#287: Jan Broberg and “Abducted in Plain Sight”, Part 2
Real Crime Profile
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4.2 • 10.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
We continue our conversation with Jan Broberg, whose story of child sexual abuse and kidnapping at the hands of a close family friend is told in the Netflix documentary “Abducted in Plain Sight”. Laura and Jim explore how this offender was allowed to continue to target young girls even after he was caught. Lisa wonders if this offender is different from others we have covered in that he took Jan away from their community to another country rather than hiding in plan sight.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to Real Crime Profile ad-free on Amazon Music. |
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| 0:07.0 | The story about to tell you sounds like a movie, but it's real. |
| 0:12.1 | In 1974, when my next guest was 12 years old, she was kidnapped by a trusted family friend. |
| 0:18.5 | The man picked her up from a piano lesson, drugged her, and kept her for 55 days as the |
| 0:23.1 | two of them lived in a motorhome traveling from Idaho to Mexico. |
| 0:27.4 | In two months, she was held captive, the man brainwashed her, causing her to believe |
| 0:31.0 | in aliens, and that it was her duty to have a child with him to save an alien planet. |
| 0:36.2 | She was finally freed by Mexican police cooperating with the FBI and returned to her family. |
| 0:41.5 | Later, at age 14, she was kidnapped again by the same man. |
| 0:46.2 | He spent less than two months in jail for the first abduction, and only 19 days and five |
| 0:53.0 | months in a mental hospital for the second abduction. |
| 0:56.4 | She served another year in prison in 1986 after he pleaded guilty to raping another child. |
| 1:01.9 | And then last month, he tried to approach her again. |
| 1:06.8 | Jan Broberg felt is that woman, she's an actress appearing regularly on the television series |
| 1:11.5 | Everwood and touched by an angel. |
| 1:13.7 | Thirty years after her abduction, she started to speak publicly about her experiences, |
| 1:18.0 | along with her mother Mary Ann, who wrote the book, Stolen Innocence, about the family |
| 1:21.9 | or deal. |
| 1:42.2 | I was very frightened, particularly for the safety of my own children and my family, and |
| 1:48.6 | for the safety of any community that has people like this who are not in jail. |
| 1:53.8 | This man is a repeat offender and obviously should not be. |
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