Utah police found a 'panic room' inside Jodi Hildebrandt's $5.3 million home, where she and Ruby Franke apparently abused two of Franke's children in 2023.
Utah authorities found a so-called 'panic room' in parenting blogger Jodi Hildebrandt's $5.3 million desert home in Ivins, where fellow blogger Ruby Franke sent her children to stay, according to a trove of documents released over the weekend. Franke, a 41-year-old mother of six, and Hildebrandt, a 45-year-old mother of two, ran a joint parenting and lifestyle YouTube channel called ConneXions Classrooms.
Mrs. Hildebrandt answered the door, and we asked her to step out. Mrs. Hildebrandt was on the phone with her lawyer,' a police report released by the Washington County Attorney's Office states. She informed police that there was a second juvenile inside her home. Another police report states that 'a security sweep was conducted on the home' that day.
'here was still one missing juvenile. I was tasked to conduct a secondary sweep to locate the missing juvenile. As officers searched for the missing juvenile, a warrant was drafted for the home due to the home having a ‘panic room' that we could not make entry or contact with anyone on the other side.' 'e could not make entry or contact with anyone on the other side.
After rescuing Franke's youngest children from Hildebrandt's home Aug. 30, police from Springfield and other local agencies began to search for her other four kids, who were not with Hildebrandt at the time. They made contact with the two eldest children, Chad and Shari Franke — both living away from home at the time of the incident — in an effort to find the other two juveniles. Authorities eventually located the two children at another adult's residence in American Fork, Utah.
My kids are literally starving,' Ruby Franke, wearing red lipstick, said in one video in front of a Christmas tree. 'I hesitate to say this because this is going to sound like, I'm, like, a mean barbarian, but I told the kids, I said, I'm not even going to let you eat breakfast until you get your chores done.
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