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"That search occurred at 6:24 am." Jessica Hyde, Digital Forensic Examiner, testified to the "Hos long to die in the cold" Google search in the #KarenRead Murder Retrial.
"That search occurred at 6:24 am." Jessica Hyde, Digital Forensic Examiner, testified to the "Hos long to die in the cold" Google search in the #KarenRead Murder Retrial.
@DrLauraPettler
A DUI/substance abuse expert, DV Expert, and bio-mechanical engineer forensic pathologist would all help bring context to some of the evidence in #KarenReadTrial2. I agree with @NeamaRahmani on @CourtTV tonight there is no evidence of a conspiracy in this case.
8:55 PM · May 8, 2025
A DUI/substance abuse expert, DV Expert, and bio-mechanical engineer forensic pathologist would all help bring context to some of the evidence in #KarenReadTrial2. I agree with @NeamaRahmani on @CourtTV tonight there is no evidence of a conspiracy in this case.
8:55 PM · May 8, 2025
@DrLauraPettler
I have had lots of offenders over the years begin or end sentences with "as far as I could see," a phrase often inserted in attempt to exculpate and remove responsibility for what followed.
2:29 PM · May 4, 2025
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A must watch clip of Forensic Psychologist Dr G analyzing the clip of Karen Read saying “He didn’t look mortally wounded as far as I can see.” Link to full analysis below.
I have had lots of offenders over the years begin or end sentences with "as far as I could see," a phrase often inserted in attempt to exculpate and remove responsibility for what followed.
2:29 PM · May 4, 2025
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@RiekaMcCoy
A must watch clip of Forensic Psychologist Dr G analyzing the clip of Karen Read saying “He didn’t look mortally wounded as far as I can see.” Link to full analysis below.
Karen Read trial: Trooper testifies about evidence, grilled about fired colleague
The jury has been hearing more about the data on Jen McCabe's cellphone, which is crucial in determining the timeline of Google searches about hypothermia.
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5/9/2025
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WATCH: Did #KarenRead throw the "finger" as Sgt. Yuri Bukhenik read texts between her and Brian Higgins to the jury?
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WATCH: Did #KarenRead throw the "finger" as Sgt. Yuri Bukhenik read texts between her and Brian Higgins to the jury?
Is Karen Read Giving The Middle Finger In Court?
In court during Sgt. Yuri Bukhenik's cross-examination on Friday, Karen Read appeared to display her middle finger.
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Is Karen Read Giving The Middle Finger In Court?
In court during Sgt. Yuri Bukhenik's cross-examination on Friday, Karen Read appeared to display her middle finger. (5/9/25) MORE
KR: she said they joined friends for drinks, we were happy having fun, laughing, just very normal.
Karen and John were invited to the home of a fellow Boston cop.
Karen stated they pulled up to the house and she waited in her SUV while John went to check things out.
She watched him go to the door, put his head inside and then nothing.
She texted him
She called him and within minutes of him exiting her car, he’s not answering- So, she leaves……..
Drove home. Fell asleep.
Video 2+ minutes
Karen and John were invited to the home of a fellow Boston cop.
Karen stated they pulled up to the house and she waited in her SUV while John went to check things out.
She watched him go to the door, put his head inside and then nothing.
She texted him
She called him and within minutes of him exiting her car, he’s not answering- So, she leaves……..
Drove home. Fell asleep.
Video 2+ minutes
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.
KR posted the $50K cash bail after her arraignment.
Posted two years ago
bbm
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."
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3/21/2025
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.
KR posted the $50K cash bail after her arraignment.
Posted two years ago
bbm
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'
The prosecution is also seeking access to Karen Read's texts, emails and communication with her attorney in the days after John O'Keefe' death.
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3/21/2025
Karen Read retrial: Bukhenik questioned about Proctor, inverted video, evidence handling
Massachusetts State Police Sgt. Yuri Bukhenik is expected to return to the stand Monday in the Karen Read murder trial.
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5/12/2025
Opening Statements With Julie Grant
When they were upstairs, what were you doing? I was trying to calm the kids, both of them, but yeah,
well, mainly. How was reacting? He was very upset once we told him because he slept over a friend's house the night before and he just said, I'll never see him again.
Heart wrenching testimony from John O'Keefe's mom. An emotional day in the courtroom in Dedham.
So what does the jury think? We'll talk about it. Plus Carrie, Karen, and Jen, all three women were in the car when they found John O'Keefe dead in the snow.
So how Kerri Roberts testified is what's tipping the scales this morning.
