Karen Read accused of backing into boyfriend and leaving him to die *TRIAL IN PROGRESS* (7 Viewers)

This woman didn't do this. I'd be willing to bet that someone in the house did it. Someone in the house looked up "How long will it take for somebody to die in the cold." Karen couldn't have done that search.

Is there a cover up conspiracy?

 

[GrandmaBear]

What happened on Fairview could have happend in Aruba except that what happened in Aruba took place in a hotel lobby.

Talking her drunken jealous rages?

 

[GrandmaBear]

the trial is boring me today tho i do have it on.... but she is just so smug..... i still think however that at least this far CW case is just riddled with corruption and reasonable doubt..... i'm thinking a 2nd mistrial is in the future

It gets old to listen to for sure, hard to listen to, but the part about John's DNA on that very tail light was interesting...

 

[GrandmaBear]

I hope you're wrong. JO needs justice and i hope this jury will see the obvious evidence linking her to his death. It just is so obvious to me. Her manic behaviour even when she is sober is making me wonder if she is an alcoholic. I mean who knocks back 8 vodkas and drives these days?

I don't agree with the mistrial thing whatsoever. I think it's leading to conviction on a lower charge.

But even if she gets off, her life is largely destroyed just as she took his but she always has Turtleboy. Or if she wants to be her manic psycho self she could try for Higgins again but something tells me he wouldn't have any part of it.

 

[Takeitfromme]

being a dog person having worked with k9's trained k9's having aggressive pet dogs brought to me for rehabilitation basically working with all the dogs that bite people have seen the aftermaths of incidents gone wrong from caring for dogs like that i JUST CAN'T get past the injuries to John's arm.... and none of these investigators went into the house secured it as an ACTIVE CRIME SCENE. i feel those are dog bites on his arm and that dog had a mean streak, they said it

 

[Tresir]

being a dog person having worked with k9's trained k9's having aggressive pet dogs brought to me for rehabilitation basically working with all the dogs that bite people have seen the aftermaths of incidents gone wrong from caring for dogs like that i JUST CAN'T get past the injuries to John's arm.... and none of these investigators went into the house secured it as an ACTIVE CRIME SCENE. i feel those are dog bites on his arm and that dog had a mean streak, they said it

Did they find dog DNA then? I wasn't aware of that.

 

[Guess Who]

being a dog person having worked with k9's trained k9's having aggressive pet dogs brought to me for rehabilitation basically working with all the dogs that bite people have seen the aftermaths of incidents gone wrong from caring for dogs like that i JUST CAN'T get past the injuries to John's arm.... and none of these investigators went into the house secured it as an ACTIVE CRIME SCENE. i feel those are dog bites on his arm and that dog had a mean streak, they said it

I know of two canine cops that had to be retired early because they were a threat to the families they lived with. One malinois and one gsd. Both breeds tend to be easily over aggressive if not trained properly, especially if any sudden moves by others towards their people or of their people are overly worked up, too.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Watch Live: Karen Read trial judge tells jury not to make faces, "no muttering under your breath"

The Karen Read trial continued today with the judge telling the jury not to make any comments in court.

www.cbsnews.com

The Karen Read trial in Massachusetts continues today with a 17th day of witness testimony after the jury saw graphic photos from John O'Keefe's autopsy. Taking the stand Friday morning were two analysts from the Massachusetts State Police Crime Lab.
You can stream the trial live from Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham when proceedings begin at 9 a.m. on CBS News Boston or in the video player above.
Medical examiner Dr. Irini Scordi-Bello finished testifying Thursday after several hours on the stand.
Read is accused of hitting and killing O'Keefe, her Boston police officer boyfriend, with her SUV and leaving him to die in the snow in Canton in January 2022. The defense alleges there was a fight inside Brian Albert's home at 34 Fairview Road, and that O'Keefe was dragged outside and left in the yard.
Read's supporters are allowed to be closer to the courthouse on Friday after a federal appeals court ruled that a new buffer zone for the trial keeping them farther back violated their First Amendment rights. But there are conditions with the move - they have to remain quiet and can't interfere with the court's work.

