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In May 2023, therapist and life coach Jodi Hildebrandt and successful family vlogger Ruby Franke began to physically and emotionally abuse Franke’s two youngest kids. The women had gone from counselor and client to business partners and roommates. Their horrific abuse only stopped when one of the children escaped and got help from a neighbor months later, on August 30. Police arrested Hildebrandt and Franke that day , and they have been behind bars ever since.
Franke has become the focus of many news articles and TV shows, but much less has been shared about her accomplice—until now. A four-part docuseries, Ruby & Jodi: A Cult of Sin and Influence , examines Hildebrandt’s role in the case and her practices as a counselor. The first two epi