After becoming fast friends with a new family called the Berchtolds, the Brobergs noticed that the charismatic “fun dad” Robert Berchtold (known as “B”) seemed overly interested in Jan. Jan was one of three daughters born to Bob Broberg, a florist, and Mary Ann. The result is a documentary that exposes them for public scrutiny without pausing to really interrogate their actions.ĭirected by Skye Borgman, Abducted in Plain Sight begins in the early 1970s in Pocatello, Idaho. And the Broberg family, confessional to a fault, are primed more for honesty than for self-inspection. It unpacks too many bizarre events in a short time frame to allow for much additional analysis. 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 is the only reason we told our story. They’re the bravest people I know, willing to try to help the rest of you see what they didn't. It happened to my whole family, this man was a master and my parents saved my life. Manipulation and grooming are not understood by so many. Jan-now Jan Broberg Felt, an actor who’s appeared in Criminal Minds and Everwood-has subsequently defended her mother and father. Much of the outrage targets Jan’s parents, who participated fully in the documentary, and whose behavior in response to Berchtold’s prolonged abuse of their daughter strikes many viewers as shockingly inadequate at best. 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 they’ve just watched. Now I won’t be able to sleep.”Ībducted in Plain Sight was first released as a documentary in 2017 with the title Forever ‘B,’ but it’s gained rather more traction this month after being added to Netflix’s true-crime library. “Oh my goodness,” Mary Ann replies, in a steady, even tone, as if he’s just told her that seasonal allergies might be worse than usual this summer, or that two people brought potato salads to the potluck. That friend, Robert Berchtold, calls Jan’s mother, Mary Ann, and falsely tells her that Jan is prostituting herself and selling drugs. She also appeared in TV shows Girlboss, I'm Sorry and an episode of Criminal Minds.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. She's appeared in films Maniac, Iron Man 3 and Haunt according to the Internet Movie Database. The documentary was originally released in 2017. They refused to work completely with the FBI to prove Berchtold guilty, allowed Berchtold sleep in Broberg's bed and even didn't think he had abducted Broberg the second time when she went missing, again. Robert and Mary Ann Broberg allowed the problematic man unprecedented access to their three daughters before and after Broberg's kidnapping. He claimed the aliens told the pair they must have a child before Broberg turned 16.īeside the obviously terrifying tactics used by Berchtold and horrifying experience for Broberg, the most bewildering aspects of the documentary surround Broberg's parents, who refused to see the wrong their neighbor had been doing. He told the young girl the pair had been abducted by aliens to explain the sexual abuse he inflicted on her. In the documentary, Broberg, now 40, explains the abuse inflicted on her by Berchtold, from physical abuse to mental incarceration. The film tells the abduction story of Jan Broberg, who was kidnapped twice by a family friend. The book was released in 2004, and was subject to a lawsuit by Berchtold, according to Rolling Stone.Ībducted In Plain Sight movie poster. Broberg and her mother, Mary Ann, released the book Stolen Innocence: The Jan Broberg Story about Broberg's two abductions and the mental abuse which caused her to believe delusions her captor had forced onto her in both kidnappings. The story has been told before in novel form. But unlike many abduction stories, Broberg's story of abuse did not end when she found her way back to her family. She viewed him as a close, authority figure, the documentary explained. Berchtold was close to Broberg, whose family had moved into the neighborhood two years prior to her first abduction. Twelve-year-old Jan Broberg was abducted after school by her neighbor Robert Berchtold, who took her away from her family for five weeks. Abducted In Plain Sight is not an original Netflix production, but fits the platform well with twists and questions of how one girl could be kidnapped twice by the same family friend. A new title in the true crime genre has appeared on Netflix, and the story is as crazy, if not more, than Netflix's past successes.
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