Good Thursday morning to you, my friends, or should I say happy Friday eve. This is Opening statements and I'm your host, Julie Grant.
I'm so glad you're here we've got a great show planned with tremendous guests. So let's get it started as we always do. Have you grab that cup of coffee.
It's time for my opening statement. It's been said there's no love like a mother's love, and we felt that love from Peggy
O'Keefe.
Julie's Opening Statements: It's Good to Finally Hear From Peggy O'Keefe
Officer John O'Keefe's mom was the 3rd witness called by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the criminal case against John O'Keefe's girlfriend, defendant Karen Read, and before the trial began, we did a salute to John O'Keefe here on opening statements with 3 of his dearest friends, and this morning I think we need to salute Peggy O'Keefe.She is so strong, she's so resilient and so courageous.
After all the heartache and tragedy that she's been through, it is remarkable she's still able to keep moving forward.
She's a mother, she's a grandmother, and now she's back to being a mother again to those two precious orphan children that belonged to her daughter and her son-in-law and then to her son Johnny.
Wednesday was the first time the world got to hear her speak, and we could see it was hard for her to do that,
especially when it came to her children that she's lost. My friends, I gotta tell you, I was amazed at the grace,
the resilience, and the class that Peggy O'Keefe exhibited in that courtroom, especially after all the horror that she's endured. No parent should have to bury their child, let alone bury two of their children.
Peggy O'Keefe has sadly been there and she is still fighting. She's leading by example and she's leading with a mother's love. May God bless her and her family as they continue the good fight to get justice for
their beloved Johnny. That's my opening statement.
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NEW - The #KarenRead trial will NOT be in session today due to “unavoidable circumstances “.
8:40 AM · May 13, 2025
NEW - The #KarenRead trial will NOT be in session today due to “unavoidable circumstances “.
8:40 AM · May 13, 2025
@DrLauraPettler
Staging is a function of the victim-offender relationship. No relationship, no staging because the offender isn’t connected to the victim in the first place. In this case, #KarenRead’s behavior is consistent with Linguistic and Gestural Staging.
Staging is a function of the victim-offender relationship. No relationship, no staging because the offender isn’t connected to the victim in the first place. In this case, #KarenRead’s behavior is consistent with Linguistic and Gestural Staging.
Breaking: Judge Cannone is holding a zoom hearing with attorneys for Karen Read. Prosecutors are in the courtroom. Attorneys Yannetti and Jackson are appearing remotely. The judge wants this at side bar. I’m the only reporter in the courtroom.
11:07 AM · May 13, 2025
The judge just decided to close the courtroom and I was asked to leave- probably due to issues with the Read defense team hearing what was said at sidebar.
11:09 AM · May 13, 2025
Hearing has been going on for 10 minutes now. Jackson originally appeared off camera cause he’s dressed in a hoodie. Judge said she didn’t care and he turned his laptop camera on.
11:16 AM · May 13, 2025
Hearing is over. No comment from Brennan
11:19 AM · May 13, 2025
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11:07 AM · May 13, 2025
The judge just decided to close the courtroom and I was asked to leave- probably due to issues with the Read defense team hearing what was said at sidebar.
11:09 AM · May 13, 2025
Hearing has been going on for 10 minutes now. Jackson originally appeared off camera cause he’s dressed in a hoodie. Judge said she didn’t care and he turned his laptop camera on.
11:16 AM · May 13, 2025
Hearing is over. No comment from Brennan
11:19 AM · May 13, 2025
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‘Turtleboy’ blogger indicted on 2 charges linked to pizza shop incident
‘Turtleboy’ blogger indicted on 2 charges linked to pizza shop incident
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Julie Grant: Don't Forget About the Real Victim, John O'Keefe
Julie reminds us that the Karen Read case is about justice for John O'Keefe. And, true crime trends in this Opening Statements full episode.
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Julie Grant: Don't Forget About The Real Victim, John O'Keefe
Julie reminds us that the case against Karen Read is really about justice for police officer John O'Keefe, a hero who whose life was cut tragically short. Plus, news that's trending in true crime in this full episode of Opening Statements. (4/16/24) MORE
Karen Read's second trial begins
April 1, 2025 - Karen Read's second trial officially got underway with jury selection.April 2, 2025 - The jury for Karen Read's second trial reached seven members. Read's supporters also filed a lawsuit in federal court, arguing that a court mandated buffer zone violates their constitutional rights.
April 3, 2025 - Ten jurors have been seated after three days of jury selection.
April 3, 2025 - Karen Read has appealed her case to the highest court possible, the U.S. Supreme Court.
