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We are back in court- the trial is continuing after the Judge spoke to each juror. There are still 18 jurors present. No one has been dismissed. The first witness is being called in the #KarenReadTrial
10:57 AM · May 21, 2025
This witness is being taken out of order to accommodate his busy schedule as a brain surgeon. This is Dr Aizik Wolf, a Miami neurosurgeon who says he has some surgeries tomorrow. He will testify about the possible causes of John O'Keefe's brain injury.
11:03 AM · May 21, 2025
When a photo of O'Keefe's head injury is displayed in the court, His mom Peggy leaves the courtroom. with another woman.
11:12 AM · May 21, 2025
The judge had previously warned the jury not to talk or mumble or make faces during the trial. It appears this may have been a continuing issue that required a change of seats today but not serious enough for dismissal.
11:18 AM · May 21, 2025
Wolf: This is a classic blunt trauma injury. "The only way he could get this kind of injury was to fall backwards"
11:20 AM · May 21, 2025
Bob Alessi wants a side bar as Hank Brennan asks whether any other sort of blow to the head could lead to this type of injury. Judge has tried to cut down on time consuming sidebars. She said we are having a short lunch today due to the delay this morning.
11:22 AM · May 21, 2025
Wolf says wound would include a depressed skull fracture (which O'Keefe did not have) if he were hit over the head with a weapon.
11:29 AM · May 21, 2025
Dr Wolf: impossible to know if he would be immediately unconscious. probably he became unconscious quickly - unable to do functional activities like calling for help and moving
11:30 AM · May 21, 2025
Dr Wolf testifies that with traumatic injuries - you don’t die immediately- it’s a process
11:34 AM · May 21, 2025
Another photo of John O'keefe's face is shown as Dr Wolf describes "raccoon eyes" his brother, sitting a few feet from me, kept his eyes on the ground the whole time. wolf: "raccoons eyes occur because of leakage through the orbital fractures."
11:36 AM · May 21, 2025
wolf: i don’t think he died immediately - neither the hypothermia or this type of head injury would kill you immediately in my clinical experience. Brennan completes direct examination of this witness
11:43 AM · May 21, 2025
10:57 AM · May 21, 2025
This witness is being taken out of order to accommodate his busy schedule as a brain surgeon. This is Dr Aizik Wolf, a Miami neurosurgeon who says he has some surgeries tomorrow. He will testify about the possible causes of John O'Keefe's brain injury.
11:03 AM · May 21, 2025
When a photo of O'Keefe's head injury is displayed in the court, His mom Peggy leaves the courtroom. with another woman.
11:12 AM · May 21, 2025
The judge had previously warned the jury not to talk or mumble or make faces during the trial. It appears this may have been a continuing issue that required a change of seats today but not serious enough for dismissal.
11:18 AM · May 21, 2025
Wolf: This is a classic blunt trauma injury. "The only way he could get this kind of injury was to fall backwards"
11:20 AM · May 21, 2025
Bob Alessi wants a side bar as Hank Brennan asks whether any other sort of blow to the head could lead to this type of injury. Judge has tried to cut down on time consuming sidebars. She said we are having a short lunch today due to the delay this morning.
11:22 AM · May 21, 2025
Wolf says wound would include a depressed skull fracture (which O'Keefe did not have) if he were hit over the head with a weapon.
11:29 AM · May 21, 2025
Dr Wolf: impossible to know if he would be immediately unconscious. probably he became unconscious quickly - unable to do functional activities like calling for help and moving
11:30 AM · May 21, 2025
Dr Wolf testifies that with traumatic injuries - you don’t die immediately- it’s a process
11:34 AM · May 21, 2025
Another photo of John O'keefe's face is shown as Dr Wolf describes "raccoon eyes" his brother, sitting a few feet from me, kept his eyes on the ground the whole time. wolf: "raccoons eyes occur because of leakage through the orbital fractures."
11:36 AM · May 21, 2025
wolf: i don’t think he died immediately - neither the hypothermia or this type of head injury would kill you immediately in my clinical experience. Brennan completes direct examination of this witness
11:43 AM · May 21, 2025
5/21/2025 12:58:17
Here are the tiny pieces of plastic found in the debris -->
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5/21/2025 12:57:51
Here's the debris under a microscope -->
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5/21/2025 12:57:26
Here's the debris from O'Keefe's clothing -->
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5/21/2025 12:56:56
Here's one of the rice-grain-sized pieces Hanley examined -->
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5/21/2025 12:52:06
Hanley says she examined debris found in O'Keefe's T-shirt and sweatshirt. She describes the debris as "one clear piece of plastic" (1/8 inch by 1/16 inch) and "several pieces of red plastic among other trace material." (ranging from the biggest 1/16 inch by less than 1/16 inch to the smallest less than 1/16 inch by less than 1/16 inch.) She says the largest piece was about the size of a grain of rice.
