MA - Professor Karen Read, 43, charged with murdering police officer boyfriend John O'Keefe by hitting him with car, Canton, 14 Apr 2023 #4

[arielilane]

@JHall7news

Higgins met with Troopers Proctor an dhis partner Feb 3. Gave them screen shots of text messages he had exchanged with both Read and O'Keefe. He says he "wanted to be transparent."


10:14 AM · May 24, 2024

 

[turaj]

You find Jennifer McCabe to be credible after watching her testify?

I just want to get that on the record.

no matter what your view is on what happened I don't know how anyone can say that Jen is credible.

 

[arielilane]

@TedDanielnews

ADA Lally shows BH 56 pages of text messages he exchanged with KR. Higgins says he did not delete any of his texts with KR


10:20 AM · May 24, 2024

 

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1794010233192554638

https://twitter.com/x/status/1794010449492463659

 

[housewife]

Just an observation: In contrast to Brian Albert who seemed very experienced testifying (introducing himself to the jury, etc) Brian Higgins doesn't seem to be at all confident. I would have thought in his job he would have testified in a lot of trials, but perhaps not.

Or maybe it's because he's nervous.

I think he's scared of Brian Albert's response if Higgins doesn't testify the "right" way.

 

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1794011095453122598

https://twitter.com/x/status/1794011275250303434

https://twitter.com/x/status/1794011580213940583

 

[Derph]

The EMT witnesses were very clear on what they heard. It was not a question, they heard “I hit him.” Jennifer McCabe, I believe, testified that KR said several things including asking “Did I him him?” and “I hit him.” Questions and statements.

Why would KR say or ask that? If he got out of her car and walked into the house why would she even think along these lines? It makes no sense for her to say or ask that unless she hit him. It’s a confession.

Otherwise she would say ‘what is he doing here?’ ‘Who did this to him?’ Etc

JMO

It's been stated by several people that KR was running around like crazy making incoherent remarks and statements that " didn't make any sense". So in the middle of all of these statements she suddenly gets a moment of clarity and confesses to a murder before going back to being hysterical? Yeah, NO. I don't believe she did that.

 

[arielilane]

@SueNBCBoston

First time he met the nephew.
Higgins is choking up, fighting back tears.
He played video games with the nephew that day.


10:25 AM · May 24, 2024

 

[arielilane]

@TedDanielnews

Higgs texted JO at 12:20 on 1/29. “are you coming here???” he says there was no response


10:28 AM · May 24, 2024

 

[Weki]

The CW does not have the burden to prove motive as no one can truly know what was in her mind. But motive helps and usually prosecutors will argue what they think the motive was. In this case the motive is that John wanted to end the relationship, things were acrimonious, she was angry.

All they have to prove is that John died by her actions. They’ve already got a confession from her in evidence. Anytime you can use the defendant’s words against them it’s compelling.

JMO

 

[shotgun09]

Higgins is an out of control angry drunk, with a snow plow.
" Did I throw his controllah?"
Does Canton have AA there? Asking for a friend

 

[arielilane]

@SueNBCBoston

There’s a side bar.
Judge tells jurors to stretch, then tells them to take a recess.
They are out of the courtroom.
Higgins is also given a break.
Sidebar continues.


10:30 AM · May 24, 2024




@TedDanielnews

Judge tells jury to take a 20-30 minute recess while she has sidebar with prosecution and defense


10:29 AM · May 24, 2024

 

[bcv513]

So basically these people all got black out drunk regularly. Talk about reasonable doubt. More than a handful of them could have hit JOK and honestly not remember it.

 

[Wishbone]

Higgins is an out of control angry drunk, with a snow plow.
" Did I throw his controllah?"
Does Canton have AA there? Asking for a friend

The whole lot of them need an intervention. MOO

 

[ch_13]

Higgins is an out of control angry drunk, with a snow plow.
" Did I throw his controllah?"
Does Canton have AA there? Asking for a friend

Why would he even think he broke a child's toy? Is he that angry and out-of-control when he's drinking? Maybe he was throwing a tantrum cause he lost the video game.

 

[housewife]

the amount of drinking these guys do really boggles my mind. More drinks at 2am before going to bed?

In my own experience, the police officers I know drink like fish.
They see the worst of the worst, every day. Personally I think they all have secondary trauma, it's unavoidable IMO.
Insomnia is very common.

Get a bunch of traumatized people together who depend on alcohol to regulate their emotions, things can get wild. Almost like you have to party hard, and then harder to forget the trauma you accumulate.

There's a podcast called Small Town Dicks where law enforcement officers tell their personal stories of working traumatic cases. It's real, it's honest, and their painful emotions can be heard clearly. LE needs more funding for therapy, and the stigma needs to go away.

All IMHO.

 

[LaineyJ]

So… are the fireworks supposed to happen during cross? Just following on here, can’t watch at the moment.

 

[shotgun09]

The 'VOLUNTEERING' of information ( screen shots that can't be verified) miraculously comes up the very morning of JOK's death? But his actual phone and sim card were destroyed? And he is an admitted to raging alcoholic who was present there that night ( with a snow plow).

Sus as evah

 

[nodamselindistress]

So… are the fireworks supposed to happen during cross? Just following on here, can’t watch at the moment.

Probably start when we get to his destroyed phone. Although he could just keep in character and say he got mad and threw it while he was drunk.

 

[housewife]

All they have to prove is that John died by her actions.

RSBM
Yes, the proof is what we have been waiting for these past 17 days in court.
Still waiting...