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May 25, 2025 - MyronGainesX
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Fed Explains The Karen Read Case: Domestic Violence Gone Wrong Or A Coverup?
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So we're gonna be covering the Karen Reed case today.
This has been a highly requested one.
You guys have been asking for this case for a very, very long time.
Um and I was digging into it yesterday, and I was like, oh, now I see why you guys um want this case so bad, right?
It has all the elements of a case that people would want to hear, right?
We're talking about conspiracies, cover-ups, etc.
So let's get right into it.
Let's dive in, guys.
So, death of John O'Keefe in the early morning hours of January 29th, 2022.
Boston police department officer John O'Keefe was found dead outside the home of Boston Police Officer Brian Albert in Canton, Massachusetts.
Now, can't say, guys, I think one of the girls that came on the show actually was from Canton.
Canton's like a suburb uh a few miles outside the city.
Let me show you guys on a map.
And this is bringing back like crazy nostalgia, because for those of you that don't know, um, I was uh I went to college in Boston, so um, so all of this definitely uh brings back a lot of memories.
I remember going to Canton a few times when I was uh on the job as an intern.
So, you know, it's not too far.
And let me show you guys here.
Right here.
Boom.
So it's not that far.
Right, right on it's on Interstate 95.
And then you could take 93 to get into the city.
But as you guys could see, pretty close, man.
Pretty, pretty close to the city of Boston.
Um discovered by his girlfriend Karen Reed.
Rita dropped O'Keefe off at the Albert residence the night before and had not heard from him since.
Reed was subsequently arrested and charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter, motor vehicle homicide, and leaving the scene of a deadly crash.
Prosecutors allege that Reed hit O'Keefe with SUV and left the scene.
So obviously, they um after she, after this happened, guys, she went to trial.
And the trial basically was deadlocked and ended up becoming a mistril a mistrial.
So she went to trial again, and right now, as we speak, they're doing her retrial.
Okay, started in April.
Okay.
So that's where we were kind of standing right now, but I'm gonna Go uh over the facts of the first case so that things make a bit more sense for you guys, all right.
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So we're gonna play this video here.
It's called uh key details to know before her retrial.
Okay, so this is going to kind of bring you guys up to speed on the case when she got arrested the first time.
Karen Reed case timeline.
Key events leading up to her retrial.
John O'Keefe, a Massachusetts police officer, tragically lost his life in January 2022.
His girlfriend, Karen Redd, was accused of causing his death.
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As she prepares for a retrial in April 2025, here's a look at the critical moments in the case.
John O'Keefe's death.
January 28th, 2022.
Both the prosecution and defense agree that Reed, O'Keefe, and others were drinking together before she dropped him off at a fellow officer's home in Canton, Massachusetts.
January 29th, 2022, at around 4 a.m., Reed realizes O'Keefe has not returned home and begins searching for him with Carrie Roberts and Jennifer McKay.
Around 6 a.m., she discovers him unresponsive in a snowbank outside the residence of Brian Albert.
O'Keefe is later pronounced dead at a hospital with hypothermia and the head injury cited as the causes.
Karen Reed's arrest.
Alright, so let me go ahead and for their trip to So basically, guys, they went to a bar and they were drinking, her and her boyfriend, right?
And they went up with some friends.
After uh they were invited to go to an after party.
Karen Reed said, Look, I'm tired, uh, I got a stomachache, I don't want to go.
I'll just drop you off.
And then she drops him off.
What happens after this is where there's a point contention.
So on one side, okay, the prosecution says she did a three-point turn, backed up and hit him, and he fell into the snowbank and died.
Okay.
Uh the evidence that they have for this is a broken tail light, hair on the back of the car, a hair fiber of his on the back of the car, and incriminating statements that she made to first responders when they showed up, right?
Saying, Did I hit him?
Did I hit him?
Oh my god, I hit him, right?
Uh, because she was in a frantic.
That is the the timeline from the the prosecution.
Then the defense basically has a conspiracy theory saying, look, she dropped him off, he went in the house, a dispute arised, and they got into a fight, and he got killed in the house, and then they put the body outside of the the house, right?
And this is the house that we're talking about here, guys.
Um I have it right here.
34 V uh Fairview Road uh Fairview Road, right?
This is where the murder uh allegedly occurred, inside this house, according to the defense, right?
And they left his body right here.
So after she didn't hear from him for hours, right?
She came back, and that's when they discovered his body.
So basically, what the defense is trying to illustrate, they're saying, look, this was a cover by the police because the person that they went to go see at the house was a police officer with a bunch of his cop friends.
And then on top of that, the trooper that ran this case, Trooper Proctor, okay, he knew these guys as well.
And he had some inappropriate text messages with his uh chain of command, right?
As he was investigating this case.
And they cross-examined him on that quite a bit.
But that's the general very broad overview of the uh of the case.
Okay.
The jury deadlocked when they went to trial.
And uh now she's doing the retrial.
And we're gonna talk about the retrial here as well.
But let's go ahead and go through um a timeline of Karen uh Karen Reed's case from arrest to trial.
Against my client.
Karen Reed left the courthouse after posting bail, charged with hitting her boyfriend, Boston police officer.
And they charged her with manslaughter, guys.
And the reason why they charge her with manslaughter, the bit difference between manslaughter and murder guys is manslaughter is when you basically kill someone by being reckless, right?
Um example, you drink and drive, right?
And you have someone on the on the street.
Obviously, you didn't mean to do that.
It just was kind of a byproduct of your reckless decisions, but um, it's not it doesn't rise to the level of premeditated murder where you're planning it out and you're stalking them and everything else like that, right?
So uh for example, Ellias Rodriguez, that's murder one.
Why?
Because he stalked the Jewish museum, right?
Was waiting for them to come out.
As they came out, he pretty much executed them, right?
So there was a deliberate thought process to make that happen.
Versus with manslaughter, it's more accidental.
And that's what they hit her with the prosecution, because they're claiming because oh, the other thing too that's very important to know, she was very drunk, and she be barely remembers that night.
All of them were drunk.
So they're saying you drove drunk, you did a three-point turn, we dropped him off, and you hit him and you killed him.
And guys, January in Boston is freezing, absolutely freezing.
Sir John O'Keefe and this is John O'Keefe right here.
With her SUV early Saturday morning, and he was a very um, he was the the everybody loved him in the community.
Also, another thing about John O'Keefe that a lot of people admired, his sister and her husband died.
So he ended up adopting her kids.
So he had two kids, they weren't his, but he basically took on his nieces and nephews and raised them.
Um and he was like a single dad for them uh in in light of their uh parents passing away.
Leaving him in a snowbank.
I am disappointed in the rush to judgment uh against my client.
Reed was in a two year relationship with the officer.
Last Friday nights they prosecutors, the couple went to two bars in the house.
There we go.
McCarthy's before being invited to an afternoon.
Wait, see if McCarthy's and was the other one again.
Against my client.
Reed was in a two year relationship with the officer.
Last Friday night say prosecutors, the couple went to two bars.
Yeah, Waterfall Bar and Grill.
You know how many McCarthy restaurants there are in fucking bars in Boston?
Holy man.
Or in the Massachusetts area.
Boston Massachusetts area.
Canton home.
Prosecutors say she dropped O'Keefe off and left because she was having stomach issues.
She stated that she dropped the victim off.
She made a three-point turn in the street and left.
Did not see the victim enter the house.
Also, I think it's important that in the evidence, um, the vehicle that she used, it showed that there was a three-point uh turn turn was made in the car.
It was like one of these like more um advanced vehicles, if I'm not mistaken.
That I think that was also a piece of evidence the prosecution used.
She indicated that she first observed broken tail light in the morning and did not know how she broke it.
Prosecutors say when O'Keefe didn't return home, Reed repeatedly texted him and asked two friends to return to the housing canton.
They discovered his body at the height of the blizzard near a fire hydrant.
Skull fractured, severe cuts to his arms, eyes swollen shut, and suffering from hypothermia.
And when a female paramedic arrived, she arrived on scene, observed the victim's condition, uh, went to uh speak to the defendant in regard to any uh sort of prior medical issues or uh causality of the uh the injuries uh that she observed to his face, uh to which the defendant uh then made several statements uh to her indicating I hit him, I hit him, I hit him, I hit him.
I think that uh there was a lot of people.
Now that was very important because they're saying, like, look, you know, she's gonna be fairly honest uh right after the incident because you know these are what what you could consider like damn near spontaneous utterances, right?
But it wasn't until she got some more time that uh, you know, she kind of switched up her story and said that she didn't hit him.
There was a lot of political pressure on this district attorney's office to bring charges in order to the fact that a police officer uh was the the victim here.
The alleged Also it's very important for you guys to know that Karen and John O'Keefe were kind of on a rocky patch.
Um Karen had suspected him of cheating and kissing another girl, and she also um she also uh what was the other thing?
Um had left them a voicemail saying, Fuck you, I hate you.
So they they had a little bit of a tiff going on.
Details unfolded in a courtroom packed with officers and members of two families visibly upset.
O'Keefe was the guardian of a niece and nephew, while Reed is an adjunct professor at Bentley University.
Okay, so yes, I double checked.
Yeah, there was vehicle data.
Digital forensic expert Shannon Burgess testified uh about data from Reed's SUV indicating a three-point turn event and a reverse uh and a backing maneuver consistent with reversing at the time and location where Keefe was found.
Uh this data was extracted from a micro SD card in the vehicle's infotainment system.
Do you want to say anything?
No comment.
Neither family would speak it.
Yeah, so if you're gonna do a hit and run, bro, guys, don't do it in uh don't do it on one of these um in these older cars.
Or sorry, you make sure you do it in one of these older cars.
As they left, but the head of the Boston police department says they're all trying to process this tragedy.
Lose anybody, any member, and especially in circumstances like this, it's tough.
Okay, this is her showing up at the scene.
Okay, you guys can see it's fucking f freezing.
Um, and this is from one of the dash cams.
Dash cam footage, you can hear Karen Reed screaming, then see her running, apparently in distress, as Canton police respond after she discovered her then boyfriend John O'Keefe's body in a snowbank.
Karen addressed that video after court.
Yeah, I've seen it many times.
It's difficult each time.
Prosecutors say Reed is the person who put O'Keefe there, hitting him with her car hours earlier and leaving him to die in the cold in January 2022.
After opening statements, three witnesses testified Monday.
John's brother Paul, his wife Erin, and the first responding officer.
Uh Miss Reed was um visibly upset.
Um, she kept saying, um, this is all my fault, this is my fault.
I did this.
Then in the early hours after John's body was discovered, his sister-in-law Erin described her phone calls with Karen Reed.
Asked her, I said, what the hell happened last night.
Aaron O'Keefe told jurors she and Karen were very close, even that Reed confided in her a month earlier that she had caught John kissing another woman.
But it was those comments following John's death that made Erin's head turn.
She told me um that she had to remember the bad times, which I struck me as an odd comment to say.
She said, I don't think I'm ever gonna see you guys again.
Remember, this is just the prosecution's case so far.
If you ask Karen Reed's defense attorneys, they say Karen Reed was framed for a murder she did not commit.
And on this first day, The defense team did not cross-examine any witnesses, but they will cross-examine that Canton police officer who testified first thing tomorrow morning.
Thankfully we have the team we have William Reed leaving court after the second day of testimony in his daughter's murder trial focused on what Karen Reed said.
Alright, so now we know what occurred prior and kind of what the narrative is.
So uh now they're gonna get into the trial a bit.
And then we're gonna and now once we cover this, then we're gonna get into the trial that's going on now, which has been going on for over a month now.
After she found John O'Keefe's body lifeless in the snow.
Is he dead?
Each time she said uh is he dead?
What was her tone of voice?
Screaming very loudly.
First responders recounted seeing And there's multiple first responders that heard this, uh, firefighters, etc.
that came on the scene and heard her saying I hit him, I hit him.
Right?
Which obviously is very damaging.
Now, you can make the argument.
Hey, she was drunk, she doesn't even know what she was doing.
You know, uh, does that necessarily mean that she's guilty by saying that I hit him, I hit him, or did I hit him?
Or I'm not sure.
You know, you it could go either way.
Then they say she admitted hitting him.
But the defense team called police out for inaccuracies on reports from that day, asked why they never searched inside that house and questioned them about another officer who allegedly brought a leaf blower and blew around the snow looking for evidence.
No, even one piece of broken plastic.
I did not.
Experts tell us while the defense spends time poking holes in the police response.
The words Karen said immediately following the discovery of John's body are crucial to the prosecutor's case.
I tend to believe that in that moment, Karen Reed's going to be more truthful than she would be 36 hours later, let's say, when sitting in front of a police officer and being interrogated, right?
She's got more time to reflect.
Prosecution's theory, more time to sort of back off of what she said and try to distance herself from those remarks.
But in the moment, it's pretty powerful that she was saying to first responders, I hit him.
And Reed's defense lawyers also asked one of those paramedics if he thought John O'Keefe's injuries could be from something other than a car, like a fight, for example.
He told them he couldn't say.
A long day of testimony revisiting the tragic day a couple years ago that led to this.
Karen Reed accused of killing her Boston police officer boyfriend John O'Keefe in 2022.
With this SUV, jurors got an in-person look at when they visited the scene.
The Canton home, where she allegedly hit him with the vehicle and left him in the driveway.
Part of the interior removed in the back, a broken light.
Reed herself seemed upbeat about the jury field trip.
We'll get a very good perspective.
This was after a tense morning between her attorneys and Canton firefighter Katie McLaughlin.
This photo showing the two together at the scene the morning after it happened.
She said I hit him.
She repeated it.
Reed's attorneys calling McLaughlin's credibility into question, bringing up her connection to the daughter of the Boston police officer who owned this home at the time where O'Keeffe's body was found.
I would say that we have mutual friends, so we might see that.
Yeah, I don't know why it does this here.
Let me fast forward this a little bit.
Sorry, Bill's uh the truth.
Go ahead, Bill's daughter was factually innocent.
And it's tough for me to hear some of this.
Karen Reed herself did not join jurors for their trip to the scene in Canton.
On the way out of court, she was asked if she would have wanted to.
She said, No, I've already been there.
Yeah, you've got to get here.
Okay.
Emotional moments inside court as the O'Keefe family listens to the 911 call from the early morning hours of January 29th, 2022.
That call came from Jennifer McCabe when she, Karen Reed, and Kerry Roberts found John O'Keefe's body outside 34 Fairview Road in Canton.
In the background, you can hear Karen screaming.
And who's that in the background?
Is that someone related?
That's his his arm Glaucks.
I think she's passed away.
Testimony revealed that Karen Reed became suicidal in the hours that followed.
The father called police on her.
Um threats to take her own life.
Karen, what was it like for you to hear those 911 calls?
I've heard those many times too, Christine.
Okay.
They're not easy, but they're revealing.
Monday's witnesses focused mostly on an unusual and challenging police investigation in tough weather.
Officers blowing the snow off of possible blood evidence, then collecting it in a neighbor's borrowed solo cup and transporting it in a stop.
Bro, what the fuck kind of evidence handling is this, man?
Also allegations from the defense that officers actually damaged Karen Reed's tail light in the investigation.
During the removal process, that light was broken even more.
No.
And the afternoon ended with Canton Sarge.
And the reason why the tail light is so important, guys, because that's a critical piece of piece of evidence that the prosecution is using to go after Karen Reed.
There, and they said that there was a hair.
So two things.
You got the broken tail light, then they said that they found a hair follicle that belongs to John O'Keefe.
And also they were saying that uh there was remnants of a glass because when he got hit, he had a glass of uh alcohol.
Um, and that was on the on the bumper as well.
So there sorry, the um the tell light as well.
So that's why this taillight in the vehicle is so critical to the defense's, excuse me, the prosecution's case.
...Michael Lank on the stand, but without the jury present.
He was testifying to a previous relationship with the homeowners at Fairview Road.
Now, it hasn't been decided yet whether or not that previous relationship will actually be admitted in front of the jury.
We expect to find out tomorrow.
Something out of the ordinary, uh, like a black blob.
Um and the Julie Nagel is among the group of Brian Albert Jr.'s friends who were over the house for his birthday that night.
She, friend Sarah, Brian's sister Caitlin Albert, and her boyfriend Tristan Morris all testified Tuesday.
Nagel says she was getting a ride home from Jen McCabe that night when she alerted her friend to something on the lawn in this spot she indicated.
I did say out loud.
Um I was like, I think I might have saw something.
But she was drunk, she says, and the defense pointed out this observation was first noted in October of 2022 to trooper Michael Proctor, months after Karen Reed was indicted for murder.
You've never mentioned that this black object was five or six feet long until the last hour or so when Mr. Lally questioned you about it, correct?
Yes.
This revelation came after a half day of testimony from others about who saw whom, where and when, and what many didn't see.
Against that white snow, did you see a black baseball cup?
I did not.
Absolutely not.
No.
Did you see a black sneaker?
I did not.
No.
Did you see a six-foot two, two hundred and twenty-pound man sprawled out right in front of you on that lawn?
I did not.
No, I did not.
No.
But jurors left the day with the revelation of that black blob on the lawn.
A piece of evidence defense attorneys squashed on their way out of court.
Her credibility is completely shot.
Yeah, I think it's a made-up story.
That's Colin Albert on the stand talking about John O'Keefe.
He was 17 when John died and has been pegged by defense attorneys as a possible suspect.
"My opening statement is not to us to solve this case.
We think that there are, you know, multiple suspects that the police completely failed to investigate.
Before Colin took the stand, his friend Allie McCabe did.
They're connected in this family tree through mutual cousins, but they're not related.
She spoke about harassment her family has faced.
Um, people showing up at our house, um, people emailing my school.
Um just take a lot of harassment.
which is why she later screenshotted texts with Colin from that night to prove when he left the house, she says.
He was not at the house when John was there, so I drove him home.
So people are harassing him, saying he was at the house when it's not true.
Witnesses earlier testified to seeing a man and a woman, and then just a woman in a car outside the home that night.
The prosecution wants the jury to believe that's because John was already in the snow.
The defense suggests he was inside the house, and Colin could have been there with and obviously the the two theories are completely, you know, diametrically opposed, right?
So, like one side is saying, like, yeah, he went in the house.
Oh, another thing that the prosecution or excuse me, the defense is using, is they're saying, look, he had bite marks and um scratches indicative of a dog.
Well, they have a dog in the house called Chloe, guys.
Uh, and what they were claiming was uh not only did that he get into a fight, he got into a fight and the dog attacked him.
That's how he had those uh wounds on his arm.
Also, he had like uh bruised knuckles.
They were saying that these were defensive ones of him potentially getting in a fist fight.
Right?
So as you guys could see, the evidence kind of goes back and forth, right?
It really does, which is why this case is exploding in popularity.
Point time in the evening of January 28th into January 29th, 2022.
Did you see Mr. O'Keefe?
Anyway, no.
There were two people from inside 34 Fairview that night that have yet to testify.
That's Jen and Matt McCabe.
And remember, Jen was with Karen in the morning when John's body was discovered as well.
So we expect to hear from them soon.
And also another important note for you guys, she asked McCabe to search how long would somebody how long until someone dies in a cold.
Now, the defense is saying that Karen asked her to do that after they found Ken O'Keefe's body, right?
After they found it.
But then the prosecution is saying she ha she um had that Google search prior to him dying.
Okay.
So those are the two discrepancies uh as well.
But first, Colin Albert will be back on the stand for cross-examination.
I'll be f I phone's These videos taken by Colin Albert in high school played before the jury, as the defense worked to paint him as a kid with a propensity for fighting.
That was a threat, wasn't it?
Yes.
But Colin claims he's never been in a fight.
Not with anyone but his brothers.
The defense also showed this picture, taken twenty-eight days after John O'Keefe's death.
See Colin's knuckles.
And I was walking up the driveway and I slipped down the driveway, and I tried to catch myself, but I had something in my left hand, so I had to try to uh brace myself with my right hand, and I ended up sliding a little bit down the driveway.
After Colin, it was Matt McCabe's turn to testify, filling in yet another witness in the long list of people at or near that after party.
McCabe said he kept looking outside for O'Keefe and Reed that night.
He saw Karen's car outside in three different positions, and a wave of tire marks in the snow.
I looked out again.
Um because it'd been a few minutes.
Um again, two, three, four minutes, I'm not sure how long, but it'd been a few minutes, and we thought it was weird that he hadn't come into the house.
And they never did, he says.
He didn't know why until the next morning.
I woke up to um screams in my bedroom.
And Friday, Durrers will find out why, when Matt is on the stand again, followed by his wife, Jen McCabe.
Same thing.
I'm I'm hoping to get out of every witness.
A little bit of truth.
So why does Jen McCabe's testimony matter so much?
Well, she was one of two women who were with Karen Reed when John O'Keefe's body was discovered.
Also, there's been some controversy around an alleged Google search Jen McCabe did regarding how long it takes to die in the cold.
Now, you guys are gonna see the two different theories for this Google search.
She grabbed my hands and she said, Google hypothermia read told her to.
The woman who Jen McCabe takes to die is at 6 a.m.
Because Karen Reed told her to.
The woman who discovered John O'Keefe's body with Karen told her version of the story Friday, starting with the early morning phone call from Karen.
And she tells me that John didn't come home.
They got into a fight, and that she left him at the water.
Two saying, Did I hit him?
Could I have hit him?
And then why do you need to say that she had a big thing?
It's not me, guys.
It's the video.
There's something going on with the video.
On the drive, Jen told jurors Karen was hysterical, talking about other women John O'Keefe had dated years prior.
As they pulled near the house, Karen screamed, there he is, and bolted out the car.
The three women then discovered O'Keefe's lifeless body on the lawn, I saw Carrie wiping the snow off of John's face, and I could not believe that that was John Langnap.
Still hysterical, the women tried to warm John, performed CPR, and called 911.
Once paramedics arrived, Jen McCabe told jurors Karen's words were clear.
Three times.
I hit him, I hit him, I hit him.
And obviously they're they're saying that this was all for show when she showed up.
But Karen's attorney says Jen will have a lot to answer for when it's his turn to ask questions, including what time that Google search really happened.
Now there's no court on Monday in this case, so cross-examination will take place first thing Tuesday morning.
Fourth, defined the four hours of Jen McCabe's cross-examination Tuesday.
McCabe was with Karen Reed when they found John O'Keefe's body.
She testified that she heard Karen say she hit him.
Testimony the defense says has changed over the years.
Instead, lawyer Alan Jackson painted Jen as the orchestrator of the narrative told by her family and friends.
Have you spoken to them about these events between then and now?
About this case.
Yes, Mr. Cabe, I'm asking you about this case.
Of course, I speak to them all the time about the vicious harassment we are all receiving.
Karen Reed's team accused McCabe of an off-the-books meeting with a Canton cop in the days after John's death.
And the jury heard for the first time allegations that Jen deleted at least six calls.
She made two.
See, now you guys are starting to see where the conspiracy theories are coming from.
Who John O'Keefe between 1229 and 1250 that night?
I believe I used the word "butt dials." You claimed that every one of these calls was a butt dial.
Is that right?
Yes.
Defense lawyers believe those deleted calls could provide reasonable doubt for the jury.
And so you say John was in the house, his phone's missing.
She's calling him behind his phone.
That's certainly a reasonable interpretation.
The jury has yet to hear any cross-examination about that Google search Jen McCabe did about how long to die in the cold.
She'll be back on the stand first thing Wednesday morning, then Carrie Roberts is up next.
What phrase did you put in your phone?
I'm just asking you to say it.
Why don't you show me it?
The Google search at the heart of the defense's theory Finally addressed as Jen McCabe finished up her three days of testimony.
How long to die in the cold?
Misspelled, according to phone data shown to the Because she was probably drunk just like everybody else.
The jury, it appears Jen Googled it at 2 27 a.m. before John O'Keefe's body was found.
Then again at 6 23 and 6 24 a.m.
But she says that 2 a.m. search never happened.
Hoss long to die in cold.
That sound familiar?
Yeah, it's been everywhere.
Why does that sound so familiar?
Because you put it out in social media.
That exchange led to fireworks in court about so-called harassment at the hands of free Karen Reed supporters, and a bond formed between Jen and the lead investigator's wife, Elizabeth Proctor.
We received calls.
People drive by our house.
There was a rolling rally outside of my house where people just screamed at us.
McCabe introducing the jury to the fanfare surrounding this case outside and addressing claims that she was the mastermind behind a cover-up.
I never would have left John O'Keefe out in the cold to die because he was my friend that I loved.
There were many tears on the stand Wednesday.
Some from John's good friend Carrie Roberts.
Carrie tearfully watched Dash camera video of that morning.
She was with Jen McCabe Karen after Reed called and told her John was dead and hadn't come home.
Carrie drove them to 34 Fairview.
When she says Karen screamed and started kicking the door to get out of the car.
And she ran over to a mound of snow.
That mound of snow was John O'Keefe's buried body.
Ran over and I dug his head up.
Defendant responded.
Okay, so Foulball, you stink, you suck, and you're double trouble.
You're hot.
Are you serious, mess?
Or do you messing with me?
No, I'm serious feeling his mutual bad.
How long do you have have you thought that?
Are you okay, Drev?
You don't want to stay here.
You're hot.
That text from Karen Reed began a couple of weeks of flirtation in January 2022.
And for one hour Friday, jurors listened to dozens of the messages.
You know, I'm not and I think if I'm not mistaken, this is the ATF agent that was at the house as well.
This shit is crazy, bro.
And for text from Defendant responded, You're hot.
That text from Karen Reed began a couple of weeks of flirtation in January 2022.
And for one hour Friday, jurors listened to dozens of the messages.
You know, I'm not proud of these text messages.
Brian Higgins, an ATF agent who worked out of Canton PD, recounting a texting relationship with Karen in the weeks leading up to John O'Keefe's death, and their one physical romantic interaction.
The defendant kissed me.
And how did she kiss me?
Bruh, this is crazy, man.
Not like a friend.
Rosa ATF agent doing this dumbass shit, man.
Yes.
Okay, I'm divorced since 2016 and have no kids.
I try very hard, but they are very spoiled, and they're not my family.
My parents keep telling me I'd feel differently if they were mine or my own sisters.
Then I told you you got drunk and sloppy on New Year's Eve while we were away, and that has really affected me.
What did he exactly do?
I never got married, and now somehow I'm arguing with someone about raising kids.
Why won't you tell me?
He was a puddle all day and then disappeared.
Then I found him all over Friend Sister in the lobby of our hotel, and she's gross, which I think may be actually may actually be worse.
So she's going ahead and talk with this guy.
She claimed to have seen John kiss another woman on their New Year's vacation, and that she struggled helping raise his kids.
Because I went from being solo to trying to give attention to kids who aren't mine.
Because remember, like I told you guys before, those two kids are not hers.
And I never wanted kids.
Hey, we just said front page on Rumble niggas.
Let's go!
I think I'm the only person that's like live right now on Rumble like that.
Let me see here.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Alright, we lit.
Chat, we lit, we live.
We're on the front page.
...heard off a text at the waterfall that night and received this text back from Karen shortly before noon on January 29th.
John died.
Then fireworks at the end of the day as defense attorneys accused him of destroying his phone.
You've destroyed that phone, haven't you?
No, I threw the phone away.
Ooh.
And not only him, but I think the other guy, Avery, also got rid of his phone.
That's destroying the phone, isn't it?
Brian Higgins will be back on the sand first thing Tuesday morning.
And Tuesday is the only day of court in this case next week.
Also have note defense attorney Alan Jackson will not be present on Tuesday.
No, what I testified to was that it's Did you take the SIM card out of your phone?
Yes or no?
I don't know.
A contentious cross-examination with Brian Higgins, defense attorney is asking why he extracted his text with Karen Reed and John O'Keefe, then removed and broke his SIM card and dumped his phone in a military-based trash despite a preservation request.
Higgins said he was concerned about people who had gotten his personal number, and the phone didn't mean much to him.
I'm divorced.
I don't have kids.
I didn't have the typical memories that somebody would have had.
Higgins, who previously testified to a flirty relationship with Karen, was one of eight witnesses on the stand in a long day of testimony Tuesday.
Among the group, a number of medical professionals and forensic experts.
So he got juvenile uh O'Keefe's uh niece, Michael Trata, uh Camp Public Works, Nicholas Roberts, forensic toxolog uh toxicologist, Dr. Gary Fowler, pathologist, Louis uh Jutras, Canton IT department, uh Brian Higgins, ATF agent, Dr. Justin Rice, emergency physician, and then another Jew Fidel O'Keefe's nephew.
Who told the jury their tests put Karen's blood alcohol above the legal limit that day, with what defense attorneys called unreliable testing.
If Ms. Green drank alcohol after 1245 a.m. and before her blood was drawn at 9 08 a.m., your entire calculation would be a nod.
Uh yeah.
Some highly anticipated testimony was off camera.
John's teenage niece and nephew testified about their two years witnessing what the prosecution has called a deteriorating relationship.