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Here are the tiny pieces of plastic found in the debris -->
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5/21/2025 12:57:51
Here's the debris under a microscope -->
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5/21/2025 12:57:26
Here's the debris from O'Keefe's clothing -->
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5/21/2025 12:56:56
Here's one of the rice-grain-sized pieces Hanley examined -->
rice size piece - David Bienick.png
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5/21/2025 12:52:06
Hanley says she examined debris found in O'Keefe's T-shirt and sweatshirt. She describes the debris as "one clear piece of plastic" (1/8 inch by 1/16 inch) and "several pieces of red plastic among other trace material." (ranging from the biggest 1/16 inch by less than 1/16 inch to the smallest less than 1/16 inch by less than 1/16 inch.) She says the largest piece was about the size of a grain of rice.
Brain surgeon: O'Keefe likely died of brain swelling, hypothermia, not immediately
Before witnesses began testimony, the judge asked to speak with each juror individually.
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Dr. Aizik Wolf, a neurosurgeon, testified extensively about O'Keefe's injuries, describing them as consistent with a fall backward, leading to a "coup contre coup" brain injury. He explained the mechanics of such injuries, emphasizing that O'Keefe likely did not die immediately but succumbed to a combination of brain swelling and hypothermia.
"It's impossible to know whether he immediately became unconscious but his injuries were very substantial. And it's more probably than not that he quickly became unconscious and was unable to do functional activities," Wolfe said.
Wolf noted that O'Keefe's core body temperature of 80 degrees Fahrenheit indicated severe hypothermia, which would have led to organ failure and death. His testimony suggested that immediate medical intervention could have prolonged O'Keefe's life.
Jurors appeared engaged, with some taking detailed notes during his explanations.
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"It's impossible to know whether he immediately became unconscious but his injuries were very substantial. And it's more probably than not that he quickly became unconscious and was unable to do functional activities," Wolfe said.
Wolf noted that O'Keefe's core body temperature of 80 degrees Fahrenheit indicated severe hypothermia, which would have led to organ failure and death. His testimony suggested that immediate medical intervention could have prolonged O'Keefe's life.
Jurors appeared engaged, with some taking detailed notes during his explanations.
Brain surgeon: O'Keefe likely died of brain swelling, hypothermia, not immediately
Before witnesses began testimony, the judge asked to speak with each juror individually.
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Begin Timestamp: 2:28:56
ADA Brennan: dr wolf I'm going to ask you to take a look at this photograph have you seen this photograph before
Dr. Wolf: yes
ADA Brennan: i want youto explain to us what you're seeing here and take us through the process of your
observations
Dr. Wolf: well what we're seeing is an approximate
inch and a half laceration with bridging tissue and contusions and
abrasions
to us that's just a classic blunt trauma injury uh there's
nothing other than just vanilla about it this is what happens when soft tissue
hits a solid ground the uh the skin tears apart a bit but not through and
through as you can see there's the bridging you can see all the bruising or
contusions and just the tear a little bit serrated along the
edges
ADA Brennan: thank you if you could take that down
dr wolf as a result of that wound
did you have a chance to further look at information provided to you about
the actual uh inside the skull of Mr John O'Keefe
Dr. Wolf: yes it was a the the pictures that I was reviewing showed a
non-depressed skull fracture extending linearly through the clivus and into the
frontal fossa of Mr o'keefe over the orbital roofs
he had fractures along the temporal fossa as well so it was a
classic linear basilar skull fracture
ADA Brennan: is basilar skull fracture a characterization
Dr. Wolf: basically the base of your skull is what it encompasses so the
opening at the very bottom is what we call the frame and magnum that connects
your brain stem to your spinal cord and then as your brain stem goes up it goes
into the different skull areas that you know talk about what we call the
cerebral cortexes your occipital lobe your temporal loes over here and then
your frontal loes
ADA Brennan: so can you walk us through what happens when someone incurs this type of injury
to the back of the head how it happens and what are the next steps for a person
Dr. Wolf: so what happens is you know you fall
backwards and the the linear acceleration starts to take you back
down with gravity
the skull hits the ground it gets you know in layman's terms smashed a little bit
and then the brain moves forward as a response to that and it moves forward because you have cerebral spinal fluid
and because you have the deceleration acceleration again as it does your skull if you were
to look inside your skull it's like mini mountains along your temporal bones and your frontal bones
So the the brain is being thrust forward at a fairly good speed and it's getting bruised you can think of it as if you took a hammer to your thumb
it's really turning black and blue those are the contusions and so the temporal poles and
the frontal poles are getting contusions because of that at the same time you
have a space called the subarachnoid space and I'm sure they're going to hear about the subarachnoid hemorrhage
and that space is the little it's very clear thin membrane that covers all of
your brain and all of your spinal cord and normally you really don't see
it unless you open up the brain and you're operating but when you either have a traumatic
event like this where little vessels are pulling apart un underneath that membrane or for example the classic you
know when you have an aneurysm burst the space that the aneurysm bleeds to is the
subaractid space the other thing that occurs in trauma like this is you can get a
subdural so the dura is the membrane that covers the whole brain and also
right down your spinal canal and it's a very thin membrane that looks like very thin
leather and in that space between the brain and the dura can be a lot of veins
that go towards a central vein called the sagittal sinus and if those tear you
have a venus hemorrhage from you know which is not arterial so it's not quick
but that can develop into a subdural as well if you tear a portion of your brain
as well and you get a little arterial bleed that could create a much faster subdural hematoma and so when you look
at the pathology the autopsy of his brain you're looking at a subaractid
hemorrhage you're looking at a subdural hemorrhage neither one of them which was huge or would have required
