Influencers Caught Abusing Children Inside Luxury Home Now FOR SALE
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 27 April 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
A 12-year-old boy climbs out of a window in a home, running to neighbors begging for food and water.
The boy is the son of Ruby Franke, a popular blogger, known for the YouTube channel "8 Passengers." The home belonged to Franke's business partner Jodi Hildebrandt.
Neighbors called police. Officers said the boy looked emaciated and malnourished. Cops also noted that the boy had “deep lacerations from being tied up with rope” and duct tape around his wrists and ankles.. After searching Hildebrandt’s home, police found Franke’s 10-year-old daughter in a similar condition. Both children were taken to a hospital.
Franke's parenting channel "8 Passengers," which at one time boasted over 2 million followers, doled out parenting advice, and in her video, she admits to withholding food as a form of punishment.
Both women have been charged with six counts of aggravated child abuse.
Joining Nancy Grace Today:
- Donna Kelly – Former Utah Senior Deputy District Attorney and Attorney for Crime Victims Legal Clinic; Helped form the Utah County Sex Crimes Task Force
- Dr. Dana Anderson – Forensic Psychologist and Consultant, Court-appointed expert witness, X: @psychologydrcom/TikTok: @psychologydr
- Jason Jensen – Private Investigator (Jensen Private Investigations), Cold Case Expert (Salt Lake City, UT), and Co-founder: “Cold Case Coalition;” Investigations; Twitter: @JasonJPI, Facebook/Instagram: “Jensen Investigations”
- Dr. Free N. Hess – Pediatrician/Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Child Safety Expert & Consultant, Founder of www.PediMom.com
- Emily Ashcraft- Reporter for KSL.com in Utah; Twitter: @emilyjaneen3
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| 0:00.0 | In the 90s, New York Detective Louis Scarcella locked up the worst criminals. |
| 0:04.7 | Putting bad guys away. |
| 0:06.3 | There's no feeling like it. |
| 0:08.0 | Then jailhouse lawyers took game led by Derek Hamilton. |
| 0:11.5 | Scracella took me to the precinct and alive. |
| 0:14.3 | 20 men eventually walked free. |
| 0:16.6 | Now, in the Burden Podcast, after a decade of silence, |
| 0:20.6 | Louis Scarsella finally tells his his story and so does Derek Hamilton. |
| 0:25.0 | Listen to the burden on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.0 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:35.0 | Ruby Frankie, the disgraced online influencer with 8 million followers listening to her as she doles out advice on parenting |
| 0:48.8 | that is until she's convicted of starving and beating and torturing her children. |
| 0:55.0 | Now of course the husband got a divorce over her treatment of the children but |
| 1:00.0 | where was he during all this? How come he's not charged? |
| 1:02.6 | I'm just curious. |
| 1:03.8 | But remember, she had a partner, a partner in crime. |
| 1:07.3 | Jody Hildebrandt was basically her co-anchor |
| 1:12.2 | on the series called Eight Passengers. Boy, they were making a |
| 1:16.9 | mint of that and the whole time abusing their children well in the last |
| 1:22.0 | hours we learn Jody Hildebrandt's sprawling Utah |
| 1:28.4 | Desert Mansion goes on the market for five million dollars, |
| 1:34.4 | including the evil so-called panic room |
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