Netflix viewers left shaken by shocking new true crime documentary

Following their huge success with Birdbox and Black Mirror: Bandersnatch late last year Netflix has unleashed another talking-point feature onto its streaming service.

True crime documentary Abducted in Plain Sight was first released back in May 2017 in the US but only dropped on Netflix UK last month and has been steadily gaining cult status thanks to its jaw-dropping twists.

Telling the real life story of Jan Broberg who was abducted twice and sexually abused by family friend Robert Berchtold in the 1970s, viewers have tweeted their shock after watching the 90 minute documentary.

The film, directed and produced by Skye Borgman, details the story of Jan, who later in life became an actress, and her abductions which happened when she was just 12 and 14.

Berchtold tricks both of Jan's parents into giving access to their young daughter, with the parents later shockingly waiting days to report her missing.   

During the first abduction Berchtold fled to Mexico with Jan where he tried to brainwash her before she was returned home weeks later. 

Two years later Jan was abducted again by Berchtold, this time going missing for 100 days. 

He enrolled her in a Catholic girls' school, posing as her father to try and keep her family and the authorities away. 

Jan and her mother, Mary Ann, have in the years since spoken at a number of events to raise awareness of sexual abuse, while Mary Ann has also written a book.





MailOnline