surgery as well as the contusions that I described in his frontal poles in his
frontal in his temporal poles and then the original bang which was in the
occipital area these are all findings that you would see on a CT scan and an
MRI scan without requiring an autopsy if he had made it to the emergency room
End Timestamp 2:35:15
ADA Brennan: dr wolf I'm going to ask you to take a look at this photograph have you seen this photograph before
Dr. Wolf: yes
ADA Brennan: i want youto explain to us what you're seeing here and take us through the process of your
observations
Dr. Wolf: well what we're seeing is an approximate
inch and a half laceration with bridging tissue and contusions and
abrasions
to us that's just a classic blunt trauma injury uh there's
nothing other than just vanilla about it this is what happens when soft tissue
hits a solid ground the uh the skin tears apart a bit but not through and
through as you can see there's the bridging you can see all the bruising or
contusions and just the tear a little bit serrated along the
edges
ADA Brennan: thank you if you could take that down
dr wolf as a result of that wound
did you have a chance to further look at information provided to you about
the actual uh inside the skull of Mr John O'Keefe
Dr. Wolf: yes it was a the the pictures that I was reviewing showed a
non-depressed skull fracture extending linearly through the clivus and into the
frontal fossa of Mr o'keefe over the orbital roofs
he had fractures along the temporal fossa as well so it was a
classic linear basilar skull fracture
ADA Brennan: is basilar skull fracture a characterization
Dr. Wolf: basically the base of your skull is what it encompasses so the
opening at the very bottom is what we call the frame and magnum that connects
your brain stem to your spinal cord and then as your brain stem goes up it goes
into the different skull areas that you know talk about what we call the
cerebral cortexes your occipital lobe your temporal loes over here and then
your frontal loes
ADA Brennan: so can you walk us through what happens when someone incurs this type of injury
to the back of the head how it happens and what are the next steps for a person
Dr. Wolf: so what happens is you know you fall
backwards and the the linear acceleration starts to take you back
down with gravity
the skull hits the ground it gets you know in layman's terms smashed a little bit
and then the brain moves forward as a response to that and it moves forward because you have cerebral spinal fluid
and because you have the deceleration acceleration again as it does your skull if you were
to look inside your skull it's like mini mountains along your temporal bones and your frontal bones
So the the brain is being thrust forward at a fairly good speed and it's getting bruised you can think of it as if you took a hammer to your thumb
it's really turning black and blue those are the contusions and so the temporal poles and
the frontal poles are getting contusions because of that at the same time you
have a space called the subarachnoid space and I'm sure they're going to hear about the subarachnoid hemorrhage
and that space is the little it's very clear thin membrane that covers all of
your brain and all of your spinal cord and normally you really don't see
it unless you open up the brain and you're operating but when you either have a traumatic
event like this where little vessels are pulling apart un underneath that membrane or for example the classic you
know when you have an aneurysm burst the space that the aneurysm bleeds to is the
subaractid space the other thing that occurs in trauma like this is you can get a
subdural so the dura is the membrane that covers the whole brain and also
right down your spinal canal and it's a very thin membrane that looks like very thin
leather and in that space between the brain and the dura can be a lot of veins
that go towards a central vein called the sagittal sinus and if those tear you
have a venus hemorrhage from you know which is not arterial so it's not quick
but that can develop into a subdural as well if you tear a portion of your brain
as well and you get a little arterial bleed that could create a much faster subdural hematoma and so when you look
at the pathology the autopsy of his brain you're looking at a subaractid
hemorrhage you're looking at a subdural hemorrhage neither one of them which was huge or would have required
surgery as well as the contusions that I described in his frontal poles in his
frontal in his temporal poles and then the original bang which was in the
occipital area these are all findings that you would see on a CT scan and an
MRI scan without requiring an autopsy if he had made it to the emergency room
End Timestamp 2:35:15
Begin Timestamp 3:02:20
Alessi: so none of your typical days none of the past typical months
um have involved forensic pathology have they you haven't acted as a forensic pathologist in
Dr. Wolf: I am I am if you're you could have asked that question very straightforward i am not a forensic
pathologist i'm a brain surgeon
Alessi: right and you don't perform autopsies correct sir you're a brain surgeon
Dr. Wolf:correct in other words I see more brains than the forensic pathologist
Alessi: right and and is it correct to say that the brains that you see are of living people
Dr. Wolf: correct
Alessi: okay
End Timestamp 3:03:04
Alessi: so none of your typical days none of the past typical months
um have involved forensic pathology have they you haven't acted as a forensic pathologist in
Dr. Wolf: I am I am if you're you could have asked that question very straightforward i am not a forensic
pathologist i'm a brain surgeon
Alessi: right and you don't perform autopsies correct sir you're a brain surgeon
Dr. Wolf:correct in other words I see more brains than the forensic pathologist
Alessi: right and and is it correct to say that the brains that you see are of living people
Dr. Wolf: correct
Alessi: okay
End Timestamp 3:03:04
Timestamp 6:09
what I thought could have happened was
that did I incapacitate him unwittingly
somehow and then in his drunkenness
passed out — Karen Read
what I thought could have happened was
that did I incapacitate him unwittingly
somehow and then in his drunkenness
passed out — Karen Read
Timestamp 2:44:50
Dr. Wolf: had uh both the ME and the pictures taken and the neuropathologist mentioned
fractures of the orbital roof
ADA Brennan: do you have an opinion to a reasonable degree of medical certainty how those fractures
occurred
Dr. Wolf: from the trauma
ADA Brennan: could you just explain a little bit how that would happen
Dr. Wolf: well he as he fell backwards and he struck his head it was clearly at a very high speed generated
by the gravity the bone depending on the quality of his bone the density then generated forces
there's a certain amount of lateral give and then you get a linear force going
forward it drives all the way up the clivus and forward into the anterior fossa
where his orbital roofs lay um and this is why people like this get what they call raccoon's eyes
