to beat several kidnapping charges by arguing he had a mental defect, landing him in a mental institution for less than six months, according to, While Jan was reluctant to discuss her alleged kidnapping the first time it happened, she told investigators what Berchtold allegedly did to her the second time around. Berchtold had previously asked Broberg's father to enter into a sexual relationship with him, which he did. All photos appear on this tab and here you can update the sort order of photos on memorials you manage. Berchtold had a family of his own, and his children would often play with the Broberg kids, including Jan, according to ATI. Jan Broberg was raped and abducted from her happy home in Pocatello, Idaho twice by Robert Berchtold; a family friend who gained her parents trust to get closer to their 12-year-old daughter. Fue arrestado y cumpli 10 das en la crcel, pero los padres reanudaron el contacto, inform el sitio, y agreg que, a los 14 aos, la secuestr nuevamente, mintiendo que . It is rare that a documentary gets so violent reactions as 'Abducted in Plain Sight' has got. At the time Broberg was 12. From what we can determine, Gail lost her second spouse, James Leslie Wadman, in 2015, but Robert's remarriage to Deanna Lou Wiley on July 17, 1990, lasted until his passing in 2005. Translation on Find a Grave is an ongoing project. Jan Broberg went on to be the subject of her mother's retelling of her story, Stolen . After that first abduction, he engaged in an eight-month affair with Jan's mother, which he later used to try and force the couple into a separation. "I couldn't have anything to do with boys. According to her IMDb profile, Broberg is an actress. He has not disclosed much information about his father. [1] The story was first told in Stolen Innocence: The Jan Broberg Story, a memoir published by her and her mother in 2003. Jan got married in the 90s and had a son named Austen. We have set your language to James Leslie Wadman had been Gail's partner for 27 years. RELATED:A First Look At Peacock's Much Anticipated True Crime Drama 'A Friend of the Family'. Visit the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network website or contact RAINN's National Helpline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673). But it wasnt until college when she really reflected on what truly happened to her. Your comment has been forwarded to the administrator for approval. Mai 2023 - Sonntag Esterhzy Memorial CACIB. Gail Berchtold, Robert's wife, then blackmailed the Brobergs to drop the charges against him or else she would tell everyone about the sexual relationship between her husband and Bob Broberg (perATI). Robert Berchtold was born on November 6, 1920. Jan Broberg was only 12 years old when she was drugged and kidnapped by her neighbor and close family friend, Robert "B." Bruce Stanfield/Shutterstock. This was obviously an elaborate plan by Robert Berchtold to manipulate the young girl. While spending her 14th birthday with B., Jan struggles with her mission and adopts a more grown-up persona. Rob Broberg admitted to the incident of one act of masturbation in the Netflix documentary, but its unclear if the relationship continued beyond that point. You are only allowed to leave one flower per day for any given memorial. In June 1976, he was sentenced to five years for kidnapping. The FBI came to the Broberg family home and began a nationwide search for Jan Broberg and Robert Berchtold. He overdosed on heart medication and alcohol. [1][2] It contains interview footage with Broberg Felt. 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