MA - Professor Karen Read, 43, charged with murdering police officer boyfriend John O'Keefe by hitting him with car, Canton, 14 Apr 2023 #29 Retrial

[Forest_Wood]

T1.
AJ's exchange with JM takes only 2 mins 45 secs.
BC ends it with cutting off AJ but he got the goods he was looking for.
I didn't know that KM appeared before more than one Grand Jury.
imo

Good example of a double standard.
JMc professes, "It took me hours and in some cases days to remember all the things that Ms Read had said. My mind I was in a state of shock, but the minute I remembered she said, I hit him, I hit him, I hit him, I called Officer Lank."
But when Karen Read said she saw John go into the house after her initial statement to police, she is lying, according to some.

 

[HarmonyE.]

Someone else at the party?

He knows who Brian Albert Jr. is (the birthday boy, and he was already inside the home when Higgins got there as he testified last trial never went out that night)

He knows Matt McCabe

Tristan Morris didn't arrive until much later, supposedly to pick up his fiance Caitlin Albert long after Higgins had left do whatever he did at the Canton PD.

What other man was there and would have entered the house after he (Higgins arrived)?

I can only think of one. John O'Keefe.

 

[Forest_Wood]

So where is the proof that John was even hit by a car?

There is no proof! We are 4 weeks into this trial and they haven't even talked about the SUV hitting John. They've only talked around it.

 

[Forest_Wood]

He knows who Brian Albert Jr. is (the birthday boy, and he was already inside the home when Higgins got there as he testified last trial never went out that night)

He knows Matt McCabe

Tristan Morris didn't arrive until much later, supposedly to pick up his fiance Caitlin Albert long after Higgins had left do whatever he did at the Canton PD.

What other man was there and would have entered the house after he (Higgins arrived)?

I can only think of one. John O'Keefe.

Or even Colin Albert, the one Brian and Nicole never mentioned was there! It could have been John, although BH said the guy was talking to the girls. I'm thinking it was Colin, who BH wouldn't know I imagine.

 

[keek]

If only KR had called JM sooner, he may have recovered? No one in that household could be bothered to even go outside to their front lawn. Jen didn't try. None of them lifted a finger to help.

Hos long to die

 

[Spider92]

Plow drivers routinely scan the sides of the road to make sure there are no objects which their plows might inadvertently hit.

I’m sure Lucky means well. But it’s been established that he ran into a basketball net that same night while plowing two streets away from Fairview. That doesn’t give me a lot of comfort that he was scanning the sides of the road…..or at least that he was seeing what he needed to see.
In addition, Lally raised the point in T1 that Lucky gave a different timetable to the FBI than he did to MSP during interviews.
So, I’m reluctant to find his testimony as accurate.

 

[HarmonyE.]

Or even Colin Albert, the one Brian and Nicole never mentioned was there! It could have been John, although BH said the guy was talking to the girls. I'm thinking it was Colin, who BH wouldn't know I imagine.

Colin was also there already when Higgins arrived so it wouldn't be him. And as Higg's is good pals with the Albert brothers, surely he wouldn't call 17 year old Colin a tall, dark, unknown man?

Also, I recall from the first trial, he tried to explain it as "someone's brother". Presumably Ryan Nagel who was indeed a party goer's brother? But Ryan never got out of Ricky's car and certainly never entered the house.

 

[sunshineray]

So where is the proof that John was even hit by a car?

Some was testified to today, Ms Hanley the forensic scientist matched the bits of tail light plastic found on JO's clothes with KR's Lexus tail light plastic....so what right? That and the testimony from Mr. Burgess, VERY compelling, IMO

 

[sunshineray]

If only KR had called JM sooner, he may have recovered? No one in that household could be bothered to even go outside to their front lawn. Jen didn't try. None of them lifted a finger to help.

They didn't even know JO was there but KR did.

 

[tara83]

Some was testified to today, Ms Hanley the forensic scientist matched the bits of tail light plastic found on JO's clothes with KR's Lexus tail light plastic....so what right? That and the testimony from Mr. Burgess, VERY compelling, IMO

The academic fraud was very compelling? Sorry but a guy who lies about his background should never be believed. JMO

 

[Forest_Wood]

Not just bleeding, bleeding that flowed down his body, if you are flat your blood flows off you head to the ground not down to your shirt. Blood flowing down almost always means being vertical. Blood splatter on shoes would have a similar implications.

