Ruby Franke /Jodi Hildebrandt Love Relationship? Daughter Tells All
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 4 May 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Shari Franke's book, The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom, details her discovery of the relationship between her mother, Ruby Franke, and business partner Jodi Hildebrandt.
In her memoir, Shari says that after her mother’s arrest, she found messages on her laptop confirming the true nature of their relationship.
The abuse the children endured came to light when a 12-year-old boy climbed out of a window and ran 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 appeared emaciated and malnourished. They also noted he 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 once had over 2 million followers, offered parenting advice. In one video, she admitted to withholding food as a form of punishment.
Both women were convicted 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, Twitter: @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 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:06.6 | So-called mommy vlogger turned convicted child abuser, Ruby Frankie, new claims. |
| 0:15.9 | Oh, my goodness, does it never end with her and her buddy Hildebrandt? |
| 0:21.1 | The Ruby Frankie prosecutor claims investigators, quote, questioned the influencer mom's |
| 0:27.1 | relationship with Jody Hilderbrand. |
| 0:29.7 | The husband tells cops the two were sleeping in the same bed. |
| 0:34.0 | Who cares if the two women were having an affair? |
| 0:37.3 | I don't care. |
| 0:39.1 | I care what happened to the children. |
| 0:42.3 | And there's more. |
| 0:44.8 | Bombshell claims in the case. |
| 0:47.4 | I'm Nancy Grace. |
| 0:48.3 | This is crime stories. |
| 0:49.7 | Thank you for being with us. |
| 0:52.0 | Let's just get it out there. |
| 0:55.8 | The prosecutor on the case of convicted mommy vlogger Ruby Frankie questioned the relationship she had with business partner |
| 1:02.9 | Jody Hildebrand. Okay, so they slept in the same bed. Does that change anything about this case? Apparently, it's all revealed by |
| 1:14.9 | Ruby Frankie's daughter who caught Mom, if you can call her that, Ruby Frankie, with another |
| 1:23.0 | child abuser, Jody Hildebrandt. According to the daughter, of course, now estranged, |
| 1:30.9 | bombshell new memoir. It's called In the House of My Mother, a daughter's quest for freedom. |
| 1:38.6 | Sherry Frankie, now 21, describes discovering the truth about her mom's relationship. |
| 1:54.5 | Now, get this part, while Frankie and Hildebrandt condemned gay people to their millions of followers, |
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