Can Ruby Franke Every Truly Reconcile With The Children She Abused?
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 24 January 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
What happens when the very people meant to protect you become your greatest threat? In this chilling dive into the Ruby Franke case, retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer explores the psychological aftermath of abuse, the fractured family dynamics, and the lasting scars left behind. Can forgiveness ever find a place in such profound betrayal, or does the shadow of Ruby's alleged actions forever loom over her children?
As Coffindaffer breaks down the disturbing mindset of abusers, the question arises: Can anyone who inflicts such harm truly change? And what about the quiet complicity of Kevin Franke—was he an unwitting victim, or an enabler complicit in the darkness? This episode leaves no stone unturned, painting a haunting picture of a family torn apart and the battles yet to come.
Will time bring healing, or are some wounds simply too deep to mend?
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| 0:56.6 | Welcome to Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske, featuring retired FBI special agent, Jennifer Coffin Daffer. |
| 1:04.1 | Can someone like this, it's more of a psychological question, but you know know you've dealt with so many different types of |
| 1:12.1 | people is there ever any sort of forgiveness uh or or coming back together for any member of the |
| 1:20.4 | family to be with ruby in any sort of healthy way down the road when she gets out when these |
| 1:26.8 | kids have been older, had some therapy, |
| 1:29.7 | maybe worked on some healing? Or is it a case like this just always best where, you know, |
| 1:35.9 | Ruby's pretty much dead to them and should be for their own well-being? I think the concern would |
| 1:43.2 | be that somebody's capable of doing this once and it's |
| 1:46.1 | so ingrained in them. What's not to say they're going to try it again if they regain someone's |
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