“Starting at 12:33 a.m. to 6:03 a.m., there were 53 phone calls from Ms. Read to a phone number associated with John O’Keefe,” he said.
In that time and after finding O’Keefe unresponsive in the snow shortly after 6 a.m., Read also made calls to her mother and father, Jennifer McCabe, Kerry Roberts, Michael and Katherine Camerano, and members of O’Keefe’s family, Tully noted.
He spoke about the information investigators can glean from phone records, explaining that cellphone carriers memorialize data about the specific antennas used during calls. According to Tully, those phone records can also tell investigators roughly how far away the device was from an antenna, even when someone was not actively using their phone. He walked jurors through maps showing the antennas Read’s phone pinged at various points throughout the morning of the 29th.
“These records are just depicting where the handset was, but as we all know, we all travel with our cellphone within arm’s reach,” Tully noted.
Karen Read called John O’Keefe 53 times the morning he died, State Police lt. testifies
Using those maps and surveillance footage from several locations in Canton, Assistant District Attorney Adam Lally sought to retrace Read’s steps from the morning O’Keefe died. Tully testified that a “large, black SUV” can be seen on surveillance footage going past the town library on Washington Street at about 5:15 a.m. and a nearby temple around 5:18 a.m.
Tully said Read arrived at McCabe’s home on Country Lane at about 5:35 a.m., though he believed that timing was inconsistent with the distance between the temple and the McCabes’ house.
“It would take you much quicker to get there,” Tully said. “It’s about a mile and a half from Temple Beth Abraham to Country Lane. You would continue north on Washington Street and just take a left into the Country Lane neighborhood.”
He confirmed Read would have had enough time to stop at 34 Fairview Road before continuing on to McCabe’s house.