On the phone the morning of John's death, Karen said, That's crazy that they put juveniles on the stand, bro.
That would never happen in federal court.
That's some state level shit, man.
Maybe I did something.
Maybe a snowplow hit him.
The niece testified.
She said they were in an argument.
The defense criticized that decision.
It was uh desperate and inappropriate for the DA's office to call children to pro to try to prove anonymous.
Yeah, I ain't gonna lie, that is kind of crazy.
But but I could see why the prosecution did it, because the prosecution's trying to illustrate that this was a volatile relationship where there was personal issues, so that's why they that's why they did that.
So I can see why they did that, but you know, it's it's kind it's a little uncouth.
I ain't gonna lie to y'all.
It's kind of uncouth.
This was the only day of testimony this week, and next week there will only be three days of court in this case as we enter the sixth week of testimony.
Zero.
Okay, this is uh trooper Proctor.
This is the guy, the main case uh trooper that ran this case.
And about the unflattering personal text messages of his he sent over the lifetime of the case.
She's a case, and about the unflattering personal text messages of his, he sent it.
And they really attacked him on this on the cross.
You guys are gonna see some of the messages sent.
She's a whack job.
Consumer.
So don't spell it.
You have to so this these are your words.
We had five.
Childhood friends, his wife, disparaging Karen Reed, at times mocking her medical condition as he investigated her for murder.
The rest of the unprofessional and regrettable comments are something I'm not proud of.
...testified about when...
...wrote in private or any type of setting.
Before Proctor, two other witnesses testified about when Karen's tail light broke, then Trooper Proctor showed the jury the actual physical tail light itself.
But Proctor's texts took over Monday afternoon.
These moments were as he testified for the state.
Then defense attorney Alan Jackson got 25 minutes to start cross-examination.
Who's the client?
Um check.
Is that right?
Yes.
A whack job, correct?
Yes.
Basically, he was saying that she's retarded and uh that yeah, he hopes she dies so he doesn't have to do the case anymore and shit.
Is what he was texting his colleagues.
Right?
Yes.
And that's what the cross-exam examination is beating him up on.
Now, let me be honest with you guys here, right?
This is what the defense is paid to do.
They're paid to obfuscate the case because you saying shit about the defense, right?
Or sorry, uh, you saying shit about the defendant saying, like, oh, they're retarded, whatever.
Does that really affect the integrity of the investigation?
Not really.
But the defense has this theory that it was a conspiracy, it was a cover-up, etc.
So this per fits perfectly into their theory, and their allegation is like, yo, look, he's biased, he's covering up, he hates this woman, and um he has a personal issue with her, so it feeds into what they're trying to um establish in their theory.
So that's why um his this testimony was so important for the uh for the defense, for them to basically beat him up quite a bit.
That is why.
No, correct?
Yes.
She's f according to you, right?
Yes.
A girl who sh herself, right?
Correct.
But the focus Wednesday was about more than the insults in those texts, but what they revealed about how Trooper Proctor conducted his investigation into John O'Keefe's death as early as the night after it happened.
But I assume you guys are out to make it cut and dry since it involves cops.
Correct?
Yes.
And Byrd writes, something stinks.
Correct?
Correct.
And then Trooper Proctor, you responded, yeah.
But there will be some serious charges brought on the girl.
In five hours, the defense asked Trooper Proctor why he never considered other suspects.
If he deleted ring video to conceal evidence and about his friendship with the Albert family.
After court defense attorney felt properly.
And remember, guys, the Albert family is the family where this house was uh on 34 Fairview.
Uh one of the guys was a Boston police officer investigator, and I think the other guy was a Canton police officer.
And John O'Keefe was the boss of police officer.
Beyond any reason.
That's beyond any round.
I've never seen anything like it.
Like everything he's touched is in the rest.
After eight weeks of testimony and 68 witnesses, the That's crazy.
Two months, 68 witnesses.
Date rested its case against Karen Reed.
Its final witness, the medical examiner, left the manner of John O'Keefe's death unsolved for the jury, not definitively from a car strike.
Would you agree that his injuries to his face are consistent?
This was huge for the defense.
With having been punched.
That is a possibility.
Dragged on the ground.
It's possible.
Being struck with a large object such as a baseball bat or a barbell.
It's possible.
Now the defense takes center stage.
And this is the thing, right?
Like I told you guys before.
The defense's job isn't to prove that you're innocent.
The defense's job is to prove that maybe you're innocent.
Okay.
So the government has the burden of performance.
They have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that you're guilty.
All the defense has to do was is question that.
So with this witness saying it's possible, uh, I'm not sure exactly.
That creates that critical reasonable doubt that the defense needs, guys.
Remember, in the United States of America, you need to be found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
And when a witness goes up on there and says, Look, uh it could have been from a car, it could have been from a bat, it could have been from blunt force getting hit by something.
Like it could have been anything.
That creates that reasonable doubt that the defense needs to attack the government's case, or in this case, the state's case.
First, with a plow driver who says he plowed Fairview Road multiple times between two and six a.m. that night.
See a body.
No.
No body, but he did see a Ford Edge parked out front that arrived between 2 45 and 3 a.m., he says, which the defense believes shows activity at the house when everyone said they were asleep.
John O'Keefe was killed inside that house and drug outside.
Period.
Nothing but the true salt in the doctor.
I do.
To further that theory, Dr. Marie Russell, a retired California doctor who's done research on animal attacks.
She reviewed pictures of O'Keefe's arm injuries.
I believe that these injuries...
So this is crazy right here.
Because how would he get these types of scratches by getting hit by a car?
These injuries were sustained by an animal, possibly a large dog.
Defense attorneys tell WBZ they still plan to call two accident reconstruction experts and a different medical examiner, but they think they could rest their case on Monday.
I think we're gonna be done on Monday.
Yeah, I think we're gonna be done on Monday.
I think we'll probably...
Does that mean closing Tuesday?
I think closing on Tuesday, and then we'll charge the jurors, and they'll have it by maybe end of the day Tuesday.
And court is expected to be five full days next week.
Though if defense attorneys wrap up when they say they're going to, several of those days could be for jury deliberations.
Thank you, Ellen, for that.
It's interesting.
29 days of testimony, 74 total witnesses, and Karen Reed's murder trial is almost in the hands of the jury.
Karen!
Karen!
The sea of people here to support the defendant increased fivefold Monday as the case wrapped up.
That crowd swarming Reed and her team as they leave court.
How do you feel about how the size of it?
She has like a lot of fans, chat.
This crowd has grown.
Yeah, it's heartwarming.
The group comes from all over the country, wearing pink and believing Reed is an innocent victim of a cover-up, framed for the murder of her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O'Keefe.
Reed's lawyer spent the final day of testimony trying to disprove prosecutors' theory that she hit O'Keefe with her car and left him to die in the snow.
It is not, no, sir.
Two expert accident reconstruction witnesses testified for the defense.
They recreated multiple versions of the accident and say neither the damage to Reed's Lexus nor John O'Keefe's injuries to his head and arm are consistent with the car crash.
It is not.
There you go.
Creating that reasonable doubt, chat.
No, sir.
Creating that reasonable doubt.
Your service is complete.
Yeah, chat.
She does have fans in this case.
Look, I'll show you guys uh let me see if I can find it here.
Another trial after the twelve-person jury of six men and six women was unable to reach unanimous decision in this one.
The deep division is not due to a lack of effort or diligence, but rather a sincere adherence to our individual principles and moral convictions.
To continue to deliberate would be a attorney's office releasing this statement immediately after, saying we thank the O'Keefe family for their commitment and dedication to this long process.
They maintain sight of the true core of this case to find justice for John O'Keeffe, saying the Commonwealth intends to retry this case.
Yeah, they're they're not gonna give up on a case like this big.
Just like YNW Mellie, they're retrying him as well.
74 witnesses and no closure for those involved.
Karen Reed and her lawyers hugged her family before they exited court, just briefly addressing reporters outside.
I want to send a message to all of her supporters out there.
Your support was invaluable.
And I think she did a documentary on this as well, chat.
We ask for your...
Which, let me see if I can find it for you guys.
I'm not from Texas, like my colleagues here.
I'm a Boston kid, but I'll repeat what he said, which is, we ain't got no quit.
Thank you.
I'll find a few minutes.
Oh, here we go.
It's been a stormy start to the holiday week.
This is like a document she's doing, which I think they're gonna attack her on this as well, chat.
Um on the retrial.
Here's a doc.
Karen Reed is accused of hitting John O'Keefe with their SUV and leaving him to die in the snow.
Their relationship was not a happy one.
Not a single witness actually saw this happen.
There's a whole other side of the story.
This is funny, Miss Reed.
Y'all don't believe me that she got fans.
Y'all see that?
So did you drive your car into John?
Doing this film is my testimony.
I want to say what happened exactly as it happened.
John was Boston police officer.
We went to the bar with a bunch of cops.
Jen McCabe invited us to the And just so you guys know, um, she did not take the stand in her trial.
Albert.
Last I ever talked to him when he got out of my car at Brian Albert's house.
And that is where all the different stories come from.
Everybody liked Karen.
And everything changed.
He was found dead.
There's his body right here, like I showed you guys before.
Literally right here.
Pretty much was found right here.
Where were we?
On the lawn of another police officer.
This is one of their own.
And that raises the stakes.
I hit him.
I hit him.
That statement doesn't appear on any of the tapes.
They were shot.
I am not on trial.
I am a witness.
It's impossible to have any sympathy.
They're all lying.
She smile or laugh.
She's posing for pity.
See all those people standing outside?
Her behavior in conjunction with the hard evidence points in one direction.
DNA evidence placed parts of John on Karen.
The hair's car.
Feels like I'm in a bad dream.
This can't be real.
She was angry shit.
This is the surveillance footage from them at the uh at the bar.
That's the voicemail I told you guys about before, where they uh, you know, that showed that they had animosity towards each other.
How many calls there was over 50?
Get her at you!
What did you hold on?
Let's go back real quick, break that down.
How many calls there was over 50?
Okay, this is this is the the investigator, Trooper Proctor.
Uh see, he says, see how crazy she is.
Um, and then here's I think Kansas police officer and Proctor Proctor was the lead investigator for the state police.
The state police obviously took this case because of the notoriety and how big it was.
Also, because Canton's kind of a small town.
He took the uh they ended up taking him, but he knew these people because all the cops know each other in town a lot of the times.
What did you text about going through Karen Reed's phone?
No news so far.
*laughs*
Nigga retarded, bro.
God damn.
Because and the the context, just so you guys understand the context here.
Basically, he was going through the phone, right?
And he was texting with his buddies on his personal phone when this happened.
And what ended up going down was as I he was searching the phone, uh making jokes, he said, Oh yeah, no nudes so far, right?
So obviously that looks terrible though, because his personal text messages got put into the trial, okay, uh, for the defense.
Okay, and the reason why the defense was able to get it, they got it from the FBI.
And the reason why they got it from the FBI is because the FBI did their own independent investigation on this situation as well.
So that is how these sex messages became available to uh the defense, right?
Because their theory, remember, the defense's theory, guys, centers around a conspiracy and a cover-up.
So in order for them to um have that theory, they need to be able to get the, you know, uh the information that they need.
And in this case, it was the lead trooper's phone.
Now, let's be honest here.
Him making stupid jokes like this with guys at the state state police says he's going through a phone.
Does that does that really mean that the investigation is corrupted?
No.
People make jokes and say dumb shit all the time.
But it looks really bad for that to be in a jury trial like this with a female defendant.
Really fucking bad.
Quelqu'un Punch.
They were gasps.
One of the most uncomfortable moments of this entire trial.
Shame on you, sir.
L Magazine line.
And he ended up getting fired.
So Trooper Proctor got fired a couple of days after the jury was hung.
She was the happiest murder in defense.
Yeah, bro.
See how the people lining up in front of the courthouse?
Cameras and shit.
You're either fucking celebrity.
Pro-Karen Reed.
Or you are pro-police.
It's become a civil war.
This justice system will never be the same after this.
Okay, so now you guys kind of know.
So let's go.
So let's recap real quick, right?
Let's recap.
Um before I do that, let me read some of these chats.
First, um, let's see here.
We got Mr. Keeping It Real.
Uh, we read that one before.
Jared from Dallas, 4K, four days, four weeks, and now it's been four months.
And finally, it's the Karen Reed case.
Tell us what you know, Myron.
Tell us what are you hiding.
Okay, bro, I don't know anything.
I've been here in Massachusetts and Miami the whole time.
I'm 26 with a 680 credit score.
Is that good?
Uh get up to 700, bro.
That's when you used to you're able to get opportunities.
Uh, 680.
Like, yeah, you can apply for credit cards and shit, but um, it won't be as as good.
It will not be as good.
Uh Lexia says, was six to seven tabs like connected how we via Israel funded the Iran-Iraq war while getting gathering Iraq intel behind their back while funding Saddam made money with the recession it caused and printed more money.
Okay.
Um Matt Murdoch says, as soon as someone makes a book or documentary, the lying meter goes over 9,000.
Yeah, yeah, now you have a financial insentive to do it, bro.
So, okay.
So on the previous, and I wrote this stuff, I made a note of this stuff.
So on the prosecution side, guys, right?
They have broken tail light and DNA, okay?
The prosecutors presented evidence of a broken taillight from the Reed SUV as well as the hair.
Then glass fragments, a shattered drinking glass was found at the scene and pieces of glass were recovered from Reed's SUV bumper.
Then the vehicle data that shows that the vehicle did make a three-point turn.
Then Keith keeps uh O'Keefe's injury is a cause of death.
Um, one of the medical examiners testified that O'Keefe's cause of death was blunt impact injuries of head and hyperthermia.
Remember, guys, it was freezing out that day when he was uh out there on the snow.
And there were scrapes on his right arm were noted, but attributed to the collision rather than other causes, right?
So the prosecution's medical examiner doesn't go over the uh potential of it being a dog, rather, they say it's scratches from him getting hit.
Um then there's uh digital inference evidence, uh O'Keefe's iPhone data.
Basically data from O'Keefe's phone analyzed by digital forensic examiner uh Ian Wiffin showed no significant movement from the flagpole era where his body was found, right?
This area, right here.
Right.
Um, and this is to dispute the defense's theory that he went inside and got beat up, right?
Then they got Jennifer McCabe's Google search, right?
And the prosecutors present evidence that Jennifer McKay, but he went and searched how long to die in cold after O'Keefe's body was found, not before, as the defense alleges, right?
Um and then the witness testimony, obviously, you guys the government had a bunch of fucking um witnesses.
And then next was obviously her public statements.
Her saying, um I hit him, I hit him, right?
As witnessed by multiple first responders, firefighters, cops, etc.
saying this, right?
Allegedly.
Um then the motive and the relationship dynamics because we know that obviously um Karen and O'Keefe had issues.
Um and then the defense, the tail light damage.
Oh, another big one, too, also, guys, that I want to let you guys know.
Um, why the um why the prosecute why the defense thinks that this theory, according to them, O'Keefe's Apple Watch showed that he had tried uh climbed three sets of stairs, okay, uh before dying.
And uh with like the pedometer in his watch.
That aligns with their theory that he did in fact go in the house, and then at some point uh was attacked and then killed.
That is one of the things that they use also to justify and say, and then also the um the the scratches you guys saw with the video that a dog bit him.
Um let me see here, what else?
Also, they said that there was tampering with a Sally Port video of Reed's SUV, like you guys saw before.
Um they attacked uh trooper Proctors.
Um credibility.
Uh the FBI basically said uh that the damage says it to Reed's SUV was inconsistent with striking O'Keefe's body, and his injuries did not align with vehicle impact.
This came from the FBI, so that's crazy that the defense was able to get that.
And then obviously there's the dog attack theory that I gave you guys before, um, where the scratches on his body were indicative of potentially being attacked, and there was a German Shepherd in the house.
So it could go either way, as you guys could see here.
Okay, so now that we kind of know some of the big things, and there's more evidence than that on both the prosecution and defense side, but these are some of the this is some of the bigger um these are some of the bigger um pieces of evidence.
So let's go ahead and go um recap.
Now that we know that what happened in the first trial and the facts in the first trial, um, and how she basically got off.
Let's go into the retrial week one, which I think kicked off in April.
We are on the record in the Karen Reed murder retrial.
I'm your host, Cody Thomas, and I'm here to break down week one's biggest courtroom moments.
Karen Reed, who was accused of killing her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O'Keefe, is back in court after her first trial ended in a mistrial.
We're going to get right into day one, but first, let's get you caught up on the case.
I'm declaring a mistrial in this case.
Crazy.
After deliberating in Dedham over five days, a mistrial in the case against So what?
It was like eight weeks, two months, and then they had a week of deliberation, and obviously the jury was deadlocked.
Karen Reed.
We will not stop fighting.
We have no defense attorney is very good.
I watched some of his cross-examination last night.
Very good.
Reed is the college professor accused of killing her Boston police officer boyfriend, John O'Keefe, hitting him with her SUV after a night of drinking.
Reed, care!
Look at all the people fucking lined up here, man, for this trial.
And so you guys know they actually televised this trial because it's a state trial, so they can televise it.
She claims she's being framed in a massive police cover-up, and that O'Keefe was fatally beaten.
Also, guys, if you want to get involved in the show, rumble the uh Rumble Rants in your chat, Castle Club, your chat in, or MyronGaines X.com, as you guys know, uh, to go ahead and get involved with the show.
I read all super chats on air.
Uh five and up, so go ahead and uh super chat into the show, man.
Inside a fellow officer's home.
It's a case that has divided a community.
The jury of six men and six women visited the crime scene and heard testimony from seventy-four witnesses during the nine-week trial.
And all of a sudden, Karen said, There he is, there he is.
Let me the F out of this car.
And she started kicking the door.
I hit him.
I hit him.
She repeated, I hit him.
And then she was saying, Did I hit him?
Could I have hit him?
And Then she proceeded to say that she had a cracked taillight.
With no video or eyewitnesses, the first trial turned into a battle of the experts.
The vehicle traveled up to 24 miles per hour and approximately 62 feet.
What if anything occurred then?
The uh the right rear of the Alexis struck the pedestrian John O'Keefe.
That does not look to me at all remotely like an impact from a motor vehicle.
And you can see here, there's the the difference, you know, of opinion here.
We found a Google search that happened.
Uh first of all, the search was how long to die in cold, and it happened at or before 2.27 a.m.
I'm of no doubt that the only time those two searches were conducted was at 623 and 624 on the morning of the 29th.
Okay, now if it's early like that, that works out in Karen Reed's defense because they found the body around 6 a.m.
So the Sell Bright guy, okay.
Let's look at this right here.
So I've talked to you guys about what Subbright is, right?
Cell Bright, okay, is a um software that law enforcement uses to extract data from a phone.
Okay.
Um it's actually Israeli, by the way.
Yeah, I know.
Seriously.
But um, here, let me go ahead and show you guys this.
I'm a motor vehicle.
So, because this is very, very important.
Right?
So if the Jid digital forensics company specializing in solutions for law enforcement enterprise clients, they provide tools and services to collect, analyze, and manage digital digital data from various sources.
Now, when I was on a job, guys, we would use the cellbrite.
So this guy right here, Ian Wiffen, right.
Whenever you want to go ahead and get um authenticate evidence, you're gonna bring someone in that basically understands the tool that's being used.
So in this case, since the text messages and the time they were sent is extremely important, okay.
They brought in this guy to say, look, man, we got different times.
One instance we see at 227 a.m. or two around 2 a.m., four hours before the body's found.
Then another instance we see that it's 6 a.m.
Which one is it?
They brought him in to basically clarify, and he says, look, there's no doubt that it was at 6, whatever it was, right?
Because you guys can see her, look, 623 a.m.
Um UTC, and then again, before 227 a.m.
UTC.
Now, here's the other thing too that gets confusing when you use the subright guys.
They use UTC time.
Okay, guys.
So that sometimes becomes a little bit harder to read um when you're going through Cell Bright because it pulls all the data out in a raw format, and then you have to kind of go through and analyze it.
And let me see this.
That happened.
Uh first of all, the search was how's long to die in cold, and it happened at or before 227 a.m.
I'm of no doubt that the only time those two searches were conducted was at 6.23 and 624.
Okay.
So that's what he's saying.
Um, and his name is what's this guy's name again?
Something like that.
Ian Wiffin.
Let's look this guy up real quick.
He's probably a representative of John O'Keefe.
He's probably like the guy that Cellbright sends to testify in cases like this.
Yeah, he's a Cellbright expert.
Full testimony, Karen Reed.
Yeah.
So a lot of the times these law enforcement companies, they'll have someone on standby and they'll go and testify on behalf of the company.
And Ian Whiffin, he's uh is probably that guy.
Um, yeah, digital forensic examiner was cell bright, testified in Karen Reed's second uh murder trial today, Monday, April 28th about his analysis of cell phones and the investigation, including Jem McCabe's murder victim, John O'Keeffe's.
So then they have the full testimony here.
Holy shit, they put this nigga on the stand for six hours.
So they brought him back.
Because you can see, look, he's dressed differently here than before.
So this must have been the...
This was the where the hell did I put it?
This was the first trial.
And then it looks like he came back for the second trial.
Two searches were conducted was at 623 and 624.
And this is obviously very important, guys, because for the state and for the defense, this this kind of makes the situation.
Did she text before or after saying how long to die?
On The morning of the 29th.
The defense also raised questions about the police investigation.
Had you ever used a leaf blower in a crime scene preservation effort?
First time.
Not once.
Did you mention?
But this video.
Now, here, this is important as well.
This is the um when they were inventorying the car when the cops were.
Is actually completely inverted.
Not no.
Lead investigator, Trooper Michael Proctor also came under fire.
She's a whack job.
He's reading back his text messages about her.
No ass.
Now Reed faces a new jury.
And new story.
Wait, did this nigga say no ass?
Bruh.
No ass.
Ha ha ha.
Now Reed faces.
You must watch uh Fresh African shit, bro.
That's that fresh quote.
Quel commit a new joke.
W Trooper.
Fury and new special prosecutor Hank Brennan plans to introduce new evidence, including molds made of Chloe's mouth.
Chloe is the German.
So that's crazy that they took the like the teeth marks of a dog.
Shepard owned by the Albert family during the night in question.
Those wounds were inflicted by a dog attack.
But they actually got rid of the dog altogether.
Do you know that?
Yeah, so after the case happened, guys, they re-homed the dog.
They, you know, basically gave him to somebody else, and then also they sold the house.
They sold the house and got out of there.
That Chloe exists, that we provided notice to you that we went up and saw Chloe.
And took molds.
New evidence could also include new testing of the SUV's telemetric system.
New video of Brian Higgins at Canton PD and Reed's prior interviews, including with ABC News.
Yep, now they're gonna use that against her because remember, guys, after the mistrial, she went ahead and did a little bit of a press run.
And uh they're absolutely gonna use these um interviews that she gave with all these television networks against her.
Snowing, John has no coat on, it's windy, so drop him off.
He goes up the driveway and approaches the side door.
The changes might signal a different defense, and possibly the defendant taking the stand.
And you also mentioned to the media that there are some things that you wish that you could clarify.
Is there any any helping?
Look at all those people, bro.
Clarified one day, Matt.
They'll be clarified.
might not be live, but it one kicked off with fiery Hank Brennan says, Reed hi in a drunken fight and le the snow, citing phone da words.
But the defense has Alan Jackson says this is a cover-up, blaming corrupt cops and even suggesting O'Keefe was mauled by a dog and his body moved.
A first responder was the first to take the stand recalling Now, I'll be honest with you guys.
If the guys in the house actually did whoop his ass, it's a little weird and a little bit of a stretch that they would take the body and just put him outside.
Right?
Uh a couple of these guys are like trained investigators that were in the house.
So why would they go ahead and whoop his ass, right?
He gets banned by the dog and just leave him there.
And depend on Karen Reed to come back so they could put the blame on her.
That's something that's a bit far-fetched.
Being honest with y'all.
With the defense's theory.
But again, there's a lot of evidence on this thing.
So, you know, like I said before, it's not about what happened, it's about what can you what can you prove.
So that's what it really comes down to.
Thank you.
Reed saying, I hit him three times.
Then John O'Keefe's close friend, Carrie Roberts described the frantic search that ended with O'Keefe's body in the snow.
Let's take a look.
So now they're gonna go into the state's official opening statement.
We'll play a little bit of this.
At 6 04 a.m. on January 29th, 2022, the alarm bell sounded and you can't fire the car.
Firefighter paramedic to me, not all.
You knew what that meant.
Because the car pulled up the 34 vehicle, the ambulance he stood at the back door.
All right, I won't play.
has a strong Boston accent.
So I'll just play this shit at normal speed for you guys.
The door's open.
You could hear a woman screaming and shrieking.
Now he wanted any information.
Because when you're trying to save someone, you want to know are they on drugs?
Medication, do they have a heart condition?
And he looked up at Miss Reed and he said, What happened?
And you'll hear her words to a firefighter, not all.
She said, I hit him, I hit him, I hit him.
You will learn that on January 29th, 2022, when the defendant and Mr. O'Keefe were in front of 34 Pay of U Road.
We will learn that Mr. Kyokie's got out of the car.
And he stood by the side of the road after an argument with the defendant.
That argument that anger by heavy intoxication.
And her SUV drove away.
She drove at least 35 feet away, arguably told her.
It ended.
Put the leftist movie parts.
Put her foot on the gas pedal and be the end of press.
Not 25%.
Not 50%.
Up to 75%.
Bro, that's crazy.
Women can't drive, huh?
Or park.
She clicked John O'Keefe.
He fell backwards, hit his head, broke his skull, and she simply drove away.
This man who helped, a lifetime of help, was blessed at the corner of that yard, blessed to die with no help.
What?
What?
There was no collision with John O'Keefe.
There was no collision.
There was no collision.
You'll see from the evidence in this case that this case carries a malignancy.
A cancer that cannot be cut out, a cancer that cannot be cured.
And that cancer has a name.
His name is Michael Proctor.
He was the lead investigator on the case, the case officer, the architect of the entire prosecution.
You'll learn there's not a single part of this case, folks, not a single part that he didn't touch, that he didn't direct, that he didn't orchestrate personally.
He didn't care about finding the truth.
In his world, his priority was to protect the brotherhood, to protect that blue wall, to protect his friends who were at the Albert's house that night.
You'll also learn after this incident, and within days of one another, both Brian Higgins and Brian Albert, both police officers, both trained investigators, got rid of their phones.
And what else you'll learn?
Brian Brian Albert got rid of.
Shortly after this incident, Brian Albert got rid of his house, the whole thing.
Just sold it.
His childhood home, a home that had been in the Albert.
Yeah, see, and again, this is what the defense is gonna do, right?
They're gonna all they need to do is create like reasonable doubt.
And this is fantastic doing a fantastic job of creating like, hey, look, man.
Like the government might have this evidence, but look at all the stuff that's going on where she might not be culpable.
And that's the defense's job.
It's not to prove you innocent, guys, it's to prove you might be innocent and create that reasonable doubt.
He literally sold it, mere months after this incident.
It's not that the defense wins, that it's that the prosecution loses.
Anytime someone is not found guilty, the prosecution lost the case.
It's not that the defense won.
Because as the defense, you are under no obligation to present your own witnesses, you're under no obligation to prevent to um provide any testimony.
You don't have to do anything.
You're just sitting there to defend against the government.
The government's gotta, or the state in this case, the state's got to prove everything.
But this case, interestingly enough, you can see that the defense is actually on the attack on this.
Okay, they're providing their own expert witnesses, they're providing their own theories, they're providing their own recollection of the story.
So it's not, and that's another reason why this case is so big, Chad.
The reason why this case is so big Is because most cases, the defense is literally just on the defense.
They're sitting there just trying to, you know, take the strikes and and uh keep the defendant from going to jail and try to create a little bit of reasonable doubt by attacking the witnesses from the state or the government.
But in this situation, you're actually seeing the defense take a more aggressive posture and go after the witnesses in the case, go after the evidence, and then on top of that, bring their own experts to attack the government's witnesses.
So that's why this case is so big.
And then the fact that it involves a small town, a bunch of cops, you know, there's the possibility of a cover-up, etc.
You know, it has all the makings of a huge true crime case, obviously.
House sold.
You'll learn that all these things happened shortly after the incident where John O'Keefe was found unresponsive and dying in Brian Albert's front lawn.
You'll learn that during the trial, the Commonwealth beer bears the highest burden known to our justice system.
They must prove every element of every charge beyond a reasonable doubt.
And they're not gonna be able to do that.
Not when every piece of this case was handled by a disgraced investigator with a motive to protect his friends, not when the physical evidence contradicts their very theory, not when their own medical examiner will call this case a homicide.
By the end of this trial, you'll conclude that Karen Reed is not guilty of hitting John O'Keefe with her SUV.
There was no collision.
