Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story (2025) Movie Script
Yes?
Hi.
9-1-1, the address of your emergency?
I just had a 12-year-old boy
show up here at my front door
asking for help.
His ankles are taped up,
and he won't tell us why.
What's going on, son?
Have a seat there.
It's personal business.
Have a seat.
[Jodi Hildebrandt]
Nobody wants the truth.
Nobody wants the truth,
because these kids
It's all the devil.
He uses these kids.
And he uses all of us as the adults.
The parents that don't
hold the kids accountable.
So now it's, it's abusive
to make a kid sleep on the floor.
It's abusive.
It's ridiculous.
You can't even raise your kids anymore.
He rang my doorbell
and asked me to call the police.
Does he seem to be under the influence
of drugs or alcohol?
I don't think so.
But he has duct tape around each ankle.
Yeah, there's sores around them, I think
Oh, and he has them
around his wrists as well.
Okay, this boy has been
He needs
This kid has obviously been
He's been detained He's been
He's obviously covered in wounds.
They should just be pulling up now.
Okay, the ambulance is here.
I'm gonna cry.
I know, that's why I put the shades on.
Medical started
cutting the stuff off of him.
You can see the wounds.
You could smell it.
The flesh.
You're not in trouble with me, okay?
We're just trying to figure out
what's going on.
Our main focus right now is you, okay?
Who put the ropes on you?
He says he just left through
the porch at the neighbor's house.
Her name is Jodi Hildebrandt.
We need to identify that house.
If there are kids there, we need
to do a security sweep of that house.
Police Department, call out!
Police Department, call out!
Police Department, call out!
I just have one.
Hi, I'm a police officer.
Hey, you okay?
It's just you in here?
I'm Sergeant Tobler.
What's your name?
You don't want to talk to me?
I'm not going to hurt you.
Promise.
And I get it if you're scared.
I would be too.
Is it okay if I just sit here with you?
We don't have to say anything
if you don't want to.
Are you scared?
I'm just nervous.
What?
Just nervous.
We helped your brother.
And that's what we want to do for you.
We're just looking for a female, right?
Female and two kids.
Two kids are believed to be in danger.
What in the heck is going on here?
Definitely looks like they're packing.
This is her diary.
August 29th, yesterday.
I have most of the kitchen done by now.
They got enough
freakin' canned food down here
to last through the Apocalypse.
Garage is clear, 100%.
You can sit there.
What's that?
So, hey, Ruby,
at this time you're already detained.
But I'm gonna be taking you
back to the police department.
Okay? So I'm going to need you to hop up.
Okay, just place your hands
behind your back for me.
Perfect.
Do you have any questions
for me at this time?
No questions?
Okay, you can hop in.
Jodi Hildebrandt.
- [Jodi] Are you there?
- Yeah.
Okay. So, the Lord says,
that "First they'll lay their hands on you
and persecute you,
delivering you up to the synagogues
and into prisons."
Wow.
So then, then he says,
"And ye shall be betrayed
by both parents and brethren
and kinsfolk and friends."
I'm like
Oh my gosh,
that's exactly what's going on.
We just are more curious of the dynamic,
and Jodi coming into your relationship,
your lives.
Ruby started to speak with Jodi
towards the end of 2018
with the intention of
having her work with Chad.
Yes?
Hi, I was just
wondering if you could do two favors?
Well, what are they?
Uh, taking me
to the nearest police station.
Well actually, just one's fine.
He's hungry and
He says he
What's happened to him is his fault.
Is Jodi up there right now?
Yes.
Okay.
Jodi Hildebrandt is up there right now.
Okay.
So, she may come
looking for him here soon, but
All right, we need the cops here
as soon as possible.
She's a
She's a bad lady.
She said she lives over here.
I said, "All right,
well, I'm just on the phone
with my sergeant right now."
[Ruby Franke] This is a witch hunt.
The devil's been after me for years.
You know my heart.
[Kevin Franke] What are they
charging you with?
Second-degree felony for child abuse.
Wow, that's very serious.
Adults have a really
hard time understanding
that children can be full of evil
and what that takes to fight it.
And so I don't know any adults
who are willing to see the truth.
The children,
they're going to be in the hospital
for three days.
So weird.
It's just not necessary.
They're trying to exaggerate this.
[Ruby] Poor Jodi. They misinterpret her
and they misunderstand her.
She puts her neck out
on the line for people,
and then they get mad at her.
I mean, it is just horrendous.
It's horrendous.
