Jan Broberg Returns to Site of Childhood Kidnapping in New Documentary

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Jan Broberg is revisiting her terrifying past.

On Nov. 3, Peacock announced the caller documentary A Friend of the Family: True Evil, a companion to the streamer's drama bid A Friend of the Family, which tells the real-life communicative of Jan's aggregate 1970s kidnappings and intersexual maltreatment by neighbour Robert Berchtold.

In the recently released trailer for the special, Jan returns to the sites of her abductions—including the chamber wherever her maltreatment began and wherever constabulary yet rescued her successful Mexico—nearly 50 years after the traumatic events.

"Robert Berchtold kidnapped maine erstwhile I was 12 and again erstwhile I was 14," Jan says successful the preview, "and with that, my brainwashing began."

"I gotta look the demon," Jan adds successful the trailer earlier touring what she called her "torture chamber"—the R.V. helium kidnapped her in.

Jan besides speaks with different victims of Berchtold's for the archetypal clip ever for affectional conversations astir their shared experiences and roadworthy to healing.

According to Peacock, "Through interviews with Jan and members of her family, including her parent and son, the documentary dives into however a household comes to presumption with the generational trauma that tin impact survivors and their loved ones years aft the maltreatment took place."

Jan added successful a statement, "Many harmed by kid intersexual battle and semipermanent maltreatment are inactive striving to heal and thrive years later. Through enactment and community, the healing travel of 'Thrivivors' tin make a ripple effect towards alteration for children, and I americium grateful to Peacock for the accidental to proceed telling my story. It is my anticipation that with greater consciousness and knowing of puerility intersexual maltreatment and grooming, full prevention tin genuinely go a reality."