Episode 155: Peter Welsh - Abducted in Plain Sight, Jan Broberg Kidnapping

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

True Crime, Interviews, Fiction, History, Fbi, Government, Truecrime

4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Retired agent Peter Welsh reviews his 1974 investigation of the kidnapping of 12-year-old Jan Broberg, who was abducted by Bob Berchtold, a trusted and close family friend. Pete Welsh spent three years trying to unravel the bizarre twist and turns of the case. Pete was interviewed on camera for the Netflix documentary, Abducted In Plain Sight, about the Jan Broberg kidnapping. It was during the filming that he learned about all the methods used by his subject, Bob Berchtold to groom and manipulate young Jan and her parents, Bob and Maryann Broberg.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 155 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams.
0:12.3	I'm a retired agent on a mission to show the public who the
0:15.9	FBI is and what the FBI does through my books, my blog, and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues.
0:25.0	Today we get to speak to retired agent Peter Welsh,
0:30.0	who served with the FBI for 20 years.
0:33.8	Pete worked all FBI violations and fugitive matters
0:38.0	in three resident agencies during his career.
0:41.6	He was assigned to the Yuba City Resident Agency out of the
0:45.2	Sacramento Division, the Long Beach R. A. out of the Los Angeles Division and
0:50.7	the Pocatello, Idaho, R.A. out of the Salt Lake City Division.
0:56.6	In this episode, Pete Welsh reviews his 1974 investigation of the
1:03.6	of the kidnapping of 12-year-old Jan Broberg who was abducted by Bob
1:10.0	Bircheld a trusted and close family friend.
1:14.2	Pete Welsh spent three years trying to unravel the bizarre twist and turns of the
1:20.6	kidnapping case, where Jan Broberg was kidnapped not once but twice by the same man who never
1:28.0	served any significant time for the Jan Broberg kidnapping. It was during this filming that Pete Welsh learned about all of the methods
1:47.7	used by Bob Birchhold to groom and manipulate young Jan and her parents Bob and Mary Ann Broberg.
1:57.8	You can learn more about Abducted in Plain Sight and watch a clip from the film on the film company's website and
2:06.1	YouTube. I have to warn you this is one of the strangest cases I have ever heard about.
2:13.6	If you've already watched
2:16.1	abducted in plain sight, you'll follow right along.
2:19.9	If you haven't watched the film yet, you're going to want to.
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