Judge tells Karen Read jury "no muttering under your breath"​

Before testimony started on Friday, Judge Beverly Cannone said she had an "important instruction" for the jury.
"I just want to be very clear that it's important that people do not comment on the evidence or make any comments," Cannone said, telling jurors to "just listen."
"Don't talk, don't make any facial expressions. No muttering under your breath, no audible noises because people need to hear what's going on and to understand everything," Cannone said. "Out of respect for your fellow jurors, I would ask that you be very careful to make sure you don't do that, and out of respect to the lawyers who've worked so hard to get this case before you."

Judge tells Karen Read jurors not to make faces or mutter comments at trial​

Crime lab scientists testify at Karen Read trial​

Just before witnesses took the stand, prosecutors played a clip of an April 2024 documentary interview with Read in which she describes finding O'Keefe in the snow.
"He had a piece of glass, like perched on his nose, just wedged like a splinter would be," Read said. "I pulled it and as soon as I pulled it, it gushed blood down his face."
The first witness to testify was forensic expert Andre Porto with the crime lab. The focus of his testimony was DNA found on John O'Keefe's clothes, sneakers, a drinking class and taillight fragments found at the scene in Canton. Porto testified that O'Keefe's DNA is a likely match to DNA found on the broken taillight pieces.
In the first trial, the defense did not cross-examine Porto. But this time, attorney David Yannetti asked Porto if the DNA of two men the defense has pointed to as possible third-party culprits were found on O'Keefe's clothing.
"Were you ever asked to compare the DNA profile of DNA profiles of either Brian Higgins or Brian Albert?" Yannetti asked.
"I was not," Porto said.
The next crime lab witness to testify was Ashley Vallier, who took photos of evidence found near O'Keefe's body.

Karen Read's lawyers say prosecutors broke rules​

After the jury left on Thursday, Read's lawyers accused the prosecution of an "ambush" and sought to keep the commonwealth's crash reconstruction expert's opinion out of trial.
The defense says a new report shared by prosecutors changes the time that Read allegedly hit O'Keefe with her Lexus by 33 seconds.
"They're trying now to put on a defense against my defense," Read told reporters outside court on Thursday.
Special prosecutor Hank Brennan says new information was discovered while working on the case relating to a difference in the clocks on O'Keefe's phone compared to Read's SUV. He said the new information does not change anything.
Judge Cannone did not immediately rule on the issue. The back-and-forth continued on Friday.
"Our timeline has been the same since we have turned it over from the beginning," Brennan said. "They're just saying things without a good-faith basis."

Medical examiner testifies in Karen Read trial​

Most of Thursday's testimony came from Dr. Scordi-Bello. While she was on the stand, the jury saw photos of bruises on O'Keefe's hand, abrasions on his arm and injuries to his face. The judge allowed the jurors to take a break when a picture of the inside of O'Keefe's stomach was displayed on screen.
Scordi-Bello testified that blunt injuries to the head caused O'Keefe's death, and she said that could have come from him falling backward onto frozen ground. But the medical examiner could not determine how O'Keefe died.
"Were you able to reach a conclusion as to the manner of Mr. O'Keefe's death to a reasonable degree of medical certainty?" Brennan asked.
"No I was not," Scordi-Bello responded.
The defense seized on the fact that experts couldn't choose between accident or homicide. Attorney Robert Alessi asked Scordi-Bello if the condition of O'Keefe's legs suggests he could have been hit by a car.
"So I did examine his legs and I did not see any impact of an impact site," Scordi-Bello said.
The defense also pressed the medical examiner on their theory that O'Keefe could have been beaten inside the home at 34 Fairview Road.
"Is that injury consistent or inconsistent with a punch?" Alessi asked.
"Could be consistent," Scordi-Bello said.

Karen Read trial latest​

Earlier this week, the jury heard from a Massachusetts State Police forensic scientist who examined Read's Lexus, and O'Keefe's teenage niece who testified about Read and O'Keefe's deteriorating relationship in the months before his death.
Attorneys on both sides are prevented from talking to the media, but there are signs that the prosecution is wrapping its case even though key witnesses like Brian Higgins, Michael Proctor and Brian Albert have not testified. Legal analysts say it appears the commonwealth still plans to call crash reconstruction and DNA experts, but the defense expects to be starting its case relatively soon.
Read, 45, is charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter while operating under the influence of alcohol, and leaving the scene of personal injury and death. She has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

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Yeah I watched when I thought Alessi was going to have a total meltdown over the 30 some second difference in the timeline for God's sake. There is NOTHING being pulled there and even if there was, the D has went so far beyond such it isn't even funny. They are VERY worried about that.

