Text messages: I learned from those text messages that KR does not know how to tell the truth, the Aruba trip for one.
Re: Aruba trip
LS (friend of John O’Keefe) sister MS testified on 5/22/2024 about the group trip to Aruba in Dec. 2021.
John is a close family friend of theirs. One evening, MS encountered John in the hotel lobby and noted he appeared intoxicated. She greeted him w/a hug and asked if he was okay. KR loudly shouted, who the f was that across the lobby directing her anger at MS. John told KR to calm down, that she is LM’s little sister. KR then yelled at MS to go f yourself, to which MS responded yeah, f you too.
LS testified that John later told her KR accused him of making out with MS during the lobby encounter. LS asked MS about this and MS denied it saying I absolutely was not kissing John. He was like family, and such an interaction never would’ve happened (I believe MS was on the trip with her boyfriend).
KR apologized to LS and offered to pay for some of her sister’s room.
UPDATE: A mistrial was declared in the trial of Karen Read, accused in the death of her police officer boyfriend John O'Keefe.
www.courttv.com
- Family friend Marietta Sullivan took the witness stand to describe Karen Read’s hostility toward her after the defendant thought she ‘made out’ with John O’Keefe when they were on a family vacation in Aruba in early January 2022.
- Read allegedly cussed her out after she saw Marietta and O’Keefe in the hotel lobby together – Marietta who considers O’Keefe a close friend, and a big brother type said after the two cussed at each other in their first encounter, she went to her sister and told her ‘Karen sucks.’
- Marietta Sullivan’s sister Laura Sullivan described John O’Keefe as one of her closest friends and testified he was a mainstay in her child’s life– after the baby’s father – O’Keefe’s best friend took his own life.
- Laura Sullivan invited O’Keefe to Aruba. She said O’Keefe was not himself, he seemed distant. At one point Karen said she wanted to make up for what she said to Marietta and wanted to pay for