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RUBY FRANKE/JODI HILDEBRANDT CASE - ADAM STEED, PART TWO - Boy Scout Abuse Cover-up?

Hidden True Crime

Hidden True Crime

True Crime, Documentary, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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TW: Abuse & difficult topics relating to LDS church. ADAM STEED PART 2 Dr John Matthias and reporter Lauren Matthias have been covering Ruby Franke and Jodi Hildebrandt since the arrests, and will continue to bring you the very latest. We start with Adam Steed--a man who was Jodi Hildebrandt's patient back in 2007, and listen to his heart wrenching interview in two parts ...This is PART 2 August 30, 2023--a brave 12-year-old boy escapes a house of torture in Southern Utah --rescuing himself and his 10-year-old sister. A neighbor feeds the emaciated boy and calls 911. The children's mother YouTube Celebrity Ruby Franke, and Ruby's therapist Jodi Hildebrandt, are arrested 250 miles north in Springville, Utah and charged with 6 counts of aggravated child abuse. To learn more about Adam Steed and his victimization from Jodi Hildebrandt: https://tinyurl.com/22kcfkpe Adam Steed v Boy Scouts of America: https://law.justia.com/cases/idaho/supreme-court-civil/2007/steed.html Thank you for subscribing to our podcast and to our YouTube channel LAUREN MATTHIAS has worked as an anchor and reporter for ABC, NBC, and FOX News in East Idaho, Boise, Idaho and Salt Lake City, Utah. She spent a decade reporting on a diverse range of topics from high profile crimes to Presidential visits. Most recently, she reported for Salt Lake City’s ABC affiliate News4Utah. In 2015 she received the Idaho State Broadcaster’s Association Best Reporter award. She left the reporting world to produce the Hidden True Crime Podcast along with her husband Dr. John Matthias, a forensic psychologist. DR. JOHN MATTHIAS is a licensed clinical and forensic psychologist with 30 years’ experience in both clinical and forensic work. He serves as an expert witness for the federal government and has consulted on numerous high-profile cases for District Attorney’s offices and defense attorneys in several states. In the forensic area, Dr. Matthias has developed expertise in personality assessments, hidden behavioral motivations, complex trauma and criminal psychology. In the clinical realm, he has worked with numerous victims. He received his Master’s degree in Marriage, Family and Child counseling, as well his doctorate degree, from the University of Southern California. Dr. Matthias graduated with honors in philosophy from Princeton University, and he won the prestigious McCosh Thesis prize while there. In high school he graduated valedictorian from a large public high school in Chicago where he was chosen to participate in a ground-breaking valedictory study that continues to this day. Dr. Matthias has been an adjunct assistant professor in the University of Nevada Las Vegas clinical psychology doctoral program since 2007. He supervises UNLV doctoral students on forensic assessments, clinical case formulation, and various therapeutic approaches to clinical work. Your support helps us produce these podcasts/videos. We have some big plans to explore the true crime terrain in a way that no one else has attempted. HIDDEN: A TRUE CRIME PODCAST is: CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY REINVENTED. Join us on a journey into the darkest recesses of the human mind and the unconscious motivations that drive human behaviors in order to understand the world and ourselves. WEBSITE: https://hiddentruecrime.com/ TO SUPPORT: https://www.patreon.com/hiddentruecrime https://paypal.me/hiddentruecrime https://cash.app/$hiddenTruecrime Our Sponsors:* Check out Acorns: https://acorns.com/HIDDENTRUECRIME* Check out Acorns: https://acorns.com/HIDDENTRUECRIME* Check out Armoire and use my code HIDDENTRUECRIME for a great deal: https://www.armoire.style* Check out Effecty and use my code HIDDENTRUECRIME for a great deal: https://www.effecty.com* Check out Happy Mammoth and use my code HIDDENTRUECRIME for a great deal: https://happymammoth.comSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/hidden-a-true-crime-podcast1836/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hidden, a true crime podcast. A forensic psychologist and a journalist explore the hidden motives

0:09.0

behind unthinkable crimes while examining our deepest fears along the way.

0:30.3

I'm talking to a Netflix producer. He's got an episode coming out this Wednesday.

0:38.2

I can't tell you what it's about. It might have to do with scouting.

0:43.5

But if he was, he was the one that said, because he's heard me just complain about

0:51.0

this side of the story that just, you know, I'm not in this, I put this thing coming out.

0:59.2

Definitely work with it. In the past, he did a documentary about me that was at Sundance,

1:06.2

the church and the fourth estate. And Laura Poitreus, the executive producer, she's a lady that helped

1:14.4

with Edward Snowden coming forward. And his name is Brian Nathawayberger.

1:20.9

And anyway, I talked to Brian and he's just like, you know, Adam said, you were whistleblower.

1:32.4

You guys read the past, how can forward and how worked on this and I worked on getting rid of

1:37.1

the law system. We did it. We knew my family. So, you know, these people are just trying to

1:43.2

destroy you as a whistleblower. And sometimes I think that the Mormon church know who

1:52.0

Cody Hilda Brand was when I was set up to go start therapy with her. Because like,

2:01.6

nowadays I think differently. I don't want to sound narcissistic. I don't want to sound

2:06.4

egocentric like that. I matter in people don't. When I say, I sometimes when I'm in trauma,

2:12.1

I say, I don't give everybody the credit because I'm just dealing with this shit that it is to

2:18.2

be a victim's advocate. But, um, the thing is like, right after my dad and I, and brother,

2:27.1

signed the statute of limitations into law, that in Idaho, we changed in one session,

2:36.0

the criminal and civil statute limitations for child abuse. It was five years.

2:40.8

And then you couldn't prosecute. And rape was 50 years. And child abuse was five years.

2:48.1

So, all the pedophiles that went there were safe after five years and all the institutions that

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