The Hidden Psychology Behind Kevin Franke’s Inaction – FBI Expert Weighs In
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 13 March 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
How do you go from being a father of six to turning a blind eye when your children are suffering? That’s the question swirling around Kevin Franke, who spent a year estranged from his wife, Ruby, and their kids—only to seemingly jump right back into the chaos when given the chance. Even as disturbing truths about alleged child abuse surfaced, he clung to the belief that Ruby and Jodi Hildebrandt had everything under control.
Was it brainwashing? An addiction to a toxic relationship? Or was Kevin simply so deep in denial that reality didn’t stand a chance? Retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke breaks down the psychological stronghold that kept Kevin tethered to an allegedly abusive dynamic, even as the walls of his world came crashing down. And with Kevin now fighting for custody of his children, the question remains—should he get them back? Or is he still too lost in the wreckage to be the father they need?
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. |
| 0:03.3 | Here now, Tony Brewski. |
| 0:05.9 | Were you surprised after a year? |
| 0:10.6 | I mean, literally, he spent a year not speaking to Ruby, not speaking to any of his six children, and seemed to be okay with it. |
| 0:20.0 | I mean, granted, he jumped at the opportunity of, oh, my gosh, |
| 0:23.0 | she's giving me an opportunity to get back in here, |
| 0:24.9 | go pick him up at the police station. |
| 0:26.8 | And then he gets to the police station. |
| 0:28.7 | He can't quite grasp everything that's being told to him. |
| 0:32.4 | And he's still on Ruby's side for quite a while into this. |
| 0:36.7 | It wasn't like he walked out of that police station |
| 0:39.2 | going, oh my God, I've been duped. He still thought everything that was going on with Ruby and |
| 0:45.7 | Jody was completely legit, even after it's being shown, it's not. Your children are amaciated. |
| 0:53.1 | And he's still thinking, well, there's a reason. There's an |
| 0:57.4 | explanation for such horrible behavior. I was kind of surprised by that because sometimes when |
| 1:02.5 | you're able to get away from the atmosphere, get away from the cult, you kind of open up more. |
| 1:07.7 | You have more realizations. And you go, wait a second, this doesn't seem |
| 1:10.8 | right. He didn't seem to do any of that. No, he was living in its entire life. I mean, think about it. |
| 1:15.9 | So he grew up in a, in a mindset of LDS, which is the church in their faith and their |
| 1:26.3 | practices of what they do. Again, that's the |
| 1:28.8 | healthy side of his life. And then you had to slow trickle. So he's got life reps of a way of |
| 1:35.7 | thinking about clean, unclean, family, community, all these things. Ruby enters and still |
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