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The Rise and Fall of Ruby Franke

#FreeChad | 2

The Rise and Fall of Ruby Franke

Law&Crime | Wondery

Society & Culture, Ruby Franke, #Jodi Hildebrandt, True Crime

31.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

As 8 Passengers’ following grows, so do their subscribers' concerns about the welfare of Ruby Franke’s children. Specifically her oldest son, Chad, who becomes noticeably absent from vlogs in the summer of 2019. Viewers press in the comments for answers as to his whereabouts, and what they learn provides more clues into Ruby’s punitive parenting philosophy.

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0:00.0

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0:06.4

Join Wundry Plus in the Wundry app or on Apple Podcasts.

0:10.4

This is a law and crime network presentation.

0:14.0

This podcast explores themes of child abuse and trauma.

0:18.0

Please listen with care.

0:22.0

I've never, never once forgotten to blog. It's like forgetting to

0:25.0

breathe for getting to eat or forgetting to breathe for me, like picking up the

0:31.6

camera and blogging, it's like I would never forget to do that.

0:34.8

The thing is, is when you get around a lot of these people, behind the scenes, you know,

0:39.1

it's like flexing a muscle. They can only keep up those appearances, put on the mask for the camera for so long.

0:46.7

You only got a little gist of it on camera. All the discipline takes place off camera.

0:53.0

My first thought when I heard this was that this is not something that sounds safe for a child.

0:59.0

I have to tell you, Chad, I'm really glad you're home.

1:02.0

Our house is so much better with you here.

1:04.0

But there's one part of me that really hates that you're here.

1:08.1

I remember Ruby talking about how he had like broken bones from it and like all these repercussions and it just

1:16.3

didn't sit right and that was kind of like the first inkling of like okay something's

1:21.0

really not right here.

1:23.0

I'm Paula Barros, and this is the rise and fall of Ruby Frankie presented by Lawing Crime.

1:37.0

Good morning passengers. I am so happy. Good morning passengers. Today is a good

1:50.2

morning passengers. I wanted to share a tip with you.

1:54.4

Ruby Frankie's blog channel Eight Passengers is gaining a following.

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