Does Kevin Franke Really 'Get It', If He Still Loves Ruby Franke?-WEEK IN REVIEW
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🗓️ 9 March 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Week in review. |
| 0:02.4 | I look back at the most prolific stories of the week. |
| 0:06.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. |
| 0:10.2 | The Ruby Frankie case, it's one of those true crime stories that leaves you with far more |
| 0:17.7 | questions than answers. |
| 0:20.6 | Brant is talking about a vlogger turned abuser. |
| 0:23.3 | This is a case that involves extreme control, religious fanaticism, |
| 0:29.9 | and what some experts have described as a cult-like grip on an entire family. |
| 0:35.5 | But today, we're not focusing on Ruby. We're looking at Kevin, |
| 0:40.1 | Frankie, the husband who stayed. He has regrets. We'll talk about that in a moment. The man who says |
| 0:48.8 | he still loves the woman who tortured their children. The man who many believe could have stopped this but didn't. |
| 0:56.3 | So the question we have to ask is, was Kevin Frankie a manipulated victim of the same |
| 1:01.2 | psychological coercion that destroyed his family? Or was he a man who failed his kids? Ignored |
| 1:07.8 | the red flags and is now just trying to clean up the mess. |
| 1:12.2 | Shavon Scott, psychotherapist and author joining us for the conversation. |
| 1:19.3 | I got to ask about this. |
| 1:22.1 | What do we know about the way manipulative personalities can slowly, insidiously take over, not just one person, |
| 1:30.9 | but an entire household. |
| 1:32.3 | And what sort of psychological factors could explain why Kevin stayed so long, even when his children were clearly suffering? |
| 1:41.4 | It's counterintuitive that somebody would do this, but when you look at the dynamics of the Jody Hildebrand cult, |
| 1:50.0 | which I don't think there's any other good word to describe it, you can start to make sense of it. |
| 1:56.0 | The sense of her as an authority figure who was validated by the LDS faith and people that were raised |
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