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Jan Broberg was kidnapped by Robert Berchtold for the first time on Oct. 17, 1974

They were eventually found in Mexico, but two years later, he abducted her again

Broberg's experience was chronicled in the 2017 Netflix documentary Abducted in Plain Sight and the 2022 Peacock miniseries A Friend of the Family

It's been 51 years since Jan Broberg was first kidnapped by Robert Berchtold, a man she considered to be a "second father."

Jan was missing for weeks, and though she was eventually found in Mexico, Berchtold managed to abduct her a second time. Decades later, her story was the subject of a Netflix documentary and a Peacock miniseries, both of which chronicled how they connected.

Back in the early 1970s, Jan’s parents, Mary Ann and Bob Broberg, met Berchtold and

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