ADA Brennan: do you have an opinion whether the brain itself could have caused the orbital fractures
Dr. Wolf: no the brain is a soft substance uh you could literally put your finger through the brain uh we often operate on people fully awake uh the brain couldn't possibly cause a fracture the fracture was caused by the forces generated through that clivus that middle bone in the middle of his base of the skull
ADA Brennan: do you have an opinion to a reasonable degree of medical certainty whether or not the brain in any way could have caused these orbital fractures
Dr. Wolf: the answer is absolutely not
ADA Brennan: in your study of the records and photographs and in your experience treating these
types of injuries um do you have an opinion to a reasonable degree of medical certainty whether or not a person would remain conscious or would be immediately unconscious after the impact of the ground
Dr. Wolf: well it's impossible to know whether he became immediately unconscious but his injuries were very
substantial and it's more probable than not that at some point he quickly became
unconscious and was unable to do functional activities
ADA Brennan: what does functional activities mean
Dr. Wolf: the ability to you know get himself up and about would be one of the functional activities the ability to call for help would be a very significant cortical function and that's why I was talking about you know that there's a variation on the theme from a simple concussion to a severe concussion like this
ADA Brennan: if a person um does not have functional abilities because they are rendered unconscious does their body could it still move
Dr. Wolf: yes this is the interesting thing about our brain so the cortex which is the top portion of your brain
can get separated from your brain stem functionally and what happens then is that your your body is not acting autonomically meaning vegetative so why does that happen we think it's because as we were a caveman and if a caveman became unconscious as an animal came up to eat it the animal would touch it well you have these automatic movements one of them is called decorticating which is where you draw your arms like this and you throw your feet out and then a worse neurological situation is when you decelerate now you push your arms out along with your legs
and that would scare off an animal so we think that over time genetically this is what happened to our brains in order to create these but those kind of movements are not thought processes in other words your brain is not telling you "Oh you have pain go ahead and decorticate or decelerate." It's an automatic movement in response to pain
ADA Brennan: i want you to take us back now to after the fall um would Mr o'keefe in your study and opinion have died immediately
Dr. Wolf: no
Dr. Wolf: had uh both the ME and the pictures taken and the neuropathologist mentioned
fractures of the orbital roof
ADA Brennan: do you have an opinion to a reasonable degree of medical certainty how those fractures
occurred
Dr. Wolf: from the trauma
ADA Brennan: could you just explain a little bit how that would happen
Dr. Wolf: well he as he fell backwards and he struck his head it was clearly at a very high speed generated
by the gravity the bone depending on the quality of his bone the density then generated forces
there's a certain amount of lateral give and then you get a linear force going
forward it drives all the way up the clivus and forward into the anterior fossa
where his orbital roofs lay um and this is why people like this get what they call raccoon's eyes
ADA Brennan: do you have an opinion whether the brain itself could have caused the orbital fractures
Dr. Wolf: no the brain is a soft substance uh you could literally put your finger through the brain uh we often operate on people fully awake uh the brain couldn't possibly cause a fracture the fracture was caused by the forces generated through that clivus that middle bone in the middle of his base of the skull
ADA Brennan: do you have an opinion to a reasonable degree of medical certainty whether or not the brain in any way could have caused these orbital fractures
Dr. Wolf: the answer is absolutely not
ADA Brennan: in your study of the records and photographs and in your experience treating these
types of injuries um do you have an opinion to a reasonable degree of medical certainty whether or not a person would remain conscious or would be immediately unconscious after the impact of the ground
Dr. Wolf: well it's impossible to know whether he became immediately unconscious but his injuries were very
substantial and it's more probable than not that at some point he quickly became
unconscious and was unable to do functional activities
ADA Brennan: what does functional activities mean
Dr. Wolf: the ability to you know get himself up and about would be one of the functional activities the ability to call for help would be a very significant cortical function and that's why I was talking about you know that there's a variation on the theme from a simple concussion to a severe concussion like this
ADA Brennan: if a person um does not have functional abilities because they are rendered unconscious does their body could it still move
Dr. Wolf: yes this is the interesting thing about our brain so the cortex which is the top portion of your brain
can get separated from your brain stem functionally and what happens then is that your your body is not acting autonomically meaning vegetative so why does that happen we think it's because as we were a caveman and if a caveman became unconscious as an animal came up to eat it the animal would touch it well you have these automatic movements one of them is called decorticating which is where you draw your arms like this and you throw your feet out and then a worse neurological situation is when you decelerate now you push your arms out along with your legs
and that would scare off an animal so we think that over time genetically this is what happened to our brains in order to create these but those kind of movements are not thought processes in other words your brain is not telling you "Oh you have pain go ahead and decorticate or decelerate." It's an automatic movement in response to pain
ADA Brennan: i want you to take us back now to after the fall um would Mr o'keefe in your study and opinion have died immediately
Dr. Wolf: no
June 20, 2024
Timestamp 36:12
ADA Lally: what do you recognize that to be
Trooper Guarino: it's the uh John O'Keefe voicemails uh from Karen Read
on his phone from that period that we were just speaking about on January 29th
Trooper: yes that's correct
ADA Lally: can I approach your Honor
Judge Cannone: yes
ADA Lally: I'm introduce and minute the next exhibit
Defense: we have no objection
ADA Lally: now sir from your review of the defendant's phone before we get to those uh from your review of the
defendant's phone um what if anything were you able to uh observe or ascertain
that the defendant's phone did at approximately 12:36 a.m.