She's the victim of a botched and biased and corrupted investigation that was never about the truth, folks.
It was about preserving loyalty.
And at the end of this trial, we'll ask you to return the only verdicts, all three of them, that are consistent with the evidence, the science, the truth, and justice.
not guilty not guilty not guilty As you were nailing, I want you to take us.
So this is one of the firefighters that showed up on the crime scene early on.
So that moment as you're nailing trying to help Mr. O'Keefe, did you have a chance at any point to look up?
I did.
And when you looked up when you were trying to help Mr. O'Keefe, can you tell us who you saw?
Um, I saw a middle-aged male, uh scared, mid-middle-aged female, um with uh blood on her face.
And I, real quick, as I was in the process of uh providing ventilations, I said, uh, do you do you know this person?
When you looked up and saw um that person and asked about any background, what did she say to you?
Uh I hit him, I hit him, I hit him.
How clearly do you remember her words saying to you, I hit him, I hit him, I hit him.
I remember it very distinctly.
*music*
What was the reason that you woke up?
Um, I got a phone call at five o'clock in the morning from Karen Reed.
Were you expecting a call?
No, I was not.
Had you ever received a call at five in the morning from Miss Reed before?
No.
Share with us what happened that morning.
What did you hear?
Um, Karen called and was the first thing she said was, Carrie, Carrie, Carrie, John's dead.
And then she hung up.
So as you approached Fairview, tell us what happens.
Um, as we approached Fairview at the house.
You mean the house or the street?
Yes.
Yes, the house.
The house.
Um Jen said, My sister's house is right up here.
And I said, Okay.
And as we approached the house, Karen from the back seat is now screaming, there he is, there he is.
Let me f out of this car.
And she's kicking the back door to get out.
Okay, what happened to next?
And then I unlocked the car.
I looked over, I didn't see anything.
And I unlocked it so she could get out of the back seat.
I looked at Jen and I said, She's crazy.
And then I turned around and watched, and she ran over to a bound of snow.
When she started running before she got anywhere, did you see anything at that point?
I did not.
On day two, Carrie Roberts returned to the stand.
She got emotional as she described finding O'Keefe's body and remembered Reed asking if she might have hit him, even pointing out Her already broken tail light.
The defense went after her hard, calling her memory into question and suggesting she was swayed by a mutual friend Jen McCabe.
Then came gut-wrenching testimony from John's mother, Peggy O'Keefe.
She denied ever telling Reed that John looked like he'd been hit by a car.
Something Reed claimed in a media interview.
The state played a 2020 clip when Reed talked about Peggy's suspicion.
Prosecutors say that showed a consciousness of guilt.
We also heard from law enforcement, first responders, and forensic technicians digging into data from O'Keeffe's phone and Reed's behavior during her psyche eval.
Music When you came out of Meadows, did you have a chance again to look at the defendant's tail light on her Lexus?
Yes.
Karen pointed out and said, Look, my tail light, and I said, she said, Do you think I hit him?
And I said, No, I don't think you hit him.
What are you talking about?
Let's just go find him.
Did you have any reason?
Uh Matt Murdoch says, Myron, when you say uh beyond a reasonable doubt, does that mean uh the defendant only needs to make it seem like there's a 1% chance of being innocent?
Not trying to troll actually want to know.
Not 1%, but it's it's basically to show, like, hey, you know, there's a si there's a there's a good chance there that there's some doubt here.
There's some doubt here.
That's basically what we're trying to do.
That's what the defense is trying to do.
Create doubt, attack the witnesses, attack their evidence, and then that's what's you know, kind of creates this element of doubt, and that's what the defense's job is to do.
That's why I always say, when it comes to criminal trials, guys, it's not about winning for the defense, it's about the prosecution losing.
To think at that point that she hit anybody?
No.
Did she ever repeat that phrase or question in the same or similar manner again that night?
Um, she did at the scene where we found John.
How often was the yelling on the way to Fairview?
Oh, several times.
It was like you you couldn't control her.
And I was trying to drive in a blink.
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Can you take us back and describe for us what you see?
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Um body was completely covered, but his head was completely covered, so I started to dig around his face and his eyes, and um his left eye was fine, but his right eye looked like it was huge.
Um, like he had had something happened to it.
Um after that I told Karen to get off him.
We were gonna start CPR.
Was anything said at that point about her tail light?
About what?
Her tail light.
No, when the EMTs were around and they were working on the body, she was running around um and saying, Did I hit him?
Did I hit him?
Is he dead?
Is he dead?
Oh man, that's crazy.
When you were trying to save Mr. O'Keefe, did you ever see any signs of life?
I did not.
And I checked his pulse.
Um, I did not.
You saw the interaction between all three of you and the vehicles, correct?
Yeah.
At any point, did anybody stop and take a look at the tail light or the rear end of the car?
Not when we were entering the house like I thought, but when we came out.
Okay.
And there's no video of that.
I'm sorry?
There's no video of that.
No, I don't believe so.
Right.
So the video that does exist describes nearly exactly the time that you testified that y'all stopped at the back of the tail light, and Karen said, Look, my tail light's broken.
Oh my god, do you think I hit him?
Correct.
Okay.
Uh, and that obviously was incorrect.
It was incorrect.
So your memory was faulty about that incident.
That part of that incident.
Oh shit.
It happened on the case.
I think this is her on cross-examination.
That sounds like uh Karen Reed's defense attorney.
On the way out of the house.
So your memory was faulty about that part of the incident that you testified to at the grand jury.
Yes.
Okay.
Fucked her up right there, man.
Fucked her up right there.
So they can't find it on the video, apparently.
Let me see if we can find this dash cam footage.
Let me let me see.
Let's get this fucking dash cam footage.
And let's listen to it ourselves.
This is because obviously this evidence is huge about what she said, right?
when this all happened previously been marked as 12a Okay, so this is I think one of the troopers that was on the scene.
Let's go ahead and zoom in on the upper left-hand corner.
Okay.
Go ahead and play.
Oh no, this isn't it.
This is this is the fucking car.
We need the dash cam.
Alright, you know what?
I think we can go.
We can use this bimbo's car.
Or let's see here.
We'll use this one.
Before we get into today's video, I just want to let you guys know that this video is for educational purposes only.
Please remember to be kind to everybody everywhere.
Opening statements went on to say that at least four officers initially searched Brian's yard at 34.
Whatever they stopped it about 10 minutes in to end the day.
so here's the vehicle right right there and the females are right there Huh?
Yeah, so they came on scene later I I think this is Karen right here on the left chat.
Running around.
You can hear her screaming.
You can hear her screaming.
Again, we're supposed to see the rest of the body cam footage on Tuesday, but she definitely seemed to be in distress and shocked that he was not alive.
She's on trial now.
We've seen before.
Okay, when this is a year ago.
Okay.
It was incorrect.
This is important.
So you testified that y'all stopped at the back of the tail light, and Karen said, look, my tail light's broken.
Oh my god, do you think I hit it?
Correct.
Correct.
Okay.
Uh and that obviously was incorrect.
It was incorrect.
So you're cooked.
Memory was faulty about that incident.
That part of that incident.
Just completely destroyed her credibility.
At least.
It happened on the way out of the house.
So your memory was faulty about that part of the incident that you testified to at the grand jury.
Yes.
Okay.
I'm showing you a photograph.
Okay.
And can you tell us what you see?
That's my sign.
Thank you.
Yes.
I want to go back to the morning of January 29th.
2022.
Is that okay?
Yeah.
Were you home?
I was home in Brain Tree.
In Braintree.
Who were you with?
My husband.
Did you receive a phone call?
2022.
From Carrie.
Karen Robinson.
Yeah.
It was about 6.15.
Between 6.15 and 63 in the morning.
When she called you that morning, do you remember the conversation?
Yeah, she said John was found in a snowbank.
And I I didn't understand, which I said, what do you mean?
Found in a snowbank.
She's they found him in the snow.
They don't know what happened.
She says he's brought up to the Good Samaritan hospital.
And then they said, uh, okay, you can go down.
So we started walking down the corridor.
And as I'm walking down.
I hear Karen Reed yell.
Peg, is he dead?
Is he dead, Peg?
peg as it did.
And I just kept walking.
And then I asked, I don't know who it was, a nurse or a worker at the hospital.
And I said, What is she doing here?
She says, Oh, she's being psychoevaluated.
So then they brought us down to the room where my son was.
He's bruised up.
His eyes were closed.
He's bruised.
Ugh, it's just not a good scene.
On day three, tension rose right away.
Judge ruled that jurors could see a clip of Reed mocking John's mother Peggy.
The courtroom felt it.
Things heated up as the prosecution zoomed in on the couple's rocky relationship in the hours leading up to John O'Keefe's death.
Special prosecutor Hank Brennan dropped a bombshell.
A series of texts that paint a picture of a romance unraveling fast.
And one text, Karen Reed asked Buntley, tell me if you're interested in someone else.
John replies, Nope things haven't been great between us for a while.
Ever consider that?
Then came the call log.
Dozens of unanswered calls from Reed to O'Keefe that same afternoon.
One message from John Reed.
And I think that's why Proctor was calling her crazy, because she called him 50 times.
Which I mean, kinda is justified, bro.
He called somebody 50 times, goddamn, bro.
But then came a twist.
Michael Camarano, a friend of John's, painted a peaceful picture of the night before.
He said Karen seemed caring, even trustworthy.
The next morning when he went to pick up John's niece, Reed seemed distraught.
The jury also heard clips from Karen Reed's own interviews where she downplayed how much she drank that night, though she did admit to being impaired.
The.
In April of 2022, before the grand jury, Mr. Lally asked you, quote, what if any questions did she ask you regarding hypothermia?
Do you remember that?
Who's this guy?
In April.
Okay, paramedic.
In April of 2022, before the grand jury, Mr. Lally asked you, quote, what if any questions did she ask you regarding hypothermia?
Do you remember that question?
I do.
Your answer was she was just wondering if he could have survived outside in the cold, even though he didn't have a jacket on.
Do you remember giving that answer?
I do.
No.
2024, last year.
Mr. Lally asked you, so Firefighter Whitley, at some point, specific to your conversations with the defendant, Ms. Reed.
Can you describe sort of her demeanor or any observations you made in relation to that as you were speaking with her?
And your answer was yes.
She asked if somebody could be alive in the snow without a jacket for many hours, correct?
Correct.
So 2022, there was no mention of many hours.
2024, over time.
Now that's the first time that you mentioned the words many hours in your testimony regarding this.
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Correct?
Correct.
It always was a question, correct?
It was a question.
She never said what you said on cross examination yesterday, which was she said that he had been out in the snow without a jacket on for many hours.
That was not a declarative statement by Ms. Reed, correct?
Objection.
I'll allow that.
Was that a declarative statement by Ms. Reed?
She asked if she if he could be alive without a jacket in the snow for many hours.
So it again, it was a question, sir.
She asked me.
Alright, now Michael Camarano, victim friend.
John O'Keefe, of course.
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Take you forward to January 28th of 2022.
Okay.
Do you remember that day?
Yes.
Had you, without any discussion of what might have been said, did you have any discussions with John that day?
Yes.
At some point, did you decide that you were going to spend some time or go meet John?
Yes.
Where did you go?
We went to see if McCarthy's.
Were you drinking?
Yes.
Was John drinking?
Yes.
Alcohol?
Yes.
How long were you there for?
Uh a couple hours.
Did you do anything significant when you got home?
Um put the kids to bed, my my son.
And um, no, I went to bed.
What's the next thing you remember happening?
Waking up to um, I missed some phone calls.
What were the missed phone calls from?
From my wife and Karen.
What did you do?
I called my wife.
After speaking to your wife, what did you do?
I got in my car and drove to John's house.
About what time was this?
Uh these accents are crazy, man.
In between maybe 5 and 6 a.m.
What was your mood at that point?
Um, I was panicked.
You were very close with your friend John O'Keefe, correct?
I was close with him, yes.
And you actually met Karen Reed through John, correct?
Correct.
During the month before John's passing, that January of 2022, um, you observed their relationship in your presence to be normal, caring, and affectionate, right?
Yes.
You were asked a number of questions about the relationship between John and Karen that night.
Do you know what was going on behind closed doors other than what you saw?
I'll allow it.
No.
Do you know whether or not John was trying to end the relationship with Miss Reed?
Do you know that, sir?
No.
Next question.
Do you know if there was any jealousy in that relationship?
I mean she she I mean, Karen wouldn't let I mean they did everything together, a lot of things together, and I thought at times, yeah, you could see, you know, she didn't want other girl women around John.
All right, now Nick uh Gorino, stay police.
From the defendant to John O'Keefe.
Tell me if you're interested in someone else.
Can't think of any other reason you so this is our texting, obviously the the um the victim here.
And like this.
225, 18 p.m. on the 28th.
From John O'Keefe to the defendant, nope.
2253 p.m. on the 28th.
From John O'Keefe to the defendant, things haven't been great between us for a while.
Ever consider that.
So if the call is not answered, that means the call rang out and goes to voicemail.
If the call's rejected, that is someone actively hitting the sent a voicemail button to disable the call to stop it from ringing.
You're I'm going to introduce exhibits or clips.
And apparently 50 calls, man.
That is absolutely nuts.
Seven through eleven.
The drinks.
That they were pouring me at McCarthy's, which is where I consume most of the alcohol.
What's the weakest tonight?
So John's-I said, John, this drink is like no vibe in it.
He said, just get a shot and mix it yourself.
And I'm not as clear as I would be if I hadn't been drinking.
Yeah, see, now they're now they're using her testimony against her, man.
I'm sorry, her interviews against her.
I'm shocked that she did all these TV interviews, man.
Um, knowing that she was gonna have another trial.
Um, you know, talking to the media can put you in a precarious situation because they're gonna analyze every single thing you say to the media, and then they're gonna compare and contrast it with other statements you've given um before.
And the problem here is that um, and this is what they actually did to uh in the Diddy case, guys.
If you guys remember, I talked to you guys about um Cassie and uh Don Richard, and both of them had a lawsuit against Diddy, and the defense was able to use the language in their lawsuits against them in the criminal case.
Okay.
So when you talk to the media or you do a lawsuit, or you do anything out there that's out there, the the prosecution is always going to use that against you, always gonna use that against you, and that's what they did to weaken the the strength of the witnesses.
I mean, I I I had drink, so and that led me to question like could I hit him?
Did I farm over his foot or hit him in the knee?
today incapacitated Friday, day four of the trial.
The jury took a field trip to see the scene of the crime after thoroughly observing the lawn where John O'Keefe was.
The other case that I could think of where they took a field trip to look at the scene of the crime was in the OJ case.
The OJK said did that as well.
Found and Karen Reed's Lexus SUV.
They returned to court to hear an expert testify to Reed's blood alcohol level and an EMT give his statement to Reed's behavior and statements upon finding John's body.
As your honor explained to you, we're going to go to 34 Sherview Road.
Exhibits are already an evidence you haven't had a long time to look at them and study them.
But essentially, we're going to go to 34 Fairview where I ask you just to pay attention to the street, the front yard of the home.
And you'll see to the left side of the front yard in the corner, there'll be a car that's the less that we've spoken about, the defendant's lexus.
And you'll also see a flag pole and a fire hydrogen.
So I'd ask you to take a look at this bandage points, take a look from that area where the flag hole is from where the fire hybrid is.
And you'll see on the street before the grass is all concrete there on top of a little bit of actually just to know what that is.
One thing I suggest is April 25th, 2025, January 22nd.
2022.
So the weather will be very different.
the character will be different, the conditions will be different.
Although the view is not as...
Jerry Vee opening statement.
Okay, and this is from the defense attorney.
Oliver Queen says, we all know how much these 304s lie.
If you have to guess right now, the outcome of the trial, which side are you taking my take Karen has failed, uh Karen Reed has failed the city.
Um let's keep going through and I'll give you guys my take on it.
Although the view is not evidence, I suggest to you that you will find it to be helpful, important, even if necessary, as you later do your investigation of this case within the four walls of this courtroom.
You've already received some evidence, you know, some photos and videos, But there is no substitute to your own two eyes.
When we get to 34 ferry, we will be pointing out certain things that we'd like you to observe.
The house, second floor window, folks, three front doors in the front of the house, the driveway, the street, the front line, and slide.
And we'll be asking you specifically to consider the distance between that second floor front window and the front one.
The distance between the front doors to the house and that front one.
The distance between the driveway to the front.
And we'll be asking you to take a good look at that Lexus.
Just stay in nice with it.
Just size it up.
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Alright now, Gary, Dr. Gary Fowler, uh physician, pathologist, signature health care.
Alright, so this is a week one, right?
Um, we're gonna go into week two after this.
Do you recognize uh those records, sir?
Yes.
And uh what do you recognize those to be?
Um, these uh the medical records of um Karen Reed.
Doctor, what was the result of the testing for alcohol in the defendant's blood uh when it was uh taken shortly after 9 a.m. on January 29th?
Uh 93 milligrams per deciliter.
The Good Samaritan Lab is a clinical lab, not a forensic lab.
Is that right?
Correct.
Can you degree that there are differences between screening tests that are conducted at hospitals and forensic tests that are conducted by law enforcement?
Right?
Yes.
Our test system is is a little bit different than the forensic testing system.
When we compare um our methodology to the headspace, we get almost we get the exact same results.
And Dr. Q did a number of other tests on Ms. Reed on January 29th, 2022.
You tested for additional drugs, not just alcohol, correct?
Correct.
And all of those results were negative.
Correct.
Okay, Jason Becker, Firefighter EMT, Canton Fire Department.
I was lead tech, so you know I'm the one documented, giving a report to the nurses, the staff.
Um, so I was more kind of getting that information, my initial triage questions, um, and then just kind of sat and supported uh Miss Reed and Can you describe her demeanor or temperament?
Yeah, this case is very reliant upon first responders as well, guys.
Um, not common in criminal cases like this, but since her statements about um I hit him, I hit him uh are so pivotal for the prosecution, they're bringing in as many of these guys as they can.
Um initially she was agitated because she she didn't feel like she needed to go to the hospital, but then to be paired, she'd be calm, and it would fluctuate.
She would have um micro-pressured speech, repetitive.
Um, but all in all, she was cooperative.
The last thing she last conversation she had with her husband at the time was an argument.
Um, I didn't feel like it was my role to really find out the details on what was said.
You were talking about an argument that they had, and then she was upset, and you were paraphrasing her, and one of the things that you paraphrased was in fact it your statement was she was upset that that was like her last words to him, correct?
She said that.
Yes, correct.
Okay.
Were you also made aware?
Did she tell you that her last words to him were in voicemails?
Did she say that?
She didn't give any details.
This week proved to be full of drama in Karen Reed's murder retrial.
Two stark versions of the truth are taking shape.
One that Karen Reed snapped after a night of drinking and left John O'Keefe to die.
The other, that she's a victim of a conspiracy far deeper than anyone imagined.
The evidence is mounting, but the truth, still up for debate.
Stay with us as we continue to give you the biggest moments in the trial.
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Uh week two.
A lot more personal.
This week the spotlight turned to forensics, Google searches and key witness testimony with tensions high on both sides.
If you're just now joining us, let's get you caught up on the case.
I'm declaring a mistrial in this case.
After deliberating in Dedham over five days, a mistrial in the case against Karen Reed.
We will not stop fighting.
We have no faces a new jury and new special prosecutor Hank Brennan plans I'm fast forwarding this stuff because we saw before from the other one.
It's windy.
So I drop him off.
He goes up the driveway.
There was witness Jennifer McCabe's controversial could have occurred from 82 degrees shortly after midnight.
You share with us when you first became aware of the data in this case and how that came about.
Uh yes, it was actually uh one of the public related.
And remember, guys, he's the one that said that the text message about how long to die in the snow in the cold.
He's saying that all the text messages only came out at um basically 620 in the morning or whatever he said before.
But basically he he was debunking the whole 2 a.m. one.
Okay, and this guy works for Sellbright, aka the people that extract phones.
Uh to my team, uh, because he'd heard about this case and about the confusion uh regarding a timestamp.
And can you share with us what was the issue?
What was the question that you were actually looking into?
Uh the question was uh related to a timestamp of 22740 uh a.m.
Uh and an internet query that appeared to have occurred at that time.
22740, uh, which was the time of interest.
Uh and we see that a browser switch occurs uh causing the last visitor timestamp to take on the time of 22740.
This is the tab that was ultimately used to search uh Hoss Long to die in cold, which is the query uh that started all of the the confusion.
At this point in time, there's no uh navigational events recorded anywhere.
All we see is that the the web page that was brought into view is Ozone Basketball.com slash teams.
This webpage was last visited uh at 14 minutes after midnight on the 26th of January.
Uh 22742, there is a web navigation event.
Whether this is loaded from a bookmark or whether it's typed in, uh, I can't say.
But a web navigation event occurs uh using the same tab that's just been loaded.
And now the user is uh loading the web page, hocamoxsports.com slash standings.
Uh a few seconds later, 62351.
Uh, the blue button at the bottom of the keyboard is used to submit a search for the term how long to die in Kik D. Importantly, there is no history record made that shows that a navigation actually uh occurred to this pay uh to this website.
Around 1033 34, that tab would have been closed.
Was that the same tab that 22740 tab opened for Hakama sports?
Was that the same tab that later was used?
That's crazy, man.
They have every single keystroke chat.
Isn't that wild?
Every single keystroke.
By the way, I got some protein chips.
and some blueberries.
This is how you don't become a fat nigga.
For searches or attempted searches at 623.51 and at 624 relative to how long or how's long to die in cold.
I believe it was, yes.
Do you have an opinion to a reasonable degree of scientific certainty whether or not that information was removed as a natural application of the phone, or was it because somebody took the phone and actually deleted it by hand?
So again, I don't believe it's possible uh given the situation and the information that's available that it would have been possible for the user to delete it.
Uh I believe it was more than likely a system event that caused that, but I've not been able to replicate that system event.
Did you analyze John O'Keefe's phone on the evening, early morning hours to the next morning on January 29, 2022, in an attempt to identify where he was, what he was doing, and whether his phone was inside or outside?
That was my goal, yes.
Uh 24 minutes and 36 seconds traveling at 3.2 miles an hour.
At 24 minutes 37 seconds traveling at 1.4 miles an hour.
Finally, the device comes to a complete stop at 24 minutes and 38 seconds.
Before that complete stop, was the car continuously moving at some speed?
Uh yes, this is the first record that shows uh zero miles per hour or zero meters per second.
Prior to this, there was always uh a record that showed some level of of speed.
Did this car or the phone that was in the car ever stop at the driveway of that address?
Uh no, according to the the location and the speed data from the device.
Uh, by the time it was approximately the driveway, uh, the phone reports it was still traveling at around 15.9 miles an hour.
Where this car stops, or this phone starts at 1224 33.
How close is the phone to that flagpole?
I believe very close.
And you never do you ever see the car or the phone stop anywhere near that driveway.
No.
At 31 minutes and 56 seconds until 32 minutes and 16 seconds, uh, there were 36 steps recorded.
Uh, and then there was no further health activity recorded on the device for several hours uh until four minutes after six uh a.m.
So you guys, this is why you don't commit a crime with a cell phone on your pocket.
Rose can literally get all this fucking detail on your stuff.
Absolutely wild.
What cell phone track.
Uh when a uh 432 steps were recorded between the time of 604 and 611.
So on the evening of the 29th, sorry, the 28th, uh, see an average temperature of uh around mid-80 uh degree Fahrenheit by 37 minutes uh after midnight.
We now know the device is already at Fairview.
It's been at Fairview for approximately 12 minutes.
Uh and the temperature has continued to drop.
It's now 72 Fahrenheit.
And then you're now at 6.14 and it's 37 degrees.
Yeah, correct.
This is the coldest temperature recorded.
You know what if anything happened to that phone at 6.1501?
Uh I don't know.
32 minutes and four seconds, the device is unlocked using face ID.
SMS applications already on screen from the previous use, and at 32 minutes and nine seconds, uh, the lock button is pressed by the user.
my opinion is that the device never moved far away from the Hwengpul.
Thank you.
details are absolutely wild.
Jennifer McKay, one of the prosecution's star witnesses took the stand on day six.
She described searching for O'Keefe with Karen Reed and Carrie Roberts on the morning of January 29th.
She claimed that as they approached the house on Fairview Road, Reed became hysterical, kicking the door and yelling, there he is, let me out.
McCabe recalled Reed asking, did I hit him?
And described Reed as screaming and yelling.
She testified that neither Reed nor O'Keefe entered her sister's home that night and that no fighting, no violence, and nothing out of sorts occurred in the house.
Meanwhile, two controversial ARCA experts from the defense, Daniel Wolfe and Andrew Rensler were cleared by the judge to testify.
And once again, the defense bringing their own witnesses like this is not normal, guys.
That's what makes this trial so entertaining.
They're bringing in their own witnesses.
As a general matter, is the Waze application more accurate than the Apple information regarding location?
It's the same thing.
It's the same thing because it's coming essentially from the same source, correct?
Yes, Apple provides the information to Waze.
You focused your testimony and your opinions on the smaller black circle, correct?
Correct.
The fair way to interpret, and this is what you put in your report, this is your depiction, is that it based upon what you said yesterday, the phone could be at the very edge of the top of the circle, correct?
Correct.
And the phone could also be at any point, so you can in theory put a phone anywhere around the very edges of that entire circle, correct?
There's caveats to that, but yes.
In June of 2024, when you testified, under oath, the situation with the forensic tools was celebrite forensics insights did not show the 22740 a.m. timestamp.
But another version of physical analyzer did show it, correct?
Correct.
In that second program, that second tool, physical analyzer, not only showed it at 227.40 a.m., but it showed it as a deleted state, correct?
It's a deleted record, yes.
So with regard to the first proceeding, there was one celebrite forensic tool that still showed the 22740 a.m. timestamp.
Correct.
However, now, the reason why this is so important, guys, for the prosecution, because this is the prosecution right now.
Um, because I if I'm not mistaken, this Sellbright guy is the defense's witness.
So the prosecution is cross-examining him.
Okay.
So the reason why the state is really focused on this 227 timeline is because they're trying to show that her asking that beforehand shows guilt and awareness of what she was doing.
Versus what the defense is saying, where the defense is alleging that that search was done after they found his body and excuse me.
After he found his body, uh, and trying to figure out how long does it take for someone to die from the cold.
Does that make sense, guys?
So obviously, very different.
So one at 227, prosecutors saying, hey, she said that at 227 because she had ideas, she knew what she was doing, and she tried to kill him.
The defense is saying, no, she put that search in there so that um she could figure out how long it takes for someone to die, because they were trying to resuscitate him.
However, the competitor of Celebrite that we just talked about, Magnet Frank's Axion.
Yes.
That program at the first proceeding showed the two.
Basically, prosecution wants 227, defense wants 6 a.m.
Make it simple for y'all.
After 6 a.m.
The defense wants after 6, the prosecution is pussing for the 227.
Correct.
And as a matter of fact, as you sit here today, the magnet forensics program, Axiom, still shows now.
Axiom is the software that they use for the report after it's done from the Celbright, by the way.
Axiom, this came up in the Diddy case actually while I was in New York, guys.
Axiom, once all the stuff is extracted from the Celbright, well, it's a bunch of raw data.
It's very difficult to read and interpret, has a bunch of numbers and lines, all this other shit.
So it needs to be put in a format where it's easy to read and decipher.
That's where the axiom report comes in.
That's what he's referring to in this.
The 2274 a.m. timestamp, correct?
As far as I know, yes.
And Magnet Forexic Axiom is a reputable company, right?
Correct.
Celebrite removed that 22740 a.m. timestamp, which is an intermediate state, in response to issues raised in the first proceeding, right?
It was changed because of the research that I did, and that was verified by the forensic research group.
But the issue arose because of what had come up in the first proceeding, correct?
In the first investigation prior to the proceeding, yes.
In the first investigation in this case, correct?
Yes.
So celebrate after the first proceeding, after the investigation, just outright went and removed the timestamp.
Oh.
See what the prosecution is trying to do here?
Again, prosecution is trying to discredit this witness and say, look, you guys removed this critical timestamp.
That shows that Reed is culpable for the murder.
That's why they're harping on this so much, chat.
It's not unusual to change the case.
I didn't ask you if it I just asked you whether they removed it.
Are you a detective in your present role helping aid one side or another in an Wait, you're saying that's no, no, no, chat?
Hold on.
No, that doesn't make sense.
I don't the is the Celebrite guy the government's the state's witness?
Let me double check.
I'll double check chat.
I'll fact check it right now.
I'm not no.
At some point, you and I spoke about reviewing phones.
We did.
You had begun your whole process and some of this work before you had met me.
Correct.
And I'd asked you to look at Mr. O'Keefe's phone.
Correct.
Did I ever tell you what you should look for?
No.
Did I ever tell you what I wanted to see or what I wanted the results to be?
No.
Did I ever share with you parts of the investigation that had nothing to do with your actual data?
