Kevin Franke’s Police Recording About Jodi Hildebrandt and His Wife Ruby

Kevin Franke's Police Recording Reveals a Disturbing Picture of Jodi Hildebrandt's Influence

When Kevin Franke sat down with detectives and gave a recorded police statement about his wife Ruby Franke and her business partner Jodi Hildebrandt, he described something that went well beyond a bad therapist-client relationship. The Kevin Franke police recording, surfaced through the Mormon Stories Podcast, offers one of the most detailed firsthand accounts of how Hildebrandt's influence escalated from licensed therapy into something that blurred religion, coercion, and what Kevin plainly called control.

This matters because the Franke case was never just a parenting controversy. It was the visible tip of a system that consumed an entire family over several years.

Background: How Jodi Hildebrandt Entered the Franke Family

Ruby Franke built a substantial following through her "8 Passengers" YouTube channel, which presented itself as a candid look at family life through a faith-centered lens. Jodi Hildebrandt was a licensed therapist in Utah who ran a program called ConneXions.

According to Kevin's account, contact between Ruby and Hildebrandt began gradually. Hildebrandt initially worked with Ruby under the framing that a parent must first address her own issues before she can help her children. This is, on its surface, a reasonable therapeutic concept. The problem was where it led.