So KR was dumb enough to speak outside again huh? She never shuts her yap. Even walking back from sidebars she often has to try to talk to an atty in front of her, to no avail usually as they know better.

 

[Tresir]

The CBS link i posted has been updated with this info. Court finished at 12.30 today.

"The Karen Read trial continued today with a 17th day of witness testimony from two Massachusetts State Police crime lab analysts, and a message from the judge to jurors about how they conduct themselves in court.
There was only a half day of testimony on Friday, with court wrapping up at 12:30 p.m. Medical examiner Dr. Irini Scordi-Bello finished testifying Thursday after several hours on the stand, during which graphic photos from John O'Keefe's autopsy were shown to the jury.
Read is accused of hitting and killing O'Keefe, her Boston police officer boyfriend, with her SUV and leaving him to die in the snow in Canton in January 2022. The defense alleges there was a fight inside Brian Albert's home at 34 Fairview Road, and that O'Keefe was dragged outside and left in the yard.
Read's supporters are allowed to be closer to the courthouse on Friday after a federal appeals court ruled that a new buffer zone for the trial keeping them farther back violated their First Amendment rights. But there are conditions with the move - they have to remain quiet and can't interfere with the court's work."

 

[GrandmaBear]

being a dog person having worked with k9's trained k9's having aggressive pet dogs brought to me for rehabilitation basically working with all the dogs that bite people have seen the aftermaths of incidents gone wrong from caring for dogs like that i JUST CAN'T get past the injuries to John's arm.... and none of these investigators went into the house secured it as an ACTIVE CRIME SCENE. i feel those are dog bites on his arm and that dog had a mean streak, they said it

Do you think the dog was never let out to pee in all of those hours? There are all sorts of possible explanations there.

There is ZERO evidence of any fight or that John was ever inside the house though.

 

[Takeitfromme]

Did they find dog DNA then? I wasn't aware of that.

honestly i do not believe they did or sample was tainted idk what happened with that

 

[Takeitfromme]

Do you think the dog was never let out to pee in all of those hours? There are all sorts of possible explanations there.

There is ZERO evidence of any fight or that John was ever inside the house though.

Not a clue. its just such a weird case when it comes to the theory of what killed him

 

[Tresir]

This is from 6 May near the beginning of the retrial and has info about the weather, the snowfall, etc. A LE dashcam at JO's house also got a pic of KR's broken taillight that day. 4 inches fell between 1 and 6 a.m. By 6 pm it was approximately 2 feet of snow. They did find John's sneaker and pieces of broken tailight that day. So that was before the car was even in LE custody.

Search team leader recalls finding taillight, John O'Keefe's shoe at crime scene in Karen Read trial

Karen Read pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the death of Boston police officer John O’Keefe and is facing a retrial after a jury was unable to reach a verdict last year.

www.foxnews.com

"Gilman tracked steady snowfall throughout the morning, with approximately four inches accumulating between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m., and the winter storm increasing in intensity at around 5 a.m.
By 6 p.m. on Jan. 29, 2022, the storm had accumulated approximately two feet of snow, making it the biggest January snowstorm in the area’s history."

 

[Tresir]

Do you think the dog was never let out to pee in all of those hours? There are all sorts of possible explanations there.

There is ZERO evidence of any fight or that John was ever inside the house though.

My experience with all my dogs is that they always had their last walk at night around 10 - 11 pm and would not need to be walked again till the morning hours around 8 a.m. plus a long mid afternoon walk. That is a house dog. I guess a yard dog could have a kennel in a closed in back yard area and not need letting out or walking.

 

[Tresir]

Yeah I watched when I thought Alessi was going to have a total meltdown over the 30 some second difference in the timeline for God's sake. There is NOTHING being pulled there and even if there was, the D has went so far beyond such it isn't even funny. They are VERY worried about that.

