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Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation

Jan Broberg, Part 1: Family Grooming, Aliens, and the First Kidnapping

Nov 16, 2022
57:59

Jan Broberg, kidnapping survivor and subject of the Peacock documentary Friend of the Family: True Evil (plus scripted series Friend of the Family), shares her story of how a man from church befriended her family when she was a child, grooming and seducing both of her parents to get to Jan. She discusses how the man, Robert Berchtold, kidnapped her and set up an elaborate scheme to convince her that she had a mission involving an alien race... and the way to complete it was to have his baby. And that's just the first kidnapping. 

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