Abducted in Plain Sight

coming down out of the sky, 513 00:30:04,345 --> 00:30:07,390 and the car started to vibrate and move and shake. 514 00:30:08,474 --> 00:30:11,977 We must've been taken by this powerful light." 515 00:30:12,019 --> 00:30:14,731 And I said, "No, we-- we're here. 516 00:30:14,772 --> 00:30:16,566 We're here, we're together, 517 00:30:16,607 --> 00:30:19,943 and there's a mission." 518 00:30:19,985 --> 00:30:24,365 I completely knew that he was the male companion, 519 00:30:24,407 --> 00:30:27,868 that together we're supposed to have a child. 520 00:30:29,495 --> 00:30:31,455 The whole thing of him being, 521 00:30:31,497 --> 00:30:33,457 you know, this 40-year-old man 522 00:30:33,499 --> 00:30:36,043 and me being a 12-year-old girl was-- 523 00:30:36,085 --> 00:30:38,254 was definitely strange. 524 00:30:38,295 --> 00:30:40,047 The whole thing was strange, 525 00:30:40,089 --> 00:30:44,552 but I also now felt like: "Well, I'm an alien. 526 00:30:44,594 --> 00:30:48,097 I'm strange. I'm not normal." 527 00:30:48,138 --> 00:30:50,349 I believed it absolutely. 528 00:30:50,391 --> 00:30:53,477 I mean, when you combine being isolated 529 00:30:53,519 --> 00:30:56,897 and completely afraid, 530 00:30:56,939 --> 00:31:00,443 you can pretty much get someone to do or believe anything. 531 00:31:03,153 --> 00:31:08,117 Those first few weeks, I had no concept of how much time had gone by, really. 532 00:31:09,535 --> 00:31:12,079 I think I was drugged a lot of the time. 533 00:31:13,748 --> 00:31:16,709 But I do remember him specifically 534 00:31:16,751 --> 00:31:19,878 going through the cupboards of the motor home. 535 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:25,301 And one of the cupboards had these three or four books. 536 00:31:25,342 --> 00:31:27,637 I knew that the books were about sex. 537 00:31:29,346 --> 00:31:32,891 And then shortly after that, the box said: 538 00:31:32,933 --> 00:31:38,731 "We think it's time for you to ask the male companion 539 00:31:38,773 --> 00:31:41,692 to do what makes people happy." 540 00:31:43,778 --> 00:31:47,740 I don't remember the violent kind of rape 541 00:31:47,782 --> 00:31:50,159 that I've heard other women talk about. 542 00:31:52,578 --> 00:31:56,999 Berchtold would insert his penis just slightly, barely. 543 00:31:58,167 --> 00:32:01,128 It was always just an inch. 544 00:32:02,379 --> 00:32:04,799 He almost was as concerned 545 00:32:04,841 --> 00:32:07,926 that it was an enjoyable experience for me 546 00:32:07,968 --> 00:32:10,179 as it was obviously for him. 547 00:32:12,348 --> 00:32:14,141 There was, like, a little tiny fan 548 00:32:14,183 --> 00:32:16,435 in the roof of the motor home. 549 00:32:17,311 --> 00:32:20,857 I could look up through that little fan, 550 00:32:20,898 --> 00:32:23,359 and I could-- 551 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:25,736 I could just look at the leaves. 552 00:32:25,778 --> 00:32:29,365 There was some kind of a branch or a tree or something. 553 00:32:29,406 --> 00:32:33,994 And I could just-- I would just look at the leaves. 554 00:32:34,036 --> 00:32:37,832 Just look at the leaves. If you just look at the leaves, it'll be okay. 555 00:32:39,100 --> 00:32:41,836 I guess that's how I got through it. 556 00:32:48,342 --> 00:32:50,010 [type writer clicking] 557 00:32:52,304 --> 00:32:54,264 [Joe] Bob called me and says, 558 00:32:54,306 --> 00:32:57,727 "I want you to call Mary Ann and get a written permission 559 00:32:57,768 --> 00:33:00,730 for Jan and I to come back to the United States 560 00:33:00,771 --> 00:33:03,566 and get married. 'Cause we were married in Mexico, 561 00:33:03,607 --> 00:33:05,484 but it isn't legal in the United States." 562 00:33:05,526 --> 00:33:08,612 [Bob] Under Mexican law, you had to be 12 years old. 563 00:33:09,655 --> 00:33:12,074 And of course they qualified. 564 00:33:12,115 --> 00:33:16,871 I was irate to even think that that could happen. 565 00:33:16,913 --> 00:33:18,915 His brother called and he said: 566 00:33:18,956 --> 00:33:21,959 "They want to come home, but he cannot come home 567 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,169 unless you give him permission to marry her 568 00:33:24,211 --> 00:33:26,630 in the United States of America." 569 00:33:26,672 --> 00:33:29,967 And I said: "Permission to marry her? We would never do that." 570 00:33:30,008 --> 00:33:32,052 "Well, he can't come back unless you do." 571 00:33:32,094 --> 00:33:33,721 He'll be a dead man or spend the rest of his life 572 00:33:33,763 --> 00:33:35,055 in prison if he comes back. 573 00:33:35,097 --> 00:33:36,766 You have kidnapping charges." 574 00:33:36,807 --> 00:33:38,225 She says: "Absolutely not. 575 00:33:38,267 --> 00:33:39,936 We will not. "Where are they?" 576 00:33:39,977 --> 00:33:42,730 And then I-- In my mind I decided to get him home. 577 00:33:43,856 --> 00:33:46,525 I had the FBI come in and they tapped the phone. 578 00:33:47,651 --> 00:33:51,363 He called me and says: "I'm in Mazatlán, Mexico