Following Read's arrest in February 2022, the document said a former university classmate rekindled a friendship with Read. It also reveals the friend made contact through social media with Jennifer Altman, a volunteer paralegal who had access to Kearney in the Norfolk County Jail until recently.
Altman's access recently landed Kearney's attorney, Timothy Bradl, in hot water and
prompted the special prosecutor to request that a judge take the "unprecedented" step of assigning a third party to audit Kearney's communications with his attorney.
Investigators have evidence appearing to show that murder suspect Karen Read had frequent contact with a controversial blogger known as "Turtleboy."
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According to the search warrant application, Atlman put Read's friend into contact with Kearney. Read also told the friend to download an encrypted messaging app called Signal to her phone.
The friend, who later had a falling out with Read, told investigators that she would copy messages sent by Read through Signal and relayed them to Kearney. Sometimes, the document states, she would take a screenshot of the message and pass that along.
"Messages would start with, 'Tell TB [Turtleboy],' 'From Karen," or "Not for public but you and Aidan can see,'" the document says.
Months of messages are described through several pages of the documents, including times Kearney asked whether he could use certain material and at least one instance where he requested more material.
Read's friend also identified a second intermediary and the search warrant application said the information is corroborated by messages the investigation has already reviewed.
According to the document, several text message exchanges already reviewed by the investigation suggest that Kearney and Read were communicating directly. Phone records also indicate 189 calls between their numbers, with a total duration of more than 40 hours.
Phone records also revealed dozens of calls between Kearney and phones associated with Read's attorneys, David Yannetti and Alan Jackson, the document states.