Um analysis?
No.
Is that the only time that the phone moves from the point it stops at the flagpole until the next morning?
Correct.
The only time.
Correct.
1231 56 to 1232 16.
Yes.
At 1232 16, when that phone stops moving, John O'Keefe's phone stops moving.
Do you know the next time it moves again?
It's approximately 6.15.
Less than five minutes later, 1237, that battery in that cell phone gets another temperature reading.
And it goes down to what degrees?
Uh 72 degrees.
And over the next eight minutes, is that temperature even or go up?
Uh 43 minutes uh past.
That was another reading of 66 Fahrenheit.
And then at 1253, that's about what, 21 minutes or so after that phone stops moving.
What's the temperature?
61 Fahrenheit.
61 degrees?
Yes.
And over the next 14 minutes.
Does it drop again?
Uh it does.
It drops to 55 degrees.
Yes, yes.
I know, guys, that it's it's it's it's McCabe's phone that they're searching here.
No, I understand That.
But what I'm saying is that's a little weird because he's he's hurting their case by saying it's at 6 a.m.
That's why that's what I'm trying to figure out what how the fuck this guy's a state witness.
Let me uh I'll I'll look at this, guys.
Keep going.
We'll keep watching.
Uh uh 107.
And at 136 a.m. that morning.
It's down to 50 degrees.
Does this healthcare data show that this phone hasn't moved in the 1232 16?
No more steps.
recorded How close is your friendship with John O'Keefe at that time?
He was a very good friend of mine that I knew I could call for anything.
Um my sister Nicole sent me a text and said that she was going to be at the waterfall, and it was my nephew's birthday.
He was gonna meet up and did I want to come by for a drink.
When the group was together, you mentioned a number of people joined.
Were you joined by other people later?
Yes.
Who were you joined by later?
I'm John O'Keefe and Karen Reed.
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Oh, my bad, guys, I had it mixed up.
He is a he has a girl, he's a state witness.
My bad chat.
McCabe returned for a second day of testimony on day seven, and defense attorney Alan Jackson did not hold back.
He accused her of potentially coordinating her story with witness Carrie Roberts.
A claim McCabe denied.
Jackson then challenged McCabe's credibility, bringing up her statements to outside investigators.
But Cabe initially said she called just two people after the incident, but under cross, she admitted to three more calls, including one to John O'Keefe's mother, Peggy O'Keefe.
She also confirmed she did not hear a collision or a cry for help outside the house.
But perhaps the most incriminating moment when asked if Karen Reed said I hit him at the scene, McCabe testified, quote, I was there the morning of January 29th when your client said I hit him, I hit him, I hit him.
Before the chest compressions, did you make a phone call?
I called 911.
So I was in shock.
Um my heart was racing.
Um I was trying to be as helpful as I could and get the information to the most important information out as quick as I could tune the 911 operators.
Um, but also the scene there with Karen and um Okay, so sorry guys, let me clarify this shit.
That's my bad.
So basically, right, the prosecution needs it to be at 6 a.m., right?
Uh because for it to be at 6 a.m.
Because McCabe, this chick right here.
Right, this chick right here.
It was on her phone, right?
The search was on her phone, how long to die in the cold.
And the prosecution needs she's a prosecution witness, so they need it to be at 6 23 a.m. so that they can say, look, this was after they discovered his body that she searched this to see how long he had been there.
But the defense is saying that at 2 22 a.m. that she did the search because they had beat him in the house and then left him for death in the cold.
That's what the defense is saying.
So she searched it four hours earlier because at that point he had already been outside of the house and they beat him.
That's what it is.
So sorry about that, guys.
That confusion.
Um, the most important information out um as quick as I could tune it the 911.
So, in short, the prosecution needs a 623 timestamp.
The defense needs a 222 timestamp.
Or there's this, or to make it even simpler, the prosecution needs a 6 a.m. timestamp, the defense needs the 2 a.m. timestamp.
Because the prosecutor shouldn't be saying that she rightfully searched how long it takes to die in the cold after finding McCabe's body at around 6 o'clock.
And then the defense is saying, no, she knew that he was dying at around two o'clock because they had whooped his ass before and threw him outside of the house.
That's why she searched it.
So that those are the two different conflicting narratives here.
Sorry for that, guys.
I uh I hope I didn't confuse you guys too much.
But that that's that's what it is.
One and here she is right here, and she's one of the main witnesses for the government or well, the state.
Operators, Um, but also the scene there with Karen and um Kerry was a bit chaotic between the two of them.
Um so I I was just trying my best to be as calm as I could to get help there as fast as I could and to answer their questions the best that I could.
Before you told the 911 operator, John O'Keefe's name and his age, um, you said there's a man in the snow.
Do you know why you chose those words?
I think I just wanted to get out the the most specific details.
So a man in the snow versus you know, John O'Keefe and into a story.
He was bleeding from the face area.
Was that before or after he was moved?
After any point during the time when you tried to help Mr. O'Keefe and the first police officer arrived.
At any point did you see any signs of life from Mr. O'Keefe?
No.
The police officer, not sure specific.
I do remember him asking um about John.
I think he said is he a drug user?
He was just asking some basic questions.
And what's the environment?
What's going on around you?
Um Karen's just running around crazy, like just yelling, screaming, um, kind of like a ping pong.
One of the offices thought it would be best if maybe she went and just sat in um one of the cruisers for a little bit, because she was just doing a lot of screaming and yelling, and I think they were just trying to, you know, get you know, work on John and make the scene a little less chaotic.
She started yelling and pulling on me to um Google hypothermia and Google how long it takes for somebody, you know, to die in the cold.
Was this the first time that morning after the defendant asked you to search that you searched that phrase?
Yes, it was.
Did you hear or do you remember the defendant saying anything to the first responder?
Yes.
What did she say?
Um she told the first responder I hit him, I hit him, I hit him.
When she told the first responder I hit him, how did you react?
I was um like startled, kind of like, what are you saying?
What are you talking about?
Did you say anything to the defendant?
Um I think after the second or third time she was saying it, I was like, Karen, Karen, like what are you saying?
I was extr uh extremely concerned.
I was calling Kerry, um trying to get updates.
I think deep down I knew that John was gone.
Um, but you know, this until you hear it, I think there was that little bit of hope, maybe.
Did you speak to her again later that day?
No, I think I texted her asking her for Kerry's number because I didn't have it.
Did you hear back?
No.
Did you ever speak to Miss Reed again?
No, I've never spoken to her again.
Neither one of you, your good friend Carrie Roberts and you have ever discussed either of your testimonies between that time and this time.
No, we've discussed the case and we've discussed what happened to that moment, the moments of the morning, but we have not discussed testimony.
As you said, that's your story.
Correct.
My story.
Did you practice your testimony with any member of the DA's office?
No.
How long in total would you say that's not true?
Bro, they prepare you for fucking trial.
They prepare you for trial, so you kind of do practice your testimony.
This is very common in trials.
That doesn't make sense.
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Um but yeah, yeah, no, Sam, he we had him on the show a bit a before.
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All of those meetings were.
I really can't give you a an estimate.
I think the first one was fairly quick.
The second one, you know, one of them was a little bit longer, maybe a couple hours.
You're contacted by another law enforcement agency that was not Massachusetts State Police and not Canton Police Department at one point in April of 2023.
Do you remember that?
Yes.
You were contacted at your residence by these uh members of this law enforcement agency, correct?
Yes.
All right.
During the course of that interview, those officers informed you very specifically, Miss McCabe, that it is a crime to lie to them even during an interview, correct?
Yes.
One of the first calls you made after being contacted by this other law enforcement these other law enforcement officers from a different agency.
Uh one of the first calls you made was to Carrie Roberts.
Is that right?
She was the first one.
That's what I'm asking.
One of the first two calls you made.
Your husband.
Right.
And Carrie Roberts.
Okay.
Yes.
Your motive in calling Carrie Roberts at that moment before your interview was to ensure that your story would line up with her story, Miss McCabe.
Isn't that right?
No, that is not.
You wanted to find out if she had talked to these particular law enforcement officers and what she had told them.
So as you guys know, you know, corroboration is is critical when it comes to witness testimony.
So and this is why actually in a Diddy case, again, use that as an example.
They're they brought on like two of Diddy's assistants and other people so they can create what's called foundation.
And uh when they're doing that, what they're doing is they're trying to show, like, look, um, you know, it let's say Cassie, right, with the whole grape situation.
I told you guys before how, like, you know, it you can interpret it as her lying.
Well, the thing is is that when there's other people corroborating her story with her timeline and stuff like that, it does add credibility to what she's saying.
So a lot of times what the prosecution will do is they'll bring people in that have almost the same narrative to corroborate and um bolster up other witnesses who might not be as credible.
That your story could somehow align or it could inform how you responded to questions that they asked you.
Isn't that true?
That's not true.
We both know what happened.
We don't have to have a story.
there is no story there's what happened and that's it McCatson scrutinized her evolving statements and phone calls and texts.
She adamantly defended herself and any of her actions.
Meanwhile, forensic scientist Hannah Knowles testified that retrograde analysis estimated Reed's blood alcohol content was between 0.14% and 0.28% around 1245 a.m.
well over Massachusetts legal limit of 0.08%.
You're aware that your phone records actually show that at 5 07 you called the 34 Fairview, Nicole Alberts, correct?
Correct.
You actually see your sister Nicole that morning?
I did not speak to my sister, no.
So that 38-second called to voicemail?
I'm not sure.
All I can tell you is I never spoke to my sister Nicole that morning.
There was nothing, there's nothing nefarious.
I remembered who I called.
I didn't go back and look at phone records.
I didn't say it was nefarious.
Why would you use the word nefarious?
Because there's nothing about me calling my sister that is nefarious, and I feel like you're insinuating it might be, and it's not.
You've indicated on on direct examples.
That's definitely what is insinuating.
And earlier on cross-examination That you had multiple phone calls to Mr. O'Keefe.
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In the early morning hours of January 29th, 2022, correct?
Correct.
Miss McCabe, these are there's seven calls.
What's your explanation?
I think I was going back and forth to the door.
I was texting him.
I think I put my phone in my pocket.
I think I inadvertently maybe have crawled him.
What did you call it at the last hearing?
Um, I believe I called it a butt dial.
And it's not just one butt dial, correct?
There could be multiple, yes.
Seven butt dials in the course of 19 minutes.
And we only know about these calls because you're looking at an extraction of John O'Keefe's phone, correct?
Correct, but I also turned over my phone, so you could have gotten all of that off of my phone as well.
And you're well aware that an extraction was done on your phone, and not one of those butt dials appears on your phone extraction, correct?
Are you aware of that?
I am not aware of that.
You Google searched the phrase Hustlong to die in cold.
Yes or no?
Yes.
On January 29th, correct?
Yes.
You agree that there was a search done at 227 a.m., correct?
I don't recall doing a search at 227.
The paper says it.
I don't.
Do you deny that you deleted a Google search off your phone?
I never deleted a Google search off my phone.
So you denied it.
Never did that.
I deny it, yes.
Okay, now we're really getting into the shit, man.
Here we go.
Now he's now he's getting into the part where he really needs to know because this is obviously a critical moment right now.
Because this is one of the government the state's main witnesses, and they're trying to attack her credibility about this Google search.
Yes.
So you have a situation where a man is laying dead or dying in the front yard of your sister's house.
You see nothing in terms of life inside the house.
Lights aren't coming on, they're not getting up, they're certainly not coming outside.
Did you think your sister might have been in peril?
Did you think to go inside the house and check that they're okay?
I had no reason to think that they weren't okay.
You had no reason to believe they weren't okay.
A man was dead or dying on their lawn, and your sister's not answering the phone, and nobody is coming out to the chaos.
Okay, we're smiling.
You didn't think it was some reason to believe they could have been in peril.
I didn't because your client was screaming she hit him.
She had a cracked tail light.
She was crying, she hit him.
I didn't, but my focus.
Can I finish, please?
You had solved the crime right then and there.
You saw the whole case.
No, I didn't.
I knew John never came in in the house, so I had no concern for anyone's safety inside the house.
The reason you didn't go inside the house is because you knew better.
You knew better.
You knew she wasn't in peril.
You knew that Brian Albert wasn't in peril.
You weren't worried at all about them, were you?
I was not worried at all because something happened on the front lawn that had nothing to do with anything inside that house.
Just so you guys know, the reason why she's covering for them so hard is because her brother-in-law Okay.
Um Brian Albert, the cop, he's the one that owned that house at 34 Fairview.
You weren't worried about them at all because you knew what really happened.
At that moment, I didn't know that he was hit by a vehicle, and there was taillight found next to him.
you And that wraps week two.
Alright, now we got uh week three right here.
Testimony from 74 witnesses during the nine-week trial.
And all of a sudden, Karen said, There he is, there he is.
Let me the F out of this car, and she started kicking the door.
I hit him, I hit him.
She repeated, I hit him.
And then she was saying, Did I hit him?
Could I have hit him?
And then they got her on the stand multiple days.
And she proceeded to say that she had a cracked taillight.
With no video or eyewitnesses.
The first trial turned into a battle of the experts.
The vehicle traveled up to 24 miles per hour in approximately on the morning of the 20.
Lead investigator Trick Brennan plans to introduce new evidence, including mold's by a SUV's television and possibly the defendant taking the stand.
And you also mentioned to the media that I was just fast forwarding through that stuff.
Um let's see here.
There are some things that you wish that you could clarify.
Is there any hair they'll be clarified one day, Matt?
They'll be clarified.
Might not be live, but it will be on the record bringing you the biggest moments from the Karen Reed murder retrial.
I'm your host, Cody Thomas, and today we're diving into week three, where evidence got colder, but the courtroom heat kicked up a notch.
This week, forensic analysis, first responder testimony, digital footprints, and questions about law enforcement integrity all collided in the courtroom.
Let's jump right into day nine.
Ryan Nagel and Heather Maxon, who were at the Albert's home to pick up Nagel's sister, testified that they saw a woman in a black SUV outside the Albert home.
Maxon recalled seeing a man in the passenger seat briefly, but by the time they drove away, only the woman remained.
The jury also heard from Sarah Levinson, an Albert Party guest, who confirmed she left with the McCades at around 1 30 a.m. and saw no sign of O'Keefe in the yard.
EMT Katie McLaughlin recounted her brief but disturbing interaction with Carrie.
Just so you guys know, the other law enforcement agency that came to talk to McCabe was the FBI.
Basically, um what happened was McCabe admitted to lying to the FBI about who she was and phone calls she made when agents approached her in April 2023.
who they're referring to when they said the other law enforcement agency.
The fact that Reed kept repeating, I hit him, I hit him when first responders arrived.
Retired Canton police Lieutenant Paul Gallagher detailed how investigators used a leaf blower to uncover blood and broken glass buried beneath the snow.
Raising eyebrows and questions about protocol.
A broken cocktail glass was found nearby, and red solo cups were used to collect samples.
Witnesses placed Reed at the scene, and conflicting accounts of the night at 34 Fairview Road continued to mount.
Here's more from day nine.
Good Samaritan uses serum or plasma testing as a Hold on one sec.
Hannah Knowles, toxicology analyst, Massachusetts State Police Crime Lab.
Okay.
Good Samaritan uses serum or plasma testing as opposed to whole blood testing.
And just you just so you guys know, like every state has like um big labs like this where they do tests on drugs or toxicology, etc.
Um firearms, ballistics, almost every state has one of these uh things.
So it's very common for someone from you know the Massachusetts State Police, Connecticut State Police, you know, any of these state police agencies, uh, because they typically have big crime labs that they use.
Um every big every state police has a crime lab in in the United States, pretty much.
So that the locals and the counties can go ahead and rely upon that state that state police lab to get the information they need.
I'm not familiar with their specific technique or methodology.
I haven't undergone training for their methods, but it is my understanding that this type of sample used for their method is serum or plasma.
Would somebody's age be a factor in determining the amount of water in their blood?
I don't know.
Could somebody's gender affect the amount of water in their blood?
Yes.
All right, Ryan Nagel, brother of Julie Nagel.
When your sister went back up the driveway to go in the house, when was the next point you had any chance to see the SUV?
Uh when we were passing it.
When you were passing the SUV, where was it located in relation to the house flagpole?
Um directly in front of the house?
Like a car lens from that car link from the flagpole.
Yes, give or take.
There was a woman up in the driver's seat of the black SUV in front of me.
Um, sitting there with her hands on the steering wheel at 10 and 2.
How did you see them inside the car?
Uh, their dome light was on.
As you were parked at the driveway the entire time, that generally five minute time, did you ever see anybody get out of the SUV and walk down the street towards the driveway?
No, I did not, sir.
Did you ever see any person other than your sister outside of those vehicles the entire time that you were at Fairview?
Objection.
I'll allow it.
No, I did not, sir.
And she looked like she was alone.
Yes.
You didn't see anybody else in the SUV.
No, I did not, sir.
You certainly didn't see a six foot one inch man in the SUV in the passenger seat, correct?
Correct, sir.
In fact, you saw that the passenger's seat was empty.
Correct.
Okay, Katie McLaughlin, uh, paramedic firefighter, Canter Fire Department.
At some point, did you see the patient?
Yes.
Was it he or she?
It was a man.
He was flying supine.
Uh on the side of the road.
He asked me to also the reason, guys, why Nagel is so important is because he's a prosecution witness, the guy that we just heard from before.
Basically, he puts um Reed at the scene around the time that they believed that she struck him around midnight.
12 30 ish.
Try to gather more information and kind of see.
And that's why they asked him, hey, was there a woman alone uh with no one in the passenger seat?
What happened and what means Ken O'Keefe was already out the car by that point.
What's going on?
There was a woman who seemed to be really uh concerned and involved uh with the patient's status, and so I just kind of assumed that this would be the person that I could um try to get more information from.
I asked if there had been any significant trauma that happened that pre-female firefighters, bro.
Preceded this, um, and she answered with a series of statements uh that she repeated.
I hit him.
Did I say Ken O'Keefe?
I'm sorry, John O'Keefe.
Sorry, guys, it's fucking I didn't sleep much last night, guys.
I think you guys are starting to see that.
I only slept maybe uh a few hours.
Definitely gonna fucking get a way longer sleep to uh tonight.
But yeah, sorry, I'm a bit fatigued today.
I hit him.
There was a woman next to us who told her to calm down, stop talking, calm down, you're hysterical.
So she repeated, I hit him, and a police officer uh asked her, said, You what?
And she repeated it again.
I hit him.
After Miss McCabe interjected and the defendant made those statements about hitting him, did you persist in getting more information asking to clarify what she meant by I hit him?
No, I did not.
Why not?
I felt at that point, given the situation and how how disturbing and it was a very emotional situation.
Uh the woman was very upset.
I I didn't feel comfortable pushing and asking for more.
I I just didn't think that it was the right time for that.
And it plus she's not an investigator, she's a firefighter.
It was also really not my place at that point, and I feel like that was something that the police were that's more their role.
On day 10, Lieutenant Paul Gallagher returned for cross-examination, where he admitted he only learned later that his friend Brian Higgins had been at the Albert House that night.
He was also questioned about his failure to collect potential video evidence from a nearby security camera.
Weather meteorologist Robert Gilman confirmed it was a frigid snowy night with reduced visibility and temperatures plunging.
Critical context for the timeline of events.
Trooper Nicholas Gorino was recalled and brought a barrage of Karen Reed's voicemail messages over 50 calls to John O'Keefe, many laced with profanity.
The final voicemail recorded during the discovery of O'Keeffe's body captured the panic and chaos.
Lieutenant Kevin O'Hara of the state police cert team testified next.
His team recovered six taillight fragments and O'Keeffe's sneaker filled with snow near the curb of 34 Fairview Road.
Music So he got hit so hard that it knocked him out of his shoes, basically.
So Is the reason that you didn't seek a search warrant or separate the witnesses or ask any of the potential witnesses to join you down at the station?
Did that have anything to do with your knowledge?
Homeowner was the police officer.
Absolutely none.
I've actually executed warrants on police officers' houses in the past, uh, including police officers I personally worked with and had to charge uh some of their children.
So that absolutely would not factor into a reason.
You contacted your deputy chief, uh Deputy Chief Kelleher, uh, and ultimately secured some solo cups from Deputy Chief Kelleher across the street, correct?
That is correct, yes, sir.
You were aware at the time that Deputy Chief Kelleher's house was adorned with a ring video camera just over the front door facing out toward the street and facing across the street, which would be facing 34 Fairview, correct?
That is incorrect.
He does not have a ring camera.
I know that his system is an allo camera.
Did you seek the footage?
No, I didn't.
I know what that camera captures.
Okay.
Did Deputy Chief Kelleher get any special treatment from you because he's a police officer?
No.
Did Deputy Chief Kelleher get any special treatment from you because he was your boss?
No, absolutely not.
Shit, they brought a meteorologist in Robert Gilman.
And during that time frame, uh, was there a significant storm uh forecast for that time period?
Oh, yes.
The first couple of days uh was dry and very cold to bitterly cold.
Um I'm telling you guys, state court is a fucking circus, man.
I don't think they would ever call in a fucking meteorologist to federal court.
Like this is crazy.
As we got closer to the 28th and 29th, we were looking at a storm coming in from the west and strengthening along the mid-Atlantic coastline.
How much snow accumulated on the 28th before turning the page for the 29th?
Very little.
Uh enough to track a cat.
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About how much snow had accumulated at that point around 6 p.m. or so.
Around 6 p.m.
Yes.
Um that's 22 and a half inches, uh, just short of 22.
Excuse me.
Just short of 22 and a half inches by 6 p.m.
Is that correct?
That's correct.
And what was the total snow accumulation from the storm in its entirety again?
23.8 inches.
Okay.
So just short of uh two feet.
Is that correct?
That's correct.
And what impact would that have on the hardness of the ground over that time period?
Well, again, the Ground was frozen.
The soil was frozen, and the surface of the ground was frozen.
and it would have made the ground impenetrable.
All right, now we got uh trooper in from the state police.
Trooper Garino, did you have an opportunity to obtain phone calls, voice messages, and text messages from the defendant to Mr. O'Keefe's phone on the evening of January 29th, 2022?
Yes, I was.
And again, can you give us the time of the connection between the defendant's phone and Mr. O'Keefe's router at Meadows Ab that night?
Yes, 1236 39 a.m.
At 1236 40 a.m. the defendant calls John.
It's not answered.
Uh 1237.08 a.m.
The defendant calls John and voicemail number one is left.
See you later at 1255-50 a.m. on the 29th.
1259 24 a.m.
The defendant calls John.
Voicemail number three is left.
John, I'm with you.
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And digital evidence, but it was his connection to disgraced lead investigator Michael Proctor that took center stage.
Proctor, a now former Massachusetts state trooper who was recently fired for misconduct, now looms over after the first trial, by the way.
They fired him after the first trial.
The day ended with Jessica Hyde, a digital forensics expert who focused on the timing of a crucial search by Jennifer McCabe.
She testified that the search term how long to die in the cold was entered at 6.24 a.m. on a browser tab that had been opened at 227 a.m.
This supported the prosecution's timeline.
The search occurred after John O'Keefe's body was found.
What was your role, limited role that night?
To process any evidence that was discovered during the search.
Do you recognize that item?
Yes.
Is that one of the items you bagged that night?
Yes.
On October 21 of 2022, you and Michael Proctor interviewed Sarah Levinson together, correct?
No, I don't recall that.
Having reviewed that report, does that refresh your memory as to whether or not you participated in an interview of Sarah Levinson with Michael Proctor on October 21st of 2022?
Yes, I don't recall the specifics, but uh so when you say yes, uh, is it your current testimony that your memory is refreshed that you were actually there?
Yes.
The two of you would have participated in that interview.
And this is common, guys, because obviously you're trying to recall things from years ago, so it's very common for either the defense or the prosecution to provide you with um you know, a report to uh remind you of uh something that may have happened is why reports are so important.
Together, correct?
Yes.
But you did not write the report, correct?
No, I deny.
No, I deny.
Were you asked by the Norfolk County District Attorney's Office to look at and analyze a phone that was uh related to a person by the name of Jennifer McCabe?
Yes, with a very, very specific scope to a specific date range.
Were you asked during that scope and date range to analyze it and provide an opinion about whether there were any user initiated deletions of Any web searches or safari type searches?
Yes, I was asked to look for deletions of Safari searches within the scope of the time frame that was dictated by the purpose of the exam.
Were you asked to look at the phone device and determine whether or not there were any user initiated deletions of phone calls on the device?
Yes, I was asked to look for deletions of phone calls in that same date range.
I mentioned or I asked you about using multiple tools and whether or not the use of different tools changes the actual underlying data.
So the actual underlying data is always maintained and we do validate that.
And all of the tools I use in this instance are tools that do not change the underlying data.
An examiner who has not dug into the artifact and tested to see what it means may assume erroneously that that 227 time stamp is the time that what is there is searched.
The search in that field of that artifact is going to always be the most recent search in the tab, but that time stamp actually means either the time that that tab was backgrounded or if it's the first time the tab's been opened, when it was opened.
So you could erroneously uh implicate a search was done hours or some time period or even days before it actually occurred.
Some of us leave our tabs open forever.
In this case, this phone, was it on non-private or private?
So the specifically the two searches we're talking about, how's long to die in cold and how long to to die in K C I K L D, excuse my differentiation there.
Um both of those searches were done in non-private browsing.
Um was there any applications on to mask those searches?
Not to the best of my knowledge.
I did not see any.
You shared that you have an opinion about whether that timestamp 22740 was whether or not that was the time the search how long to die in the cold.
Man, we're really getting in weeds in this shit.
Can you tell us to a reasonable degree of scientific certainty your opinion about whether that search, how's long to die in the cold, occurred at 22740 a.m. on January 29th, 2022?
Okay.
The objections are removed.
What I can state to a scientific degree of certainty is that that search occurred at 624 a.m. and was the last search in the tab that had been opened at 227.
Hmm.
Interesting.
Very, very interesting.
And was the last search in the tab that had been opened at 227?
Just ensuring that I that I have the question correct.
Please.
You're asking if what else occurred in that tab prior?
Yes.
That I cannot say with a clear degree of certainty.
So she's saying the tab was open at 227, but the search happened at 627.
Let me make sure I get that right.
We're really getting in the weeds here, man.
What I can state to a scientific degree of certainty is that that search occurred at 624 a.m.
Okay, and that's what the Cellbrite guy said before as well.
It's the last search in the tab that had been opened at 227.
So apparently the tab was open at 227, but the search itself happened at six.
Interesting.
Just ensuring that I that I have the question.
Very, very interesting.
Correct.
Please.
You're asking if what else occurred in that tab prior?
Yes.
That I cannot say with a clear degree of certainty.
God damn.
Come to an opinion to reason.
important so that we can figure out if it's a tab or if it's a search, goddammit.
We'll agree with scientific certainty whether any user deleted the phrase, how long to die Yes.
And what is your opinion?
My opinion is there was no deletion that occurred by the user because it is not something a user can delete.
So that helps the prosecution.
Sergeant Yuri Buchanick of the Massachusetts State Police testified on day 12.
He discussed the crime scene, case evidence, and the investigation into John O'Keefe's death.
He also presented a lot of evidence, including O'Keeffe's what?
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Attorney Alan Jackson zeroed in on who really led the investigation into John O'Keefe's death.
Buchanan said Trooper Michael Proctor was just a, quote, case officer.
But Jackson showed Proctor's name was on nearly every warrant, search, and evidence log.
The defense pointed out key missteps.
The house wasn't searched.
A crime scene log wasn't created.
Now, when they say the house was a search, obviously, like basically what they're trying to say, guys, is you know, they never paid attention to the house.
And then McCabe, right, when they found O'Keeffe's body, she didn't bother to go knock on a door.
Like, hey, this doesn't make sense.
There's someone dead out here.
Why wouldn't you go ahead and tell your brother-in-law and your sister who's married to your brother-in-law?
Hey, just so you know, like, John's body's out here.
What the hell?
And what the defense is trying to say is that of course he's not gonna go in there because she conspired with them to kill him.
Right?
Which, you know, that is a fair point.
You would think, like, if you're you see a dead body of your friend on your sister's lawn, you would knock on a door and be like, yo, John's body's here.
What the hell's going on?
Well, she didn't do that.
and the defense pressed on that created and o'keefe's clothing sat unsecured for days buchanik insisted the case was handled with honor but admitted he didn't know who bagged critical evidence and that major reports weren't filed for over a year.
On the day or the morning of January 29, 2022, do you know who was assigned to take calls for new cases?
Yes.
Uh before 7 a.m. on the 29th, it was uh Michael Proctor that was assigned to be on call.
We were uh shown uh a and that's the ended up getting the case.
He was basically the the on-duty detective.
Broken cocktail glass, bottom of a broken cocktail glass.
We were um provided um Mr. John O'Keefe's um cell phone, and I was also shown um a brown paper bag uh with uh six plastic solo cups in it uh containing a um what was reported to be blood blood uh in the snow.
