Love, Lies & Abduction: The Jan Broberg Story
I Wish You Were Here
Michelle Cuervo
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my people. It's me again. Did you miss me? Jan Broberg, so much to this story. And from |
| 0:08.1 | beginning to end, insane. I, to the point that I've talked about this story multiple times, |
| 0:13.4 | I've talked about it over on TikTok. There's so many documentaries and podcast episodes and |
| 0:18.3 | YouTube videos and all the things about this story because it's that crazy. |
| 0:22.4 | And in one of the documentaries, I'll have to look where it is. I think maybe Netflix. |
| 0:27.0 | Jan herself and her parents and her sisters talk in that documentary. |
| 0:31.2 | So the source of this story is literally coming from Jan herself. |
| 0:35.2 | Yet every single time I think about it or talk about it, I'm like, is this real? Like, are we sure that this really happened? Because it's so insane. But in the same breath, I'm like, well, no, this had to have happened because never in someone's wildest dreams would they come up with this story. It's not something that you would even think about. So here we go. I would just |
| 0:54.8 | leave the intro at this. Just when you think you know, you don't know. Welcome to this week's |
| 0:59.8 | episode of I Wish You Were Here. My name is Michelle and I'm your host. Jan Broberg, she was the oldest of |
| 1:09.5 | three children to her parents, Mary Ann and Robert Broberg. |
| 1:13.1 | She also had two little sisters called Karen and Susan, but her parents have said that ever |
| 1:18.2 | since Jan was little, she was like a firecracker, a little bundle of joy, but with so much |
| 1:23.2 | energy. |
| 1:24.1 | She always wanted to play. |
| 1:25.6 | She always wanted to hang out with people. |
| 1:27.4 | She always wanted to do something. Being wanted to hang out with people. She always wanted to do |
| 1:28.6 | something. Being bored for Jan was never really an option, even as a little girl. She always found |
| 1:33.8 | different things to do, different things to try out, different people in her neighborhood to play with. |
| 1:38.4 | And her personality very much gave older sister as well. And coming from a family of three girls, |
| 1:44.0 | I'm the middle child, |
| 1:45.1 | but I have an older and a younger sister. I feel like I can picture the three girls in her |
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