‘Emergency’: Ruby Franke Frantically Called Husband for Help After 12-Year-Old Escaped Home

how's your client doing right now. he's he's uh busy he's struggling uh. trying to make sense out of what's. happened to him in the last 13 months. and. uh kind of coming out of a fog. so in other words he was completely. taken off guard by these allegations. completely shocked. absolutely shocked. where was he when he found out about. this. he he was at work. and how did he find out he found out on.

the news did someone call him. he got a call from Ruby. he got a call from Ruby Frankie. correct. you mean while she was after she was. arrested. before. can you elaborate on that sure she had. heard uh. uh what was going on and. um knew they were coming for her and uh. called him and said this is an emergency.

even though she hadn't she hadn't. reached out to him for months and months. and months before that. uh she reached out to him when it was an. emergency knowing she could rely on him. to help his kids. so in other words you're saying she knew. the police were coming to arrest her she. calls Kevin to say take care of the kids. how did she know the police were coming. because again the reporting indicates is. that her son had escaped that house and. called and went to a neighbor and that's. when the authorities were alerted do you.

know how she knew they were they were. coming. I would never want to predict anything. that she might know I I Kevin doesn't. know he doesn't know I don't know how. she knew what was going down all he. knows is. he got a text from her that said. emergency I need to speak with you he. was at work and uh text back and said. I'm at work. uh what's up and she said I need to. speak to you immediately and he then.

they spoke on the phone. correct. and that's when she told him no actually. I think most of it was yeah they did. speak on the phone so they spoke on the. phone and and when she told him that the. police were coming. what did he say she she actually didn't. say that she just said you need to get. down here need to get down here. what did he say about that he he said. down where. and when she told him that she was in. Ivan's he responded and said what are.

you doing in Ivan's. and was told she then told him that the. kids were down there some of the kids. were down there and he needed to come. down. and uh he he said well how long have you. been in Ivan's he didn't he didn't he. wasn't even told that she had taken the. kids to Ivan's let me unpack that a. little bit so first of all. their current status were they separated. correct. they were separated I read for 13 months.

so they weren't living with each other. how much was he seeing the kids. uh almost not at all actually not at all. why is that why is that because she told. him it was better that they needed to. work on their marriage and needed to. keep their family together but that. everything was better off with him not. in the home and not communicating with. the children if you can why were they. separated what was the catalyst. oh I probably shouldn't go into that.

that's that's pretty private but let's. just say they were uh. they had a difference of opinion. about their family parenting I know you. can't talk about but is it that kind of. where we're going. correct. okay. so let me again and their own personal. dynamic. okay. um so he was living separate from her. was he calling the kids because I think.

what a lot of people are looking at this. and they're wondering well what did he. know so he might have been living. separately from her for 13 months but he. wasn't calling the kids checking in on. the kids seeing how they're doing he's. the father. I totally understand that that was the. big question on my mind and the big. question I on a lot of people if you've. read everything that's in the media he's. getting raked over the coals for that. but what people don't understand is that. he was trying to preserve his marriage.

he was taking direction from her she's. the one who asked him to leave the house. and indicating that in order for him to. be able to get back together with her. and be a family that she was requesting. that he leave the home and that he now. contact them or the children. later told him that everything was. Blissful at home it was so much better. without him. did he ever believe that the kids were. in danger did he ever believe that Ruby.

might have been doing something to the. kids. he had nothing to indicate that. so again I know you're limited in what. you can say but just again piecing that. together if he if Ruby Frank told Kevin. Frankie excuse me Ruby Frankie told. Kevin that you know it's better off he's. not part of the home. um and you know that he lived separately. from them and not to have any contact. he just took that as okay that sounds.

like a good idea or did she prevent him. in any way from seeing the kids did he. want to see them and talk them and she. told them no. emotionally she was controlling him. because she knew how much she valued. their marriage and valued their family. and. it was his desire to be able to get back. with the family and preserve his. marriage so he was taking direction from. her and her Direction was it's so much. better off and I think we can salvage.

our marriage if you just for now don't. have communication with the kids and I. will communicate with you I'll reach out. to you when we need to have. communication. and even though they had a difference of. opinion possibly about parenting that. never gave him a concern to hey you know. what maybe I should check in because if. it seemed like it was a big enough issue. for them to. separate it didn't seem like an issue. for him to check in on Kevin never had. any reason to believe that his children. were being abused if he had even one.

Inkling that his kids were being abused. and that this separation wasn't for any. other purpose than to figure out a way. between he and Ruby to reunite their. family he would have been down there in. two seconds. no idea. he had no idea he had no idea that this. was going on no physical abuse had never. been a part of their family. but a lot of the Dynamics between he and. his wife changed after.

uh Jody Hildebrand uh partnered up with. Ruby let's talk about that for a second. first of all before I get into Jody do. Kevin your client and Ruby are they been. talking at all while she's in jail. the last conversation they had was uh. last Friday and that's when during that. conversation is when he came to kind of. came to his senses about how he'd been. manipulated and deceived are you saying.

he confronted her about these. allegations. to some degree I I don't know the entire. context of the conversation but in his. discussion with me was that during that. conversation things were said that made. him realize how he'd been deceived and. misled and and as I told you earlier he. didn't even know the kids were in Ivan's. you you just said that he knew that he. that excuse me that Ruby and Jody were. working together.

um correct so he was how is he that. shocked if he knew that you know they. were working together and maybe she had. brought the kids with him I mean did he. not think that perhaps uh Ruby had taken. the kids to Jody's house. typically she would tell him something. like that but she didn't she didn't. she'd have the kids down there from. about late may I think maybe June until. this all came about and he did she. didn't tell him one thing about taking. the kids to Ivan's.