Evil Influencer: The Horrifying Case of Jodi Hildebrandt & Ruby Franke
The FOX True Crime Podcast
Fox News
4.7 • 826 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:37.1 | She was the woman with all the answers, a trusted counselor, a guiding light for families navigating the strict values of the Mormon church. |
| 0:40.5 | Clients paid thousands of dollars a week just to hear her voice to have her tell them what was |
| 0:45.8 | truth and what was distortion. But behind the closed doors of her multi-million dollar Utah mansion, |
| 0:52.8 | Jody Hildebrandt, wasn't healing families. |
| 0:55.6 | She was dismantling them. |
| 0:57.7 | She convinced mothers to abandon their husbands. |
| 1:00.4 | She labeled innocent men as addicts. |
| 1:03.0 | And then she met Ruby Frankie. |
| 1:06.1 | Ruby was a YouTube star, a mom fluencer, with millions of eyes on her perfect, polished family. |
| 1:13.2 | But once Jody entered the frame, that perfection twisted into something darker. |
| 1:18.7 | The facade of the eight passengers' channel was about to shatter, revealing a nightmare of malnourishment, |
| 1:24.7 | restraint, and ritualistic pain. It wasn't parenting. |
| 1:28.9 | It was torture. |
| 1:32.6 | I'm Emily Campano, and this is the Fox True Crime podcast. The |
| 1:47.0 | The For years, Jody Hildebrand operated in the shadows of faith, using religious beliefs as a weapon to chip away at her client's confidence. |
| 2:16.7 | She told women they were finally taking their power back |
| 2:19.3 | while simultaneously tearing their homes apart. |
| 2:22.3 | Then came the summer of 2023. |
| 2:25.3 | A 12-year-old boy climbs out of a window in Ivan's Utah. |
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