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Nov 2022
57m 59s

Jan Broberg, Part 1: Family Grooming, Al...

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Kidnapping survivor and subject of the Peacock documentary Friend of the Family: True Evil (as well as the scripted series Friend of the Family) Jan Broberg shares how she met a man from church named Robert Berchtold when she was a child, how he quickly became close friends with her family and eventually groomed and seduced her and both of her parents. Jan will discuss how Berchtold kidnapped her and set up an elaborate scheme to convince her that she had a mission involving an alien race.. and the way to do it was to have his baby. And that's just the FIRST kidnapping!

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