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What Ruby has done: it just crossed the line to abusive to just psychotic and full-on evil. Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke I: Abundance, BBC 2026
Ruby Frank was arrested last week along with her business partner after Franke’s 12-year-old son escaped through a window and ran to a neighbour’s house pleading for food and water. Police say the boy was severely malnourished and had lacerations from being tied up. The house the boy says he escaped from - Jodi Hildebrandt’s. ibid. news
Hildebrandt has also been arrested and charged with six counts of felony child abuse. ibid. caption
In the journal, Ruby describes her children with words like ‘demon’, ‘devil’, ‘possessed’. Insisting they must repent. ibid.
Ruby Franke was one of Youtube’s most popular family vloggers. She is now serving up to 30 years in prison for child abuse. ibid.
Ruby’s sole ambition was to be seen as the perfect mom. ibid. comment
At our peak, a hundred grand or more a month. ibid. father
Our entire schedule revolved around Youtube. ibid. daughter
Jodi is one in a million. I say that quite literally. ibid. Ruby
I feel so bad for the kids she is crazy. ibid. social media
8 passengers more like 6 prisoners. ibid.
The torrent of pure hatred that came through the door. ibid. father
You are a terrible mother, absolutely disgusting and vile. ibid. social media
I learnt there was a whole lot of horror that was going on in the shadows and behind the scenes. ibid. father
She [Jodi] just set off things in Ruby that were already in her heart. ibid. comment
I’ll wait till I have a lawyer. ibid. Ruby to rozzer
[Ruby to camera]: I am a child of God. I am the centre. That is where I am centred. Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke II: Distortion
We are talking this morning about humility. ibid. Jodi to camera
She [Jodi] seemed very angry toward men. ibid. therapist
I knew what she [Jodi] was doing and how destructive it was. ibid.
She [Jodi] was excellent at exploiting Mormon anxiety … It was this need she created … a church within a church. ibid.
This feels like a man-hating club. ibid. father re Jodie
Why did Jodi like it so much? Because it validated things. ibid. father
She [Ruby] believed inside that we were destined to be a part of something earth-shifting, part of God’s work. ibid.
Our job is to educate you. ibid. Jodie re food storage
Children are not entitled to privacy. ibid. Jodie to camera
Jodi would go into these possessed trances. ibid. father
She [Ruby] started to sleep in the bed with Jodi. ibid.
Ruby is broken. She has no empathy. ibid. social media
I think she [Jodi] wanted Ruby for herself. ibid. father
Ruby had literally come to see evil in everyone around her. ibid. neighbour
[Producer to father]: We should probably talk about what Ruby and Jodi did to the kids after you moved out. If that’s OK. Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke III: Truth
Your woke child is a walking zombie. And you have an opportunity to wake the zombie up. ibid. Ruby to camera
She [Ruby] said every marriage should have a separation. ibid. neighbour
Gonna see Ruby on a true crime podcast. ibid. social media
[911 call]: I just had a 12-year-old boy show up here at my front door asking for help. He’s emaciated. He’s got duct tape around each ankle. He’s hungry and he’s thirsty … This boy has been [sobs] … ibid. neighbour
He said that he had been tied up and that he had handcuffs on him. And he said, I have a younger sister in the home. ibid. rozzer
The girl looked like a young boy sitting there. Shaved head, real skinny, didn’t talk to us. ibid. rozzer enters home
She [Ruby] started to share with me that the two younger children are demonically possessed. ibid. father to children
She didn’t ask how they kids were. Just nothing. ibid. rozzer arrests Ruby
Ruby and Jodie are each charged with six counts of child abuse. ibid. caption
You can see in the journal that she genuinely believed that her children were posssessed … that creating pain brings you to God. ibid. therapist
What that young boy did that day saved his and his sister’s life. ibid. rozzer
I walked into the house for the first time for over a year. It was just a mess. ibid. father
They will each serve up to 30 years in prison. ibid. caption
‘I don’t think he’s feeling any grief here,’ Rouse said while being shown video of John-Paul Miller. We’re not hearing it in his voice. He’s under the impression when you’re sad that your voice goes way high. His voice is way too clean for this, way too clean for him to be as sad as he’s saying that he is. Newsnation online 15th May 2024, ‘Body-Language expert talks John-Paul Miller’s Mannerisms