It wouldn't surprise me if BH was outside at the same time as JOK was walking towards the door and sucker punched him in the back of the head with a blunt object and John was so drunk, he couldn't defend himself. Karen wouldn't have even seen it happening. BH drags him to the side, leaves him there to come back later while he hatches his plan of what to do with him, and the dog Chloe became involved after the fact. Higgins would have known where KR's car was parked if he saw them pull up. I strongly believe BH had something to do with JOKs death and why not pin it on Karen since she ghosted him and made a fool out of. I could see him doing something like that, being the immature drunken lush that he was.
MOO

 

[arielilane]

5/21/2025 12:58:17
Here are the tiny pieces of plastic found in the debris -->

red debris pieces - David Bienick.png​

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5/21/2025 12:57:51
Here's the debris under a microscope -->

debris under microscope - David Bienick.png​

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5/21/2025 12:57:26
Here's the debris from O'Keefe's clothing -->

debris - David Bienick.png​

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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.

www.wcvb.com

 

[arielilane]

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.

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.

www.wcvb.com

5/21/2025

 

[arielilane]

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

 

[HarmonyE.]

Some was testified to today, Ms Hanley the forensic scientist matched the bits of tail light plastic found on JO's clothes with KR's Lexus tail light plastic....so what right?

JO's clothing has massive chain of custody and log problems. Proctor, of course, had access to the clothing for many weeks.

No bodily material found on the taillight either.

And Jackson did an awesome job with his graphic proving, once again, that the glass on the bumper didn't match any glass at the scene, and that dirty disgraced former Trooper Proctor is the one who "found" the magic bumper glass that somehow survived an over 60 mile trek in a blizzard.

 

[sunshineray]

He knows who Brian Albert Jr. is (the birthday boy, and he was already inside the home when Higgins got there as he testified last trial never went out that night)

He knows Matt McCabe

Tristan Morris didn't arrive until much later, supposedly to pick up his fiance Caitlin Albert long after Higgins had left do whatever he did at the Canton PD.

What other man was there and would have entered the house after he (Higgins arrived)?

I can only think of one. John O'Keefe.

Do you have a list of everyone that may have been invited that night, by all sorts of people? Did BH testify in the grand jury or the first trial it was JO? Only think of one? Depending on how popular the birthday boy was any number of people could have stopped in.

 

[HarmonyE.]

Do you have a list of everyone that may have been invited that night, by all sorts of people? Did BH testify in the grand jury or the first trial it was JO? Only think of one? Depending on how popular the birthday boy was any number of people could have stopped in.

Yes, we do. Last trial testimony covered it very thoroughly.

The only males in the house that night were:

B. Albert
B. Albert Jr.
B Higgins
Matt McCabe
Colin Albert
Tristan Morris who testified he arrived long after Higgins left.

Higgins was also only there for about an hour. He had stuff to do with rando cars at Canton PD and says he needed Jamesons whiskey and the Alberts didn't have any.

If you are claiming some other male was there, can you kindly provide a link?

 

[tara83]

JO's clothing has massive chain of custody and log problems. Proctor, of course, had access to the clothing for many weeks.

No bodily material found on the taillight either.

And Jackson did an awesome job with his graphic proving, once again, that the glass on the bumper didn't match any glass at the scene, and that dirty disgraced former Trooper Proctor is the one of "found" the magic bumper glass that someone survived an over 60 mile trek in a blizzard.

His shirt was actually laying in the hospital floor which is amazing to me.

 

[sunshineray]

The academic fraud was very compelling? Sorry but a guy who lies about his background should never be believed. JMO

There was no fraud, just laziness in attending to his online accounts, been there done that. It's not like he testified inaccurately. He found data that was overlooked and other data that was stating inaccuracies. He corrected both and the new picture was not a good one for KR and her lawyers, when JO's phone and the Lexus clock were synced. It proves JO was right there (not in the house) during KR's angry and drunken maneuvers with 4,500 lbs of vehicle. That's why this ridiculous and overblown quibbling about schooling started, because Mr. Burgess data analysis is spot on and can't be impeached.
AJMO

 

[HarmonyE.]

DBM