So KR was dumb enough to speak outside again huh? She never shuts her yap. Even walking back from sidebars she often has to try to talk to an atty in front of her, to no avail usually as they know better.

Normally UK vehicle clocks are analog only and do not update automatically like digital cell phone times do. Eg my car clock is still set on GMT so is an hour behind the current time of BST. I do not bother manually changing it. A time diff of 30 seconds is nothing IME LOL.

 

[GrandmaBear]

My experience with all my dogs is that they always had their last walk at night around 10 - 11 pm and would not need to be walked again till the morning hours around 8 a.m. plus a long mid afternoon walk. That is a house dog. I guess a yard dog could have a kennel in a closed in back yard area and not need letting out or walking.

In my experience, you let a dog out when it wants out. Might be ten times a day. That's how my mom hash always done it, I did it when I had one, and all I know do it. Of course IF you can't, that's a bit different, like if you work, or live in an apt. with a dog, keep the dog kenneled etc. Well it can't work both ways here for even the defense story. It clearly was not kenneled IF that is even dog bites. They have a yard. There was a party. You'd let it out if it wanted out imo. My sisters do the same.

I'm not even saying I think that's the case, I am just saying there are all sorts of possibilities as to that. But not a BLIP of evidence John ever entered the home or there was any fight.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Normally UK vehicle clocks are analog only and do not update automatically like digital cell phone times do. Eg my car clock is still set on GMT so is an hour behind the current time of BST. I do not bother manually changing it. A time diff of 30 seconds is nothing IME LOL.

I've left mine without changing it for an entire season sometimes.

Brennan makes far better arguments than Alessi. It was the same in pretrial hearings. He did far better.

 

[Tresir]

In my experience, you let a dog out when it wants out. Might be ten times a day. That's how my mom hash always done it, I did it when I had one, and all I know do it. Of course IF you can't, that's a bit different, like if you work, or live in an apt. with a dog, keep the dog kenneled etc. Well it can't work both ways here for even the defense story. It clearly was not kenneled IF that is even dog bites. They have a yard. There was a party. You'd let it out if it wanted out imo. My sisters do the same.

I'm not even saying I think that's the case, I am just saying there are all sorts of possibilities as to that. But not a BLIP of evidence John ever entered the home or there was any fight.

I would have to make my dogs go out as they were lazy labs. They seldom asked to go out as we walked them regularly 3 times a day. As you say that's not always possible if you work but going 8 hours or longer thru the nightime has always been the norm with all my dogs over the last 30-40 years. KR saying there was a splinter of glass sticking out from his nose and she pulled it out and blood spurted out. Firstly one should never do that but it made me think if he was taking a sip from his glass when she hit him, causing the arm injuries, the bruising on the back of his hand and the glass in his nose.

Also, wouldn't the blood flow mean he was still alive then?

 

[GrandmaBear]

I would have to make my dogs go out as they were lazy labs. They seldom asked to go out as we walked them regularly 3 times a day. As you say that's not always possible if you work but going 8 hours or longer thru the nightime has always been the norm with all my dogs over the last 30-40 years. KR saying there was a splinter of glass sticking out from his nose and she pulled it out and blood spurted out. Firstly one should never do that but it made me think if he was taking a sip from his glass when she hit him, causing the arm injuries, the bruising on the back of his hand and the glass in his nose.

Also, wouldn't the blood flow mean he was still alive then?

Yeah but there was a party going on here. Sure most I know the night time routine the dog goes to bed and makes it through the night when the family goes to bed. However, say we are at my mom's and my sister and I are up late but mom went to bed, she will ask us to let the dog out before we retire for the night. It's just a thought. Dog even trying to save him, drag him.

Yes, her own words are likely to convict her. He was alive when he got to the hospital pretty sure.

 

[Regina]

Talking her drunken jealous rages?

And delusional! Both nights, she got it into her psychotic head that John was with another woman but he wasn't!
And in those texts to Higgins, I don't know whether she was still delusional about Aruba or lying to justify her betrayal to John!

 

[GrandmaBear]

Yep, she was clearly clingy and jealous, yet she often tries to portray to Higgins the opposite. She's a case all right. I'll always believe this was intentional but I don't necessarily believe they have enough to improve intention--they do have enough for manslaughter, etc. though.