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🗓️ 14 December 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Week in review. |
| 0:02.4 | I look back at the most prolific stories of the week. |
| 0:05.2 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:14.5 | Jesse Butler bought flowers. |
| 0:17.7 | He took his girlfriend to the country club. |
| 0:19.9 | He played pickleball with her family and even sat |
| 0:23.4 | next to them at church on Sundays. Her parents thought he was a dream come true, polite, well-mannered |
| 0:30.4 | from a good family in Stillwater. And according to court documents, behind closed doors, he was |
| 0:34.7 | strangling her until she lost consciousness while essaying her. |
| 0:39.9 | A doctor later told her she was 30 seconds from dying. |
| 0:44.3 | Police found video on his phone of him choking another victim. |
| 0:49.7 | Allegedly threatened both girls, told them he'd hurt them if they said a word. This wasn't some |
| 0:56.1 | stranger in a dark alley. This was the boyfriend. The guy everyone trusted, and that's |
| 1:01.1 | exactly how it worked. So how does someone operate like this in plain sight? How does the charm |
| 1:07.4 | coexist with the violence? What are the patterns that everyone missed? To break down this |
| 1:15.5 | case that everyone is so enraged by Robin Drake, retired FBI special agent, former head of the |
| 1:22.1 | Bureau's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, and an expert on this sort of stuff on human behavior deception. |
| 1:30.5 | And we're going to talk a day about how predators build trust before they weaponize it |
| 1:35.7 | because there's many more Jesse Butler's out there in the world that are showing up to people's |
| 1:41.7 | doorsteps with flowers, playing pickleball with the family, going to church. |
| 1:46.0 | And usually it's a good sign of a good kid. But again, not always. That's a mask. And it appeared to be |
| 1:52.3 | certainly in this case. Robin, when you look at the documented behavior in this case, then you've got |
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