Uh we had statements made by the defendant that uh she was questioning whether she had uh hit him and uh to that extent.
Had you focused in on a target at this point or reach any conclusions about your investigation?
No.
Had he passed at that time?
Yes, he is.
When I walked into the room, I saw a um medical bed in front of me.
Uh Mr. O'Keefe was um covered with a sheet.
There was a pile of clothing to the left at his feet to the left of the bed.
I observed um several injuries on him once I lifted the sheet, and uh those were documented with photographs.
I saw pooling of blood underneath his uh head.
There was um seepage of blood into the the sheets.
Uh there was also uh swelling, discoloration, a large amount of blood pooling underneath his eyelids.
There was also a tiny cut, laceration to the eyelid area.
You're pointing to your right eye.
Could you uh specific please?
Um also on the left nostril.
There was a very small laceration there.
Both were not um actively bleeding.
Uh there were um a series of cuts and bruises.
And this is uh where the dog expert believes that he was attacked by a dog when she came in, which you know you can I guess you can see the scratching to the right arm, which extended from approximately mid um forearm up to the mid-tricep area.
There was also a bruise on that same arm on the back of the hand.
Um it was light in color.
It wasn't a profound uh discoloration as the eyes appeared to me.
Uh, there were also injuries to uh abrasion or cut scrapes to the knee, I believe.
Which knee?
The right knee.
Let me just ask you this.
Do you believe that Michael Proctor, his involvement in this case taints the investigation?
Tainted the investigation?
No.
Oh shit.
Not at all.
Right.
The investigation was done with honor integrity, and all the evidence pointed in one direction, one direction only.
And did you state to them that there was a possibility that the decedent, John O'Keefe was struck in the face with a cocktail glass?
I don't recall my words exactly, but that sounds accurate.
Um to what I might have said.
What steps did you take to at that moment to determine whether or not anybody in the house could have been involved in that possible physical altercation that you just described?
We interviewed uh the homeowner and two witnesses that were in that house.
With each day, the trial becomes a battleground of timelines, technology, and trust from evidence found beneath the snow to angry voicemails and the digital search history that could shift everything.
This case is as much about what happened as it is about who to believe.
As the testimony deepens, so do the questions.
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The death of John O'Keefe was tragic.
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That and the state says point to motive.
Surveillance footage showed both Reed and Higgins at Canton PD in the early morning after O'Keefe's death.
The defense suggested Higgins may have had a reason to confront O'Keeffe.
Lastly, the top of the text between the week.
defense attorney Buchanan Massachusetts State Police Sergeant Uri Buchanan remained at the center of testimony this week.
Defense attorney Allen Jackson pressed him about an early theory involving a cocktail glass Reed's I Hid Him comment, and the timeline of when the tail light fragments were found.
Jurors also heard about flirtatious text between Reed and ATF agent Brian Higgins.
Let me see.
This guy's gotta be.
I wonder if he's still an ATF agent, this guy.
There's Proctor, by the way.
What's it was his name again, this guy?
It's um Brian Higgins.
Hold on, chat.
Okay.
Um, let's see here.
Oh, this dude got a badge of bravery?
Or is this something?
Uh on November 2nd, 2010, in a connection uh investigation to warn arrest warrant was obtained a suspect fire violation of surveillance of vehicle known, blah, blah, blah.
McCain and Patrol Sergeant Reardon.
Test for Oliveira approached the suspect while he was sitting in a car.
Sergeant Detective McCain.
Uh okay.
Let me.
Let me see if I can find where he is now.
Here, what's this?
Watch this, I'll find out for you guys.
Uh Google search on the side for y'all.
Is the defense says speak to her mindset, and the state says point to motive.
Surveillance footage showed both Reed and Higgins at Canton PD in the early morning after O'Keefe's death.
The defense suggested Higgins may have had a reason to confront O'Keefe.
Lastly, the topic of Brian Albert's dog Chloe came up, fueling speculation after the German Shepherd was rehomed following the incident.
That is suspicious.
Thank you.
Can you describe for the jurors exactly where each of the let's take them one at a time, where each of the six pieces of plastic fragments were found?
All items recovered that day were found in the general vicinity where the other items were also located.
You weren't there, correct?
I was there recovering the evidence, yes.
You weren't there at the time of the incident.
No, of course not.
Well, you'll agree that words matter, right?
I mean, you're testifying.
So words do matter.
Words do matter.
That's you know, that's important.
So working off of your, as you put it, your theory, you theorized that there was an impact spot at 34 ferry, correct?
Okay, so when I'm looking here, guys, the rumor is is that uh this guy, Brian Higgins, um, he's been applying to fire departments, but no one really knows if he's done with the ATF or not.
Based on the statement I hit him, I assume that the Mr. O'Keefe was impacted with something.
A theory would be why is the cocktail glass broken?
Because it came into contact with the victim.
So that's why my information communicated to the And the reason why he's involved, guys, is because he's friends with these guys.
They're all at the house.
Me's office was a possible domestic involving a glass strike to the victim.
Is that...
Refresh your recollection as to when the items were booked at the crime lab.
According to this document, uh, yes, there were items booked at the crime lab prior to March 14th.
In particular, to answer your question, completeness here.
Particular, that one item does indicate that the first time the lab received it for processing was March 14th.
I mean, who submitted all of that evidence to the crime?
Michael Proctor.
You're also aware that Michael Proctor eventually submitted a total of some 46 or so pieces of tailite material that was claimed to have been recovered at 34 Fairview on January.
I'm sorry, since January 29th, 2022, correct?
I don't know the total pieces, but we didn't claim to recover it there.
We recovered it there.
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Potentially.
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Myron, being a northeastern native, there's a lot here.
The news won't report.
Are you planning on going deeper here on this?
I'm a following DUI guy since the mistrial wild stuff.
Uh I don't know who DUI guy is.
Um you sent another chat in here.
Martin, are you planning on looking at coverage of lawtuper like DUI guy who are extremely well versed in both this trial and a mischraw?
There's a lot of information evidence between this child and an X, which makes this case extremely fascinating.
Would love to see you do a deeper dive.
Um we'll see.
We'll see.
Um I know you support the police, but do you think they perpetuated a corrupt?
Okay.
Remember, guys, five and above, five and above, man.
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Myron Gaines X or Rumble Rands.
That Brian Higgins on January 29th, January 28th, going into January 29th, 2022, had a what could be generally referred to as a romantic interest in Miss Reed?
Objection.
Would you describe the text messages between Brian Higgins and Karen Reed that he presented to you as flirtatious in nature?
Uh without having uh recently reviewed them in detail.
I don't want to label it something uh without having complete understanding of the content.
Hmm.
Are you breaking up or staying together?
I don't know.
He hooked up with another girl on vacation.
I am very close to his niece.
It is a very f up situation.
Have you always had trouble accepting compliments?
Yes.
No.
It all it at all.
All yours came to me after a day of drinking.
You were way more all over me that day.
So what?
Don't most compliments come that way?
Coming to your house would have been bad for the both of us.
For starters, you wouldn't have wanted me to leave.
Now equals not.
That sounds good.
That's trouble.
Would you consider those text messages as you reviewed them when you received them from Brian Higgins as being flirtatious or romantic in nature?
I would not categorize them to that extent.
The totality of you know, to put a label on the whole thing.
My opinion is that she's trying to get revenge.
Get revenge.
Yes, get revenge.
On John.
Yeah.
For 304.
What happened in on New Year's Eve.
Yes.
Day 14 featured more testimony from Sergeant Buchanan and key surveillance footage.
Jurors saw Karen Reed and ATF agent Brian Higgins arrive at the Canton police department just hours after O'Keeffe's death.
Higgins stayed for six minutes and left with what looked like a phone.
Prosecutors asked if Higgins had motive.
Buchinick said no.
The defense pointed to text messages with Reed suggesting a possible confrontation with O'Keefe.
But Buchinick said the text speak for themselves.
Buchanan denied seeing Trooper Proctor plant tail light fragments.
He also explained why key witnesses were interviewed at the McCabe home, citing bad weather and emotional stress, raising defense concerns about witness separation.
Finally, he confirmed Reed was interviewed at her parents'house with both parents in the room.
*music*
You testified that on direct examination that there was no video from Ring at or around the time 2 30 12 36 a.m.
Uh when Miss Reed's SUV returned back to one meadows.
Do you remember that testimony?
Yes.
Are you aware that after John O'Keefe's cell phone was recovered by Massachusetts State Police?
Someone at Massachusetts State Police actually opened the ring app on his cell phone.
Yeah.
Myron, please react to this one.
It's really good.
Alright, I'll take a look at it.
Yes.
Who is the person who opened and accessed the ring app on John O'Keefe's cell phone?
I'm not a hundred percent sure.
Sergeant, having looked at this report, does that refresh your recollection as to who may have accessed that ring app?
Yes, that report uh is authored by Michael Proctor, and um it says that investigators accessed uh the ring application.
Trooper Proctor, then former trooper Proctor, Michael Proctor.
Uh yeah, boy Lama, I've already reacted to this.
This is a restaurant I got shot up in California.
I I've talked about this before.
Then responded, correct?
That's what it says here, yes.
And he responded to the group, funny.
I'm going through his client's phone.
He wrote, no nudes so far.
Correct?
That's what it says.
Yes.
What did you think he was looking for when he wrote that phrase?
I don't know what he was looking for.
What would be a reasonable interpretation of what Michael Proctor was looking for when he wrote no nudes so far?
Hey, I don't know.
Motorcycles, handbags, pair of shoes, or naked pictures of Miss Karen Reed.
His mission was to go through the phone to look for digital evidence that's related to the crime.
The fact that he wrote no nudes so far, I cannot comment on.
Oh my God.
Uh man, when fucking around goes wrong.
Do you stand by your testimony that Michael Proctor conducted himself during the course of this investigation with integrity?
Yes, I do.
The fact is, Sergeant, you put it in writing and you liked it, correct?
I acknowledge the text message.
I never saw the vialed term.
And you'll also agree that this video was taken before any tailite material was ever found at 35 34 Fairview, correct?
I know that the SUV pulled into the garage of the Sally port at 5 35, and we were still on scene at 5 51, almost 52.
So yes, if that's timestamp before 551 before we left Canton PD, then yes, uh tail light pieces had already been found.
At that point in time, after viewing Mr. O'Keefe's injury.
And the reason why this is important with the tail light guys is because they're trying to say that the tail light stuff was found after the fact and put in the crime scene versus actually being found on the crime scene.
Those are the conflicting theories.
My impression shifted from him possibly being struck with the glass that was located at the scene where he was found to him being struck by a vehicle.
Why?
Due to the abrasions and cuts on his right arm.
Um and the amount of force on in my experience, the amount of force uh one would have to generate to produce the wound to his head.
Had anybody in that home ever mentioned the idea of whether or not John O'Keefe went into 34 Fairview that night?
No.
Did you have any information whatsoever?
And that's the biggest thing.
The defense is saying he went inside and got killed in the house.
Then they put threw him outside.
The prosecution is saying he never went in the house in the first place because she struck him with the car and he died right there pretty much there.
That there was any animus pressure or animosity between Brian Higgins and I don't support the police, but do you think they perpetrated a corrupt justice system and that by doing so they themselves are corrupt, whether knowingly or not?
Um it depends on the situation, man.
There's dirty cops everywhere.
Right?
The majority are not, but yeah, there's always gonna be police officers that abuse their power.
Uh Marco.
John O'Keefe.
No.
Did you have any information that there was any animosity between Brian Albert and John O'Keefe?
No.
And Brian Albert, guys, if I'm not mistaken, is the detective for the mass uh for uh Boston Police Department?
I think he's like in their gang unit or some shit like that.
And here's the interview.
This here's the actual um let's take a break from the week four real quick.
Um and go into the the testimony that these cops gave um here Albert testified in the first trial that neither okay here he is this is Brian Albert this is the guy that was uh a detective for Boston Police Department, the uh homeowner who ended up selling the house after this happened.
Karen Reed nor John O'Keefe entered his house on the night police officer.
Brian Albert, the owner of the home where John O'Keefe was found.
Albert testified in the first trial that neither Karen Reed nor John O'Keefe entered his house on the night in question, contradicting the defense's claim that John O'Keefe was assaulted inside the house and his body was staged outside.
Under cross-examination, Albert acknowledged disposing of his cell phone shortly before receiving a preservation notice, raising concerns about shortly before after his cell phone, shortly before receiving a okay, shortly before.
So um, what's a preservation letter, guys?
A preservation letter is a letter that you give to typically you serve it on social media companies um or internet service providers, and anybody that like um you know is the is the custodian of data.
So, like let's say I want to go ahead and get like um cell phone records.
I would send a preservation letter, or I want to get like a social media profile.
I'll send a preservation letter to Facebook.
Hey, I need you guys to preserve this information on this profile, because I'm gonna write up a search warrant um on it.
And what that does is it allows that company to maintain that data for you until you draft up and get your search warrant, because that will take time.
So you send a preservation order, then you send them the warrant, and then they get you the information that you need to ensure that it doesn't get purged.
Preservation notice.
I've never seen it served on an individual, though, but he probably knew a preservation order was coming, so he got rid of his phone beforehand.
He's in concerns about potential evidence loss.
Furthermore, Brian's brother, Kevin, is an officer in Canton, the agency that began the investigation before state police took over.
And on the morning when John O'Keefe was found dead on his front lawn, Brian Albert never came outside.
These factors have intensified scrutiny over Albert's testimony and the events surrounding the bigger.
Yeah, because it just doesn't make sense.
A guy from your police department is dead on your front lawn and you never left the house?
John O'Keefe's death.
All this as Karen Reed attempts to raise doubt about the prosecution's allegations and the That she murdered John O'Keefe.
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Was Brian Albert already there?
Brian Albert was a police officer.
Brian to me, Nicole, and Matt.
Now he hasn't testified in this trial yet, but his name is all over this case, which brings us to the first question in our investigation.
Remember, this is when he testified the first time.
And of course it's about Brian Albert.
What is Brian Albert's connection to this case?
How is he linked to what happened to John O'Keefe and everything else surrounding the investigation?
Um and this trial.
Okay.
And this guy, like I said before, if I'm not mistaken, I'm almost certain.
He's a Boston Police Department gang task force detective, this dude, Brian uh Albert.
Okay.
Couple of familiar faces joining me tonight, John DePetro, hosting creator of Road Patrol Live, and Karen Reed's supporter Kim Wayland.
She's also known as Nurse Kim on TikTok.
Uh great to have you both here.
Um I'd like to start by by playing, since we didn't hear from him yet, let's listen to Brian Albert here talk about his relationship with John O'Keefe.
So I knew John O'Keefe, but not well.
Um I had only met him two times prior to that night.
But I knew I knew him to be a Boston cop, and I knew um of him and I knew some some things about him.
Although I didn't know him well, I considered him to be a friend in our relationship was was very very good.
Cordial.
And um, you know, I considered him to be um somebody that I could hang out with.
Okay, uh Kim, obviously his name comes up a lot.
Um and him and John O'Keefe.
Is there any history here that we don't know about?
History between these two that would somehow lead down the road where Brian Albert is part of some alleged conspiracy to um do harm to John O'Keefe and then frame his girlfriend.
Yeah, Vinny, great question.
And by all accounts, no, not a typical relationship or some sort of history that they had.
But what there is known or those butt dials.
I'll go fuck what this one female got to say.
So I'm sure the defense will call him something else, but those calls objection.
That next morning, while everything was going on, I mentioned to Brian that I may have butt dialed you last night.
Sorry about that.
Did the two of you agree that you were going to both say those calls were butt dials in order to cover up those calls?
Objection.
You can answer that.
We did not say that.
All right, Kim, give us a little more background and context for these uh so called what he calls 22.
You got rid of that dog.
Objection.
Now let's get into uh some of the cross examination here.
After you learned that there were questions being raised about John's injuries and dog bites and scratches, in May of 2022, you got rid of that dog.
Objection.
Sustained.
Coley was rehomed in May.
So for four to five months after the fact, remember, this incident happened in January.
By May, that dog was gone.
We can use whatever words we want to.
Rehomed, rehoused, whatever.
But you got rid of her.
She's no longer part of the Albert family, right?
Objection.
Right.
My parents built a house in the late 70s, 79, maybe.
You listed that house for sale for the first time ever.
And that's his childhood home, by the way, chat.
That's another reason too why this is a big deal.
Got rid of the dog, sold the house, and the house was his childhood home.
In November of 2022, correct?
That's the time we listed it, yes.
Just months after John O'Keefe was found on your lawn.
Objection.
Okay, so that's his version of what happened with Chloe the dog and with his home.
And all this brings us to the next question in our investigation.
Just creates more and more reasonable doubt for Karen Reed because this is all suspicious shit, man.
Was Brian Albert's behavior suspicious?
Absolutely was.
And that's why Karen Reed's defense is so strong, is because of the suspicious behavior of the police officers involved.
The things that he did, are they routine, normal behavior, or does it rise to the level of suspicious?
And if so, how suspicious is it?
Joining us, private investigator with more than 20 years of experience, Jason Jensen and psychotherapist and CEO of Life Counseling Solutions, Dr. Janie Lacey to offer their expertise on this really significant issue.
Um Private I, bro.
Who are these uh random experts that they'd be bringing in, bro?
What the fuck?
I just want to r uh refresh some of the conduct that that we're talking about.
Um Brian Albert knew John O'Keefe, didn't know him that well.
Um he said John O'Keefe never came inside his house.
He said the calls at after 2 a.m. that morning to Brian Higgins were butt dialed.
And Brian Higgins, guys, remember as the ATF agent, his friend else.
Um he was accused of destroying his phone, but said I was just getting a new phone uh just before the order to preserve the phone, and then rehoming the dog and selling his home.
Jason Jensen, uh, I'll begin with your thoughts on this.
As you look at those facts, are they all pretty mundane, being blown out of proportion?
Are they suspicious?
What are your thoughts here?
Well, oftentimes what's described there is pretty normal, pretty common to rehouse a dog or sell a home.
But in the context of a case, and that's what this is, it's a trial where if you're getting rid of things that are relating to a case that can be characterized as disposing of evidence, which disposal of evidence is consciousness of guilt.
Now, Dr. Janie Lacy, it it's you know, it's difficult to, I guess, truly understand what's going on.
Let's go to Higgins.
More.
It is the accused murderer on trial.
But her and her You know Brian Higgins.
Brian Higgins from Brian Higgins.
It was Brian Higgins, Chief.
Brian Higgins from the blood alcohol level of Brian Higgins.
Brian Higgins.
As Brian Higgins.
Did you become friendly with Mr. Higgins?
I've become friendly with Mr. Higgins, yes.
And uh Brian Higgins has not testified yet yet in this case, but his name is making its way and weaving its way into some of the testimony in front of this jury, which brings us to the next question in our investigation.
There he is.
And that's him from the first testifying the first time.
And the reason why he's probably friends with these guys, guys, is because, remember, Brian Albert...
Um works at a gang squad, right?
If you uh gang or uh drug trafficking squad, a lot of the times these guys work with the ATF quite a bit, so it would make sense that he'll be friends with ATF agent, uh Brian um Albert.
This what is Brian Higgins' connection to the case?
What's his connection to the people to what happened that night?
Here with us, the host and creator of Road Patrol Live.
He's been inside the courtroom.
John DePetro is with us, and Karen Reed supporter Kim Whalen, Nurse Kim on TikTok, and I believe on YouTube as well, doing a great job there.
Okay.
Um, I want to play for you some testimony from Brian Higgins here talking about his relationship with John O'Keefe and Karen Reed.
Describe your relationship with John O'Keefe.
I considered him a friend.
And uh, how would you describe uh your relationship with Miss Reed?
I considered her a friend as well.
Okay.
Was it Houdini who said friends?
How many of us have them?
Might have been Houdini.
Um tell me, John, how would you describe so was there maybe some element of jealousy of Karen Reed of this relationship among lives of Canton to me?
Telling her that he wanted the real or you found a little bit of a refuge in Brian Higgins.
And he was giving her compliments.
He was telling her that he wanted the real deal.
He'd give her whatever she wanted.
Nigga Simpin.
And she just really wanted someone to tell her that she was pretty, I think.
And then she noticed that asking repeatedly, what do you want from me?
Are you joking with me?
She pulled back and hadn't actually spoken to Brian Higgins for over a week before January 29th, 2022.
So he sends her a text message while they're at Waterfall Bar and Grill, and then he ends up texting Officer John O'Keefe when they're en route to 34 Fairview.
Are you coming here?
So I find it murky, a little bit muddy with the relationship timeline or the talking timeline, if you will, but it was more embarrassing and very innocent, in my opinion.
Now, you mentioned the text messages.
I I want to take let's go ahead and go and back.
Go back to week four.
Now you guys know who Brian Albert and Brian Higgins are.
Brian Albert, owner of the home, acquaintance slash friend of the deceased John O'Keefe.
Brian Higgins, ATF agent, also friend slash acquaintance of John O'Keefe.
After a day off, Karen Reed returned.
and of Karen, where he would flirt with her.
Turned to court on day 15, appearing upbeat, but the tone inside was serious.
Prosecutors introduced new evidence suggesting John O'Keefe's death followed a volatile breakup.
This came after the defense had Sergeant Buchanek read text messages between Reed and ATF agent Brian Higgins, which prosecutors say reveal a troubled relationship.
O'Keefe's niece testified privately due to her age.
Jurors also watched Reed's past interviews on Dateline.
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Crime scene testimony resumed when Sergeant Brian Gallarani testified he collected DNA from Buchanan and Proctor, but not from several Canton officers, including the chief.
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Evan Brent described evidence found buried in snow.
Criminalist Maureen Hartnett detailed scratches, a dent, glass and a hair found on the back of Reed's SUV.
Music And was it what was it that you were asked to document at that location?
Uh namely it was um Karen Reed.
Hold on.
All right.
Uh Sergeant Zachary Clark, crime scene investigator, Masters of the State Police.
And was it what was it that you were asked to document at that location?
Uh namely it was um Karen Reed's vehicle.
I was also asked to process the front passenger, front right passenger compartment of the vehicle for friction ridge impressions.
A friction ridge impression is um it's a replica or an impression of the friction ridge skin on the hands or the feet.
What makes it unique and significant to policing is that those that friction ridge skin has a unique patterns.
They're formed through ridges and furrows or hills and valleys, and they're unique to every individual.
The area was processed with white fingerprint powder, examined, and no impressions of value were determined to be present.
My recollection is that there was a significant amount of snow present.
Um, apparent from what I presume to be plowing.
There was an area that did appear to be cleared and heavily trodden by footwear and tires.
Um, still even in that area, there was a significant amount of snow with certain spots of grass showing.
Were you called out 34 Fairview Road on February 18th of 2022 to photograph and document anything?
February 1st was the only date I was called the 3450, sir.
So the answer to my question is no, correct?
That's correct.
All right.
Now, Sergeant Evan Brent, crime scene investigator.
MSP.
There was a search effort.
Um, digging through some snowbanks that they were looking for some items.
They wanted me to document it with photography.
Some were on top of the snow.
So there was some significant snow melt.
I think that day it was raining out, and it was much warmer than it was previous three days.
So some had been revealed by this uh melted snow, so they were on top.
Others were under a foot, foot and a half of snow.
What damage did you observe to that Chevy Traverse?
I observed no visible damage.
So you you don't know, and you didn't know at the time who had access to that traverse during those five days, correct?
That is correct.
Um, at the time, did you know you were at the home of a Boston police officer named Brian Albert?
I did not.
I was asked biological criminals to examine a black Lexus SUV.
I noticed there was some damage to the rear passenger area of the vehicle.
Did you take any swabs?
Any to see if there was any biological evidence?
Yes, I did.
Where did you take swabs from as far as uh trace for blood?
I screened for blood on various areas of the undercarriage of the vehicle.
And what was the results?
Those were negative.
Was there anything significant that you saw?
So we know that he didn't get run over.
Uh, relative to the back bumper of that vehicle.
Yes.
And share with us what you saw.
There were scratches on the bumper as well as apparent pieces of glass on the bumper.
Did you have any interest in maintaining that piece of evidence?
Yes, I did.
What did you want to do?
I wanted to collect the entire taillight housing.
Did you attempt to remove that entire unit yourself?
I did.
Were you successful?
No, I was not.
So what did you do?
A Canton police officer that was in the Sally port at the time offered to help disconnect it with some tools that he had.
Day 16 brought key rulings, potential delays, and critical medical testimony.
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Receiving a late forensic report from the Commonwealth.
The report highlights a timing discrepancy between Reed's SUV and O'Keefe's phone that could disrupt the defense's timeline.
The defense called it a mid-trial ambush.
Prosecutors said they just received the data themselves.
Now, criminalist Maureen Hartnett returned for cross-examination on evidence handling.
Then came pivotal testimony from the medical examiner.
She detailed O'Keefe's injuries and ruled the cause of death as blunt force trauma plus hypothermia, but left the manner of death undetermined.
On cross, she admitted the injuries weren't clearly consistent with the car strike, and the head wound could have come from a fall.
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When you say you looked over the entire vehicle, did you look over the back of the vehicle as well?
Yes, the only part I did not look at was the roof of the vehicle.
Did you find any dents, scratches of hair anywhere, but on other than the right side corner of that lexus?
I did not know any.
also do not examine the interior of the vehicle.
I did uh the autopsy on um Mr. O'Keefe.
The I observed uh on his right upper eyelid a one centimeter laceration.
So um I also um observed abrasions on the anterior and the left aspect of the nose.
There was some um bleeding and some swelling of the eyelids um of both eyes.
Um so on the right upper medial arm, that would be the inner side um of his arm, there was a uh superficial abrasion.
Again, that's a scrape.
Then on his right posterior arm and forearm.
So not exactly um on this aspect of the arm, but on the back side of the arm, which would be in the back of the diagram.
There were multiple um abrasions, which I described as ranging from two to three millimeters and up to seven centimeters.
I noted that there were two bruises on the back of his right hand.
Uh also a and the defense was saying that that might have been defensive wounds in a fight.
That's what they were trying to uh to claim.
Uh OD says, What do you think about Travis Hunter making that 304 his wife with no print up?
I believe it's taking a major L after she pops out of baby and takes me to cleaners and divorce.
Yeah, bro, and if uh these NFL niggas are retarded, bro.
Young professional athletes are some of the dumbest niggas on earth.
I'm actually surprised he wiped her up too.
Bitch destroyed his fucking um image.
Faint uh scratch on the back of his left hand.
Um there was a small abrasion, a small scrape on the side of his right knee.
Do you have an opinion to a reasonable degree of medical certainty as to how those superficial abrasions occurred?
I do not.
Do you have uh an opinion to a reasonable degree of medical certainty how the other discoloration happened on Mr. O'Keefe's hand?
I can state to a reasonable degree of medical certainty that that's a bruise, a contusion.
Uh, but I cannot tell you how it uh occurred.
Regarding the scrape on Mr. O'Keefe's right eye.
Can you provide?
And it doesn't have to be dog bites, guys, it could be dog scratches as well.
Those scrapes on his arm.
An opinion to a reasonable degree of medical certainty how that scrape occurred.
No, I cannot.
When we pulled back the scalp, I noted that there was blood, what we call hemorrhage, under the laceration or associated with the laceration on the back of the right head.
There were skull fractures associated with that um laceration abrasion on the right side of the head.
So when the brain was removed and we were able to look at the base of the skull, I noted that there were multiple fractures that appeared to be originating from the Holy shit, they took his brain out, man.
Um laceration or what would correspond to the area of the laceration.
Umitably, did you come to a conclusion about the manner and cause of Mr. O'Keefe's death?
In this case, stated that the cause was blood impact injuries of head and hypothermia, and the manner was undetermined.
There's nothing inconsistent with this injury and a fall on someone's um on the back of the head with a blunt um surface.
Week four wrapped up with a short but fiery day 17 that almost led to a delay in proceedings.
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Heavily on forensics, walking the jury through a detailed breakdown of DNA and physical evidence found at the scene and on John O'Keefe's clothing.
First, a DNA expert from the Massachusetts State Police Crime Lab testified that multiple blood stains on O'Keefe's jeans, shirt, and sneakers were overwhelmingly likely to be his.
But defense attorney David Dunetti pushed back, pointing out the DNA mixtures included unknown contributors, and that the lab never compared samples to other key names like Brian Albert or Brian Higgins.
Then came a second expert, a physical match analyst who reconstructed shattered tail light pieces found on Fairview Road.
Some fragments were matched as part of a single tail light unit, presumably from Karen Reed's Lexus, but others showed no mechanical connection.
Finally, a courtroom fight.
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Is that the LGBT flag or like the Tran flag?
But others showed no mechanical connection.
Finally, a courtroom fight erupted over expert data.
