The case that shocked the parenting content world. Ruby Franke ran a Mormon family YouTube channel called 8 Passengers with over two million subscribers. Her brand was tough love, natural consequences, and faith-based parenting. Then her son Russel, twelve years old, climbed out of a window in Ivins, Utah — malnourished, with zip ties on his wrists. This episode covers the full arc of the case: the channel's rise, the CPS investigation that was opened and closed, the ConneXions counseling ideology, the abuse, the escape, and the December 2023 guilty pleas. And the thread in Abby's victim impact statement that the public record still hasn't fully answered. Subscribe to The Murder Tape Khronicles.
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