FBI Behavioral Analyst on Why Kevin Franke Didn’t Act Sooner
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 12 March 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
How do you go from parenting to full-blown exorcisms? That’s the twisted reality of the alleged abuse unfolding in the Ruby Franke and Jodi Hildebrandt saga. What started as a strict religious upbringing spiraled into something far more sinister—kids being duct-taped, starved, and subjected to cruel punishments, all under the guise of “purging uncleanliness.” But how did Ruby go from a popular mommy vlogger to someone who saw her own children as demons? And was Jodi the puppet master, manipulating Ruby for her own twisted needs?
Tony Brueski and retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke break down the psychological manipulation, cult-like tactics, and sheer horror behind this case. From Jodi’s alleged possession performances to Kevin Franke’s apparent addiction to Ruby, it’s a deep dive into a world where control, abuse, and religious extremism collided—leaving the most vulnerable to suffer.
Did Jodi truly believe in what she was preaching, or was she just cashing in on control and chaos? And how do people so fully lose themselves in a belief system that they justify harming their own children?
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.3 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:05.7 | The area where they're talking about, you know, basically purging the uncleanliness out of the kids. |
| 0:16.0 | That, to me, is an interesting area because in other religions, I guess, you know, you do that |
| 0:24.3 | through education. |
| 0:25.3 | You do that through, okay, this is right, this is wrong, this is what we believe, this is how |
| 0:30.4 | we act. |
| 0:31.0 | Other people do this, but that's not we believe. |
| 0:34.7 | And it's very, it's like it's upbringing a child without abuse. It's just, here's our |
| 0:40.7 | moral compass, but it's based on religion, not just being a decent human being. With that, |
| 0:48.3 | it led to abuse, the purge of the uncleanness of the children. Why does it go there? Why does it go to abuse and not just a |
| 1:01.9 | more calm, rational way of parenting? How on earth are they thinking they're going to get the |
| 1:08.4 | devil and the demons out of these children by duct-taping them, |
| 1:13.6 | by not feeding them, by making them go stand in the sun and just torturous type things. |
| 1:19.6 | I mean, that to me was just insane. |
| 1:21.9 | You'd have to believe that your children are not your children anymore if you're going to do |
| 1:26.1 | that to put them through such |
| 1:28.6 | such pain and to have zero empathy there that's a hard one for a lot of people to wrap their minds |
| 1:34.2 | around you just sit it right there to believe your children aren't your children anymore she |
| 1:38.0 | actually said ruby said these are devils yeah and so this was a slow-boiling frog, and this was all Jody. |
| 1:46.1 | That was the impetus for this. |
| 1:47.6 | And she saw a mentally weak victim in Ruby that she could manipulate because she saw |
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