April 7, 2025 - Karen Read is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to delay her state trial while they decide if they will take up her appeal.
April 9, 2025 - Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. Supreme Court denied Karen Read's request to pause her trial. The Supreme Court will review whether to take the case on April 25. Fifteen jurors have been seated for the trial.
April 13, 2025 - A federal judge ruled against Read's supporters who wanted to be able to protest closer to the courthouse ahead of her second trial, saying the buffer zone does not violate their constitutional rights.
April 15, 2025 - A jury was seated for Karen Read's second trial, with opening statements scheduled to take place in a week.
April 16, 2025 - The final motion hearing before the start of the trial was held. Arguments were heard over topics that included federal ARCCA witnesses. Aidan "Turtleboy" Kearney also said through his attorney that he would plead the Fifth Amendment if called as a witness, and prosecutors agreed not to call him.
April 22, 2025 - Attorneys gave opening statements as the trial officially got underway. The first two witnesses were also called.
April 23, 2025 - John O'Keefe's mother, Peggy O'Keefe, took the stand. It was the first time she has spoken out publicly since her son's death.
April 24, 2025 - Text messages between Karen Read and John O'Keefe in the hours leading up to his death were read on the third day of trial.
April 25, 2025 - Jurors visited Brian Albert's former home at 34 Fairview Road in Canton. The court also heard from two witnesses: a paramedic who took Read to the hospital the day that O'Keefe was found dead, and a doctor who tested her blood alcohol level that morning.
April 28, 2025 - The United States Supreme Court announced that it will not hear Karen Read's appeal on grounds of double jeopardy.
April 28, 2025 - A half day of witness testimony focused on Jen McCabe's "how long to die in cold" Google search and John O'Keefe's movements the night of his death. Then defense crash reconstruction experts were questioned without the jury present.
April 29, 2025 - Key witness Jen McCabe began her testimony. Judge Beverly Cannone issued a stern warning for defense attorneys, but allowed upcoming testimony from defense crash reconstruction experts.
April 30, 2025 - Jen McCabe was back on the stand for hours of tense cross-examination during the seventh day of witness testimony.
May 2, 2025 - Witness Jen McCabe finishes testimony after heated exchange with Read's defense attorney.
May 5, 2025 - Canton firefighter-paramedic Katie McLaughlin testified that she heard Read repeatedly say "I hit him" after O'Keefe's body was found. Retired Canton Police Lt. Paul Gallagher testifies about responding to the scene, using a leaf blower to move snow.
May 6, 2025 - Several witnesses took the stand on the 10th day of testimony. Jurors heard several angry voicemails that Karen Read left for John O'Keefe in the early morning hours on January 29, 2022.
May 7, 2025 - Forensic expert Jessica Hyde, who analyzed Jennifer McCabe's Google search, and State Police trooper Connor Keefe testify.
May 8, 2025 - Massachusetts State Police Sgt. Yuri Bukhenik took the stand to testify about evidence collection and the role of his former colleague Michael Proctor.
May 9, 2025 - Sgt. Yuri Bukhenik read text messages between Brian Higgins and Karen Read.
May 12, 2025 - After three full days on the witness stand, Massachusetts State Police Sgt. Yuri Bukhenik concluded his testimony.
May 13, 2025 - Court was canceled for the day unexpectedly just before proceedings were scheduled to begin because Karen Read was sick.
A timeline of the Karen Read case and the story behind the high-profile Massachusetts murder trial
A look at the timeline of events in Karen Read's high-profile Massachusetts murder trial as she is charged with killing Boston police officer John O'Keefe.
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5.13.2025
Breaking News from WBZ-TV - CBS Boston
John O'Keefe's niece was the first witness to take the stand at Karen Read's trial Wednesday morning.
LOCAL NEWS
By
Kristina Rex
May 14, 2025 / 11:55 AM EDT / CBS Boston
John O'Keefe's niece was the first witness to take the stand at Karen Read's trial Wednesday morning.
The niece, who WBZ-TV will not identify by name, is now a high school junior. She was around 14 years old when John O'Keefe died. She has a younger brother who testified during the first trial but did not testify during the retrial.
O'Keefe's niece is his sister Kristen's daughter. Kristen died of a brain tumor in 2013, and her husband died shortly after of a heart attack. John O'Keefe then became the legal guardian for his niece and nephew, and moved in with them in Canton, Massachusetts.
No cameras, laptops, or phones were allowed in the courtroom during her testimony. WBZ's Kristina Rex was in the courtroom and took these handwritten notes.
