Overview
- Netflix released Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story on December 30, 2025, directed by Skye Borgman.
- It revisits the 2023 escape of Ruby Franke’s 12-year-old son from Hildebrandt’s Utah home and police findings that included ropes, handcuffs and a cayenne paste believed to be used on wounds.
- Jodi Hildebrandt and Ruby Franke pleaded guilty in December 2023 to four counts of aggravated child abuse and were sentenced in February 2024 to four consecutive terms of one to 15 years, with Utah law capping consecutive time at 30 years.
- Both are incarcerated at the Utah State Correctional Facility on separate wings, with initial parole hearings scheduled for December 2026.
- The documentary features testimony from former ConneXions clients describing manipulation; Hildebrandt’s counseling license was revoked in 2024 and the younger Franke children remain under their father’s guardianship.