353: Jodi Hildebrandt | What Netflix's 'Evil Influencer' Left Out: The Secret Affair & True Motives
Serialously with Annie Elise
Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios
4.7 • 10.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Netflix told part of the story — but not all of it. This episode dives into the secrets the documentary left out, including the alleged hidden affair, the cult-like grip Jodi Hildebrandt had over her followers, and the power dynamics happening behind closed doors. The deeper you look, the more disturbing it gets — and it raises one big question: how much was intentionally left unsaid?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, true crime besties, welcome back to an an all new episode of Serialessly with me, your host, and your true crime bestie, Annie Elise. |
| 0:34.5 | We are in a new year. We are ready to go. We have so much to talk about. I hope you all |
| 0:40.4 | had an amazing holiday. New Year. New Year is a new year. New Year's. I never, whatever, |
| 0:46.1 | you know, I hope you had a good New Year's Eve and a good new year so far. Let's go with that, |
| 0:51.3 | okay? We have got so much to talk about. As you can tell, I'm losing my |
| 0:56.3 | voice a little bit. I didn't have plans to record this episode, but yet here we are, because, |
| 1:02.7 | like I always say, true crime never sleeps. And you know who doesn't sleep even more? Freaking |
| 1:09.3 | cult leaders, okay? |
| 1:22.6 | And today we're talking about somebody who I, you know, through and through, believed years ago was a cult leader and still to this day believe that she is a cult leader. |
| 1:24.9 | And, you know, maybe I should say want to be cold. |
| 1:28.0 | No, I will say cult because she did have a lot of of followers and she made a grip of money leveraging those followers and using the word of God and |
| 1:33.8 | her false prophecies and all of these things to, you know, become some more enlightened being |
| 1:40.2 | or whatever the hell they say, right? So let me just kind of break this down first and say, |
| 1:46.2 | before we get into today's episode, I do need to give a major, major disclaimer. We have talked |
| 1:53.4 | about both Ruby Frankie and Jody Hildebrandt ad nauseum on this channel. Okay? We have done so many deep dives, so many different angles coming at it. |
| 2:03.8 | We have talked about them so much. And I never thought that I was going to be back on here |
| 2:07.8 | talking about either one of them. Yet, here we are. And when I say we've talked about them a lot, |
| 2:13.7 | I'm saying, I'm talking, we have gone over everything from the eight passengers |
| 2:17.6 | YouTube channel that Ruby and her husband Kevin had created and I, in my opinion, forced her |
| 2:24.1 | children to participate in a large amount of the time. We've talked about the countless hours |
| 2:29.0 | of body cam footage that was recovered after their arrest. We've talked about court documents. We even went |
| 2:36.0 | through Sherry Frankie, Ruby's daughter's book, her tell-all and her memoir, and talked about a lot of |
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