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“For years, the Frankes’ YouTube channel had documented a wholesome, happy family life, with 2.5 million subscribers tuning in at its peak,” a press release for the show reads. “As the cracks began to show, the family turned to counselor Jodi Hildebrandt for guidance – and rapidly found themselves trapped in a nightmare.”
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Mar. 15, 2025
Kevin Frankeand his son Chad have been through a lot in the past few years — but they see better days ahead.
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Now, Kevin tells PEOPLE, life is “more normal than it’s been in years. But there’s a long way to go.”
“There’s still a lot of pain,” Kevin tells PEOPLE. “There’s still a lot of healing that I work on each day, but it just looks and feels different now.
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On the day of the premiere, Chad asked his Snapchat followers: “Thoughts on the series?”
One follower replied, “I think it shows how your dad was never the problem and that he was brainwashed. All he wanted was his family back.”
Chad replied, “Thank you, I hope everyone will get it.”
In another Snapchat post, Chad wrote, “People don’t realize how good jodi [Hildebrandt] was at manipulating.”
Hildebrandt, Kevin told PEOPLE in an exclusive interview, was able to wield such influence over the family because she “gets her hooks into you, and slowly begins to indoctrinate you and condition you to believe things about yourself, and to willingly give power to other people.
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Hermey and Rudolph in ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’ in 1964.Photo:CBS
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“But do you recall the most famous reindeer of all?”
The movie’s plot centers on Rudolph (Billie Mae Richards) and Hermy (Paul Soles), an elf who wants to be a dentist, feeling like “misfits.” When they run away from the North Pole, they meet characters like the prospector Yukon Cornelius (Larry Mann),Bumble the Abominable snowman(Bernard Cowan) and the misfit toys.
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An inquest — a judicial fact-finding process in the U.K. — into Staple’s death was opened on December 30, 2024, theLincolnshire Livereported. During the hearing, it was noted that the teenager had sustained a graze to his right shin during a match the day before, which had required first-aid treatment at the time.
Staple’s funeral was held on Nov. 8, 2024.JustGiving
“The next day Samuel felt unwell,” said coroner Jayne Wilkes, according to Lincolnshire Live.