When Justice Protects the Guilty: Jesse Butler Walks Free, Susan Lorincz Threatens Her Victims | Eric Faddis Breaks It Down-WEEK IN REVIEW
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
One system that failed both sets of victims.
In this Hidden Killers double feature, Tony Brueski, Stacy Cole, and Todd Michaels sit down with defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis to unpack two stories that expose the cracks in American justice — one soaked in leniency, the other in cruelty.
First: Jesse Mack Butler.
Eleven felony charges. Two teenage girls. One nearly strangled to death.
Video evidence. Doctors saying seconds more and she’d be gone.
Yet somehow, Stillwater, Oklahoma’s court system gave him a second chance — turning seventy-eight years of possible prison time into one year of supervision under the Youthful Offender statute.
Eric and Tony dig into how the legal definition of “youth” became a shield for violence, how privilege masqueraded as compassion, and how prosecutors and judges rationalized a decision that left two survivors behind.
Then: Susan Lorincz.
The Florida woman convicted of shooting Ajike “AJ” Owens through a locked door — killing the mother of four in front of her children.
From prison, Lorincz has now written a four-page letter threatening to sue Owens’s children and mother for defamation — accusing them of trespassing, lying, and “ruining her reputation.”
Tony and Eric expose the psychological rot behind that letter — how denial becomes control, how narcissism replaces remorse, and how the legal system still lets killers weaponize paperwork against the families they destroyed.
Two stories. Same disease.
A justice system too soft on those who harm and too silent for those who suffer.
🎧 Watch both breakdowns in one powerful conversation — legal truth, human cost, and why real justice requires more than conviction.
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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 Burski, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:14.1 | And on this episode, we take you back to Stillwater, Oklahoma. |
| 0:18.7 | The Jesse Mac Butler case. |
| 0:21.0 | Jesse McButler charged with 11 felonies. |
| 0:25.0 | S.A. attempted S.A.S. Battery and assault and battery by strangulation. |
| 0:30.5 | You know, type of things that happen in all teenage relationships. |
| 0:33.4 | Oh, wait. After attacking two 16-year-old girls, one was choked unconscious, the other needed neck surgery. |
| 0:42.3 | Doctor said seconds longer and she would have died. Police found a partial phone video of the assault because why not tape the event? |
| 0:52.3 | He pled no contest because he was 17 when it happened. The court granted |
| 0:57.0 | something called youthful offender status, a fun little thing that they have in Oklahoma. |
| 1:02.1 | A potential 78 year prison term then became a one year of supervision and people are a little |
| 1:08.4 | pissed. Today we're unpacking how this all happened, |
| 1:12.0 | what it says about the justice system, that mistakes privilege for potential. |
| 1:15.7 | Joining me is defense attorney, former prosecutor Eric Fattis. |
| 1:20.0 | Eric, as a former prosecutor, when you see medical proof, phone video evidence, two victims, |
| 1:27.2 | one who almost died according to the doctors. |
| 1:31.7 | If you're the prosecutor, what's supposed to happen next in a situation like that? |
| 1:37.8 | Well, obviously some alarming circumstances in this case. |
| 1:42.8 | And as a prosecutor, you know, part of your primary duty is to |
| 1:46.5 | try and protect the community through the prosecution of these cases. But recently it's sort of |
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