The sprawling Utah desert home where Ruby Franke’s children were tortured and abused has received a ‘surge of interest’ following Hulu’s docuseries about the Mormon mommy vlogger’s crimes.
The incredible property, located in Ivins, Utah, belongs to Franke’s accomplice Jodi Hildebrandt, who, along with Franke, is currently serving four consecutive sentences of one to 15 years in prison for child abuse.
According to Realtor.com, the exposure that the $5 million Utah mansion received after being featured in Hulu’s Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke has attracted a wave of potential buyers.
Just one month before she was sentenced, Hildebrandt listed the sprawling home for $5.3 million, but it was quickly pulled from the market after a judge ruled that she had to wait until her sentencing before selling it.
Since returning to the market, the property has failed to find a buyer despite being described by listing agent Steve Foisy as ‘a true masterpiece with stunning features’.
The price was even lowered to $4.99 million, but continued to languish on the market.
Now there’s been a ‘surge of interest’ in the five-bedroom, 4.5-bathroom dwelling since it was shown in Hulu’s docuseries.
The property, which is nestled in the Utah desert, is undoubtedly breathtaking.
The Utah home where Ruby Franke’s children were tortured and abused has received a surge of interest following Hulu’s docuseries about the Mormon mommy vlogger’s crimes
The incredible property, located in Ivins, belongs to Franke’s accomplice Jodi Hildebrandt
It’s filled with plenty of luxury touches, including a home theatre, a pool, a fully serviced casita, water features, and a five-car garage.
‘This home truly has it all, and with its stunning features and finishes, you’ll be able to enjoy a luxurious lifestyle in this incredible property,’ writes Foisy.
However, Franke and Hildebrandt’s former abode also has a dark side.
A walk-in safe located in the basement is where Franke and Hildebrandt stored many of the devices used to abuse two of Franke’s six children, including handcuffs, duct tape, and a pot of cayenne pepper and honey used to dress their open wounds.
One of the large closets upstairs is where Franke’s malnourished and terrified daughter, aged nine at the time, was found when police raided the house.
The exposure that the home is receiving now is no surprise given the record-breaking ratings that Devil in the Family brought to Hulu.
According to Deadline, the three-part docuseries drew 7.9 million global views in its first five days of streaming, which makes it the biggest docuseries on Hulu to date.
The chilling documentary reveals the contents of a diary that Franke, 43, kept on her bedside table in which she wrote down the abuse she meted out to her two youngest children, a son aged ten and a daughter.
The property has failed to find a buyer despite being described by listing agent Steve Foisy as ‘a true masterpiece with stunning features’
The property, which is nestled in the Utah desert, is undoubtedly breathtaking
It’s filled with plenty of luxury touches, including a home theatre, a pool, a fully serviced casita, water features, and a five-car garage
‘This home truly has it all, and with its stunning features and finishes, you’ll be able to enjoy a luxurious lifestyle in this incredible property,’ said the listing agent
In the diary, she calls her children ‘Satan’ and chides her son for showing no remorse for ‘stealing’ water – even though she was denying him food.
Franke was arrested in 2023 after her son escaped the home in St George, Utah, they were living in and ran to a neighbor to ask for help.
Horrified police discovered he was emaciated and had deep wounds in his ankles which had been covered over with tape.
Franke, who became famous vlogging about parenting her six children, was arrested, as was her guru Jodi Hildenbrant, 55, a therapist whose house they had been staying in.
Both pleaded guilty to child abuse charges last year and are serving sentences that could last decades.
However, Franke and Hildebrandt’s former abode also has a dark side
A walk-in safe located in the basement is where Franke and Hildebrandt stored many of the devices used to abuse two of Franke’s six children
Ruby and Kevin Franke are pictured with their six children
The documentary crew was given access to 1,000 hours of home video footage that was never uploaded to Franke’s wildly popular YouTube account, 8 Passengers, in which she chronicled their life as a Mormon family in Utah.
The documentary also describes how Franke fell under Hildenbrandt’s spell so strongly that she moved her into their home.
Ruby’s ex-husband Kevin says that after that ‘weird things started happening’ and describes how Hildenbrandt went into ‘possessed trances’.
In one video, Hildenbrandt can be seen speaking in a strange low voice and repeatedly saying ‘She’s mine! She’s mine! She’s mine! She knows!’ before hitting herself and adding ‘I own her!’
Kevin claims they had to exorcise the evil spirits inside Hildenbrandt who would react when he said Jesus’s name