>> it takes all of like, 30s to put some. >> if you're in the field and you just gotta be on air in 30s. >> i don't gotta make the time, gotta make the time. >> i make the time for good food. >> all right, guys, this has been fun. >> jesse. rosemary. alex, let's do this again. guys, that was like it or not. thanks for joining us. i hope you had a good time. just like us. we'll see you on the next one for more like it or not. have a great day everybody. [m i'm anna garcia right now on true crime news. ruby franchi, she made millions as a mom influencer on youtube. >> thumbs up. subscribe. >> but behind the scenes, this mom was a monster. >> if i hear one more word, get out. >> how she faked being the perfect mormon mother as she privately abused her own kids. >> yeah, duct taped around each ankle. >> now is the convicted abuser

sits behind bars. her family speaks out for the first time. plus, she came one centimeter away from death. >> i threw myself on the floor and i shouted, help, help, help! >> shot in the head by the man who said he loved her. her incredible survival story. thanks for joining us. ruby franchi, a mother of six, rose to fame on youtube. but after being convicted for child abuse, ruby traded her life in front of the camera for one behind bars. now, for the first time, ruby's family speaks out about uncovering the dark and secret life. this mormon wife. >> if i hear one more word, get out! >> there's a devil in the famil, and her name is ruby franchi. >> she just wanted to show the view of a mormon happy family. but they only saw what we wanted to show them. >> thumbs up. subscribe. >> frankie's vlog was immensely popular as she shared her daily

mormon utah life for millions of viewers, presenting the image of a perfect family. behind the scenes, a very different reality. >> set her down on the flipping couch. >> frankie's world came crashing down 1st august day nearly two years ago with the simple ring of a doorbell. >> if you'd like to leave a message, you can do it now. >> one of her six kids had escaped and frantically run to a neighbor's home. >> wondering if she could do two favors. >> well, what are they. >> taking me to the nearest police station? >> it's absolutely heartbreaking. when the neighbor asks what's going on? the boy says it's personal business. the man and his wife call police. >> i just had a 12 year old boy show up here at my front door asking for help. he's emaciated. he's got tape around his legs. he's hungry and he's thirsty.

>> i need someone immediately. >> 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? >> in that moment, all ruby's dark family secrets were about to spill out for the world to see. abuse, dysfunction, even accusations of exorcisms. enough to ultimately land ruby in prison. >> miss frankie, how do you plead to count one child abuse? guilty to count three. child abuse. >> with my deepest regret and sorrow for my family and my children. guilty. >> they are a family who've been through an extraordinary. i mean, a real trauma. >> olly lambert directed a new three part hulu series, devil in the family the fall of ruby, frankie. the expose digs into the shocking true crime story that gripped the nation. >> it is an extraordinary tale

of our times, of what happens when fame and money and online vlogging and religious extremism all come together. it really is a modern day fable of how you can take very wrong steps, and it can put you at extreme risk. why didn't you stand up to say this is nonsense? >> if i dwell on that question, it eats me alive. >> ruby's estranged husband kevin tells all. but many are wondering where was he when all of this was going down? casey baker wrote this week's cover story on the frankie's for people magazine. >> he said ruby hid a lot from me, and he was shocked to find out a lot of what happened. he said he didn't know. >> the doc has unprecedented access to the family, including eldest son chad, who says behind the kids smiles was sadness and behind his mother, something far more sinister.

>> fake being happy. okay. >> i don't know if i can right now. >> things took a dark turn when the kids started rebelling. ruby and kevin started seeing jodi brandt, a therapist with a revoked license known for her hard line stance on discipline. as ruby leaned in to the therapist's teachings. the two became extremely close. >> this this female jodi that your wife was. do you do you know of a female named jodi? she is a. >> therapist and a life coach. >> your wife? a client of hers. is your wife a partner of hers? is your wife a roommate with her? >> but hildebrand is out of advice. when she's brought in for questioning. >> we just honestly want to understand what what their dynamic is. what happened to the

children? and after talking to kevin, it sounds like you know a lot about their dynamic and their relationship. >> the criminal physical stuff happened after jodi came into the picture. >> kevin says jodi and ruby forced him to move out and cut off contact with his kids, including eldest son chad. >> i was also required to move out of the house and never contact my siblings. you know, never, never go back home. >> she gets her hooks into you and slowly begins to indoctrinate you and condition you to believe that you yourself aren't capable of making good decisions. >> jodi pleaded guilty to four counts of child abuse. she and ruby are currently serving sentences in utah up to 30 years each. ex-husband kevin, now left to deal with the emotional fallout. >> i'm not ashamed to say that,

