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Sep 26, 2022 · In 1974, 12-year-old Jan Broberg of Idaho was abducted by neighbor and family friend Robert Berchtold and forced to marry him in Mexico — and two years later, he kidnapped her again.
Nov 7, 2022 · Robert Berchtold allegedly committed horrendous crimes — and supposedly no one stopped him, despite a seeming plethora of evidence against him. The almost unbelievable, surreal story of his...
Dec 20, 2022 · Heidi Brewer was abused by Robert Berchtold for seven years. She shares her story in this exclusive essay.
Feb 7, 2019 · After becoming fast friends with a new family called the Berchtolds, the Brobergs noticed that the charismatic “fun dad” Robert Berchtold (known as “B”) seemed overly interested in Jan. “He was...
Nov 10, 2022 · Jan Broberg writes about why she shared her story of childhood sexual abuse at the hands of a close family friend in the Peacock TV show.
Aug 19, 2022 · Robert Ersol Berchtold, 69, of Logandale, died Nov. 11, 2005. He was a truck driver and served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. He is survived by his wife, Deanna; sons, Jerry, James,...
Oct 7, 2022 · Her saga was admittedly complicated: When she was 12 and living in Idaho in the 1970s, a close family friend and neighbor who was decades older, Bob Berchtold, drove off with her one day, having...
Oct 7, 2022 · Peacock’s A Friend of the Family revisits the harrowing true story of how Robert “B” Berchtold used sophisticated manipulation tactics to kidnap Jan Broberg not once, but twice in the 1970s.
Oct 6, 2022 · Berchtold raped and abused Broberg for years, practically under the nose of her parents. He abducted Broberg twice — first at age 12, then at age 14 — but Broberg's parents waited days to ...
Oct 4, 2022 · Robert Berchtold allegedly committed horrendous crimes — and supposedly no one stopped him, despite a seeming plethora of evidence against him. The almost unbelievable, surreal story of his kidnapping of Jan Broberg is dramatized in the Peacock limited series "A Friend of the Family,” streaming now.