Direct Examination: Questioned by ADA Laura McLaughlin
Niece testifies on her relationship with Karen Read
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5/14/2025
John O'Keefe's niece was the first witness to take the stand at Karen Read's trial Wednesday morning.
LOCAL NEWS
John O'Keefe's niece testifies about "tension," arguments between him and Karen Read before his death
By
Kristina Rex
May 14, 2025 / 11:55 AM EDT / CBS Boston
John O'Keefe's niece was the first witness to take the stand at Karen Read's trial Wednesday morning.
The niece, who WBZ-TV will not identify by name, is now a high school junior. She was around 14 years old when John O'Keefe died. She has a younger brother who testified during the first trial but did not testify during the retrial.
O'Keefe's niece is his sister Kristen's daughter. Kristen died of a brain tumor in 2013, and her husband died shortly after of a heart attack. John O'Keefe then became the legal guardian for his niece and nephew, and moved in with them in Canton, Massachusetts.
No cameras, laptops, or phones were allowed in the courtroom during her testimony. WBZ's Kristina Rex was in the courtroom and took these handwritten notes.
Direct Examination: Questioned by ADA Laura McLaughlin
Niece testifies on her relationship with Karen Read
- "It was…kind of dependent on the day"
- "Some days we were more on good standards and other days we weren't on good standards at all and she would like favor my brother."
- "She would not ignore me but it felt like a coldness."
- Brother and Read: "they were pretty close."
- Lighthearted in the beginning
- It changed by end of 2021/beginning of 2022
- "They were fighting a lot."
- "When I saw [the fights] it was normally at my house" or on the phone
- When they would fight → KR "was very like angry, upset" and louder than O'Keefe
John O'Keefe's niece testifies about "tension," arguments between him and Karen Read before his death
John O'Keefe's niece was the first witness to take the stand at Karen Read's trial Wednesday morning.
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5/14/2025
Niece testifies about Aruba vacation that took place over New Year's 2021-2022
Niece testifies that the relationship changed after the Aruba trip
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- Read & O'Keefe had an argument in niece and nephew's hotel room
- O'Keefe checked on them and told nephew to get off iPad; Read defended nephew then "started yelling about like how he had kissed someone else… and she had witnessed it. It was really loud…she was very upset."
Niece testifies that the relationship changed after the Aruba trip
- January 2022, O'Keefe and Read in the kitchen fighting while niece was in the room next door
- "Their relationship was good but it had like run its course," she says O'Keefe said to Read
- "I don't remember exactly what she said but she was upset by it"
- "He asked her to leave the house. She did not want to leave the house."
- O'Keefe saw niece in the other room and got angry that she witnessed the fight, asked Read "more aggressively" to leave then went upstairs to bedroom
- Read followed him upstairs, banged on the door
- In later days/weeks, "I could tell that there was tension," niece says
- "They were cold towards each other"
- A couple of times a week – tension & arguing
- "I heard the defendant on the phone and she was saying that me and my brother were really worried" – on one occasion when she was trying to get JOK to come home when he had left the house for a drive, niece says she wasn't actually worried.
John O'Keefe's niece testifies about "tension," arguments between him and Karen Read before his death
John O'Keefe's niece was the first witness to take the stand at Karen Read's trial Wednesday morning.
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Niece testified about the night of O'Keefe's death
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- She had a rule that she had to charge her phone in O'Keefe's room at bedtime
- After her friend left before midnight she was home alone and put her phone in O'Keefe's room and went to bed
- Read came into her room at 4:30 AM shaking her awake… "told me that my uncle never came home…She was very frantic"
- Read asked niece to use her phone to call O'Keefe – no answer
- Read asked for phone numbers she didn't have including Jen McCabe
- Niece remembers things Karen said on the phone but not necessarily to whom because there were several calls, like:
- What could have happened
- "Could I have done something?"
- "Could he have been hit by a plow?"
- Here, her memory had to be refreshed with prior testimony from trial 1
- "Maybe I like… hit him"
- Niece says she had never seen Read like this
- Read came back to house with Jen McCabe and Kerry Roberts
- Jen checked on niece and was "level headed"
- Karen did not interact with niece
- At this point, niece was very nervous she says
- KR came back later that morning after the hospital with her Dad and brother
- "She said to me and my grandfather that she felt like she was living in a nightmare."
John O'Keefe's niece testifies about "tension," arguments between him and Karen Read before his death
John O'Keefe's niece was the first witness to take the stand at Karen Read's trial Wednesday morning.
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