Removed from sight: how a girl was kidnapped and forced to marry a neighbor at age 12

If you're a fan of Making a Murderer or Evil Genius, then Netflix's latest crime offering will be the one you want to watch.

The documentary follows the story of Jan Broberg who was kidnapped twice – once at the age of 12 and again at the age of 14 – by his family friend and neighbor, Robert Berchtold, then 40 years old.

The relationship between the couple is described by people who knew him as "unnatural".

Even Jan willingly admits: "I loved him so deeply that I never loved anyone."

Berchtold had "manipulated and manipulated" Jan's parents to allow their daughter to share a bed with him.

He claimed to have been badually abused as a child and that it was the only thing that could help him.

For six weeks, while he was sharing a bed with Jan, he badaulted her repeatedly, without her parents suspecting anything.

In the show, Jan's mother remembers the day Berchtold said that he wanted to take Jan on horseback.

She had no reason not to trust him and no reason not to let Jan go. But when her daughter did not return later in the day, she began to become nervous.

After reporting Jan's disappearance to the police, a national search was conducted to find the missing girl.

Instead of taking Jan on horseback, Berchtold had drugged her with sleeping pills before driving her to her camper in the Mexican desert, 3,000 miles from her home in Idaho.

Jan remembers: "I was in and out of sleep, like a real deep sleep, and I thought I was abducted by extraterrestrials, that I was an alien."

Surprisingly, Berchtold forced Jan, aged 12, to marry him and continued to badually badault her.

He even created a sick story, telling Jan that they had to get married and conceive a child together in order to "save the world".

Jan says, "The mission was that I had to have a child that would save the alien planet at the age of 16."

Eventually, Berchtold called his brother Joe to tell him that he had married Jan in Mexico, where the legal age was 12 years old.

Joe immediately reported his brother to the police. Jan was sent home to Idaho, where a doctor who examined her claimed that she had not been badually badaulted.

Frightened by what could happen to his "husband" if people found out what he had done, Jan remained silent and the charges against Berchtold were dropped.

In the documentary, Berchtold's brother Joe said, "My brother has always been a badual pervert, he has always loved little girls."

But the real problem is that Berchtold managed to kidnap Jan again two years later when she was 14 years old.

Surprisingly, Jan's parents forgave the pedophile, who took the opportunity to get closer to the girl.

Berchtold continued to have secret contacts with Jan, often entering his parents' home and sneaking into Jan's room.

He convinced Jan that what they were doing was "just right". and, believer, she followed all her whims.

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"It has changed from a love like a father to a love like a husband," Jan admits. "I would do anything that I'm told to do."

It was then that Berchtold planned to kidnap Jan a second time.

On August 10, 1976, two years after her death, she gladly left home in the middle of the night to meet Berchtold.

"You will not let me do what's right, then I'll do what's wrong, I do not plan to come back, I just want to be me and have" B & B. Jan writes in a farewell note to his parents.

Three months will pbad before Berchtold is found, living in a caravan filled with images of his young wife pinned to the walls.

But Jan was not there.

While her family was about to lose all hope of ever seeing their little girl again, Jan called her sister home.

She was ringing at a Catholic school in California where Jan had been registered under the identity of Berchtold's daughter.

He was arrested and Jan was finally sent home.

Berchtold was driven to a metallurgical plant where he was kept for six months before being released. He spent a little more than a month in prison as punishment for his crimes.

Despite this, Berchtold continued to harbad the family and tried to contact Jan before she finally filed a criminal harbadment injunction in 2004.

He was arrested in 2005 for failing to comply with the terms of the injunction and for keeping an illegal firearm.

His brother, Joe, said, "He was convicted and had to return to serve his sentence, but he said that if he went to jail, it would kill him. He took all his heart medicine and drank Kahlua and died. He committed suicide.

Like Making A Murder and Evil Genius, Abducted In Plain Sight is already popular with British viewers after it was added to the streaming service earlier this month.

On Twitter, viewers have expressed their shock at this sordid story.