you know, after being married over 20 years to that woman, i truly did and still do love her. but that doesn't excuse how she hurt our children and how she hurt me. >> when we come back, she thought she had escaped from an abusive ex. then he shot her in the head. >> i felt like this was it. i felt like he. he got me. >> how she survived. next. >> slow down. >> cut! >> i get it. slow motion. slow down. geographic atrophy. but we don't need gimmicks. stick to the facts. gah! the advanced form of dry amd can irreversibly damage your vision. but ciuffo is an fda approved eye injection that gives you the power to slow

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avamere duclerc was walking to the train with a coworker when she was ambushed by her abusive ex with a gun. hers is an incredible story of survival and a cautionary tale for anyone trapped in an abusive relationship. against all odds, eva marie duclerc lives to tell the physical horror of the past, the emotional scars of the present. >> i wake up thinking the whole world is about to end. >> eva marie has more than a deep bond with her close girlfriends. >> i call her a sister. that's what she is to me, a sister. i think in the ten, 12 years that we have known each other, we have never had an argument. we just clicked as soon as we like met.

>> her vibrant personality and stunning looks were also a magnet for male attention. one man in particular, ramón andrés castillo, who worked in a neighborhood deli. >> i was like, hey, i'm going to tell her that you've been asking about her and i'll see what she says. >> i found him interesting and i went out on a date. >> and it seemed like a match. >> he was very nice. he made us feel very comfortable. >> but before long, the perfect union started showing some cracks. >> it was relationships, problems that escalated with the time. >> joanna remembers a night she was out with eva, marie and ramon. at the end of the night. joanna says ramon became enraged when he wasn't invited in. >> he grabbed her by her hair, pulled her back into the car. so when he did that, i was like, no. i remember one day she came to my house and he literally

left his car parked, double parked outside in the middle of the street for like 30 minutes and went upstairs and tried to carry her out of my house. she really wanted to see the good in him. so she was like, you know, we were drinking. i don't think this is going to happen again. >> if eva miro wasn't able to see ramon's need for control and domination, she was about to get a rude and violent awakening. >> the relationship took a turn when we took a trip to florida. >> it was eva meyers birthday and she wanted to celebrate in miami beach. >> it was a girls trip. it was my birthday. my friends didn't want any males around. it wasn't, you know, it was just for us to be comfortable. >> ramon would have none of that. he insisted on crashing the party. the first night when we went out was the first big problem where i just realized who he was. we went out, we was clubbing, and everything was fine. and all of a sudden he says, let's go upstairs in front

of everybody. my response to him was, well, if you want to go ahead, go ahead, i'll meet you upstairs. but i'm not leaving now. >> ramon went to the room alone and angry. when eva meyer returned later, she would pay a brutal price. >> we heard the screaming from her and we went to go. i went to go and check what was going on, and he was beating her. he punched me. >> he threw me down. hit me. my friends was outside in the hallway just yelling, you know, let her out, let her out, let her out until they. finally i got to open the door and i came out. he stood in the room and he was just saying he was going to kill himself, to not call the cops. he was going to throw himself off the balcony. >> hotel management called nine 1-1 and within minutes ramon was in cuffs and arrested. it was a moment of reckoning for eva and her friends. >> we were like, leave him there. that's it. like this is your moment to break up with him. >> but eva meyer was still

reluctant to cut ties. a common characteristic for victims of abuse is self-blame. >> i think in some kind of way, she thought maybe she triggered that. >> thankfully, eva meyer eventually would see the light and know exactly what she had to do. coming up, eva meyer calls it quits with ramon. but she has no idea his obsession with her will nearly cost her her life. >> if the. >> gun would never would have never jammed on the third strike, that would have been the bullet that killed me. >> how she survived being shot in the head. that's next. >> here's a somebody i'm longing to see. i hope that she turns out to be. someone who. o's me.

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new nightmare for eva meyer. after the violent hotel room assault on girlfriend eva meyer clark, ramon castillo makes bail in florida and heads back to new york. eva meyer suggests they press pause on their relationship. >> my excuse to him was, we need our space in order for this to work. >> eva meyer wasn't won over and wants him out. just before christmas, she leaves him the keys to her apartment so he can take his things out. >> but he wouldn't destroy the whole apartment. like everything was just broken glass and broken mirrors. >> he glued her door to the apartment. >> call the cops. made a report. he actually ended up paying for everything that he broke. and that was the end of that. he actually left my house for good. >> in fact, ramon seemed to simply fly off the radar completely. >> he was getting his cab driving license, so i'm like, hey, maybe, you know, he needs to get his life together.

