The American platform Peacock has released the first trailer of the series “A Friend of the Family”, which tells the terrible true story of a girl kidnapped and molested twice by the same man, someone her parents considered “a friend of the family” .
The series will tell the true story of Jan Broberg, who in 1974, at the age of 12, was kidnapped and raped. Faced with impunity, two years later the same man repeated it once again.
The kidnapper was Robert “B” Berchtold, who had infiltrated the girl’s family life and spent two years making friends with her parents, thus earning their trust and being able to get close to Jan.
During that time, Berchtold learned of that family’s weaknesses and exploited their vulnerabilities. He even manipulated Jan’s parents Bob and Mary Ann into conflict in their marriage.
Her manipulative power was such that she raped Jan repeatedly, claiming she was involved in a top-secret alien mission to save their species, requiring her to reproduce before her 16th birthday or her sister and husband. consequences of being “vaporized”.
The girl’s brainwashing was so great that she said she came to “love him like a husband”.
Even his parents couldn’t think clearly. At the time of the first kidnapping, they were concerned when she did not return from a tour with Berchtold, but did not report her missing for five days, for fear that she might upset Gail, Berchtold’s wife, who was also a close friend. her.
The second kidnapping case occurred in 1976, when Berchtold enrolled Jan in a Catholic boarding school in Los Angeles under a false name while continuing to live in a trailer park in Salt Lake City.
He visited her every weekend and, once again, Jan’s parents were slow to report the case, fearing that rumors of a second disappearance of their daughter would spread throughout the community.
This story was recently told in the Netflix documentary series “Abducted In Plain Sight”.
The series “A Friend Of The Family” was created by Nick Antosca (“Vengeance Cherry Flavor”) and the cast consists of Jake Lacy (“The White Lotus”) as the kidnapper, Colin Hanks (“The Offer”) and Anna Paquin (“True Blood”) as her parents and Hendrix Yancey (the thirteen of “Stranger Things” season 4) as Jan. Jan Broberg herself and her mother, Mary Ann, serve as executive producers.
The attraction will debut on October 6 in the United States, but there is no release date for Brazil yet. Peacock is the only major Hollywood studio platform (it belongs to NBCUniversal) that didn’t launch here, but its series has come to the country through other services.
Source: Terra
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