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RUBY FRANKE/JODI HILDEBRANDT CASE - Victim of Jodi, ADAM STEED, PART ONE

Hidden True Crime

Hidden True Crime

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🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

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 aggrevated child abuse. Dr John Matthias and reporter Lauren Matthias have been covering this story since the arrests, and will continue to bring you the very latest in this heartwrenching story that sounds all too familiar. 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 1 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 Join our channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBp03toXz-WZ6gSt7YtSdEg/join 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

Hey everyone! Is this live working? Is this live working? I am in front of the

0:07.9

house where Ruby Frankie's kids escaped. And I'm going to tell you a little bit

0:11.7

about it. I'm going to bring you a lot more here. The bars are up and down.

0:15.6

Someone just arrived so I got distracted. I'm wanting to make sure I'm not doing

0:18.9

anything that is upset in anyone in this very private, secluded, well you know

0:24.4

it's a high-end neighborhood here among the Red Rock. So forgive me for getting

0:30.1

a little bit worried about anyone coming up. It looks like someone might have

0:33.5

just been coming past the house. So I'm going to show you guys this house. I'm

0:36.9

going to flip you around and I'm going to tell you what we know. But again I'm

0:39.8

going to bring you more later tonight. So subscribe and hit notifications. This

0:45.2

is the house, okay? This is a three million dollar home, 5,000 square foot. We're

0:54.6

a brave 12-year-old boy escaped. He had duct tape on his wrists and angles according

1:02.1

to the probable cause. Wrists and angles. And went to a neighbor's home. We

1:08.5

don't know what neighbor. And there because he was so malnourished and had

1:14.6

deep lacerations from rope by the way. He had duct tape on him but it was

1:19.7

rope. It was rope that caused lacerations. So they call police. Police came, he

1:27.2

actually had extended medical care because of the deep lacerations. They find in

1:34.9

the house, the police go over, they find in the house a ten-year-old girl. Ruby

1:38.0

Frankie's ten-year-old daughter. The daughter will not talk to medical for four hours.

1:45.1

Four hours, that to me says there's brainwashing and fear going on. After four

1:50.7

hours of talking to police and medical she finally allows medical. She's also

1:53.7

malnourished. She's also hospitalized. Six counts of aggravated abuse, a child

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