Bob Broberg and Robert Berchtold's Relationship Explained

Bob Broberg and Robert Berchtold’s relationship once went from pleasant to sexual. Learn extra of the backstory of Peacock’s ‘A Friend of the Family.’

The Peacock drama miniseries A Friend of the Family displays how Jan Broberg used to be abducted twice when she used to be a child after her abductor ingratiated himself with her oldsters. The new series also delves into how stated abductor Robert "B" Berchtold manipulated the family.

And if you saw the 2017 true-crime documentary Abducted in Plain Sight, you understand that Jan’s father, the late Bob Broberg (who handed in 2018), had a sexual relationship with Jan’s abductor. Plus, Jan’s mom, Mary Ann Broberg, had her personal affair with him too.

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As Vulture recapped in 2019 — after Abducted in Plain Sight came out on Netflix — Berchtold exploited the Brobergs’ extramarital activities to keep them silent about his relationship with Jan, their daughter.

Bob Broberg and Robert Bechtold’s relationship took a pivotal flip in the future in a automobile.

In Abducted in Plain Sight, Bob revealed that he'd participated in “an act of masturbation” with Berchtold one day after Berchtold (who died in 2005) satisfied him to move for a drive.

“I may tell that [Berchtold] was extraordinarily disturbed,” Bob mentioned in the documentary, reflecting on that day. “He says, ‘Are you free? Let’s opt for a ride.’”

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In the automobile, Bob and Berchtold’s friendship took a flip. “He says, ‘I cannot stand my spouse, and I want to have intercourse,’” Bob recalled. “I may just see that he was sexually aroused. He says, ‘Oh, assume you can give me some aid?’ We were laughing, and he said, ‘Oh, Bob, it’s simply child stuff, and I’ve got to have reduction.’ So, I used to be dumb sufficient to achieve over and relieve him in an act of masturbation. I did the worst factor I’ve ever accomplished, so far as breaking the consider and constancy that I had with my spouse.”

Robert Berchtold wrote about his relationship with Bob Broberg in a "manifesto"-type report.

Speaking to Vulture in 2019, Abducted in Plain Sight director Skye Borgman explained how she discovered about Berchtold’s relationship with Bob. “There had been roughly a manifesto that Berchtold himself had written. We had a couple of pages of it, and it mentioned one thing a couple of relationship with the dad. … Then, when we were given those transcripts from the two hearings that that they had long past via, they'd talked this masturbatory match within the car. I stated, ‘Oh my gosh, it’s true.’”

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Skye additionally shared that she wasn’t sure whether she’d ask Bob about that tournament, however Bob ended up opening up concerning the car stumble upon for the duration of his hours-long interview for the documentary. Then he mentioned it to Mary Ann, who by no means knew the details of her husband’s interactions with Berchtold. “It used to be the first time that he’d ever admitted the rest publicly,” Skye said.

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That tournament within the automobile used to be the only sexual encounter with Robert Berchtold that Bob Broberg recalled.

Despite his sexual encounter with Berchtold within the car, Bob maintained that he wasn’t homosexual, according to Skye. “He chose very surely to stay with the church and to stick with his family,” she added. “And that was once one thing that he was once very committed to. Both those things are the 2 most essential things, truly, in his lifestyles. Church and circle of relatives.”

And Skye stated that she and the opposite Abducted in Plain Sight researchers attempted to find out whether or not the car come across used to be a one-time factor. “[The automobile] is the only time that he remembered it happening, but this can be a tale that took place forty five years in the past,” she mentioned. “I believe it is going to have came about greater than once. I really don’t know for positive if it did, and I don’t know that it in reality would have made all that a lot distinction. I think that Bob Broberg would have felt as much guilt if it came about once or if it took place twice.”

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