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[arielilane]

5 main points from the prosecution: From cell phone data to Karen Reads' own words of 'I hit him'​

• Brennan started with a narrative from the perspective of fire responders who responded to a call of cardiac arrest just after 6 a.m. on Jan. 29, 2022. After checking O'Keefe for signs of life, Brennan said first responders Anthony Flematti and Timothy Nuttall reported hearing Read say "I hit him. I hit him. I hit him."
• Brennan said O'Keefe and Read knew each other from the past and rekindled a relationship during the COVID-19 pandemic. He said things were good until 2022, when the was "tension and arguments" between the two. "You will see the tension and unraveling of the relationship," Brennan said of texts jurors will see between O'Keefe and Read.
• Brennan said cell phone data shows exactly when and where John O'Keefe was moving the night of Jan. 28, 2022 into the early morning of Jan. 29, 2022. He said the information is critical in creating a timeline of the evening leading to O'Keefe's death. He said O'Keefe's phone then showed he took his final steps at 12:31 a.m. and that Read left the scene at that point.
• Brennan said evidence suggests Read hit O'Keefe with her SUV. He said police found one of O'Keefe's shoes and pieces of Read's broken taillight and a broken cocktail glass at the scene, and O'Keefe's DNA was later found on the back of Read's SUV.
• He said Read's own statements and admissions in the media along with the science and data will prove her guilt. He showed a clip of Read from an interview where she said she could have clipped O'Keefe.

Lies. Coverups. Romance on rocks. We'll catch you up on Karen Read trial opening arguments

Opening arguments in the retrial of Karen Read took place Tuesday, April 22, in Norfolk Superior Court.

www.statesman.com

 

[arielilane]

After Read was charged, Brennan said she began a "campaign" to prove her innocence and gave numerous interviews to the media, including one with "Dateline" that aired on Oct. 18, 2024, which was played in court.

“I mean, I didn’t think I hit him, but could I have clipped him? Could I have tapped him in the knee and incapacitated him? He didn’t look mortally wounded, as far as I could see, but could I have done something that knocked him out and in (his) drunkenness and in the cold didn’t come to again,” Read said in the "Dateline" interview.

“And this would have been the moment you dropped him off at the party?” she was asked.

“Yeah, yeah, it would have had to have been,” Read said.

Opening statements, first witness take stand in Karen Read retrial

After months of motions, appeals and hearings, opening statements in the Karen Read murder trial are underway.

www.wcvb.com

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1914758366167252992

 

[arielilane]

Officer John O’Keefe’s dear friend Kerry Roberts. Defendant Karen Read called Roberts in a panic at 5:00 am the morning of O’Keefe’s death. Read told Roberts, “Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, John is dead!”

https://twitter.com/x/status/1914762358750126420

 

[arielilane]

@JulieCourtTV


Witness Kerry Roberts says after Karen Read showed her that her taillight was broken, she kept asking Roberts, “Do you think I hit him (John O’Keefe)?”

https://twitter.com/x/status/1915037886312845325

 

[arielilane]

OFFICER O’KEEFE’S MOM
Margaret O’Keefe is the third witness called in the case against defendant Karen Read over the murder of her son Officer John O’Keefe

https://twitter.com/x/status/1915105449902297170

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1915412936610169131

 

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Jury in Karen Read trial visits Canton home, views defendant's SUV

Jurors in the Karen Read murder trial visited Canton on Friday to view the exterior of a home where John O'Keefe's body was found.

www.wcvb.com

 

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Karen Read Trial II: 2025 Videos — Canton Community Television

www.cantoncommunitytv.org

 

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Karen Read retrial: Forensic expert returns to witness stand in Karen Read murder trial

Testimony resumes Tuesday in the retrial of Karen Read as the court evaluates the potential testimony of two controversial defense experts.

www.wcvb.com

 

[arielilane]

KEY WITNESS! Digital Forensic Examiner Ian Whiffen of Cellebrite confirms “Hos long to die in cold” was searched by Jen McCabe at 6:23 and 6:24 a.m.!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1916861756363755985

 

[arielilane]

Brought on to reexamine the case with a fresh set of eyes, Brennan asserted in his opening remarks to jurors that the “facts, science and data” would lead them to a guilty verdict on all three counts.

Recounting the events on the night in question, Brennan, citing data from cell phones as well as the “black box” in Read’s Lexus SUV, alleged that a heavily intoxicated Read, after driving O’Keefe to a party at the home of fellow BPD officer Brian Albert and arguing in the car while parked out front, “put the Lexus in reverse, put her foot on the gas pedal and began to press — not 25 percent, not 50 percent, up to 75 percent acceleration.”

“There was a light dusting of snow,” Brennan recalled. “The Lexus tires spun backwards; she went backwards at least 70 feet. She clipped John O’Keefe, he fell backwards, hit his head, broke his skull, and there he lay on the corner of Fairview Road, on the ground, lying on top of his cell phone, alone.”



