Former therapist turned child molester Jody Hildebrandt’s $5 million Utah home was the most viewed property on Realtor.com last week.
Hildebrandt and Ruby Franke, who ran a collaborative parenting and lifestyle YouTube channel called ConneXions Classrooms, pleaded guilty in December 2023 to abusing two of Franke’s six children. Some of that abuse occurred at Hildebrandt’s multimillion-dollar desert home in Ivins, which borders Snow Canyon State Park, according to public records.
“The infamous desert home in Ivins, Utah, which gained national attention as the place where parenting influencer Ruby Franke abused her children with disgraced therapist Jodi Hildebrandt, was revealed this week by Realtor. com®’s most viewed home,” the April 5 article said. Realtor.com blog post.
The blog post added that Hildebrandt’s home is located on W. Tawgoo Ct. It was listed in January for $5.3 million, but the price has already been reduced by more than $300,000.
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Jody Hildebrandt’s home on W. Taugu Court was listed in January for $5.3 million, but the price has already been reduced by more than $300,000, according to Realtor.com. (Washington County)
Real estate records in Washington County, Utah, list the market value of Hildebrandt’s home in 2023 as $2.55 million.
Franke and Hildebrandt, who originally ran their own parenting blog called “8 Passengers,” became close around 2019 because they had similar lifestyles and views on raising children, said Franke’s husband, Kevin Franke. said in a 2023 police interview recently released by the Washington County Attorney’s Office. . Around 2022, the two decided to start their own blog together.
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Utah State Police found a ‘panic room’ inside Jodi Hildebrandt’s $5.3 million Ivin home, where Ruby Franke sent her children to live at Hildebrandt’s home . (Washington County Attorney’s Office)
Franke often made the nearly four-hour drive from his home in Springville to Hildebrandt’s desert fortress, according to public records and interviews. During a police interview, Kevin Franke recalled making such a trip with his wife.
He told police at Hildebrandt’s home that he was “shocked,” adding that he wondered “how a therapist could live like this.”
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He went on to describe strange events that occurred in the house while Hildebrand was all together.
“Some of the things that happened while we were there are inexplicable. For example, there was a crash in the basement while we were talking upstairs, and plates in the kitchen went flying by themselves. , they crashed through the wall at full speed and fell. They went to the floor by themselves,” he said in an interview with police. “I can’t explain it, but I saw it with my own eyes. There’s no other way to explain it than to say something crazy was happening.”
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Video: Kevin Franke talks to police
Police records show that when Franke and Hildebrandt were arrested in August 2023, Franke’s two children were staying at Hildebrandt’s home, which included Hildebrandt’s garage. There was a bunker-like “panic room” in the basement below.
One of the children escaped through a window and called for help from a neighbor, but a neighbor called 911 on Aug. 30 after seeing the malnourished boy with duct tape on his wrists and ankles.
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Ruby Franke (right) and her business partner Jodi Hildebrandt were arrested and charged on Aug. 30 after Santa Clara police received a dispatch call for help around 10:50 p.m. . (instagram/moms_of_truth)
Police later found all six of Franke’s children elsewhere and arrested two parenting bloggers.
The abuse inflicted on Franke’s children included forced physical labor, restricted diets, shackling of the children’s hands and feet, and psychological harm. Franke and Hildebrandt told Franke’s children that they were the bad guys and needed to be punished.
