‘They used cayenne pepper and honey to dress the wounds’: Warrant sheds new light on Ruby Franke, Jodi Hildebrandt child abuse case

When police responded to an Ivins, Utah home to investigate reports of child abuse, they found an emaciated, 12-year-old victim who told police Jodi Hildebrandt tied them up with a rope and put cayenne pepper in their wounds “The victim informed officers that ‘Jodi’ put the ropes on their ankles and wrists and that ‘they’ used cayenne pepper and honey to dress the wounds,” reads an Aug. 31 search warrant from the Santa Clara-Ivins Police Department obtained by the Deseret News. The child’s mother, popular YouTuber and family blogger Ruby...