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How to Watch ‘Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke’

The new series features interviews from members of the family about their abuse by Ruby Franke and Jodi Hildebrandt

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February 27, 2025

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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 abuse led to her arrest and sentencing. Franke ran the now-shuttered 8 Passengers vlog, documenting her, her husband, and their six children’s seemingly idyllic Mormon life.

Members of the family have recently begun speaking out. Daughter Shari released a memoir in January, and Ruby’s husband, Kevin, told his side of the story for the first time. A new docuseries from Hulu, out today, will try to take a full account of the family’s story, with interviews from Kevin and the eldest children, Shari and Chad.

How to Watch ‘Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke’

The three-part docuseries is streaming now on Hulu and available with a free trial or as a bundle with Disney+ and Max or Disney+ and ESPN+.

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In an interview with Rolling Stone, Shari Franke explained her reasoning behind speaking out and writing a memoir, saying, “Writing the book was a way to take back my privacy, as strange as that sounds. Just because it was Ruby who took my voice away… and then with the arrest, it was the media then that picked a side of me to portray.”

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Shari Franke, the eldest daughter of the family, told her side of the story in The House of My Mother from publisher Gallery Books.

The family’s lives began to take a turn when Ruby met a counselor named Jodi Hildebrandt, who became ingrained in the family’s life and guided Ruby toward increasingly draconian and abusive methods, including withholding food from the children. One of Ruby’s young sons fled the house and begged a neighbor for help, leading to Franke’s 2023 arrest.

In the trailer, the interviewer asks Kevin why he didn’t “stand up and say this is nonsense,” and Kevin responds, “If I dwell on that question, it eats me alive.” The series also shows unedited clips Ruby recorded of her family, including yelling at them to perform for the vlog. Ruby Franke and Jodi Hildebrand both pleaded guilty.

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