The True Story Of A Family Friend?

In 1972, the Broberg family met the Berchtold family at church, and they became inseparable. The Brobergs and Berchtolds had been very good friends since they first met in 1972. Years after the Netflix documentary Abducted in Plain Sight, Peacock is dramatizing the true story of Jan Broberg and her childhood sexual abuse at the hands of a close family friend, Robert “B” Berchtold.

A Friend of the Family is an American biographical crime drama television miniseries that explores the real-life events Jan Broberg experienced at the hands of Robert “B” Berchtold. The show stars Jake Lacy as Berchtold, and Hendrix Yancey and Hendrix Yancey as Jan Broberg. The show is based on a mind-boggling 1970s kidnap case in Idaho when a trusted church member and father of five abducted an adolescent family friend twice.

The first episode of Peacock’s new true crime drama, A Friend of the Family, does not do much justice to the true story of the Broberg family. Bob Broberg (Colin Hanks) pleads with his wife Mary Ann (Anna Paquin) to help him. A Friend of the Family is the harrowing true story of the Broberg family, whose daughter Jan was kidnapped multiple times in the 1970s by a charismatic man.

The real-life subject of the Peacock true-crime series talked with a young actress who plays her about that emotional final episode. A Friend of the Family is a companion to Peacock’s hit limited drama series A Friend, which dives into the strange case of Jan Broberg.