Trooper: so uh by looking at uh the timeline in the phone we're able to see that Miss Read's phone auto connected to John O Keefe's Wi-Fi at his house at 12:36 a.m.
um you know this because it's a password protected um access to the phone so you
would have to know the password to get into this uh Wi-Fi network
ADA Lally: and that would be the home in one Meadows Avenue correct
Trooper: yes that's correct
ADA Lally: and you honor with the Court's permission if we could
publish each of the eight voicemails to the jury
Judge Cannone: okay are we going to hear which time each one is
ADA Lally: yes and Trooper Guarino again similar to the other messages just uh for point of reference
the earliest of the voice mails is the last in the list and the most recent is at the top of the list is that correct
Trooper: yes
ADA Lally: now as far as this first voicemail uh what time did this occur
Trooper: uh 12:37 a.m.
ADA Lally and with the courts permission if I could play that
Judge: yes
Karen Read's Voice Message to John O'Keefe: “John! I (expletive) hate you!”
ADA Lally: Miss Gilman if we could have the second message
sorry if you can pause right there
please my apologies I just wanted the siren to go by oh that's fine and before
Miss Gilman presses play again uh Trooper Guarino what time is uh the second message
Trooper Guarino: 12:42
ADA Lally: Miss Gilman if you could
Voice message: No words are spoken, foot steps, inaudible, banging-like sounds are heard.
ADA Lally: now Trooper with reference to the third message what time is that received
Trooper Guarino: 12:59
ADA Lally: and again say received by Mr O'Keefe's phone is that correct
Trooper: that's the time stamp of of the voicemail in his phone yes
ADA Lally: and Miss Gilman if you could with reference to that third message
Karen Read: “John, I’m here with the (expletive) kids. Nobody knows where the (expletive) you are.
You (expletive) pervert.”
ADA Lally: now the fourth message Trooper Guarino what time was that received by uh Mr O'Keefe's phone
Trooper: 102 am
ADA Lally: Miss Gilman if you could when you're ready
Trooper Guarino: that was it
Judge Cannone: so can we just turn the conditioner off for just a second please so you just played it
Trooper Guarino: yeah um your honor there was no content it was just a like a one second long uh message
ADA Lally: and Trooper Guarino with regard to the fifth message what time was that received by Mr O'Keefe's phone
Trooper Guarino: uh 1 11 a.m. Excuse
ADA Lally: Miss Gilman if you could
Karen Read: “It’s 1 in the morning. I’m with your (expletive) niece and your nephew. You (expletive) pervert. You’re a (expletive) pervert!”
ADA Lally: six message sir what time was that received by Mr O'Keefe's phone
Trooper: 1:18 a.m.
Karen Read: “John, I’m going home. I cannot believe (inaudible). I need to go home. You are (expletive) using me right now. Your (expletive) another girl. (Name redacted) is sleeping next to me. You’re a (expletive) loser. (Expletive) yourself!”
ADA Lally: the uh seventh message sir what time was that received by Mr O'Keefe's phone
Trooper: 523 am
Karen Read: John, was that you!
ADA Lally: if you could the last and eighth message sir what time was I received by Mr O'Keefe's phone
Trooper 6:08 a.m.
Karen Read The sound of windshield wipers and a 911 call can be heard in the background. A screaming Read is also heard.
ADA Lally: could if you could pause there for one second I'm sorry with respect to this
message received on Mr O'Keefe's phone at 6:08 a.m. uh from your knowledge of the
investigation where was the defendant uh who if anyone was was with her around her at the time of this message at 6:08 a.m.
Trooper Guarino: Jen McCabe Kerri Roberts um during the message you can hear someone on the phone with 911
ADA Lally: thank you sir Miss Gilman if you could years
Audio continues to play until timestamp 46:16
Timestamp 36:12
ADA Lally: what do you recognize that to be
Trooper Guarino: it's the uh John O'Keefe voicemails uh from Karen Read
on his phone from that period that we were just speaking about on January 29th
Trooper: yes that's correct
ADA Lally: can I approach your Honor
Judge Cannone: yes
ADA Lally: I'm introduce and minute the next exhibit
Defense: we have no objection
ADA Lally: now sir from your review of the defendant's phone before we get to those uh from your review of the
defendant's phone um what if anything were you able to uh observe or ascertain
that the defendant's phone did at approximately 12:36 a.m.
