'Abducted in Plain Sight': Netflix documentary sheds new light on shocking details of Jan Broberg kidnapping
Netflix's latest addition to its increasingly large documentary library, Skye Borgman's 'Abducted in Plain Sight,' chronicles the horrifying ordeal of Idaho's Broberg family, which saw their 12-year-old daughter Jan Broberg abducted twice and sexually assaulted on numerous occasions by a man who they thought was their family friend.
Robert 'B' Berchtold spend two years befriending the family - which consisted of Bob Broberg, wife Mary Ann, and daughters Jan, Karen, and Susan - after meeting Mary in Mormon Church in 1972 so he could get close to the then-12-year-old Jan.
Having gained their trust, he would entrap the religious family in such a web of deceit, blackmail and complicity that he went on to abduct the preteen twice, once when she was 12 and then again when she was 14, with the parents even dropping kidnapping charges.
He also raped her repeatedly under the conceit she was in a top-secret alien mission to save their species by reproducing before her 16th birthday, and even have separate sexual relationships with both parents.