The defense accused the Commonwealth of trying to get, quote, three bites at the Apple by updating a tech expert's report about vehicle and phone data after the defense had already cross-examined witnesses.
the judge ultimately ruled the state could move forward, setting the stage for a high-stakes rebuttal.
Alright, DNA analyst, Massachusetts State Police Crime Lab, Andre Porto.
So the D the DNA profile was interpreted as a mixture of three contributors, including male DNA.
And their DNA profile from this item is at least 510 non-illion times more likely if it originated from John O'Keefe and two unknown individuals.
The DNA profile was interpreted as a mixture of three contributors, including male DNA.
The DNA profile from this item is at least 530 non-nillion times more likely if it originated from John O'Keefe and two unknown individuals.
What did you conclude based on uh the generation of those profiles with those four items?
Yeah, so the profiles that were generated were not suitable for comparison.
It was a mixture of at least five contributors.
We can only uh interpret mixtures of up to four contributors.
So I determined that there were five contributors, so that makes it too complex for us to do comparisons to it.
Were you ever asked to compare DNA samples from either Canton police detective Kevin Albert or Canton police chief Kenneth Berkowitz to the DNA profile that you uh analyzed from that passenger side tailing?
I was not.
Uh were you ever asked to compare the DNA profile with Nigga look crazy, bro?
I ain't gonna lie, it looks like a 1970s serial killer.
The DNA profiles of either Brian Higgins or Brian Albert.
I was not that's crazy that they didn't take any of the information from the other people.
What did you conclude as far as your physical match analysis within that item?
Yeah, I think that's a T flag chat.
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Alone.
Um second.
Ashley Ash Valer, physical match analyst, Master's Day Police Crime Lab.
What did you conclude as far as your physical match analysis within that item uh alone?
Um within item three-one, I believe four of the pieces fit together.
Now, if I could turn your attention to item seven-five, um, piece of plastic red covered recovered from 34 Fairview Road.
What did you conclude as far as your physical match analysis just within that so single item?
Um, there was no physical match noted among those um three pieces of apparent plastic.
And when you say no physical match found from the different pieces within that item, what does that mean?
Um the broken edges of each piece did not align.
And what if any conclusions did you come to in relation to your physical match analysis between item 715 and item 760?
Um two pieces from item 7-15 F and H. Um fit mechanically with two pieces from item 7-16 F and G. Um, so two pieces from item 7-8, um, one uh pieces C and D. Um, one piece from item 7-9 piece A, and one piece from 7-16 piece E were found to have a mechanical fit.
Um, so those pieces were at one time together as a larger unit.
And what if any conclusions did you come to from your analysis, uh, your physical match analysis between item 3-1 and all of the items beginning with the number 7?
Um there was a physical match with um.
Do you want me to list if you could, please?
Okay.
Um two pieces from item 7-5, four pieces from item 7-8, one piece from item 7-10, um, four pieces from item seven-11, two pieces from item seven-twelve, two pieces from item seven-thirte, four pieces from item seven-fifteen, and four pieces from item seven-sixteen.
Um fit mechanically with item three-one.
And so, what's depicted here is a mechanical fit between item seven-five, seven-six, seven-eight, seven-ten, seven-eleven, seven-twel, seven-13, seven-fourteen, seven-fifte, and seven-sixteen, correct?
Um, not items seven-eight and seven-14, but the other ones, yes.
From clashing forensic timelines to newly surfaced text messages, week four brought a wave of testimony that cut straight to the heart of the case.
With credibility, timing, and motive all now under the microscope.
The next phase of this retrial promises even more twists and turns.
I'm Cody Thomas, and as always, thanks for listening.
Stay safe, stay informed, and we'll see you next time we go back on the record.
All right, let's see here.
All right.
Let's go ahead and um week five.
I think that's probably gonna be the last week.
Week 5, Karen Reed.
Week 5, Karen Reed.
Bam.
All right.
We're on the record in week five of the Karen Reed murder retrial.
I'm Cody Thomas, and this week the Karen Reed retrial takes a sharp turn.
A forensic expert admits he lied about his qualification.
A critical piece of vehicle data was missed entirely, and a neurosurgeon suggests John O'Keefe's fatal injury might not have come from a car at all.
the prosecution is still building its case but the cracks are starting to show the death of john o'keefe was tragic a brave officer raising two children as a single parent fast forward now has a completely different version of how john o'keefe died Evidence from videos should help the jury find the truth.
During the first trial, the jury was divided and could not agree about what happened.
But now, second time around, both sides are hoping their side's interpretation of these videos will persuade the jury.
Meanwhile, the public waits as the evidence unfolds inside the courtroom.
Today's testimony zeroed in on digital forensics and DNA analysis.
Digital forensic analyst Shannon Burgess dropped a bombshell.
An SD card, the SUV's equivalent of a black box, was missed during testing, and parts of the car's data system were damaged in the process.
Burgess analyzed a three-point turn and a reverse maneuver by Karen Reed's Lexus, timing it just seconds before O'Keefe's last bone activity.
But then came the twist.
On Cross, Burgess admitted he falsely claimed a college degree on his resume.
A forensic analyst with no diploma testifying in a murder trial.
The defense jumped on it.
DNA experts also took the stand.
A hair found in Reed's SUV couldn't rule out John O'Keefe as a contributor, and comparisons were made to Sergeant Yuri Buchanick and former trooper Michael Proctor.
Frank, you want to say what's up to the people?
Thank you.
Alright, Frank, okay, okay, okay.
Stop.
okay What was your role uh in the testing in this case?
Yes.
Uh so my role was to analyze the DNA profiles um and then do the comparisons.
Now, what items specifically did you receive for DNA testing in this case?
So, yes, like I mentioned, we received the hair, uh, we received the two um reference samples.
We received an extract uh for from a tail light as well as the negative control that was associated with that.
And then we also received uh a reference profile from the state lab.
Now, sir, in your comparison analysis between the tail light sample and the known standard from John O'Keefe, what conclusions did you make from your analysis uh or comparative analysis between those two?
Between the between John O'Keefe and the mixture profile, um, he no John O'Keefe could not be excluded as a potential contributor to that.
Which pretty much means that it's his hair mixture profile.
Now, in your comparison analysis between the tail light sample and the known standard from Michael Proctor, what conclusions did you make from your analysis there?
Yes, so he could not be visually excluded again based on that uh initial comparison.
So we run the statistic, and it was 76,000 times more likely that it was three unknown unrelated individuals versus uh Michael Proctor and two unknown unrelated individuals.
And that would be strong support for exclusion.
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All right, Kumo says uh she led on me in a domestic violence case when I was in Los Angeles County jail for a week in a one-man cell with no Quran Bible pencil or paper.
My TV was shut off, so complete isolation showered once.
And NJ, you have 25 days to reopen any case after you, please, so I plead no contest against my PD's.
Um public defendants have asked to get out and fight the case on the street, but California law is different, and I didn't.
Uh wait, hold on.
So I plead no contest again uh to get out and fight the case on the street, but California law is different, and I didn't know at the time I was only 19 young and dumb.
Damn, man.
I'm sorry that you're going through that, bro.
How old are you now, Kumo?
Sir, are you familiar with some mitochondrial DNA testing that was performed at Bodie on lab case number CCA 2416-0023 pertaining to this defendant, Karen Reed?
Yes.
Did uh the Bodie Lab also perform mitochondrial DNA testing on the known standard from John O'Keefe?
Yes.
And did you then perform your own uh comparative analysis of those two mitochondrial DNA profiles from the hair extracts uh from the rear panel of the defendant's vehicle and that of the known standard of Mr. O'Keefe?
I did.
What conclusions did you come to from that comparative analysis uh between those two standards?
Uh that John O'Keefe could not be excluded as being a source of the hair sample.
You're not saying that the hair belonged to John O'Keefe, correct?
That's not what you're saying.
Um what I'm saying is based on the genetic data obtained from the hair sample and the genetic data attained from the known reference sample of John O'Keefe.
I could not exclude John O'Keefe as being a possible source of the hair sample.
In addition, all maternally vote related individuals could not be um excluded as being a source of the hair sample.
Another way of saying that, uh Mr. Miyasako, is to a reasonable degree of scientific certainty.
You cannot say that hair belonged to John O'Keefe specifically, can you?
Yes or no?
It's no with mitochondrial DNA, you can't.
Okay.
All right, so it's not as precise as we thought.
Um say that it is per se an individual person, so it's more so the maternal line.
Because the hair could have come from his mom, it could have come from his maternal nephew, or anybody in unlikely, but you know.
See what the defense is doing here?
Oh, well, you can't conclude 100% that it was his hair, even though it came from his mother's side, and his mom didn't get hit by the car, but you guys see what the defense is doing here?
They're creating that doubt, which is this is what their job is.
They're doing a fantastic job of creating gout doubt.
And this is mature line, correct?
Correct.
Because now he's expanded it from, it could be John O'Keefe to his mom, to his aunt, to his sister, anybody that's a female on his family.
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Were there certain events that you were focused on relative to the data in the defendant's Lexus?
Sure.
So so there were specific events that we were looking for specifically.
Um that would be including timestamped uh ignition-owned events or power own events, um, as well as other data.
Can you tell us what this is?
Sure.
So this is uh the first power on event after 12 o'clock on January 29th.
Um that power event is uh happening at 121236 up here in the top.
Uh in the vehicle is powered on and it's not powered off until 124208.
Did you analyze it to see how in fact accurate it was?
Yes, I did.
And how accurate was it?
Uh it was accurate to the second.
These two clocks, one on the left being the Lexus clock that leaves 1223 38 a.m.
And the other clock on Mr. O'Keefe's iPhone has a different time, 1223.
All right, so this is the um three-point turn.
I'm gonna bring this back a little bit.
This is important.
Okay, digital forensic uh uh analyst aperture.
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Were there certain events that you were focused on relative to the data in the defendant's lexus?
Sure.
So so there were specific events that we were looking for specifically.
Um that would be including time-stamped uh ignition own events or power-owned events, um, as well as other data.
Can you tell us what this is?
Sure.
So this is uh the first power own event after 12 o'clock on January 29th.
Okay.
So this is from 1212 to 1242 AM.
This is where the alleged hit happened.
Um that power event is uh happening at 121236 up here in the top.
Uh in the vehicle is powered on and it's not powered off until 124208.
Did you analyze it to see how in fact accurate it was?
Yes, I did.
And how accurate was it?
Uh It was accurate to the second.
Damn.
Okay.
Now we're going somewhere.
Two clocks, one on the left being the Lexus clock that leads 1223 38 a.m.
And the other clock on Mr. O'Keeffe's iPhone has a different time, 1223.
All right, so Text Stream, okay, one o'clock three-point turn.
O'Keefe's iPhone clock is 21 to 29 seconds fast relative to the Lexus clock at the time of the three-point turn.
Lexus clock should be adjusted forward by 21 to 29 seconds online with Mr. Keefe's iPhone clock.
So tech stream event uh and Lexus clock 1223 30 uh 38 a.m.
And then three-point turn uh O'Keeffe's iPhone clock 1229.
Okay.
So they're comparing the two times.
To basically see when a three-point turn happened.
59 to 122407.
Do you have an opinion to a reasonable degree of scientific certainty?
Damn, Kumo TV says 25 almost 26.
I'm fighting trying to fight this for a while now, unsuccessfully.
Bro, seven years?
Holy shit, man.
If these two clocks pertain to an event that's happening at the same time or a different time?
Uh yes.
So these two clocks are uh, you know, we are synchronizing these clocks to an event that is happening at the same time.
The Commonwealth digital forensic analyst Shannon Burgess returned to the witness stand for a second day of cross-examination on day 19.
The defense zeroed in on a 21 to 29 second time variance between Reed's SUV and O'Keefe's iPhone.
A gap they say could weaken the prosecution's timeline.
Burgess insisted his analysis pulled from that missed SD card was accurate to the second, but under pressure, he admitted the SUV's recorded quote trigger events like shifting gears, don't prove a crash happened.
Prosecutors tried to shift the focus back to the data.
They also played a clip of Karen from an April 2024 interview where she seemed to estimate O'Keeffe's time of death in line with the prosecution's theory.
Which is roughly around 1230 in the morning.
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Mr. Burchis, once that timeline crosses into midnight, it's January 30th, not January 29th, correct?
Correct.
Yes, it is January 30th, yes.
So in actuality, these five timelines, as you testified to them yesterday, are not accurate down to the second, correct?
Because you got the wrong date.
Well, parlance, yes, but but yes, they are still accurate to the second.
But the date, these five timelines, let's see, let's pursue this.
These five timelines are exactly 24 hours off from the time where the event actually occurred, correct?
No.
So these events occurred on January 30th.
If I misspoke and said the 29th, yes.
Okay.
You understand my point?
Yes, I do.
In your January 30th report, you did not issue any opinion or conclusion with regard to the timing of what you call the tech stream event, 1162-2 in your January 30th report, did you?
No, I did not.
You didn't even mention either the phrase tech stream event or the phrase 1162-2 in your January 30, 2025 report, did you?
No, I did not.
But in your that January 30, 2025 report, you did evaluate the variance between the Lexus infotainment system on the one hand and Mr. O'Keeffe's iPhone data on the other, correct?
Correct.
Despite claiming the purpose in your January 30 report of quote, identifying timestamp discrepancies, potential clock skew, and clock drift, you did not compare the time of the three-point turn between the infotainment system in the Lexus SUV and Mr. O'Keefe's phone, did you?
Not at that time, no.
You failed to apply this variance to the infotainment time on the Lexus associated with the tech stream event 1162-2, correct?
Correct.
May I explain?
I will proceed along.
I'm sure if Mr. Brennan has questions and wants you to explain, uh, he may choose to do that.
This is simple arithmetic, is it not?
It's either an addition or a subtraction, the offset, correct?
Correct.
And yet, in your initial report on January 30th, 2025, you did not take that final analytical step, did you?
No, because these clock variances do not apply to that time frame.
Is the reason you failed to take that final analytical support or excuse me, final final analytic uh step we've been talking about in your January 30 report was because you knew if you did that that if you calculated the actual time of the 1162 to tech stream event based upon your own methodological analysis of the clock skew,
there would always be continued inter-action on Mr. O'Keeffe's phone after the tech stream event.
No.
So you deny that.
Yes.
Interesting.
Very very interesting.
And I mean you can see here that they're really going in the weeds here, guys.
You know, looking at the infotainment system of the SUV to figure out when the three-point turn was actually made and kind of comparing and contrasting it with Ken O'Keefe's sorry Ken O'Keefe.
John O'Keefe's phone, right?
To see when he was struck in relation to uh the infotainment system and his phone.
Day 20 began with an unexpected delay.
Judge Beverly Cannoney spoke privately with jurors for over an hour.
No one was dismissed, but two jurors were reseated.
The judge reminded the panel no talking about the case inside or outside the courtroom.
Neurosurgeon Dr. Isaac Wolf told jurors that O'Keeffe's injuries could have been caused by a fall, not a car.
He said the trauma was consistent with someone falling backwards and hitting their head on something hard like the ground.
Ben Trace analyst Christina Hanley testified that plastic fragments found on O'Keefe's clothes were a possible match for Karen Reed's Lexus tail light or a similar vehicle.
but the defense hit back noting glass on reed's bumper didn't match a cocktail glass collected from the scene You reviewed a number of items of information in this case.
Did you have an opportunity to review photographs of a laceration to Mr. John O'Keefe's head?
Yes, I did.
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.
So can you walk us through what happens when someone incurs this type of injury to the back of the head?
What happens is, you know, you fall backwards, and the the accelerate Linear acceleration starts to take you back down with gravity.
The skull hits the ground, it gets, you know, in the layman's terms, smashed a little bit.
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.
Could this type of injury happen from an attack by a weapon, like a bat or a hammer?
Well, he did not have a depressed skull fracture.
So any focal hit like that would more likely than not have caused a depressed skull fracture.
I want you to take us back now to uh after the fall.
Um would Mr. O'Keefe in your study and opinion have died immediately.
No.
There is very few things that you had injury where you would die, quote, immediately.
Was there any other observations you made about Mr. O'Keefe or his body that support your opinion that he didn't die immediately?
Well, the medical examiner took pictures of his periorbital area and diagnosed raccoon's eyes.
So raccoon's eyes occur because there's leakage through the orbital fractures into the periorbital space.
Normally it takes about 24 to 48 hours to develop.
It has been noted as early as one to three hours, which would make it not immediate.
You testified about raccoon eyes.
The medical term for that, sir, is uh echimosis, right?
Correct.
And echimosis, raccoon eyes, uh, does not cause uh a laceration to form on an eyelid, does it?
No.
Are you aware that Mr. O'Keefe had a laceration to the outside area of his right upper eyelid?
I am aware that the ME described that, yes sir.
From your comparison of starting with the clear plastic, uh from the debris from Mr. O'Keeffe's clothing, uh, from your comparative analysis of that clear plastic to the clear plastic from item three-one, the tail light, what did you conclude?
So the clear plastic uh from the debris um was found to be consistent in color and instrumental properties to the clear past uh sorry, clear plastic from the tail light.
Um so accordingly, the clear plastic from the debris could have originated.
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From the clear plastic from the tail light, or from another source with the same characteristics.
And with reference to the red plastic uh from item 7-18.18 from Mr. O'Keefe's clothing.
Uh, in your comparison of that red plastic with the red plastic from the passenger side tail light of the defendant's vehicle, item 3-1.
What did you conclude from that analysis?
So the red plastic um that I sampled from item um from the debris from the clothing from 7-18.18 was found to be consistent in color, microscopic appearance, and instrumental properties with the portions that I sampled from the red plastic from the tail light.
So accordingly, the red plastic from item 7-18.18 Could have originated from the red plastic that I sampled from the tail light from another source with the same characteristics.
Interesting.
So you guys have been asking me about this DUI guy.
So uh here's his channel right here.
I was looking at some of the stuff while talk oh actually, you know what?
Let's see before I go into him.
Let's see this interview that she did with uh Boston 25 News, where she did an exclusive like ride-along with them and then we'll go on to the DUI guy.
Today's gonna be all Karen Reed and just all Karen Reed today.
I'll probably cover Jordan Peterson debating some people tomorrow.
I think he had a debate with um on Jubilee, if I'm not mistaken.
And I've read this so many times that I don't know if I've become desensitized to it, but he says to Matt McCabe when he hold on one sec.
Yeah, nine hours ago, Jordan Peterson versus 20 Atheists.
That's kind of weird because I thought Peterson himself was atheist.
But whatever.
I need to go back on Jubilee, bro.
I need to get back on there.
But don't worry, guys.
Very soon.
Very, very soon.
How many nights do you think that you stayed at a hotel uh since this legal saga began?
Since the legal saga began, uh well, trial was every bit of 10 weeks, and then a week or so leading up to it.
Um so that's a hundred days, 90 90 plus days, and then every hearing at least one day, and that's just not having a license and being out in the suburbs.
Now I don't have my house anymore.
Um, so I'm always in transition of where I'm staying.
So uh and when when Alan and Liza come in and now Bob, and if it's one of our experts, um time is of the essence, and I like to be involved in everything.
So I certainly don't want my legal team convening, and I'm not there.
Uh you miss one day of this case on this legal team, and you're behind.
Um, we just got a discovery dump today.
This tends to happen right before hearing.
We get discovery.
I wonder if part of that is preempting us saying in court in an open forum that we're still waiting on this, this, and this.
So then we get it, and then what we haven't had time to really distill it before we're back in court, but we just got a dump today.
As you guys can see, we're doing a very deep dive on Karen Reed, but I don't wanna like I said, we're gonna cover this extensively because you guys have been asking for this case for a very long time.
So, um, so yeah, we're gonna get it done.
Okay, and it's nice because the lawyers are coming in and we're we're kind of all combing through it.
We'll sit down tonight and go through it.
We'll have time again tomorrow to go through it.
Um so staying with them helps foster this logistically.
During this time where there is no trial, we see you in court once every what three months.
But what's going on when we're not seeing you?
This is this is it, right?
This is it.
Uh I work on the case every day.
From when I wake up, I'll take a few breaks, I'll have dinner with friends or with my family or or both.
Um, but the the the hearing is those are easy days.
I mean, they're easy for me.
I don't have to do anything, but it's all the days in between.
We've gotten now.
This is a second trial.
So for any given witness, there's the initial police reports, or in some cases no police reports.
Hey and shout out to Mo for fixing the audio on this mic.
The the audio should be a hundred percent crispy, by the way, guys.
Mo fixed the sound effects.
Stupid.
And he fixed the um sound of the mic.
Punch.
So shout out to Mo for taking care of this and um, you know, giving you guys this uh crispy audio.
For those of you that are wondering, I'm using a zoom pod track P8.
I've had this thing for years.
Um, but uh, you know, I just haven't been using it, so now I am, and uh here we are.
So the audio should be very good now.
Jubilee Margans versus 20 feminists.
Yeah, I I I'm telling you, bro, that's what they they need to put me on there.
I don't know what's wrong.
I think they got scared of me from the last time I was there, bro.
Because they put on a bunch of no names, man.
They put on people that aren't nearly as relevant as I am on there.
So it's there's something going on there.
It's not relevance, something else.
We've got the state grand jury, then we've had a federal grand jury, and now a trial, and then any interim police reports that involve some of these witnesses.
So it's layers of statements and the inconsistencies are just seemingly endless.
So there's always work to do, and it's it's like finding a needle in a haystack that the report may look at a first glance to read the same, but then you read it two or three times and it starts to sink in.
You know, we were just looking at a police report.
My father and I a couple mornings ago, early, early police report from January 29th by Michael Lang with a Canton PD.
And I've read this so many times that I don't know if I've become desensitized to it.
But he says to Matt McCabe when he goes into 34 Fairview, if John got in a fight the night before.
And I always read that as documented?
That's documented in the can't the Canton police report that day three years ago, nearly to the hour uh to right now.
Um but now that I read it, I'm like, uh of course he's being asked if he knew of John getting into a fisticuffs because John looks like he was.
Right.
And those are things that I read in the moment when I was arrested and then arranged on February 2nd.
And I'm I I don't quite know the contours of what I'm dealing with.
I first think that this is just mistaken.
I was hysterical, I was drinking, and they've just got the wrong person.
And then piece by piece it came together.
Like they got they got the right person.
I'm the wrong person, but for them, I was the right person.
Now, three years later, looking at a police report that I got on February, actually, David came and brought it to the holding cell at the the Stoughton District Courthouse on February 2nd, right before I was arraigned.
You use you see something every time that you just can't see without repetition.
Your eyes like preempt what you're gonna what what the next word is with the next sentence, and it doesn't have the same meaning to you today on January 29th, 2025 that it did in 2022.
So are you going through all the police reports that you've looked at prior and all the statements?
You won't do everything again.
You gotta go through everything again because every time you get something new, it's not what is this on its face in my case, it's what's changed.
What uh what what are they saying now versus what did they say six months ago, twelve, eighteen months ago.
So you're always doing I mean we've I've got some things in a spreadsheet that's that's how my mind has always worked, but some things you just have to read.
You've got to go through the the the court minutes, go through the transcripts, but uh a police report today, you know, we'll read something.
Liza and I were on the phone on the on the way up here, and um it's wait a minute, what did what did this witness say, or what did this responding officer say back on February 10th, 2022.
Well, okay, I adjusted the USB as well, guys, so it should be better, the USB.
So um that also should be good.
Now we're saying this.
So you always you've got to always compare and see what's changed.
Do you feel like you've gotten more astute doing this for three years?
I feel I've I understand now how it's gonna I understand better how it's gonna play in court.
I think of things I was texting David constantly in the early, early days of this.
Um I'd find something and I'd think, well, can't we go talk to this person?
And they'll say it didn't happen that way.
And now I know better how tough it is to get especially in my case how tough it is to get something admitted.
Um, even going into trial with my seasoned attorneys, there were things we we thought we could show, like an exhibit, for example, like one witness, Christina Hanley.
The key part of her forensic report at the MSP lab, and she's just a scientist, a civilian, but the glass on the bumper that was photographed on the bumper, does not match the cocktail glass, does not match the cocktail glass.
So that means it's from another piece of glass.
So that had to have been two breaking events.
There's the glass that was found around John's body, The base, I think it was Lank that pulled it out with his gloves on, or maybe it was Buchnick, the base of the cocktail glass.
That is scientifically proven by the state police, Christina Hanley not to be the glass that was on the bumper.
But I think the jury was left in the first trial with the impression that it was the glass.
Yes, because it's so confusing.
Nothing's referred to as the cocktail glass or the bumper glass or the lawn glass.
It's 7-1 item five.
Right.
Yeah, and that's gonna be very difficult for a jury to track and and the average layman person as well.
Or item A, or 7-12 items A, B, C, D, and E. And then there's a more glass found by Proctor, and that's 7-13 item A. And when you have the scientist who my guess is worried that we're trying to impeach her, when we're in fact not, we just wanted her to present the report.
It it and this is you know, I don't know when she testified, but it's mid-trial, it's two in the afternoon, it's 80 degrees outside, and you you see Jur's eyes glass over, and and I know what's coming.
I know what that report is, and it it doesn't come up cleanly.
So we were thinking going into trial.
We could summarize what she was saying using her own her own acronyms and abbreviations.
Here's 712, here's 713, no match.
Something like that, and that exhibit was denied.
Um, so we were learning on the fly, things we can have it at sidebar, correct?
So this shout out to Deathly uh Not a Burner Myron Gains for 25 minutes, yeah.
Funny.
Is a very familiar spot in Boston for you.
This is your old life.
This is my old life that I go by probably once a week.
I took the train in and out of South Station every day.
Oh man, I'm very familiar with this area too.
I said this is right near Chinatown.
Where I lived in Mansfield, and had come out the back, and this is where I worked for 15 years.
Uh Fidelity at 245 Summer Street.
Equity analyst was your title.
I was equity research.
My role was uh a sector specialist, and it was in this building at 245.
Um you still stay in contact with any of the people you work.
I used to go to South Station um every time I wanted to go home.
I would take the the train home.
I did back to Connecticut.
I would say about half of my donations have come from former colleagues at Fidelity.
Half of what you're aware of that that you can see has come from uh former fidelity colleagues.
So uh it's it's funny, Ted.
I was sent home from Fidelity from that building.
I want to say the second week in February 20 uh 2020, the pandemic.
And I remember talking to someone on the subway.
I took like a 2 p.m. train back to Mansfield, and I was talking to someone else who had been sent home from a job, a different facility.
Because of COVID.
Because of COVID.
And we were saying we'll be back in a week, right?
Two weeks.
Little did I know, I'd reconnect with someone I had dated nearly 20 years earlier in 2004.
I'd be working from home for two years, and then he would be tragically killed.
Murdered.
And I've been framed for it.
And I never would set foot in that building again.
So it was it was a pandemic, and then I I was uh suspended from fidelity uh officially as soon as I was indicted.
Is that their policy?
I would think so.
I I would think so.
That it's it means do, you know, there's been some due process.
Is there hard feelings about that?
Or could you even have kept your job even if you want to?
I could not, I would not be capable of having that responsibility.
Sixteen likes away, guys, from uh 16 likes away from hitting 1500.
Okay, so I found this video here.
This looks like it covers a timeline of what went down.
So let's go ahead and look at this.
The micro dots.
The drop off, Karen Reed timeline and Jen's calls by micro dots.
It's the evening of January 28th, 2022.
There's a dangerous storm coming.
Give me all slashes of audio is good for you guys.
Give me all slashes of the audio is good.
It's still early.
as friends and family begin gathering at the Albert home.
The younger generation stay inside for the evening to consume alcohol together in celebration of a birthday.
While the elders choose to venture out to a local bar named the Waterfall where they meet acquaintances, John O'Keefe and Karen Reed.
All are drinking.
I tell you guys all the time, bro.
Guys, alcohol's fucking terrible, bro.
If they didn't drink this night, they would all be alive.
Think about that.
And uh John O'Keefe would be alive, and no one would be going to jail.
If they had all just not drunk this night.
Fucking alcohol, man.
*music*
At about 12 15, they return from the bar.
That damn German Shepherd.
Jen calls John at 1214.
At twelve eighteen, John calls her back.
Then Higgins messages John at twelve twenty.
He's asking him, yo, are you coming?
to the house This is the guy that was flirting with Karen Reed before via text.
This is the guy that was in the background.
So the car pulls up.
I like this uh 3D animation.
Visualize it for you guys.
Between 12:23 and 24, Karen and John arrive.
*Squack*
Now, if I'm not mistaken, this is gonna be the naagles that pull up.
Karen sits and waits for confirmation.
Okay, here's a layout of the home.
She watches as John approaches, looks inside, and walks through the door.
It's the last time she'll see him in good health.
So her story is she sees him go in.
So her story is she sees him go in.
Niggas is watching cops.
At the same time, Ryan Nagel, Ricky Dantano and Heather Maxson arrive in Ricky's 2018 Ford F-150 to pick up Julie Nagel at her request.
