And now I totally understand all those FB memes I keep seeing. I mean, seriously, WOW. Every single one of these people are legitimately the absolute f*cking worst. Every. Single. One.... with the exception of the detective, because he took the side of every single one of us and was like, "WTF?! Y'all are dumb as hell."
The documentary is about a girl (she's a full grown woman now, this took place in the 70s) who was, as you can probably guess from the title of the documentary, abducted. BUT that's just the tagline to pull you in, because the story that unfolds is Mind. Blowing. And not in a good "wow, that blew my mind, it was awesome" kind of way. More of a "wow.... how can people be this dumb? this can't actually be a true thing" kind of mind blowing.
Jan (the abducted) was kidnapped by the same grown man TWICE. Yeah, you read that right. Same dude. Same girl. Same family. Same situation. TWICE.
And while I thought that was all I was going to be watching a documentary about, the truth was it was full of everything including:
What I took away from this documentary:
They (as in, EVERYBODY aside from the detective in this documentary) are, hands down, THE WORST. I watched the whole thing thinking, "no one can possibly be this dumb" and I kept waiting for them to be like "we finally realized what was happening" and that moment NEVER CAME. Literally, the only person in the whole thing with any sense was the detective and even he was like, "how dumb are y'all?!"
My favorite part? Detective: "So, your daughter has been abducted?" Parents: "No, she hasn't been abducted. B just took her somewhere and we don't know where and we've had no contact and it's been almost a week." Detective: "...... THAT'S WHAT ABDUCTED MEANS. That's the literal definition."
There's no doubt about it, the dude was definitely a master manipulator. He was banging basically everyone in the family (excluding two sisters) and had them all convinced that not only was it "ok" but it was doctor sanctioned.
I recently read that there's going to be a "sequel" to this documentary (which, I didn't know documentary sequels were a thing? but I guess we can all thanks "Making a Murderer".... which I still haven't finished even the first season of), and that's a good thing, because I, like so may others, have some questions that need to be answered immediately. Because honestly, we need WAY more details than what they could fit into 90 minutes. That kind of stupidity demands further explanation.
The top 10 answers I need immediately:
#1: What the f*ck?!!?!
#2: Why did you think it was ok to have a forty year old man sleep in the bed with your nine year old daughter? Seriously?! Who gives a shit about his "therapy"?!
#3: Mary Ann, having an affair is inexcusable. BUT, how are you gonna have an affair with a man AFTER he abducted your twelve year old (TWICE) so they could go to Mexico and get married?!
#4: How was Berchtold's brother not more upset with the fact that his brother was a paedophile?
#5: How do y'all still look like you have nothing, but fond memories of this psycho?
#6: Bob.... uhhh..... yeah?!!?!
#7: I know it was the 70s and that's considered "a time of innocence" (even though, how? because y'all knew about Charles Manson at this point), but COME ON, you cannot possibly be that naive TWICE. Right?
#8: Did they have legit therapists in the 70s? Because if there were, why wasn't Jan enrolled into that shit IMMEDIATELY?!
#9: How was Berchtold's wife so calm and defensive of her husband? What the f*ck, lady?!!?!
#10: Did somebody buy that detective a beer? If not, they should have.
Side note: the fact that the mother was a social worker and adoption/foster care specialist? Umm.... no. Don't get me wrong, I don't want to be one of those people that blames the victim or think that you're an idiot because your kid was abducted, because that's an unimaginable and horrible situation, BUT.... it's really hard not to be concerned that this lady was in charge of other children. Did anyone think to themselves, "eh, maybe we should give these cases to Susan and send Mary Ann on leave?"
So y'all, I guess we'll wait for the sequel.... or something like that?! What do we know? We're all still so damn confused.
