1: Episode 1: One Year Later

Obsessed with: Abducted in Plain Sight

Obsessed With: Abducted in Plain Sight

True Crime

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

It's been a year since the smash hit documentary Abducted in Plain Sight premiered on Netflix and set the internet ablaze with shock, fascination, disbelief, and rage over the story of 12 year-old Jan Broberg who was kidnapped TWICE by her neighbor and family friend Bob Berchtold. This four-part series goes behind the scenes of the documentary and shares new interviews with Jan and her parents, deleted scenes, shocking plot lines cut from the film, never-before-heard audio journals from the kidnapper and his wife recovered by the FBI, and so much more.

In episode 1, we catch up with Jan who shares how her life has changed in the year since Abducted in Plain Sight premiered and she shares new insight into how she found the courage to tell her story. We also learn how the filmmakers got ahold of the kidnapper's audio journals and we share more of these never-before-heard tapes.

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0:00.0	My name is Patrick Heins. I'm the co-host of True Crime Obsessed Podcast,
0:04.0	a podcast where we recap True Crime documentaries. And because of that, I am always asked,
0:09.2	what's your favorite documentary you've ever covered? Or what's the craziest,
0:13.3	most insane, unbelievable documentary you've ever seen? And my answer for both is always the same.
0:19.6	Abducted in Plain Site If you've never seen abducted in Plain Site,
0:29.6	first of all, what are you even doing with your life? I ask lovingly. Second of all, it's spoiler time.
0:37.4	Abducted in Plain Site tells the story of 12-year-old Jan Broberg and her family,
0:42.3	who were all meticulously groomed by their next-door neighbor and close family friend Bob Birchtold.
0:48.8	Bee was like a second father to me. I completely loved him, completely trusted him and felt
0:56.8	extremely safe. I felt like I was one of his children. Birchtold, a pedophile father of five,
1:02.9	was completely obsessed with 12-year-old Jan and would stop at nothing to have her for himself.
1:08.5	And he had to drill that into our minds. He kidnapped her. She's your daughter. She's gone.
1:15.0	And the twists just keep on coming, you guys. To get close to Jan, Birchtold has an affair with
1:20.9	Jan's mom. But I remember the way it made me feel. I got quite hot. Maybe hot flashes, and then I
1:31.7	thought, oh my, I can't feel this way about him. And then a sexual encounter or two with Jan's dad.
1:37.2	We were laughing and he said, oh Bob, it's just kid stuff. I did the worst thing I've ever done
1:43.7	as far as breaking the trust and fidelity that I had with my wife. He kidnapped Jan a second time
1:50.6	and then convinced her that the two of them are on a quest to save a dying alien planet.
1:55.6	I had been informed by the aliens, Zeta and Zethra, or their names, that I actually was part alien.
2:04.9	My mother was my biological mother, but my father wasn't actually my biological father. I
2:13.6	had a father from this alien planet. I know what, right? I first heard of abducted in plain sight
2:24.0	in October of 2018. The film's director, Sky Borgman, sent us an email saying the movie was about
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