244: Cultfluencer: The Dark Side of YouTube’s ‘Perfect’ Mom | Ruby Franke Devil in The Family
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What is the main topic of this episode?
What Ruby has done, it just crossed a line of abusive to just psychotic.
Weird things started happening. Ruby said the children were demonically possessed.
Our entire schedule revolved around YouTube. It felt more like a set than a house.
Sit her down on the flipping couch. OK, move it. If I hear one more word, get out. I just had a 12-year-old boy show up here at my front door. He's got duct tape around each ankle. He's obviously covered in wounds.
Hey, true crime besties. Welcome back to an all new episode of Serial Asleep. Hello, hello, hello. Welcome back to an all-new episode of Serialistly. It's me, Annie Elise, your true crime BFF, and I am here to break down another case for you. We are going into a super big deep dive today, so I just want you all to get ready. Whatever it is you're doing, whether you have got a long commute ahead of you, you're cleaning at home, you're running errands, whatever it is, I just want to give you a little warning. You're going to be with me for a minute, all right, Bestie? We are going to be with each other for a minute because we are going to go over everything in this case. Now, I've talked about this case before.
It is the Ruby Frankie Jodi Hildebrand case. They are the two people, alleged cult leaders. Ruby was a huge, huge YouTube star. She was a family vlogger. She had millions of followers, made tons of money. They were, again, as I said, like cult leaders together, cult members, allegedly. and they were arrested and charged with horrific crimes against Ruby's children. Now, since all of this has come out, there have been quite a few updates along the way. Ruby's children have spoken out, one child wrote a book, her husband has spoken out because the question that was on everybody's mind is like, okay, where the hell was this guy this whole time? Why did he allow this to happen? Because spoiler alert, he ended up moving out of the home and kind of just like, in my opinion, like wrote his kids off in a sense to where he wasn't really concerned with what was happening to them behind closed doors. But I'll get into that later. And there have been more updates because now there's allegations stemming from one of Ruby's children's recent books, not recent, but only book,
where she's alleging what we have long suspected, that Ruby and Jodi were in fact lovers together. And the reason that that piece of information is important in the context before I go into everything is because Jodi was somebody who was very adamant against same-sex relationships. And in one of my very early interviews, episodes about Jodi. I don't, I'm probably going to butcher this expression, but what's that expression like? Doth protests too much or however it goes. I don't know how it goes. Don't come for me later. But I kind of said that in my episode. I was like, why is she so against men? Why does she have this burning hatred towards men? Is it because she has some sort of passive aggressiveness because she is upset?
Because a lot of the time she would like, tell some of the men that she was counseling underneath her what I believe is a cult saying how they had addictions to adult material how they weren't good men how the wife should leave them she always took the wife side which is fine if you want to always take the woman's side whatever but all of those things mixed together I was like something else is going on here like why does she try to wedge her way in between all these couples and always paint the man as like some deviant and Come to find out with this new kind of revelation, and it hasn't been 100% confirmed, but when I read the passages to you, I mean, it is all but confirmed. There were things in the book written about how like they would have all these candles in the rooms together, how Ruby would emerge from the bedroom all like steamy and sweaty. And I mean, reading between the lines,
It's what we all suspected, I think, for so long. And I think that it has now been validated. So that's just a little bit of the backstory. But the reason I say that is because there have been a lot of updates along the way, even though I have talked about this case before. So my most recent update episode came out probably, I don't know, maybe six or eight weeks ago.
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