Serialously with Annie Elise
244: Cultfluencer: The Dark Side of YouTube’s ‘Perfect’ Mom | Ruby Franke Devil in The Family
24 Feb 2025
Exposing all the unheard details and unseen footage about Ruby Franke. Ruby was a well-known YouTube creator with millions of followers, who shared her life as a mom of six children and documented every single detail. It wasn’t long before the dark truth of what really went on in the Franke home when the camera wasn’t rolling, was exposed… Join our True Crime Club for access to BTS, Bonus Content, Our Private Group Chat, Giveaways and More! Shop Our True Crime Merch Follow the podcast on: IG, Facebook and TikTok For Business Inquiries: [email protected] About Annie Today’s Sponsors: Hero Bread: Go to https://hero.co and use code AE for 10% off your order OPositiv Health: Head to https://opositiv.com/ae for 25% off your first purchase Beam: Go to https://shopbeam.com/annieelise and use code ANNIEELISE for up to 40% off Episode Sources: ABC News People Rolling Stone Biography KUTV 2 Law and Crime CBS News
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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,
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