Opening statements presented on day 1 of Read’s retrial | Canton Citizen

 

[arielilane]

Hank Brennan criticizing ARCCA for deleting texts, using encrypted apps & getting a new phone carrier feels like stone throwing in a glass home. I get it’s a compelling argument about discovery and experts but the optics are…interesting

https://twitter.com/x/status/1917311318857482469

 

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Defense resumes cross-examination of key witness in Karen Read murder trial

Jen McCabe was at the Canton house party where John O'Keefe was eventually found dead.

www.wcvb.com

 

[arielilane]

Read paid them roughly $24,000 after the trial ended. Alan Jackson used the encrypted “Signal” app to communicate at times this year.

Special Prosecutor Hank Brennan hammered away at Dr. Daniel Wolfe’s credibility.

“It’s to help the jury understand my report and my analysis,” said Dr. Wolfe.

“Do you think it’s helpful not answering my question and diverting every time I ask you something?” Brennan responded. “Do you want to answer my question or do you want me to move on?”

Digital forensic examiner doubts O’Keefe entered house on Fairview Road - Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News

DEDHAM, MASS. (WHDH) - The U.S. Supreme Court declined Karen Read’s appeal to drop some of the charges against her on Monday.Read’s defense team tried<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://whdh.com/news/digital-forensic-examiner-doubts-okeefe-entered-house-on-fairview-road/">Read More</a>

whdh.com

4/28/2025

 

[arielilane]

According to Whiffin, O’Keefe’s iPhone location data is sometimes inaccurate, but when it is accurate, it shows his phone at the far end of the Canton property where he died. Whiffin also provided new evidence about internal temperature recordings from John O’Keefe’s iPhone, showing that the battery gradually got colder and colder until first responders arrived after 6 a.m.

Digital forensic examiner doubts O’Keefe entered house on Fairview Road - Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News

DEDHAM, MASS. (WHDH) - The U.S. Supreme Court declined Karen Read’s appeal to drop some of the charges against her on Monday.Read’s defense team tried<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://whdh.com/news/digital-forensic-examiner-doubts-okeefe-entered-house-on-fairview-road/">Read More</a>

whdh.com

4/28/2025

 

[arielilane]

She also spoke about the morning she was able to see her boyfriend in the snow.

“John looked like a buffalo on the prairie,” said Read. “It was just the lawn and a heap. It wasn’t a bush or hydrant or a dog, it was a weird shaped lump at that time, in those elements. And I was looking to see him on the side of the road. I was expecting I’d find him.” — Karen Read

Jennifer McCabe completes testimony in Karen Read retrial, forensic scientist takes the stand - Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News

5/2/2025

 

[arielilane]

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.’

 

[arielilane]

They haven't got to the accident reconstruction/Lexus data/medical evidence/taillight evidence yet.

But the evidence is stronger than Karen thought she had hit him just because he was missing. She knew where to expect to find him, and it was exactly where she'd left him, near the flagpole, on the side of the road, outside 34 Fairview. MOO

These are her words shown in court today:


Defendant’s Interview with ID Docuseries

April 13, 2024

Clip 16

Karen Read: "I was with Jen McCabe and Kerry Roberts in Kerry Roberts’s Ford Explorer, and I’m in the back, leaning over the front two seats, Kerry’s driving and Jen’s in the passenger seat, and uh, I, I’ve described this to everyone, so you’ve probably heard this before, but John looked like a buffalo on the prairie, it was just a lawn and a heap that wasn’t a bush or a hydrant or a dog, it was, it was a weird shaped lump at that time in those elements. And I was looking to find him on the side of the road, I was expecting I’d find him and the fear of what I was gonna see is the worst feeling I’ve ever experienced, the anticipation of what, what is a [waiting ?] was as extreme a feeling, was as extreme a feeling as the grief of realizing what happened to him."

Timestamp 6.25.15

Corroborated by Ian Whiffin, Cellebrite expert:

Q. Do you have an opinion on where John O’Keefe’s cell phone was from around 12.24.33 on the evening of January 29th 2022 through at least 6am and after that morning?

A. Yes, based on the totality of all of the information that we’ve described, my opinion is that the device never moved far away from the flagpole.

Timestamp 3.50.34

 

[arielilane]

Karen Read corroborates Kerry Roberts' testimony.

Kerry Roberts: And then I unlocked the car and I looked over and I didn’t see anything and I unlocked it so she could get out of the backseat I looked at Jen and I said ‘she’s crazy’ and then I turned around and watched and she ran over to a mound of snow.

HB: When she started running, before she got anywhere, did you see anything at that point?

KR: I did not.

HB: Were you looking?

KR: I was looking. She said ‘there he is’ so I’m looking around to see where he is.

HB: And you could see nothing?

KR: I did not.

HB: Did you see her run around or directly?

KR: She ran right over to the mound of snow.

HB: When you looked down could you see who it was at first?

KR: At first no. I had to dig him out.

HB: When is it that you realized that this was your friend John?

KR: When I cleared the snow off his face.

Karen Read: "John looked like a buffalo on the prairie, it was just a lawn and a heap that wasn’t a bush or a hydrant or a dog, it was, it was a weird shaped lump at that time in those elements."

6.25.15