And you know what? Every Joseph Smith,
every, every wonderful man of God
has had to be misunderstood.
[Jodi] Nobody wants the truth.
Nobody wants the truth.
Because these kids
I woke up.
The Spirit told me it's all the devil.
I mean, you've seen him.
You've watched him come at me,
come at me, come at me, come at me.
When was the last time
you talked to her?
Was it that day?
[Ruby] Mhm, it was when we were arrested.
They put us in separate cells,
and we've been in separate cells
ever since.
And that's when things
kind of started turning.
I was like, "She's not been honest."
Believe that God has a hand in
the old Ruby being set free,
or whatever you want to call it.
[Ruby] Yeah, absolutely.
This has been
the strangest
and the most miraculous intervention.
It separated me from Jodi,
so I'm not hearing her.
And I think just
being gone and not hearing her
has cleared a lot of things up for me.
[Jodi] I know this sounds crazy,
and I still can't put my finger on
why it feels this way,
but it feels like
I was being set up
to end up here.
I know that sounds bizarro.
I mean, I shouldn't be here.
I haven't done anything wrong.
[Jodi] We didn't do that.
Those pictures, we did not do.
He did that to himself.
Did we put that on him?
And then he rubbed around and
cut himself? Yes.
But we didn't do that.
[Ruby] Jodi denies everything.
She denies having anything
to do with this,
and I was shocked.
I think putting the pieces together
and just seeing
And it's embarrassing too
And it's like, oh my gosh,
how gullible was I?
Oh my gosh, how
How much power I gave this person,
and I didn't see it.
[Jodi] I was just getting ready to move,
and all of a sudden I end up in prison.
You know, I thought, "What in the world?"
Now, I have been praying for five months,
like, "Explain it to me," like
"Please help me understand."
And then, I connected it to my blessing.
The first paragraph, it says,
"Through the power of your example
and the spoken word,
you will be a great tool
in the hand of the Lord
in teaching the gospel to many."
I probably cried for an hour straight.
Just everything clicked.
And I said, "I'm happy to go to prison."
[Jodi] The blessing's pretty clear,
and it says,
"The strongest message you will ever teach
is the power of your example."
What's a better example than to
go to prison
unjustly?
And then go teach the gospel.
Which I plan on doing.
Hi.
9-1-1, the address of your emergency?
I just had a 12-year-old boy
show up here at my front door
asking for help.
His ankles are taped up,
and he won't tell us why.
What's going on, son?
Have a seat there.
It's personal business.
Have a seat.
[Jodi Hildebrandt]
Nobody wants the truth.
Nobody wants the truth,
because these kids
It's all the devil.
He uses these kids.
And he uses all of us as the adults.
The parents that don't
hold the kids accountable.
So now it's, it's abusive
to make a kid sleep on the floor.
It's abusive.
It's ridiculous.
You can't even raise your kids anymore.
He rang my doorbell
and asked me to call the police.
Does he seem to be under the influence
of drugs or alcohol?
I don't think so.
But he has duct tape around each ankle.
Yeah, there's sores around them, I think
Oh, and he has them
around his wrists as well.
Okay, this boy has been
He needs
This kid has obviously been
He's been detained He's been
He's obviously covered in wounds.
They should just be pulling up now.
Okay, the ambulance is here.
I'm gonna cry.
I know, that's why I put the shades on.
Medical started
cutting the stuff off of him.
You can see the wounds.
You could smell it.
The flesh.
You're not in trouble with me, okay?
We're just trying to figure out
what's going on.
Our main focus right now is you, okay?
Who put the ropes on you?
He says he just left through
the porch at the neighbor's house.
Her name is Jodi Hildebrandt.
We need to identify that house.
If there are kids there, we need
to do a security sweep of that house.
Police Department, call out!
Police Department, call out!
Police Department, call out!
I just have one.
Hi, I'm a police officer.
Hey, you okay?
It's just you in here?
I'm Sergeant Tobler.
What's your name?
You don't want to talk to me?
I'm not going to hurt you.
Promise.
And I get it if you're scared.
I would be too.
Is it okay if I just sit here with you?
We don't have to say anything
if you don't want to.
Are you scared?
I'm just nervous.
What?
Just nervous.
We helped your brother.
And that's what we want to do for you.
We're just looking for a female, right?
Female and two kids.
Two kids are believed to be in danger.
What in the heck is going on here?
Definitely looks like they're packing.
This is her diary.
August 29th, yesterday.
