Jesse Butler: The Birthday That Will Erase Everything
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
In roughly one hundred and twenty days, a clerk in Payne County is going to close a file. And Jesse Butler — the Stillwater teenager who pleaded no contest to eleven felony counts involving two high school students — is going to stop being any of those things, legally, forever.
That's the calendar this case has been racing toward from day one. Every move by every actor — the defense, the Payne County DA's office, the special judge who granted youthful offender status — pointed in the same direction. Toward the nineteenth birthday that, under Oklahoma's youthful offender statute, wipes the record clean.
This week, for three days, two teenage girls and the people who fought for them tried to get somebody in the State of Oklahoma to formally acknowledge, on the record, before the birthday hits, that what happened to them was wrong. They called it a Marsy's Law violation. The DA's office called it full compliance and demanded a judge rule in their favor before the case closes forever.
The victim took the stand. Her mother took the stand. Her attorney took the stand. A tribal victim services advocate took the stand. All four said the same thing: they were locked outside their own case until the final fifteen minutes. Then the Assistant District Attorney who ran the prosecution took the stand — and her story didn't match theirs.
This is what three days of testimony revealed about how a case like this gets resolved in Oklahoma, what the victims are actually fighting for, and why what happens in Judge Kulling's written opinion may be the last thing that matters before a calendar closes a case forever.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.5 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:07.3 | She was sobbing. |
| 0:09.4 | She was begging Assistant District Attorney Deborah Vincent not to take the deal. |
| 0:16.1 | That's what the victim's mother later told reporters. |
| 0:18.6 | In her own words, on the months ago months months before what just took place in an oklahoma courtroom happened that we're about to talk |
| 0:33.1 | about a mother begging a prosecutor not to hand her teenage daughter's case away. |
| 0:40.0 | And despite that, despite the pleas, don't hand this away. |
| 0:44.7 | The prosecutor took the deal anyway. |
| 0:47.9 | And now four months later, a Payne County judge rubber-stamped it. |
| 0:51.9 | The boy, her daughter, accused of assaing her, of strangling her, literally on camera, |
| 0:57.9 | until she lost consciousness, then laughing when she came to, walked out of a courtroom without a |
| 1:03.8 | single day in jail. His name is Jesse Butler. That's what he looks like. Don't forget it if you're |
| 1:09.7 | in Stillwater and see him at the local Pigley Wiggly. He turns 19 in August, roughly 120 days from now. |
| 1:17.5 | On that day, under the terms of this deal of the state of Oklahoma that is accepted over that |
| 1:22.4 | mother's sobbing objection, the legal record of what happened to her daughter is going to be erased. |
| 1:29.8 | Like it didn't happen. |
| 1:31.1 | Every charge, every filing, every affidavit, just gone. |
| 1:34.8 | Butler will never again have to answer a question about any of it. |
| 1:37.8 | Not on a job application, not on a background check, not on a date. |
| 1:42.8 | For anyone who's unfortunate enough to date him, not in a civil |
| 1:47.6 | lawsuit. A clerk in Payne County is going to close a file on a Tuesday. And the last 18 months |
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