25: "Abducted in Plain Sight - Part 1"

Shear Crime Podcast

This week, Ame and Kenzie discuss part one of the Netflix documentary "Abducted in Plain Sight". Jan Broberg was only 12 years old when family friend, Robert Berchtold, picked her up for an evening to ride horses and disappeared with the girl for over 5 weeks. Her family, worried but afraid of upsetting their neighbors and friends, didn't report them missing for several days. Finally enlisting the help of the FBI, the scared parents have to be convinced over and over again that this was indeed a kidnapping of their daughter and that a manhunt was underway, Weeks later, they received a phone call from Berchtold, informing them that he had taken Jan to Mexico and that they had gotten married. The search for the missing girl was over, but this is far from the end of this unimaginable true story of a family bamboozled and conned by a man that they had considered a very close friend.