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Karol Summerville with Brooke Nicole

·2 hr 7 min

Raven opens the conversation by introducing Brooklyn Nicole and centering the episode on her mother, Carol Somerville Butt. Brooklyn is asked to speak about her mom and about her family’s side of the story, so the tone stays personal from the start. The discussion moves quickly to the toxicology questions tied to the death. They talk about Ambien, alcohol, and how a dose that was too high could affect memory, coordination, and physical ability. The point is not abstract. It comes back to a plain question about whether the actions described in the case match what the body would have been able to do. They also discuss the blood alcohol level and the possibility that some alcohol can be produced after death. Even so, the episode keeps pushing on the obvious problem: there seems to have been wine, or evidence of wine, somewhere in the scene. That detail is treated as something that should have been followed right away. Raven and Brooklyn move into the evidence itself. They talk about wanting the wine bottle tested. They talk about the glass. They talk about residue on hands. The conversation has a blunt, procedural frustration to it, like they are walking the scene in real time and pointing to everything that should have been preserved. The show also brings in the idea that homicide detectives and death investigators should treat every death as suspicious until proven otherwise. That standard becomes the measuring stick here, and the case falls short of it in the family’s telling. The conversation suggests that scenes in Oklahoma have sometimes been released too early, leaving families to deal with the fallout. There is a strong sense that the episode is trying to recover what was missed. The speakers return to the idea that there must have been prescriptions, and that more should have been documented before anything was disturbed. The emotional center is not just the death itself but the feeling that the investigation did not hold the scene with enough care. Brooklyn’s presence gives the episode its weight. She is not offering distance or theory. She is speaking as someone who has lived with the consequences and is still trying to make the record line up with reality. The conversation is part grief, part correction, and part public reminder that families do not stop noticing what investigators overlook. Raven matches that energy by pressing the logic of the case instead of smoothing it over. The host and guest keep returning to the same practical question: what should have happened, and why didn’t it? That repeated pressure gives the episode its shape. The final stretch widens out from the case itself to the larger reason for speaking publicly. They talk about helping other families know how to advocate, how to speak up and speak out for their loved one, and how to ask for better handling of a death. The episode closes on the hope that someone, somewhere, still knows something. The conversation ends with a familiar true crime truth: the case may not be solved, but silence is not the same as closure.

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A family-centered true crime episode that keeps pressing on the questions the official story never seems to settle.

Carol Somerville Butt's story comes through the people still trying to make sense of it, with Brooklyn Nicole leading the listener through the case, the missing clarity, and the grief that keeps circling back into the investigation.

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Press play if you want three Oklahoma cold cases, told through a victim advocate's lens, with real forensic questions left on the table.

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