If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. It’s a tragedy that’s become familiar but no less heartbreaking — behind the scenes of a picture-perfect family is something much darker. Ruby Franke‘s family vlog, 8 Passengers, …
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It’s been more than a year since mommy vlogger Ruby Franke and her business partner Jodi Hildebrandt pleaded guilty to felony child abuse. Now, a new Hulu docuseries is taking viewers on a close up look of how the YouTube star went from “America’s mom” to a convicted felon. Devil …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Once one of the most popular family vloggers, Ruby Franke now faces up to 60 years in prison on four counts of child abuse after revelations of child …
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Kevin Franke, the soon-to-be ex-husband of mommy vlogger Ruby Franke, is speaking out for the first time since Ruby was arrested and pleaded guilty to four counts of second-degree felony child abuse. The comments come ahead of the release of a new Hulu documentary Devil in the Family: The Fall …
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A former client of Jodi Hildebrant is suing the Utah therapist and her business partner, 8 Passengers’ Ruby Franke, for fraud and racketeering connected to Hildebrant’s life coaching business, ConneXions Classroom. The two pleaded guilty to aggravated child abuse in 2024 and were each sentenced to four to 30 years …
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S hari Franke’s memoir starts, fittingly, with an Instagram story. As police officers forced the front door of her family’s home open with a battering ram, Shari captured the surreal scene, later posting it to her account for her 621,000 followers. “This moment, this climax of my family’s descent into …
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Lola used to love watching the LaBrant family’s vlogs on YouTube. Clicking through the channel, which has 12.9 million subscribers, she especially liked seeing the mother-daughter relationship between Savannah LaBrant and her eldest daughter, Everleigh. But a few years in, her feelings began to change. She started to worry the …
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Hannah Hiatt, an influencer on TikTok, is being investigated after police and Child Protective Services received reports over video she shared of her son flinching in an interaction with his father that went viral, People reports. “There is a detective assigned to the case,” a spokesperson for the Ogden, Utah, …
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It’s been seven months since former mommy vlogger Ruby Franke was sentenced to four consecutive one-to-15-year prison terms after pleading guilty to four counts of child abuse. But Lifetime, the television channel famous for tabloid-esque, low-budget retellings of gruesome news stories, is already making a dramatized version of her case, …
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Infamous mommy vlogger Ruby Franke was sentenced to up to 60 years in prison on Tuesday, months after pleading guilty to four counts of second-degree felony child abuse.Utah Judge John J Walton sentenced Franke to four consecutive prison terms — each of which can require up to 15 years in …
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