This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels.

Jesse Butler bought flowers.

He took his girlfriend to the country club.

He played pickleball with her family and even sat next to them at church on Sundays.

Her parents thought he was a dream come true, polite, well-mannered from a good family in Stillwater.

And according to court documents, behind closed doors, he was strangling her until she lost consciousness while essaying her.

A doctor later told her she was 30 seconds from dying.

Police found video on his phone of him choking another victim.

Allegedly threatened both girls, told them he'd hurt them if they said a word.

This wasn't some stranger in a dark alley.

This was the boyfriend.

The guy everyone trusted, and that's exactly how it worked.

So how does someone operate like this in plain sight?

How does the charm coexist with the violence?

What are the patterns that everyone missed?

To break down this case that everyone is so enraged by, Robin Drake,

retired FBI special agent, former head of the Bureau's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program,

and an expert on this sort of stuff, on human behavior deception. And we're going to talk

a day about how predators build trust

before they weaponize it because there's many more jesse butlers out there in the world that are

showing up to people's doorsteps with flowers playing pickleball with the family going to church and

usually it's a good sign of a good kid but but again, not always. That's a mask.

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