Causing the Lexus to move forward the first time.
And we saw a little bit of the well the Nagel guy's testimony.
They brought him in because he was able to see that Karen was there at the house at the time he pulled up.
Bringing it straight in line with the front door.
Just right outside the front door though.
Straight outside, yes.
The vehicles remain in these positions for a number of minutes while they both wait.
We don't know what John encountered upon entering the home or where he encountered it.
Um yeah, we were all sitting in like the kitchen table.
It's like a square table, so we're all just hanging out around there.
Um, some at like the island in the kitchen.
But we do know who was present.
As soon as John walked in, he would have been standing and keeping guys, keep in mind, guys.
The prosecution says he never went inside.
...standing in the living room, directly under the open doorway that leads into the dining room and kitchen, where he could have been easily seen by anyone in the three main rooms on the first floor.
No.
Stepping into the dining room, he'd encounter some combination of the Albert's close friends and family.
Matt McCabe, Jennifer McCabe, Caitlin Albert, homeowner Brian Albert, and nephew Colin Albert.
Brian Albert Jr.
His friend Sarah Levinson.
Homeowner Nicole Albert.
That's the wife of the cop that owns the bill, the that owns the built home.
Friend Julie Nagel.
And one Brian Higgins.
Who minutes ago sent a message to the victim asking, Are you coming here?
And the aggressive German Shepherd.
Dog's name is Chloe, if I'm not mistaken.
Um it appears that whatever happened to John inside the home unfolded rapidly, ending within just a few brief minutes.
This is evident because it must have occurred before Julie Nagel stepped outside to send her brother away by declaring that she was now staying, suddenly changing her mind.
The door leading to the Interesting.
The basement is located in close proximity to the kitchen area.
John's Apple Health data indicates that he ascended or descended three flights of stairs and took 80 steps between 1222 and 1224.
And I told you guys this before that this is one of the things that the defense referred to was his Apple Watch.
Stated ascending, descending full three floors.
Suggesting that he entered the home, walked inside, and within less than a minute ended up in the basement, either by his own volition or by force.
The most logical interpretation of the three flights as he went down, turned around to leave, and for an unknown reason was returned.
Theories on how John sustained his injuries vary, but they largely focus on a violent assault carried out by up to three men inside the home, as well as an attack by their ill-tempered German Shepherd.
An animal with a documented history of aggression, one that Brian Albert was caught attempting to conceal from the court by lying, saying that Chloe has never attacked a human being when she has attacked two, sending both to the hospital for treatment.
God damn, bro.
Guy can't control his dog, man.
Frank, on other end, he easy smart.
He don't he know he won't attack nobody.
Look, see?
Okay, look at here he comes.
Frank, what do you what do you guys say about this stupid German Shepherd, bro?
Huh?
Alright, I love you too, buddy.
Come here.
Stink nigga.
Need to get you a shower.
You smell like dog.
Just one of the many lies they've been caught in.
On the right side is an opening containing rows of dumbbells.
And a systems room behind a set of double doors.
A bathroom straight ahead.
stairs exiting directly to the backyard.
Ryan Nagel texted his sister at 1223 here.
He did text me saying that he was outside.
and then he texted again that he was going to leave Then Julie Nagle went outside.
If Ryan texted his sister again that he was going to leave, that means she kept him outside waiting.
So what caused the delay.
The timeline indicates that John entered the home, triggering a violent con.
So John attacked 1224.
Roughly, that's what they're saying.
And then Julie comes out two minutes later.
...infrontation that unfolded quickly.
The chaos inside delayed Julie for several minutes.
Long enough for Ryan to text her.
two minutes really saying he was going to leave prompting them to send her outside to get rid of her brother Within the four walls of 34 Fairview Road, they had a full-blown crisis on their hands, one that needed to be contained fast.
It's nearly 12:30 AM.
They have a fatally injured cop laying on the floor, a house full of people, and two separate parties waiting outside, each expecting someone to step out or at least inform them that they can leave.
They immediately took command, and no one was coming or going until this was worked out.
And since they didn't have the idea to blame Karen until morning when Jen noticed her tailight was cracked.
The only claim they have is to say that despite being dropped off right out front, John never came into the house.
Say it with me.
The guy never came into the house.
At 12.27, after sending Julie outside, Jen starts using her phone to build that alibi.
But Karen is still out there, and they don't know why.
As soon as you saw Miss Reed's SUV, you texted John.
Is that right?
Correct.
Jen McCabe.
You notice this SUV outside.
You started paying somewhat close attention to it.
They are watching her every move.
Anxiously waiting.
The Lexus is seen moving forward a second time into the proximity of the flagpole.
They have no clue if Karen's about to drive off dial 911.
Or bang on their door demanding to speak to John.
Also, guys, I'm gonna do uh tomorrow.
I'm gonna react to not just the Jordan Peterson debate, I'm also gonna react to the Charlie Kirk debate.
Um that he had, uh which it's pretty uh pretty interesting, where they they debate on um what's it called?
Israel Palestine.
Julie is outside.
She tells her brother that she will be staying longer, despite calling him to come pick her up for a ride home.
So that's kind of weird.
She changes her mind, huh?
Y'all were actually talking for closer to five minutes.
the whole thing probably yeah she walks back into the house at 12 29 jen mccabe makes the first of seven calls to john's phone over the next 21 minutes Although she insists that each of these calls were made unknowingly and completely accidentally.
Not a single voicemail was recorded, implying that she not only inadvertently made the calls, but she also inadvertently hung up before a voicemail was triggered.
An absurd proposition that any rational person must reject on its face.
You claimed that every one of these calls was a butt dot.
Is that right?
Yes.
Definitive evidence that they are hiding something.
The chances of this set of anomalies occurring at the exact time required to support her alibi are impossibly low.
14 interfaces with that phone over the course of 19 minutes.
Those calls were later deleted, and she doesn't have an answer for that either.
We are being asked to take Jen at her word when she has every motive to shift the blame away from herself and her family.
Ryan Nagel watches Julie entering the side door as they pull away.
Alright, so they get there at 12 24.
Julie comes out two minutes later.
So basically, in this two minute span, I guess he starts getting attacked.
Somewhere in here.
Quickly, like literally within a minute of him getting there, assuming that this conspiracy theory is true.
I was making sure my sister got in the house okay.
Providing him the perfect angle to witness Karen Reed sitting alone in her vehicle, waiting for John.
But you did look inside that SUV.
As I passed by, yes.
And you saw one person.
That's all I saw at the time, yes.
Female with long hair, correct?
Ryan and friends drive away.
Karen is now alone for the first time since she arrived.
The three of them confirm that they didn't see John outside the entire time they were there.
Nor was he in Karen's SUV.
Entirely consistent with Karen's story of what happened.
Karen leaves between 1229 and 12.30.
We know this because her phone connects to the Wi-Fi network at John's home at 12.36.
Okay.
Miss Reed's phone auto-connected to John O'Keefe's Wi-Fi at his house at 12 36 a.m.
Google Maps confirms the drive time for that route on that date and time is six to seven minutes, without factoring in the snowy road conditions that night, which would have only slowed travel further.
That means the latest Karen Reed could have left 34 Fairview Road, according to the data we have, is 12.30 a.m.
around 12:45 in the morning when the vehicle was in front of the residents on Fairview.
For some perceptual period of time, that vehicle travels over 60 feet in reverse at approximately 24.2 miles per hour.
What kind of charade is this?
The lead prosecutor is standing in front of an unknowing jury and claiming the defendant committed murder 15 minutes after she left the premises.
Shameful.
Using such flimsy and misleading information to pin a crime on an innocent woman isn't just gross negligence.
It is So I just want to let you guys know.
Clearly, this video is biased and they're going towards a conspiracy theory, but that's fine.
We'll entertain it.
We'll see this side.
It's a crime in itself.
At 12.30.
Just keep that in mind that he's obviously, this YouTuber is very...
He he thinks that the the this was a conspiracy cover-up, which is fine.
Let's let's entertain it and watch it.
just want you guys to be aware.
Behind me to John.
With no one outside, they finally have their first chance to address their next immediate problem.
At 1231 and 56 seconds, someone carries John's phone 83 and a half feet out to the last spot they saw the SUV parked.
Conveniently near trees and bushes, providing enough cover to stay out of sight.
It is placed there at 1232 and 16 seconds.
Which means it took about 20 seconds for someone to move to that location and drop the phone.
Although another theory suggests they turned the phone off and placed it outside at a later time.
Without a proper investigation, we can only speculate.
Regardless, for Karen to have hit John, she would have had to complete a six to seven minute drive in just three minutes and forty-four seconds, on slippery snow covered roads with a route that includes a long traffic light.
This means that according to the Commonwealth's own forensic data, Karen Reed could not have murdered John O'Keefe.
Then who did?
And then at 12 John O'Keefe.
This means that according to the Commonwealth's own forensic data, Karen Reed could not have murdered John O'Keefe.
Then who did?
And then at 12:40, he texted, "Hello." At 12:41, Jen makes call number two of this series.
54 seconds later, call number three.
And at 12:42, you texted, where are you?
At 1243, she makes call number four.
And at 1245, you texted hello.
At 12:46 call number five.
At 12:47 call number 6.
And finally at 12:50 Jennifer places call number 7.
A highly suspicious pattern of calls.
But what's even more interesting is that Jen originally told police that she saw Karen pulling away at 1245.
Specifically remembered because it coincided with her last text to John stating hello.
which means Jennifer has been caught in another lie and that she was attempting to place the SUV outside when it was already back at John's house for nearly 10 minutes.
You were also interviewed by Trooper Proctor on January 29th, 2022.
Jen has also adjusted her story since the beginning to accommodate the Commonwealth's evolving theory.
The flagpole was always the last place The SUV had been seen.
Until Jen testifies here.
when I first saw the vehicle, it was straight ahead out the front door stationary.
Music You said you saw it full up again.
Second time.
So you saw it move twice.
From one place to the flagpole.
To further up.
Jennifer changes her story.
now claiming she saw the SUV in position to reverse backwards towards John.
It moved to the flagpole and then it moved up again.
And like they did over and over again in the first trial to explain why the new story doesn't match the first.
They blame police incompetence.
No one has done more to damage the reputation of cops everywhere than these people.
So as Trooper Proctor was taking notes about what you were saying, he just gotta go.
At no time did you hear any noise or sound outside that was unusual?
No.
Didn't hear any squealing tires or screwing the brakes?
No.
You didn't hear me screaming or yelling.
now.
now.
You didn't hear any verbal argument.
Fucking happen.
Anything like that?
I'm just picking up the area.
Yeah, clean.
Alright, so let's go on to uh DUI guy.
Alright, so insane moments.
Let's see here.
Let's go.
Well, hello, everybody, and welcome back to You guys have been rec recommending this guy, so let's see what he's gotta say.
Buckle up It's the Law with attorney Larry Foreman.
Folks, today we are going to cover the top three moments of the trial that have happened this past week.
Now, unfortunately, uh, we can't even do a top five, let alone forget a top ten.
That would nothing significantly happen this week.
Not only because that's a short week, but of course, oh, you know the one, or it possibly even two clips that are gonna come from the same witness, Shannon Burgess.
Oh my god, this guy.
Unbelievable.
Just unbelievable this man.
How do you even testify like that about your lack of degree?
Oh, folks, if you don't know what I'm talking about, buckle up.
It's about to I think this is a guy that talked about the three-point turn, if I'm not mistaken.
Get interesting.
So without further ado, I give you the top three moments of the Karen Retrial in Canton, Massachusetts, Nova County, from the week of May 9th to May 21st, 2025.
Enjoy.
And what is that document?
Uh so this document appears to be my CV.
And is that a fair and accurate uh document?
Uh it appears to be.
It says Bachelor of General Science in Mathematics and Business Administration, University of Alabama Dash, Birmingham, Alabama Dash, currently pursuing.
Did I read that correctly?
You did read that correctly.
So in those two exhibits, your two CVs in front of you, am I correct that the first one is November 2024, and the second one is April 2025?
Yes, that appears to be correct.
In in both of those CVs, you indicate that you have not yet earned a bachelor's degree.
That is correct.
And you certainly have not earned a bachelor of science degree in any educational field according to those two CVs, right?
Correct.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
So he's a high school graduate?
And again, nothing against high school graduates.
Don't get me wrong.
There's a lot of very, very, very smart and talented people who hold nothing more than a high school degree.
They may even hold an elementary school degree.
They never even went to high school.
I've met them, and they're brilliant folks.
But this guy is presenting himself out as an expert in a field of science and or mathematics.
And this is the guy that rewrote his report.
Oh my god, it makes so much sense now.
I just clicked.
He is the one who decided to rewrite his entire report because he doesn't know what he's doing.
And in fact, as you sit here today, you do not possess any bachelor degree.
Correct.
Hitting his credibility.
And the reason, as you state, is because that bachelor's degree is currently pending.
That's the term you use.
So I use currently pursuing.
Currently currently pursuing means you're taking classes actively.
Pursuing.
Yes.
You have a public profile published on website, correct?
No way.
Yes, I do.
And it's in the form of a biography page.
No way.
Yes, I believe so.
In that biography page has your education listed.
Very possible, yes.
You recognize that document.
Uh yes, I do.
And indeed, that is the bio page that's published on Epicure's website, correct?
That is what it appears to be.
Yes.
I'd like to turn your focus to the bottom of education head.
It states, am I correct, sir?
BS, Mathematics, and Business Administration.
It does state that, yes.
And there is no qualification that it's currently pending.
It states BS in mathematics and business administration, correct?
That's what it states there, yes.
So bad.
Quelcomps!
Oh Lord.
You do not have a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics in Business Administration, do you?
No, I do not.
My God.
And if you click on the hyperlink for your CV on that same website, do you know where that hyperlink takes you?
No, I do not.
To any member of the public reading this, including prosecutor, a defense attorney, a judge or a jury, that represents that you received your bachelor of science in mathematics and business administration, does it not?
What wait, why?
Why?
Why is that sustained?
That was a valid question.
That is a direct question.
You lied, sir.
Aperture is a client of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in this case, right?
Correct.
So is it fair to say that your CV, especially when it's published on LinkedIn or Bro, the only BS this guy got his bullshit?
Holy.
They're cooking his ass right now.
Published on a website is something that is published to intend to have, especially if you're in the private sector, have clients view and retain your services.
That's that's a hope and an expectation, correct?
Uh yes, that is part of it.
You recognize that document, sir.
Yes.
It appears to be a screenshot of my LinkedIn account.
You recognize this as a fair and accurate depiction of your personal age, with the exception of what you just mentioned, correct?
Correct.
Did you draft that document that's represented as exhibit WW?
I have drafted that over time, yes.
So this guy deceived Brennan and Lally and Morrissey about his education.
He said, I hold these degrees.
Yeah, now his credibility is cooked.
But on his real CV, he is currently pursuing.
I don't hold these degrees.
That's a lie.
That's deception.
Caught.
Attention to your personal the printout of your personal LinkedIn page and go right to the second page bottom.
And under education, it says University of Alabama at Birmingham.
It's got a little UAB uh uh acronym there, and it says Bachelor of Science paren B period S period, comma, applied mathematics and scientific computation 2016-2018.
Do you see that, sir?
Yes, I do.
That's not correct, is it?
No, it's not what you do not hold ABS in a bachelor of science in applied mathematics and investigation from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, do you?
I do not.
And that would have been at that time an expected graduation date.
Oh, so you should have coulda shoulda would have graduated 2016 to 2018, but you never finished.
So you decided, you know what, I'm just gonna lie to everybody and get away with it because no one's ever gonna catch this.
What a dumb dumb bro.
It would be expected, you state.
Correct.
It would be another word for it's a another word currently pursuing.
Is that similar to expecting?
Uh sure, that could be similar.
But you know how to put currently pursuing down, don't you, sir?
Because you did it on the first few CDs, but you don't have it on your LinkedIn page.
Am I correct?
Uh correct.
That that's probably because obviously that has not been updated in quite some time.
It is your responsibility as the holder of the CV, the LinkedIn page, to make sure it is current and not outdated.
If you are going to put out there that I am expected to graduate 2016 to 2018, and it is now 2025, and you haven't updated that, that's on you.
Because you bear the sole responsibility of making sure that your information is current.
Yeah, that this is your responsibility, Burgess.
Your failure to update, you have deceived the Commonwealth.
You lied to Brennan about your credentials, man.
It does not get lower than this.
I mean, lying on a report, everybody does it.
Making facts up on the report, everybody does it.
Embellishing facts in your report, everybody does it, changing the facts in your report.
Some people do it.
But to lie about your foundation.
So I was an adjunct professor at the University of Alabama from 2017 to 2019.
Mr. Burgess, you never taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Alabama of 2017 to 2019, have you?
Nope.
Just made it up, put it on there, thought he looked good.
Is this guy for real?
Is this guy is this this is this the real life?
Wow.
Your LinkedIn page, correct?
I get selective notifications when people view my LinkedIn page.
So you know people are looking at your LinkedIn page.
You know people are looking at your education.
And you have down here 2016 to 2018.
So that time period is seven years old.
Seven years.
Yet you use the 2016 to 2018 on your LinkedIn page.
Oh my god.
Correct?
Correct.
With the caveat that my understanding is people look at your today.
Do you want to get into uh the next guy here, which is um this detective.
Do you believe that this investigation?
Now I'm gonna turn to this investigation.
Here we go.
It's conducted with professionalism, with competence, uh, at the highest level of integrity.
This investigation was conducted professionally with integrity, and all the evidence collected, all the statements collected, pointed in one direction.
There was no bias influence on the evidence on the information.
What he should have said was you could tell these guys like don't testify that much.
Though the contents of my colleagues' text messages were unprofessional and done in a comedic fashion, that does not impact the quality of the investigation, the integrity of the investigation whatsoever.
Everyone has a sense of humor with their colleagues at work and makes jokes.
That does not impact our ability to be forthright honest and impartial in conducting the investigation.
Workplace banter and jokes do not affect the ability of my colleagues to do this investigation impartially.
That's what he should have said.
But you know, obviously, you know, it's a L regardless, because optically it looks terrible.
Right?
There's not really much you can say.
But yeah.
And that was collected for which direction the investigation pointed naturally.
Former trooper.
Uh Drake Zien, I will be covering geopolitics tomorrow.
Today is today's true crime, bro.
Sunday is true crime day.
Michael Proctor was the person who's the assigned case agent, the lead case agent in this particular investigation, correct?
Michael Proctor was the case officer for this investigation.
He was assigned ultimately to use another phrase as the lead investigator wasn't.
Which is the same thing as a case agent on the federal side.
This is a state case, so obviously they're gonna call him the lead the lead case officer.
But yeah.
I'm not gonna agree with you.
Really?
Is there a reason that you want to try to distance yourself from naming Michael Proctor as the lead investigator?
Is there some reason?
I am not trying to distance myself.
All I'm saying is the term that I use is the case officer.
We're simply case managers.
There's no leading investigation in any direction.
So in your mind, well, the when they say lead, that means he's the one that makes the my God, bro.
See.
Lean investigator means you're the one making all the decisions on the case.
You are the primary guy for running the investigation, managing the investigation.
That's what it is.
He totally let the defense attorney trip him up there by saying Lee you're the lead officer as in leading it in a certain way.
Not that manner.
In the report, in the Department of State Police report, Michael Proctor, and I quote, I'm gonna read from the report when they found him guilty and discharged him from duty from the Massachusetts State Police forever.
They wrote Trooper Proctor on various dates between January 29th, 2022 and August 17, 2022, a seven-month period, did fail to conform to the work standards established for the members' rank title or position, and or did fail to make a with any criminal case, there's always gonna be a lead investigator chat.
to take appropriate action.
They're the ones responsible for managing the case, writing the reports, you know, presenting the evidence, getting search warrants, all that stuff.
On the occasion of a crime disorder or other condition deserving state police attention.
This occurred when Trooper Proctor, while assigned as the lead investigator in a homicide investigation, sent derogatory, defamatory, disparaging, and or otherwise inappropriate text messages about a suspect, Karen Reed, in that investigation to other individuals, Buchanan and others.
This action is a direct violation of Article 5.8.2, and this is a class A violation which merited not suspension, not leave, paid or unpaid, but disbarred from the Massachusetts State Police.
You know, it's the wrong word, but it just sounds so good.
Fired is another way.
Discharged from duties forever is another great phrase.
He can't say he can't agree with his own governing agency.
What is that?
How is that?
He's a detective investigator, right?
He is a detective, yes.
And he was the one who was assigned by the Massachusetts State Police because of his alcohol status that night.
January 29th, 2022, he was assigned to a case.
That's all I'm asking.
Well, you said a lot before that.
So I said he was assigned to the case on January.
What I said before, that was January 29th, 2022.
He was assigned by Massachusetts State Police as the case officer for this case, right?
No.
No.
Who was he was assigned to be on call a month prior.
Just because he was on call, he he was assigned the case as a result.
He was not, he was not assigned.
Alright, so this is common guys.
Um, and again, this attorney's looking at him crazy because he doesn't understand this.
So when you're an investigator, right, there's something called duty, right?
And whether it's um FBI, DEA, whatever it may be, you're gonna get general calls, right, throughout the day, the night, whatever.
And what's up happening is when you're the guy on duty, that means all the calls that come in, any case that happens, you're picking it up.
Okay.
So since he was a guy that was on call that week, he ended up taking a case.
That's how it goes.
So that's the this happens in all law enforcement agencies.
Hell, it even works with judges.
Like if there's a duty magistrate judge for the week, they see all the people that come in for their initial appearance and all that other stuff, right?
So this is across the entire just criminal justice system, where there's a duty A USA, there's a duty ADA.
Uh any case that comes through.
Um, you know, and you need to call a prosecutor to get a declination or acceptance, there's gonna be a duty AUSA over a Fed, there's gonna be a duty ADA if you're a state guy.
So that's just how it goes.
So the reason why you picked up the this case is because he was the guy that was on call when it came through.
Right there and then, because his assignment began much early in the day.
Sorry, we can do this all day, I suppose.
That's that's how being on call and being on duty works, chat.
He was on the correct because he was on call, any case that happened to come in would be assigned to whom?
To the uncalled trooper.
That's there you go.
Who was whom?
Michael Proctor.
There you go.
What's a good boy?
Let me just ask you this.
Do you believe that Michael Proctor, his involvement in this case taints the investigation?
Yes.
Tainted the investigation?
No.
Yes.
Not at all.
The investigation was done with honor integrity, and all the evidence pointed in one direction, one direction only.
Honor and integrity by Michael Proctor?
Is that a question?
I'm sorry.
Sure is.
Everything I say is honor and integrity by Michael Proctor.
He's processing.
He's trying to come up with an answer.
Go ahead and ask it again, Mr. You said honor and segment.
Honor and integrity by Michael Proctor.
Okay.
I'll allow it.
The investigation was conducted with honor and integrity.
And all the evidence pointed in one direction and one direction only.
So Sergeant.
Like a broken radio.
You don't want to answer my question.
Correct?
I will answer your question, absolutely.
Do you think this case was handled with honor and integrity by Michael Proctor, Sergeant?
The investigation was on handled.
Just say yes.
And that's it.
Don't go further.
Just say yes with integrity by Michael Proctor.
Oh.
You want short answers when you're on cross-examination chat.
You want to try to your best to do short answers.
Okay.
Wow.
Really?
You do know that he touched or had input in nearly every part of this case, obviously, is the case officer, correct?
He managed the case.
So he had some input or had some connection to nearly every part of the case, be it physical evidence, the search warrants, the interviews, things of that nature.
He was one of the involved collecting evidence, conducting interviews.
Somebody shoot me.
Sign signing.
Yeah, he should have just said yes.
He's he keeps he's dragging it on.
Just say yes, dude.
Affidavits um for the search warrants.
He didn't take a minor role before.
I have an aneurysm.
I'm gonna take a pause and I'll say don't forget to like this video, comment below, subscribe to the channel.
This guy.
Actually, yeah, like like the video as well, and then just I swear to God.
What is wrong with this man?
I know my editor will splice that in there and show you guys shout out to my editor who there's the only one with a team of the size that we had working on this case, he did not have a major role.
So you believe, as you said here today, your testimony is Michael Proctor did not have a major role in this investigation of Commonwealth versus Karen Reed, because he didn't have 51% of something.
That's your testimony?
That's the way I understand it, yes.
Okay.
I am in physical pain.
And the jury hears and reads all of that, folks.
Don't be misled, don't be mistaken.
Your goal was to create a timeline, correct?
Correct.
Have you ever talked to Juxon Welcher, your colleague about this pace at all?
Uh I have vaguely, yes.
Did Dr. Welcher ever tell you, your colleague, why he wanted to use that data for his purposes?
Uh f for reconstructing a timeline.
And for reconstructing a timeline and picking a time for the what you now call a text stream event, correct?
You knew that's what he was doing.
Correct, for a timeline, yes.
Right.
So he you knew that for the 11622 tech stream event, he was gonna use your analysis back in January of thirty, two thousand twenty twenty-five to try to pinpoint that tech stream event 11622, correct?
That is correct.
You knew that.
Yes.
And you know that he used that data to select a specific range for that tech stream 1162 to tech stream event, correct?
Uh I don't know if select would be the right I I understand what you're saying.
Yes.
Oh, yeah.
So based on the data, he's identifying the time approximately when that event would have occurred.
Oh, wait, wait, wait.
Identifying or manufacturing.
Big difference, Burgess.
Do you know the purpose of the eleven sixty-two two tech stream event in the analysis performed by your firm?
No, Dr. Welcher did not.
So you performed your analysis.
What?
In all these timelines that you talked about on direct without knowing what Dr. Welcher was going to do with that data?
No.
So my God.
You liar on the time and date.
Or to put a time and date with when that extreme trigger would have occurred.
Exactly.
So you knew.
So you knew what the process was of your work with regard to Dr. Welter's.
Yes.
Correct.
Yes.
And isn't Dr. Welcher's work on the 1162- You can't hide behind the veil of oh, I misunderstood.
You know exactly what you are doing.
You're trying to recreate a case from the ground up by changing the facts, manufacturing the evidence, and fabricating what actually happened.
Don't play games, Burgess.
You know what you're doing, and you know what Welcher is doing, and you're both in cahoots, and you're both getting exposed.
Did anybody from the Commonwealth ask you?
Oh, it's the fifth anniversary of George Floyd's death.
Oh man.
In your January.
February 30th, 2020 25 report to not discuss your work in connection with the tech stream 1162-1 and the 1162-2 events.
No.
But you didn't discuss that.
Meaning the 1162-1 and 1162-2 events in your first report in January 30th, did you?
That was not part of my report, correct?
But you did delve into that and pretty heavily in your May 8th report, correct?
Correct.
And you delved into that pretty heavily in the middle of this trial, correct?
Uh-huh.
Correct.
So after the trial, you do you know the trial started around April 22nd.
Oh God.
Oh my god, you guys prepare yourselves for an absolute annihilation.
I have not seen this before, but I can already tell Alessie's about to rip this dude's head off of his shoulders.
Let's watch this together.
Oh God, I'm so excited.
That's three ones.
Generally.
So let's do the timeline on this.
Yeah.
January 30th, 2025.
You prepare your initial report, correct?
Correct.
In that initial report, you mentioned nothing about TechStream event 1162-1, correct?
Correct.
In that report, you mentioned nothing about TechStream Event 1162 2, correct?
Correct.
The trial starts April 22nd, correct?
Correct.
J generally.
No, the trial in this case, this trial, about April 22nd.
And I'm after the trial starts, and after witnesses, of course, are appearing, you prepare another report, correct?
Correct.
And that's your May 8th report.
Correct.
Right in the middle of this trial.
Correct.
And right in the middle of this trial, you enlarge the number for the 21 to 29 range.
That's bigger than what it was in your first report, correct?
No, that is not correct.
Well, you change the number, don't you?
No, I did not change the number.
Well, let's go back to see exactly what you did, sir.
Trip?
I'm like Scooby right now.
I'm like, so May 8th, you just resubmitted the exact same report, Burgess.
We all know you didn't.
All right, let's go into the next guy, Turtle Boy.
He's also heavily involved in this case, right, on the conspiracy side.
Umrested, okay, in relation to this case.
Um, Aidan Kearney, the journalist and no and blogger known as Turtle Boy, has been arrested and charged with multiple counts of witness intimidation as well as assault and battery.
He was initially charged in the Karen Reed case and later faced charges related to an alleged assault involving a former girlfriend, according to social law library who's charged with witness intimidation, unlawful picketing uh to influence a witness and conspiracy to intimidate a witness.
Let's go ahead and um click this real quick.
Chris.
All right, Alyssa, thanks.
Well, the blogger who's become closely intertwined with the Karen Reed murder case is being held without bail.
He's actually facing new charges of assault and battery.
And this guy's been going viral for this case for covering it.
