Between a Rock and a Hildebrandt: Kevin Franke's Cluelessness Unveiled-2024 Year in Review
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🗓️ 5 January 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to 24 in review. |
| 0:03.4 | A look back at some of the most compelling conversations and stories of the year. |
| 0:08.2 | From True Crime Today and the Hidden Killers podcast. |
| 0:12.3 | This is the Hidden Killers podcast with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:15.8 | Featuring former FBI Special Agent and Chief of the counterintelligence behavioral analysis program, Robin |
| 0:21.9 | Dreek. Kevin Frankie, the ex or estranged husband of Ruby Frankie, speaking out about what went on |
| 0:30.4 | in their relationship together while they were together, while they were separated, and Jody Hildebrand's |
| 0:37.2 | involvement in their relationship. |
| 0:39.2 | Joining me to discuss Robin Drake, retired FBI special agent, big data dump just the other day, |
| 0:45.3 | interviews, audio, diaries. I mean, it goes on and on and on. And we saw a very interesting |
| 0:52.8 | Kevin Frankie being deposed and questioned by police very early on and on and on. And we saw a very interesting Kevin Frankie being deposed and questioned by police |
| 0:56.7 | very early on in the investigation. And he seemed to be fairly clueless as to the depths of what |
| 1:04.9 | the hell was happening at Jody Hildebrand's home. I guess the first question is, do you buy it? |
| 1:11.3 | Do you think he really truly was that clueless that he appeared on camera? |
| 1:18.0 | Boy, it's tough, isn't it? |
| 1:19.6 | The only thing that strikes me to this entire thing is the Hildebrand cult that she started. |
| 1:24.7 | She found a victim in Ruby, and they formed an anti-male cult from what it sounds like, |
| 1:31.5 | as Frankie was saying. |
| 1:34.5 | And it just, again, when you're looking at this behavior pattern of really unhealthy behavior |
| 1:39.4 | that manifested eventually in the abuse of the children, it just didn't happen from zero to 100 overnight. |
| 1:45.7 | There's an escalation of really strange unhealthy behaviors that was happening between |
| 1:50.3 | Frankie and Hildebrand. |
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