#597: Disturbing update on the Jesse Butler case
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🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Kathy and Jim update listeners on the Federal lawsuit filed against Jesse Butler, his parents, his school and other people who were supposed to be helping the victims…
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| 0:52.3 | Okay. Hello and welcome to Real Crime Profile. This is Kathleen Canning Mello, retired FBI agent and profiler. And here with me is, |
| 0:54.6 | Hi, it's Jim Clementi, retired FBI profiler, former city prosecutor, right, |
| 0:58.3 | a producer of criminal minds, and Bluebeard on Audible. And also, co-host of FBI Profilers, |
| 1:04.5 | criminal archives, and Kathy Canning Mell. Right, on Audible. Yes. So, Kathy, we have updates on a very disturbing case that we've been following. |
| 1:19.3 | And there's a lot of behavior that we really, really should be talking about to add to this analysis. |
| 1:26.9 | But we're talking about to add to this analysis, but we're talking about the sex crimes and rapes |
| 1:32.9 | committed by Jesse Butler. Right. Jesse Butler of Stillwater, Oklahoma, who committed these |
| 1:40.2 | offenses when he was a minor, and now he's 18, I believe going on 19. And there's been a lot of |
| 1:47.8 | righteous outrage about how this guy was treated by the criminal justice system. How lenient he was |
| 1:57.4 | facing 75 years in prison. Yeah, he was arrested as an adult. |
| 2:01.6 | Right. |
| 2:01.7 | And then he played no contest, which just means that he's basically not admitting to the conduct, but he's saying at trial, I would be convicted. |
| 2:14.1 | Of ten felonies, by the way. |
| 2:15.9 | Ten felonies. |
| 2:16.6 | And he could have gotten up to 75 years. |
| 2:19.9 | And then, lo and behold, without any consultation with the victims, the district attorney's |
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