>> hardly. ramon was just taking a break. >> he will break my lights of my car because he thought that she was using my car to go out. >> on a frigid january night in new york. eva meyer's shift was almost over at the pharmacy where she worked in manhattan. her coworker, demetrius johnson, makes a chilling observation. >> demetrius comes back and he's like, your ex is parked outside the store. are you waiting for him right now? i was just like, i don't know what to expect. i haven't spoken to him. i guess i was scared, but i didn't want to show him that i was scared. so i'm like, you know what, demetrius? just give me a second so we can both walk to the train together. he was actually taking the same train as me. we walk outside. he's nowhere to be seen. there's no cars. it's below zero and we have, like, a good six blocks to walk. >> eva meyer tries to stay calm. suddenly, what she sees is no illusion. >> i look back and he was like,

rushing like speed, walking towards me and his hat was down. he had a big coat, but his hand was inside his pocket. so i looked back and i'm like, dimitri? i said, let's just, you know, i started speed walking like i ran. demetrius grabs him to stop him and he was not trying to hit demetrius back or trying to. he was his. his goal was me. i threw myself on the floor and i grabbed myself like this. he's grabbing me by my hair, trying to pull me up, but it's not possible. demetrius is actually forcing him and hitting him. let her go. let her go. all i feel is my head going to side to side. >> eva miro doesn't even realize what's happened to her. >> all i know is i feel this really cold. and when i actually touched, it was a lot of blood behind my head. >> in an act of vengeance, ramon castillo pulled out a handgun and fired at avamere, hitting her once in the arm and once in

the head. the second bullet grazed her finger and lodging inches above her right ear, but she, still conscious. ramon is determined to complete the job, but when the gun jammed, he turned and ran. >> i feel like if the gun would never would have never jammed on the third strike. that would have been the bullet that killed me. >> eva meyer's story of survival is nothing short of miraculous. doctors said the bullet lodged in her head was just one centimeter away from killing her. eva meyer believes she owes her life to her friend demetrius, who valiantly tried to fight off ramon. >> he didn't get that perfect shot because they just kept moving him. >> ramon was in police custody within minutes in his car. cops find a suicide note. >> i feel like he realized he messed up. i wasn't going to give him another chance shooting me. maybe it was his idea of she

won't be mine. she won't be nobody else's. >> and even after ramon was arrested and charged, eva meyer received another love letter begging forgiveness. >> everything i did was because i love you. >> ramon castillo was convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to 15 years. but that's little comfort to anyone. >> i feel like he's going to try to find me. he's going to try to find her. one of us. like, i feel like he's going to come back for one of us. it is scary. >> like eva meir, millions of women get caught in the tangled web of abuse. those who say just walk away don't understand the dynamics of domestic violence. but through her story, eva meyer and her friends hope to offer encouragement to others locked in the same living hell. >> don't think you can fight it off. don't think you could win it off. speak to someone. don't be ashamed. get the help that you need and try to get out of it alive.

>> forever. meyer. her scars are symbols of survival and new found wisdom. >> i got the help that i needed. i went to therapy. i did what i had to do and went back to school. i got my bachelor's degree. i didn't let that stop my life. like i had to continue. i had to make sure that, you know, this was not going to set my life up. like this wasn't going to be it. >> ramon castillo was released on parole in 2022. his parole is scheduled to end this year. if you are in an abusive relationship, please call the national domestic violence hotline at one 800 799 safe. that's one (800) 799-7233. you can also text start to 88788. we'll be right back. >> congratulations. here are the keys. >> congratulations. here's the water heater that somehow passed inspection but will definitely

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newsletter so you don't miss a thing. ruby franchi's story is a stark reminder that not everything is as it appears to be on social media. anyone can carefully curate a picture perfect image for youtube, but as we've seen today, the person you think you know may not be who they claim to be. that's it for today's true crime news. i'm anna garcia. see you n ex (tense music) - when peggy pettis died, what were the red flags that led you to the murderer? - peggy had been trying to obtain a new life insurance policy right prior to her passing. it seemed like it was more money than they would've normally requested. - families were not buying the initial account of what had happened to his wife. - he's reconnected with an old high school flame. he seems to be pursuing this relationship. (tense music)