Trooper: so uh by looking at uh the timeline in the phone we're able to see that Miss Read's phone auto connected to John O Keefe's Wi-Fi at his house at 12:36 a.m.
um you know this because it's a password protected um access to the phone so you
would have to know the password to get into this uh Wi-Fi network
ADA Lally: and that would be the home in one Meadows Avenue correct
Trooper: yes that's correct
ADA Lally: and you honor with the Court's permission if we could
publish each of the eight voicemails to the jury
Judge Cannone: okay are we going to hear which time each one is
ADA Lally: yes and Trooper Guarino again similar to the other messages just uh for point of reference
the earliest of the voice mails is the last in the list and the most recent is at the top of the list is that correct
Trooper: yes
ADA Lally: now as far as this first voicemail uh what time did this occur
Trooper: uh 12:37 a.m.
ADA Lally and with the courts permission if I could play that
Judge: yes
Karen Read's Voice Message to John O'Keefe: “John! I (expletive) hate you!”
ADA Lally: Miss Gilman if we could have the second message
sorry if you can pause right there
please my apologies I just wanted the siren to go by oh that's fine and before
Miss Gilman presses play again uh Trooper Guarino what time is uh the second message
Trooper Guarino: 12:42
ADA Lally: Miss Gilman if you could
Voice message: No words are spoken, foot steps, inaudible, banging-like sounds are heard.
ADA Lally: now Trooper with reference to the third message what time is that received
Trooper Guarino: 12:59
ADA Lally: and again say received by Mr O'Keefe's phone is that correct
Trooper: that's the time stamp of of the voicemail in his phone yes
ADA Lally: and Miss Gilman if you could with reference to that third message
Karen Read: “John, I’m here with the (expletive) kids. Nobody knows where the (expletive) you are.
You (expletive) pervert.”
ADA Lally: now the fourth message Trooper Guarino what time was that received by uh Mr O'Keefe's phone
Trooper: 102 am
ADA Lally: Miss Gilman if you could when you're ready
Trooper Guarino: that was it
Judge Cannone: so can we just turn the conditioner off for just a second please so you just played it
Trooper Guarino: yeah um your honor there was no content it was just a like a one second long uh message
ADA Lally: and Trooper Guarino with regard to the fifth message what time was that received by Mr O'Keefe's phone
Trooper Guarino: uh 1 11 a.m. Excuse
ADA Lally: Miss Gilman if you could
Karen Read: “It’s 1 in the morning. I’m with your (expletive) niece and your nephew. You (expletive) pervert. You’re a (expletive) pervert!”
ADA Lally: six message sir what time was that received by Mr O'Keefe's phone
Trooper: 1:18 a.m.
Karen Read: “John, I’m going home. I cannot believe (inaudible). I need to go home. You are (expletive) using me right now. Your (expletive) another girl. (Name redacted) is sleeping next to me. You’re a (expletive) loser. (Expletive) yourself!”
ADA Lally: the uh seventh message sir what time was that received by Mr O'Keefe's phone
Trooper: 523 am
Karen Read: John, was that you!
ADA Lally: if you could the last and eighth message sir what time was I received by Mr O'Keefe's phone
Trooper 6:08 a.m.
Karen Read The sound of windshield wipers and a 911 call can be heard in the background. A screaming Read is also heard.
ADA Lally: could if you could pause there for one second I'm sorry with respect to this
message received on Mr O'Keefe's phone at 6:08 a.m. uh from your knowledge of the
investigation where was the defendant uh who if anyone was was with her around her at the time of this message at 6:08 a.m.
Trooper Guarino: Jen McCabe Kerri Roberts um during the message you can hear someone on the phone with 911
ADA Lally: thank you sir Miss Gilman if you could years
Audio continues to play until timestamp 46:16
Karen Read sold her home to help fund defense
Read sold her Mansfield home for $810,000. The four-bedroom, three-bathroom home was listed for $849,000 in July. The sale closed on November 13, 2024.
Fundraisers. A home sale. Retirement funds. How Karen Read paying her hefty defense bill
Before her second trial even began, accused murderer Karen Read owned her attorneys more than $5 million in deferred fees.
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5/25/2025
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HANLEY testifies she found tiny red pieces of apparent plastic in debris from the fabric of O'Keefe's clothing. This is a view of those pieces under her microscope.
He cited media interviews and a five-part docuseries called “A body in the Snow: The Trial of Karen Read" in which Read says, “And then when I hired David Yannetti, I asked him those questions the night of Jan, 29th. ‘Like David what if, I don't know, what if I ran his foot over, or, or, what if I clipped him in the knee and he passed out and or went to care for himself and he threw up or passed out and David said, ‘Yeah then you have some element of culpability.’ So that's how I thought about things for about three days.”
Prosecutors hope to use Turtleboy's phones to show Karen Read's 'consciousness of guilt'
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Nvw-E3_iSZc
Prosecutors hope to use Turtleboy's phones to show Karen Read's 'consciousness of guilt'
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Nvw-E3_iSZc
Arraignment
Timestamp 17:17
DY: Ive read the affidavit.