I have most of the kitchen done by now.
They got enough
freakin' canned food down here
to last through the Apocalypse.
Garage is clear, 100%.
You can sit there.
What's that?
So, hey, Ruby,
at this time you're already detained.
But I'm gonna be taking you
back to the police department.
Okay? So I'm going to need you to hop up.
Okay, just place your hands
behind your back for me.
Perfect.
Do you have any questions
for me at this time?
No questions?
Okay, you can hop in.
Jodi Hildebrandt.
- [Jodi] Are you there?
- Yeah.
Okay. So, the Lord says,
that "First they'll lay their hands on you
and persecute you,
delivering you up to the synagogues
and into prisons."
Wow.
So then, then he says,
"And ye shall be betrayed
by both parents and brethren
and kinsfolk and friends."
I'm like
Oh my gosh,
that's exactly what's going on.
We just are more curious of the dynamic,
and Jodi coming into your relationship,
your lives.
Ruby started to speak with Jodi
towards the end of 2018
with the intention of
having her work with Chad.
Yes?
Hi, I was just
wondering if you could do two favors?
Well, what are they?
Uh, taking me
to the nearest police station.
Well actually, just one's fine.
He's hungry and
He says he
What's happened to him is his fault.
Is Jodi up there right now?
Yes.
Okay.
Jodi Hildebrandt is up there right now.
Okay.
So, she may come
looking for him here soon, but
All right, we need the cops here
as soon as possible.
She's a
She's a bad lady.
She said she lives over here.
I said, "All right,
well, I'm just on the phone
with my sergeant right now."
[Ruby Franke] This is a witch hunt.
The devil's been after me for years.
You know my heart.
[Kevin Franke] What are they
charging you with?
Second-degree felony for child abuse.
Wow, that's very serious.
Adults have a really
hard time understanding
that children can be full of evil
and what that takes to fight it.
And so I don't know any adults
who are willing to see the truth.
The children,
they're going to be in the hospital
for three days.
So weird.
It's just not necessary.
They're trying to exaggerate this.
[Ruby] Poor Jodi. They misinterpret her
and they misunderstand her.
She puts her neck out
on the line for people,
and then they get mad at her.
I mean, it is just horrendous.
It's horrendous.
And you know what? Every Joseph Smith,
every, every wonderful man of God
has had to be misunderstood.
[Jodi] Nobody wants the truth.
Nobody wants the truth.
Because these kids
I woke up.
The Spirit told me it's all the devil.
I mean, you've seen him.
You've watched him come at me,
come at me, come at me, come at me.
When was the last time
you talked to her?
Was it that day?
[Ruby] Mhm, it was when we were arrested.
They put us in separate cells,
and we've been in separate cells
ever since.
And that's when things
kind of started turning.
I was like, "She's not been honest."
Believe that God has a hand in
the old Ruby being set free,
or whatever you want to call it.
[Ruby] Yeah, absolutely.
This has been
the strangest
and the most miraculous intervention.
It separated me from Jodi,
so I'm not hearing her.
And I think just
being gone and not hearing her
has cleared a lot of things up for me.
[Jodi] I know this sounds crazy,
and I still can't put my finger on
why it feels this way,
but it feels like
I was being set up
to end up here.
I know that sounds bizarro.
I mean, I shouldn't be here.
I haven't done anything wrong.
[Jodi] We didn't do that.
Those pictures, we did not do.
He did that to himself.
Did we put that on him?
And then he rubbed around and
cut himself? Yes.
But we didn't do that.
[Ruby] Jodi denies everything.
She denies having anything
to do with this,
and I was shocked.
I think putting the pieces together
and just seeing
And it's embarrassing too
And it's like, oh my gosh,
how gullible was I?
Oh my gosh, how
How much power I gave this person,
and I didn't see it.
[Jodi] I was just getting ready to move,
and all of a sudden I end up in prison.
You know, I thought, "What in the world?"
Now, I have been praying for five months,
like, "Explain it to me," like
"Please help me understand."
And then, I connected it to my blessing.
The first paragraph, it says,
"Through the power of your example
and the spoken word,
you will be a great tool
in the hand of the Lord
in teaching the gospel to many."
I probably cried for an hour straight.
Just everything clicked.
And I said, "I'm happy to go to prison."
[Jodi] The blessing's pretty clear,
and it says,
"The strongest message you will ever teach
is the power of your example."
What's a better example than to
go to prison
unjustly?
And then go teach the gospel.
Which I plan on doing.