Manslaughter is a tremendous reach in this case I dont see any criminal intent that would justify manslaughter in that affidavit - there is a reason for that - because there was no criminal intent.
He cited media interviews and a five-part docuseries called “A body in the Snow: The Trial of Karen Read" in which Read says, “And then when I hired David Yannetti, I asked him those questions the night of Jan, 29th. ‘Like David what if, I don't know, what if I ran his foot over, or, or, what if I clipped him in the knee and he passed out and or went to care for himself and he threw up or passed out and David said, ‘Yeah then you have some element of culpability.’ So that's how I thought about things for about three days.”
Prosecutors hope to use Turtleboy's phones to show Karen Read's 'consciousness of guilt'
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Nvw-E3_iSZc
Timestamp 17:17
DY: Ive read the affidavit.
Manslaughter is a tremendous reach in this case I dont see any criminal intent that would justify manslaughter in that affidavit - there is a reason for that - because there was no criminal intent.
He cited media interviews and a five-part docuseries called “A body in the Snow: The Trial of Karen Read" in which Read says, “And then when I hired David Yannetti, I asked him those questions the night of Jan, 29th. ‘Like David what if, I don't know, what if I ran his foot over, or, or, what if I clipped him in the knee and he passed out and or went to care for himself and he threw up or passed out and David said, ‘Yeah then you have some element of culpability.’ So that's how I thought about things for about three days.”
Prosecutors hope to use Turtleboy's phones to show Karen Read's 'consciousness of guilt'
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Nvw-E3_iSZc
The quote from David Yannetti re. criminal intent is at 17.17 in this video (bond hearing Feb 2, 2022)
Good morning from Norfolk Superior Court and day 21 of testimony in the #KarenReadTrial - we are getting a slow start as defense attorney Robert Alessi asked for a side bar. It went on for quite a while then a long recess.
The prosecution is expected to question Judson Welcher, a private sector expert in accident reconstruction. No sign of Trooper Paul this time around. The prosecution may rest after this witness but we can’t be certain due to a gag order.
Judge Cannone re-enters and we have another side bar. Jurors are cooling their heels this morning.
Alessi is now questioning Welcher in a voir dire. Welcher admits he has changed his power point presentation - but just “changed a couple of words.”
Welcher says he landed in Boston Saturday night then had discussions with various people including Lt Tully. He says there were various conversations over the last two weeks. He says he did not discuss the power point, only arrangements for travel.
Welcher has also gone over his presentation with Hank Brennan. He wanted to make sure everything was clear. Brennan suggested changes to the power point. He says one slide was deleted because it would not be allowed in court testimony. Changes made 8-10 days ago.
After more back and forth, including questions about his colleague Shanon Burgess, The Judge allows Welcher to testify.
Dr Jud Welcher - the 37TH witness in the Karen Read re-trial. He says he taught for five years at Texas A&M and started a company on accident reconstruction with a partner. In 2011 he got a phd in biomedical engineering at USC.
10:49 AM · May 27, 2025
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The prosecution is expected to question Judson Welcher, a private sector expert in accident reconstruction. No sign of Trooper Paul this time around. The prosecution may rest after this witness but we can’t be certain due to a gag order.
Judge Cannone re-enters and we have another side bar. Jurors are cooling their heels this morning.
Alessi is now questioning Welcher in a voir dire. Welcher admits he has changed his power point presentation - but just “changed a couple of words.”
Welcher says he landed in Boston Saturday night then had discussions with various people including Lt Tully. He says there were various conversations over the last two weeks. He says he did not discuss the power point, only arrangements for travel.
Welcher has also gone over his presentation with Hank Brennan. He wanted to make sure everything was clear. Brennan suggested changes to the power point. He says one slide was deleted because it would not be allowed in court testimony. Changes made 8-10 days ago.
After more back and forth, including questions about his colleague Shanon Burgess, The Judge allows Welcher to testify.
Dr Jud Welcher - the 37TH witness in the Karen Read re-trial. He says he taught for five years at Texas A&M and started a company on accident reconstruction with a partner. In 2011 he got a phd in biomedical engineering at USC.
10:49 AM · May 27, 2025
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-- Acceleration at 74% full throttle
-- Zero brakes applied
-- At 23 mph
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After the break - Dr Welcher goes over the data for the three point turn on cedarcrest. Over defense objections, Judge allows him to adjust his timing of the triggering event 21-29 seconds to account for difference in the lexus clock and the i-phone clock.
12:42 PM · May 27, 2025
Welcher found Zero brake application. speed 23.61 mph. surmises that may have increased after the end of the data gathering window
12:55 PM · May 27, 2025
He testifies the Lexus went forward 34 feet, then backed up 53 feet. Welcher says Lexus data shows accelerator pedal was at 74% - about 3/4rd of the way to the floor.
12:55 PM · May 27, 2025
After lunch - Dr Welcher comes to some conclusions. He says the SUV was still accelerating backward at 74% throttle. No sign of brakes. speed 23 mph during data window. He says the backing event occurred 12:32:04 and 12:32:12, the same time when O'Keefe's phone was locked.
2:37 PM · May 27, 2025
-- Zero brakes applied
-- At 23 mph
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After the break - Dr Welcher goes over the data for the three point turn on cedarcrest. Over defense objections, Judge allows him to adjust his timing of the triggering event 21-29 seconds to account for difference in the lexus clock and the i-phone clock.
12:42 PM · May 27, 2025
Welcher found Zero brake application. speed 23.61 mph. surmises that may have increased after the end of the data gathering window
12:55 PM · May 27, 2025
He testifies the Lexus went forward 34 feet, then backed up 53 feet. Welcher says Lexus data shows accelerator pedal was at 74% - about 3/4rd of the way to the floor.
12:55 PM · May 27, 2025
After lunch - Dr Welcher comes to some conclusions. He says the SUV was still accelerating backward at 74% throttle. No sign of brakes. speed 23 mph during data window. He says the backing event occurred 12:32:04 and 12:32:12, the same time when O'Keefe's phone was locked.
2:37 PM · May 27, 2025
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In the #KarenReadTrial testimony from accident reconstruction expert Judson Welcher will continue. But first - at 10 am- Judge Beverly Cannone will announce her ruling on a defense request that she limit the scope of his testimony.
9:13 PM · May 27, 2025
That could include asking the jury to disregard some conclusions Welcher has already made. Robert Alessi says there’s precedent to disallow Welcher from concluding Karen Read’s car collided with okeefe in reverse at 12:32 am on 1/29/22.
But prosecutor Hank Brennan argued that’s not true. He says the defense ARCCA experts will surely conclude there was no pedestrian strike. He put it this way:
I saw Karen Read smiling when Brennan said he’s been “careful” to not say Read hit John, but the Lexus did.
In the #KarenReadTrial testimony from accident reconstruction expert Judson Welcher will continue. But first - at 10 am- Judge Beverly Cannone will announce her ruling on a defense request that she limit the scope of his testimony.
9:13 PM · May 27, 2025
That could include asking the jury to disregard some conclusions Welcher has already made. Robert Alessi says there’s precedent to disallow Welcher from concluding Karen Read’s car collided with okeefe in reverse at 12:32 am on 1/29/22.
But prosecutor Hank Brennan argued that’s not true. He says the defense ARCCA experts will surely conclude there was no pedestrian strike. He put it this way:
I saw Karen Read smiling when Brennan said he’s been “careful” to not say Read hit John, but the Lexus did.
Judson Welcher, an accident reconstructionist and biomechanical engineer from Aperture, started by explaining his dual expertise in analyzing vehicle crashes and their effects on the human body.
Expert highlights analysis, experiments involving Karen Read's SUV
A contested accident reconstruction expert testified Tuesday, explaining a series of experiments and measurements that he conducted involving her SUV.
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5/27/2025
Timestamp 0:32
Reporter: so did you go in reverse 24 miles an hour 53 ft
KR:the data is what the data is and it's
going to come out cleanly more cleanly
in in our case and chief
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Karen Read outside court Tuesday reacts to the testimony from the prosecution's expert witness in accident reconstruction.
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Reporter: so did you go in reverse 24 miles an hour 53 ft
KR:the data is what the data is and it's
going to come out cleanly more cleanly
in in our case and chief
@NBC10
Karen Read outside court Tuesday reacts to the testimony from the prosecution's expert witness in accident reconstruction.
https://bit.ly/4dAZ0wP
5/27/2025 14:30:08
Welcher says he was able to clarify the video of the driveway surveillance camera -->
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5/27/2025 14:37:02
Welcher says he created a 3D model of the driveway and overlaid it on the surveillance video to show where the two SUV's made contact -->
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5/27/2025 14:38:08
Welcher says the point of contact was "nowhere near" where Read's upper taillight is located on her SUV. He says Read's SUV was going less than 1 mph at the time of impact.
5/27/2025 14:40:12
Welcher goes back through his presentation. Says he wants to show something else. But can't seem to find the slide he's looking for.
5/27/2025 14:41:07
Welcher says the video shows no taillight fragments on the ground after Read's SUV pulls away.
5/27/2025 14:42:34
"That impact did not break or crack that taillight," Welcher says. "That's to a high degree of engineering certainty."
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Welcher says he was able to clarify the video of the driveway surveillance camera -->
welcher chevy traverse clarified - David Bienick.png
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5/27/2025 14:37:02
Welcher says he created a 3D model of the driveway and overlaid it on the surveillance video to show where the two SUV's made contact -->
welcher vehicles position at point of contact - David Bienick.png
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5/27/2025 14:38:08
Welcher says the point of contact was "nowhere near" where Read's upper taillight is located on her SUV. He says Read's SUV was going less than 1 mph at the time of impact.
5/27/2025 14:40:12
Welcher goes back through his presentation. Says he wants to show something else. But can't seem to find the slide he's looking for.
5/27/2025 14:41:07
Welcher says the video shows no taillight fragments on the ground after Read's SUV pulls away.
5/27/2025 14:42:34
"That impact did not break or crack that taillight," Welcher says. "That's to a high degree of engineering certainty."
Karen Read mocks experiments prosecution's witness used to examine her SUV
Testimony continues Wednesday in the Karen Read murder trial after a contested accident reconstruction expert explained a series of experiments and measurements that he conducted involving her SUV.
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