WB's Tammy Mutasa's live outside of Dedham Court tracking some fast moving developments in the case.
Damn it.
Chris tonight, there is shock from Turtle Boy's supporters and his attorney, the entire courtroom gashed when the judge revoked his bail.
Yeah, I can't talk about, you know, Karen Reed without bringing this guy up.
He's he's very involved in this case.
And now Turtle Boy is locked up on his latest charges of assault and battery and witness intimidation.
Uh versus Aidan Kearney.
The turtle boy blogger Aidan Kearney walked into court, but this time he didn't walk out after a judge revoked his bail.
With all the He's charged with shoving his ex-girlfriend.
We're just shocked and disgusted that that's the rule, and we're gonna do everything we can to fight it.
Prosecutors say this weekend, Kearney went to the woman's home, demanded to see her phone, then during a confrontation, he shoved her.
And it's clear that he did not want to leave the premises without those notes.
Then he put his hands on her, then he shoved her back into a couch, and this constitutes witness intimidation judge.
Kearney's lawyer played a recording of a conversation between the two, where prosecutors say she was pushed, but the defense says that's not what happened.
See this for what it is, which is a total fabrication.
The tape recording is completely opposite what her sworn affidavit is.
What kind of person judge would record something like that and put it on YouTube for the entire world to hear?
Outside of court, a war of words were exchanged between Turtle Boy supporters and those who feel empathy for the ex-girlfriend.
I thought the charges today were another attempt.
Brad Goldstein.
I mean, look at him, bro.
To silence him, you know, it seems like for the last couple of months, they've been doing everything they can to weaponize the law to use it against him and try to keep him quiet.
Men who use violence against women to silence and intimidate them are the worst.
Ellis.
Hmm.
You might be one of them too, man.
First dregs of our society.
Just last week, Kearney was arraigned on 16 felony charges, including witness intimidation relating to the Karen Reed case.
Reed is charged with killing her Boston police officer boyfriend, John O'Keefe.
We've not yet begun to fight.
We're not giving up the battle here.
So let's go ahead.
Here's his YouTube channel right here, guys.
Um let's see here.
All right, let's go to...
What was that before?
My name is Aiden Carney, and I'm the founder...
Okay, so this is came out a month ago.
Full summary of a case by Aiden.
My name is Aidan Kearney, and I'm the founder of Turtle Boy Daily News.
For the last two years, I've been reporting on the murder of John O'Keefe and the prosecution of Karen Reed.
In doing so, I've exposed unprecedented amounts of corruption in the Massachusetts State Police and the Norfolk County District Attorney's Office.
as a result of my relentless journalism and activism this case has gotten more attention than any murder case since oj simpson i don't know about that i'll say diddy case gets more attention But that's fine.
Millions of people now know that Cam.
Oh, murder.
Okay, so murder.
Millions of people now know that Karen Reed was framed.
And that the people who murdered John O'Keefe were protected by their friends and family in law enforcement.
This has led to widespread outrage and demonstrations outside the courthouse and in the streets across the country.
Because of the damaging effect that my reporting and protesting has had on the Commonwealth's case and reputation, I was arrested by the same police I've been exposing.
Hmm.
So you please grabbed them up.
And charged with 16 counts of felony witness intimidation, conspiracy, and picketing.
The charges are completely meritless and were designed to get me to stop reporting and stop leading this movie.
But I mean, why'd he go to his girl's house though?
An overview of my charges can be found in the video linked in the description.
Alright, let's see here.
Although Scanlan didn't specify names, didn't mention Colin Albert or Brian Higgins in particular, they were the only ones who matched the description who were at the house that night.
This was the first time Karen.
I will tell you that my client has no criminal intent.
She loved this man.
She is devastated.
He did not state or suggest that his client did in fact strike O'Keefe With her car.
Karen was admittedly drunk on the evening of January 28th and had no memory of hitting John O'Keefe with her car.
She says that she saw him go into the house, but had no idea how he ended up dead on the lawn.
She began to wonder if she could have accidentally bumped into John without realizing it.
One thing that didn't cross her mind in the days after John died was that the people inside Brian Albert's house would beat him up and throw him on the lawn to die like trash.
That changed on February 3rd, 2022, the day after Reed's arraignment.
Yannetti was visited in his Boston office by a man named Steve Scanlon.
Scanlan was a former corrections officer and a longtime friend of Brian Albert.
He told Yanette Hey, can one of you guys do me a solid and get me the um can one of you guys um in the chat get me a link for um the official narrative?
We've been looking through the conspiracy theories.
Let's get one that uh that kind of illustrates the prosecution case.
You know what I'm saying, guys?
Because we watched two videos now that cover the conspiracy watched this one as well.
So do me a sod, guys.
If one of you guys could get me one that has the official narrative.
Eddie, that he should look at the picture.
And then we can compare and contrast.
Well, inside the house and opined that O'Keefe was beaten up by Brian Albert, an ATF agent, and Albert's nephew, and that they later moved his body to where Reed found him at 6 a.m.
Although Scanlan didn't specify names, didn't mention Colin Albert or Brian Higgins in particular, they were the only ones who matched his description who were at the house that night.
This was the first time Karen had heard that Colin was at the house, and it suddenly started making sense what had happened.
From that point on, she began investigating the investigation into her and discovered that she was being framed.
Scanlon wanted to be a whistleblower, but since he's a coward, he also wanted to remain anonymous and wouldn't sign an affidavit for David Yanetti.
When I spoke with Scanlin, he told me that he didn't know for sure what had happened to John, but said that the injuries to John, quote, didn't add up.
There's just one problem with that though.
John's autopsy photos weren't released at that time, and his injuries hadn't been reported by any media outlets.
So Scanlin would have no idea what his injuries were.
Scanlan wasn't wrong though.
When people get run over by cars, they generally have bruises all over their body and broken bones.
Not John O'Keefe, though.
He had no bruises or broken bones below his nose, but he did have two black eyes, defensive wounds on his knuckles, a three-inch laceration in the back of his head, indicating that he had been hit by a blunt object in what appears to be dog bites exclusively on his right arm.
You don't have to be a doctor to know that a car did not do that.
Karen Reed and John O'Keefe dated 20 years ago and reconnected romantically after speaking on Facebook during the pandemic.
During those 20 years, John left his job as a Ducksbury police officer to join the Boston Police Department.
In 2014, John's sister and brother-in-law tragically died in less than three months of each other, leaving John's.
Yeah, just shoot me a link, guys, if you have it.
Um, so we can compare compare and contrast.
Young niece and nephew without their parents.
John stepped up and became their parent, raising them alone and moving to Canton.
Karen worked for Fidelity as a financial analyst and was an adjunct professor at Bentley University.
She owned a home in Mansfield, but for all intents and purposes, was cohabitating with O'Keefe and acting as a de facto stepmother to O'Keefe's niece and nephew.
Text messages leading up to the night O'Keefe was killed show that Reed felt taken advantage of by John, as some referred to her as the quote, babysitter with benefits.
Ouch.
John didn't like how she spoiled the kids.
They argued as many couples do, sometimes in front of the kids, and discussed breaking up.
There was an incident in Aruba a month before John died, where Karen angrily confronted a woman named Marietta Sullivan and accused her of kissing John.
And Karen was frustrated that John got drunk during the trip and left her to take care of his kids.
Karen herself sought validation and attention from an ATF agent friend of John's named Brian Higgins, who she flirted with over texts in January of 2022, but ultimately ended up ghosting him after a tap kiss in John's garage two weeks before John died.
One time, John told Karen to leave the house, but they never ended up breaking up because Karen was so helpful with the children.
Despite their occasional arguments, John and Karen were lovey dovey at CF McCarthy's.
On the night Oh shit.
Karen was so helpful before John died.
One time, John told Karen to leave the house, but they never ended up breaking up because Karen was so helpful with the children.
Despite their occasional arguments, John and Karen were loving.
Okay, yeah, here he is right here.
And here she is.
Um at CF McCarthy's on the night that she allegedly killed him and was described by witnesses to be affectionate towards one another.
On Friday, January 28th, the huge winter storm coming to Massachusetts was all over the news.
John and Karen texted back and forth all day talking about problems in their relationship.
But whatever issues they had with each other wasn't enough to keep them apart that night, as John repeatedly invited her to Canton to drive him around to the bars and get snowed in with him and the kids for the weekend.
John went out to a local bar called C.F. McCarthy's with his friends Mike Cameron and Kurt Roberts.
Karen drove in from Mansfield and met them there at 9 p.m.
She immediately began ordering drinks and could be seen on camera paying for four.
By 11 o'clock, Reed and O'Keefe made plans to go to a bar across the street and meet up with a woman named McCabe, who O'Keefe was friends with because his niece was friends with one of McCabe's four daughters.
McCabe was at the bar with her husband, Matt McCabe.
Her sister, Nicole Albert, Nicole's husband, Brian Albert, Brian's brother, Chris Albert, and Chris's wife Julie Albert.
Joining them there was Brian Higgins, the ATF agent Reed had previously flirted with earlier in the month before, quote, ghosting him.
While they were there, Jennifer McCabe invited O'Keefe to Brian Albert's house for an after party, where Brian Albert Jr. was celebrating his 23rd birthday with several friends and his 17-year-old cousin Colin Albert.
One witness described McCabe as trying to separate John from Karen, who had no interest in going to an afterparty at a stranger's house.
After an hour the bar closed, and Brian and Nicole Albert left to go back to their home at 34 Fear of Vie Road.
Higgins can be seen on video yelling and pointing in O'Keeffe's direction before being held back and restrained by Chris Albert.
While he was at the bar, he had texted O'Keefe's girlfriend, um, well, as if to say, why are you ignoring me?
He was drunk, upset with O'Keefe, and felt disrespected by O'Keeffe's girlfriend.
When Nicole and Brian Albert got back home, they testified that their nephew Colin was still there, but that he left within a few minutes.
Colin called him.
Hold on one second, Chat.
I'm trying to find the goddamn something that shows the prosecution.
It's fine.
Let me just bring this shit back a little bit.
Matt McCabe.
Her sister, Nicole Albert, Nicole's husband, Brian Albert, Brian's brother, Chris Albert, and Chris's wife, Julie Albert.
Joining them there was Brian Higgins, the ATF agent Reed had previously flirted with earlier in the month before, quote, dosing him.
While they were there, Jennifer McCabe invited O'Keefe to Brian Albert's house for an after party, where Brian Albert Jr. was celebrating his 23rd birthday with several friends and his 17-year-old cousin Colin Albert.
One witness described McCabe as trying to separate John from Karen, who had no interest in going to an after party at a stranger's house.
After an hour, the bar closed, and Brian and Nicole Albert left to go back to their home at 34 Fearview Road.
Higgins can be seen on video yelling and pointing.
Oh shit.
Is him right here.
In O'Keeffe's direction.
Before being held back and restrained by Chris Albert while and pointing in O'Keefe's director home at 34 Fear of Vie Road.
Higgins can be seen on video yelling and point.
Okay, so this is him right here.
Pointing in O'Keeffe's direction before being held back and restrained by Chris Albert.
While he was at the bar, he had texted O'Keefe's girlfriend, um, well, as if to say, why are you ignoring me?
He was drunk, upset with O'Keefe, and felt disrespected by O'Keefe's girlfriend.
When Nicole and Brian Albert got back home, they testified that their nephew Colin was still there, but that he left within a few minutes.
Colin claimed that he had been there for 90 minutes, dropped off earlier in the evening by Jennifer McCabe's daughter Allie, said he could wish his much older cousin Brian Albert Jr. a happy birthday.
Despite being a teenage meathead who loves to drink and party, Colin's story is that he left the house minutes after his fun uncle arrived at the party because he wanted to get home, kiss his parents good night, and go to bed.
Right.
Physical violence and toughness are things that are encouraged amongst male members of the Albert family.
Brian Albert is a former Marine and trained boxer with 30 years of experience as a Boston police officer, serving on the fugitive.
Oh, yeah, he was actually featured on a TV show, guys.
This guy, um Brian Albert.
Uh, here, I'll show you guys real quick.
Happy birthday.
I forget that he was featured on a TV show.
Hold on.
Hold on.
It was literally featured on a TV show.
...unit where he was in charge of tracking down and arresting some of the most violent and dangerous criminals.
He reportedly assaulted two other Boston police officers named Eddie Hernandez and Stephen Ridge, and had a bad reputation amongst the rank and file in the BPD.
Chris Albert is a thug who has political power in town.
On June 23rd, 2024, he threatened to beat my face up and down the sidewalk.
I forget what the what the name of the TV show was.
Outside CF McCarthy.
Up and down the sidewalk in two seconds.
Yo, beat my face.
I wouldn't.
I could.
You could, right.
Yeah, no, what I'm asking, guys, is uh uh J. Bro, I was asking if you can if someone can give me a YouTube video that shows the prosecution's case.
If not, I can outline it for you guys.
If not, because right now we're looking at, you know, conflicting theories from the defense that prop up Karen's innocence.
I was gonna try to keep it unbiased and show the other side for the prosecution, but I can outline it myself if needed.
Then watched gleefully as one of his employees in his crazed sister-in-law, Jill Daniels, assaulted me on camera.
You know, I'm so sticking your sale.
Chris knew he can get away with this because the McAlberts, Massachusetts for you, basically run the town again.
Chris is on the board of selectmen, his brother Kevin Albert's a detective sergeant.
Brian Albert is a legend, and Tim Albert once owned a pool.
As a member of the select board, Chris is in charge of hiring the police chief who works for him.
Unsurprisingly, Chief Helena Rafferty and former Chief Ken Burkwitz both supported Chris Albert's campaign for selectman and use their positions of authority to cast doubt on what was plainly a cover-up in the eyes of any rational person.
Chief Burkwitz allowed Brian Higgins to have an office at the Canton Police Department and asked a reporter to take down a tweet on February 1st, 2022, because the tweet mentioned the fact that John O'Keeffe's body was found on Brian Albert's front lawn, and Brian Albert was a quote, pillar of the community who didn't deserve to have his reputation tarnished.
In November of 2023, the people of Canton held a special town meeting where they voted to audit the police department, despite the select board and Chris Albert voting 5-0 not to.
Colin was the star of the Canton High School football team.
And the quintessential jock, who thought football was cool, but Shakespeare was a loser.
He was also neighbors with O'Keefe and had reportedly gotten into shouting matches with his much older neighbor after throwing beer cans on O'Keefe's lawn.
Colin's parents jokingly referred to O'Keefe as nevercracker, and reference to a grumpy cartoon character who didn't like people on his lawn.
Colin has a history of violence and has gotten to several fights that were memorialized on video.
He had also issued disturbing threat to a group of teenage hockey players from Hingham, known as the Advantage Boys.
Yo, you're advantageous boys.
I will beat all your asses.
I promise you, I'll fuck you all up.
Despite this, Colin claimed during the trial that he had never been in a fight before, something that was undeniable perjury.
Like many others, Colin looked up to and admired his uncle, Brian.
Family photos of the Alberts almost always show the men.
you...
Yep, all fists.
Either giving the middle finger to the camera or holding up their fists like boxers do.
Commonwealth wants us to believe that as soon as his uncle Brian got back to the party, Colin just immediately decided it's time to leave.
Colin Chris and Julie Albert have all known state police detective Michael Proctor for decades.
And as luck would have it, Proctor ended up being a side lead investigator for O'Keefe's murder.
Seven-year-old Colin was the ringbearer in Proctor's sister Courtney's wedding.
Oh, shit, he's really getting into weeds.
...lead investigator for O'Keefe's murder.
Seven-year-old Colin was the...
Ring bearer in Proctor's sister Courtney's wedding.
There's pictures of Colin and his family all over Courtney's Facebook page.
And Proctor's own mother referred to the Alberts as a quote, second family.
Yet Procter did not recuse himself from the investigation or disclose this close relationship.
In fact, he denied knowing that when he testified in front of the grand jury that invited Reed.
He said he didn't know him.
Karen discovered by researching the Albert and Proctor families on social media this was a lie.
Throughout the investigation, Proctor went out of his way to protect the McAlberts by treating them as witnesses instead of suspects.
And not interviewing eyewitnesses and even accepting bribes from the Alberts on the day that Reed was arrested.
Shortly after Brian Nicole arrived at 34 Fearview Road, Jennifer and Matt McCabe pulled into the driveway and parked there.
At 1214, John O'Keeffe had just left the waterfall bar with Karen Reed and texted Jem McCabe asking where to.
At 1218, he called her, asking her to clarify directions.
Unfamiliar with the town that she didn't live in, Karen went slightly out of the way to get there, coming from the east on Cedar Crest Road.
She missed the left-hand turn onto Fairview Road, did a U-turn in the driveway, and then she went back to Fairview Road.
When she did so, a truck was coming from the opposite direction and was trying to turn left on a Fairview Road.
Inside that truck was Ricky Dantano, Heather Maxon, and her boyfriend Ryan Nagel, whose sister Julie Nagel was a friend of Brian Albert Jr., and it called him looking for a ride home.
Deantano allowed Reed to turn on to 34 Fairview and dropped John off in the driveway, where she claims that she saw him run quickly to the side door.
Dantano, Maxon, and Nagel pulled in seconds afterwards and testified that they did not see John O'Keefe run into the house, which would make sense because the other cars in the driveway would have obstructed their view from seeing him.
Karen had no intention of going inside because she didn't know anyone there.
And throughout the whole scene, she just thought it was sketchy because the house was dark and Higgins had just yelled at O'Keefe before leaving the bar.
But John was drunk and wanted to go, so she agreed to drop him off there.
Alright, I'm back.
The plan was for him to call or text her that he was inside to let her know everything was fine, and she'd go back to his house three miles away at one meadows app, where his 14-year-old nieves was home alone.
But John never called or texted Cameron Reed again.
As she waited outside, she became frustrated with John for not calling her and assumed that he had once again gotten drunk and left her to take care of his kids.
After 10 minutes, she left and drove back to John's house, leaving all sorts of angry voicemails and text messages accusing him of cheating on her.
This is the exact opposite thing that you would do if you just murdered someone.
Scott Peterson and countless other killers have left voicemails for their victims, pretending to be worried about them.
Okay, beautiful.
I won't be able to get to the telephone to get that basket from Alba.
I was hoping you would get the message and going out there.
I'll see you in a fight.
Reed's messages indicated that she thought John was alive, possibly with another woman, and had left her alone to watch his children.
Who wouldn't be pissed?
According to Trooper Nicholas Carino, Karen Reed logged into John's Wi-Fi at 1236 a.m.
The two point three-mile trip from Fairview Road to one Meadows Ave, which included going through a traffic light in the center of town, would have taken Yeah, because I mean I guess you could make the argument, you know, damned if she does, damned if she doesn't, right?
If she, you know, talk shit to him, oh you're angry.
But if she says, Oh my god, I'm wondering where you are, they'll look at it as a cover up.
So I see his perspective.
And I covered the Lacey Peterson case.
I remember that one.
Um Yeah.
Yeah, I remember that one as well, where yeah, he was sending those messages to make it look like he gave a shit, but he actually killed her.
That means Karen had to leave Fairview Road no later than 1230 a.m.
This presents a huge problem for the Commonwealth.
Ricky Dontano, Heather Maxon, and Ryan Nagel all testified that Julie Nagel came out and said that she was gonna stay there instead.
They all left while Karen Reed was still parked outside and drove by her Lexus.
All three of them testified that they saw Karen Reed alone in her car with the interior lights on in her hands at 10 and 2 on the steering wheel.
None of them saw John O'Keefe inside the car with Karen Reed.
None of them saw O'Keefe on the ground outside the car or standing outside the car.
This means there could only be one place that O'Keefe was inside Brian Albert's house.
The forensic evidence backs this up.
John's Apple Health data shows that he ascended and descended three flights of stairs between 1222 and 1224 AM.
Karen's Apple Health data does not show we're going up any flights of stairs during that time.
This means that Reed and O'Keefe could not be in the same place at that time.
Brian Albert has two flights of stairs in his house.
Karen Reed Lexus doesn't have a basement.
Don't worry though, the Commonwealth has an explanation for that.
You see, John's GPS, which has a three-minute standard deviation from the actual time, shows that he wasn't there yet at 1222.
According to Detective Garino, the Norfolk DA's forensic expert, John was on Oakdeal Road and was probably moving the phone up and down in the cock.
The movements of the phone, the distance traveled it's going to register stuff.
You don't have to physically be walking and moving the phone for two register movements.
Just waving around and then could potentially cause it to think you're walking moving.
Which somehow tricked Apple into believing that he had just climbed a couple flights of stairs.
Gorino testified that it was a very hilly street.
So I tried driving down Oakdale Road to see if I could get my Apple Health data to say I climbed stairs.
This is This is cool that he did this actually.
So the state says just by moving sometimes, uh, it'll signify it as you taking steps.
Let's see what happens when he does it.
What I found.
Look how flat the street is.
Are you kidding me?
Are you kidding me?
Watch out for the hell kid.
The flattest street in Canton.
Unsurprisingly, my Ampell Health data did not show that I had climbed any flights of stairs.
The Antino Maxon and Ryan Nagel all testified that there were no cars in between them and Reed's Lexus.
This presented a problem for the Commonwealth, so they had to try to find a way to discredit them.
The solution to this was for Matt McCabe, Jem McCabe, and Brian Higgins to make up a lie that Higgins had parked his white Jeep next to Brian Albert's mailbox, which would have been in between the Lexus and D'Antano's truck.
And after the end of the driveway, there was a Jeep.
And after the Jeep was this um was the SV.
You did not see uh, for instance, a Jeep with a snow plow on the front parked in between you.
I did not.
In fact, that Jeep was just a little bit in front of the mailbox.
Meaning about there, correct?
Yes.
You certainly did not see a full-size Jeep Wrangler outfitted with a snow plow between the SUV and Ricky's truck.
I did not.
I'll ask a question about Ms. Pickett's.
Yes.
You said that it was cleaned up a little bit in front of the mailbox, correct?
Yes.
Did any car pull in between Ricky's truck and the SUV when you were sitting behind SUV?
No, sir.
You didn't see a Jeep.
Oh sorry.
With a big old snow plow on the front of it?
No, sorry, didn't know.
That car was never between your car and the SUV was.
I never saw any other vehicle between us.
And then after the end of the driveway, there was a Jeep.
And after the Jeep was this um was the SUV, the doctor SUV.
Timeline of Karen getting back to one meadows Ave at 1236 was also problematic because Jim McCabe testified that she looked out the window three times and Karen was still there at 1245.
The Commonwealth claims that Karen struck John with her car at 1232.
And we know that that's impossible because we have the Wi-Fi, her phone connecting to Wi-Fi at 1236.
So there's no way she would have been still in front of the house at 1245.
Which, you know, is a good piece of evidence, you know, that that um to Karen's benefit.
Two.
Meaning she couldn't get back to O'Keeffe's house by 1236, and she definitely wouldn't still be at Brian Albert's house at twelve forty-five.
In order to make it look like she was worried about where John was, Jennifer McCabe called his phone six times between twelve forty and twelve fifty.
She later testified that they were actually butt dials, none of which resulted in the voicemail being left on John's phone because she would hang up and then I guess butt dial again.
Then there's the Canton Library video, which perfectly captures the intersection in the middle of town that Karen would have driven through on her way back to John's house.
If she had just hit John with her car, then her tail light would be visibly broken on that surveillance video, and they could nail her.
The IT director, Louis Juttress, gave state police a share file with all the footage from that night, which Proctor then burned onto a CD.
When he did that, the footage from the two-minute window where Reed drove by was mysteriously missing.
You got that?
It recorded everything except for when the woman with the allegedly broken tail light drove by.
How convenient.
But the library wasn't the only place that surveillance videos that could have shown the condition of Reed's tail light as she drove back to John's house.
There's hundreds of homes along the way, many of which have ring cameras.
Did police ask any of these homeowners to look at them?
I randomly stopped and asked a homeowner who told me no one ever asked him for his.
What is it?
You need to know now.
Um I I was just wondering, um, did the state police ever come by here and ask for ring camera footage from the night of the morning of January 29th, 2022?
Uh, no, they haven't.
They haven't.
Normally, police canvass all over town asking for ring and other surveillance videos.
But the murder of a Boston cop wasn't worthy of that sort of effort, apparently.
They knew Reed's tail late was wasn't broken at twelve thirty-five, and they knew that asking to look at videos would exonerate her.
Inside the house, when Karen Reed left were Matt McCabe, Jem McCabe, Brian Albert, Nicole Albert, Brian Albert Jr., Caitlin Albert, Julian Eagle, Brian Higgins, and Albert Jr.'s friend Sarah Levinson.
But for 10 plus people at that fucking house.
Some reason people didn't question Nagel or Levinson until nine months after O'Keefe's death.
And Caitlin Albert, Brian Albert Jr., and several others until 18 months later, despite the fact that they all would have likely heard or seen a murder less than 50 feet from where they were standing.
Proctor had no interest in speaking with any of these people.
Not a single person inside the house reported hearing a man who was invited over the house being hit by a car outside.
Matt and Jen McCabe testified that they were looking out the window frequently.
Matt McCabe even said that he saw V-shaped tire tracks in the snow.
Remarkably, neither of them noticed John O'Keefe's body on the front lawn.
John was 6'20 and was found just 10 feet from the curb.
Yet not a single person saw his body as they drove directly past where the Commonwealth claims O'Keeffe's body was, which would have been illuminated by the bright white snow.
They all had their own excuses for that, including peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
Then there's Tristan Morris and Caitlin Albert.
Tristan was at the waterfall with his girlfriend Caitlin, but left early to go back to their apartment East End and sleep for a couple hours before waking up to plow.
Caitlin planned on staying the night at her parents' house at 34 Fairview Road.
But for some unexplained reason, Tristan was woken up in the middle of the night by Caitlin, who told him to come and pick her up.
What happened to change your plans?
Perhaps a Boston police officer was beaten to death inside the home that she was supposed to sleep in that night.
Hmm.
In Michael Lang's police report, it says that he spoke with Brian and Nicole Albert, who told him that Caitlin Albert left at 12 15 with Tristan.
Conveniently, this would have gotten her out of the house before John and Karen arrived.
And thus police would have no reason, they got there at 1224-ish.
He's in a questioner.
But after Caitlin and her parents received a summons from the FBI to testify at the federal grand jury, the Alberts were advised by their attorney Greg Henning not to lie about when they left, because the feds already knew the answer to that.
Caitlin Hold on, let's get that real quick.
Greg Henning, BI could have no reason to question her, but asked Albert, who told him that Caitlin Albert left at 1215 with Tristan.
Conveniently, this would have gotten her out of the house before John and Karen arrived.
And thus police would have no reason to question her.
But after Caitlin and her parents received a summons from the FBI to testify at the federal grand jury, the Alberts were advised by their attorney Greg Henning not to lie about when they left, because the feds already knew the answer to that.
Caitlin admitted that Tristan did not pick her up until 145.
And when Brian Albert was asked about the 1215 time in Link's report, Albert blamed Lank for writing down the wrong time.
If police knew that Tristan had picked up Caitlin at 145, it would make Tristan a witness, since he would have driven right past where John O'Keefe was allegedly dying of hypothermia.
At trial, Tristan claimed that he never saw a body in the lawn because he was distracted, just like everyone else who left the house that night.
Mm-hmm.
The more people involved in a conspiracy, the harder it is for everyone to keep their story straight.
This is why Brian Albert and Jennifer McCabe went out of their way to say that their kids had all left before John and Karen arrived.
Less people to interview means less people to tell a different version of events of the story.
After Jennifer McCabe got home from dropping off Julian Eagle and Sarah Levinson, her Apple Health data shows that she went upstairs and was pacing around all morning.
Her heart rate shows that she never went to sleep.
Something was on Interesting.
On her mind.
Then at 227 within 40 seconds, she Googled the most incriminating thing she could possibly have Googled.
How long to die in Cole.
Except she spelled the hoslong to die and called.
Why would she Google this if she thought John O'Keefe had decided to go home with Karen Reed and never went inside Brian Albert's house?
She had to have known that the plan was to put O'Keefe's body out on the lawn to make it look like he had died from hypothermia after being struck by a car.
McCabe must have realized it was a huge mistake to Google this because the celebrate extraction report of her phone shows that she deleted the search along with 18 phone calls made that morning.
In order to cover her tracks, she planned to Google the same thing the same exact way after O'Keeffe's body was found because it would be more explainable after finding out he was lying in the snow.
She ended up doing this at 624, but claims Karen Reed was the one who told her to do this while John O'Keefe was being wheeled into the ambulance.
However, according to Sergeant Good's testimony, Karen Reed was alone in a car at 624.
And dash camera footage confirms this.
Jennifer McCabe was trying to cover her tracks.
The answer to Jen's question is one to two hours.
That's all it would take for a person to die from hypothermia in an 18-degree snowstorm.
If Karen Reed struck John O'Keefe with her car at 1232, then he should have been dead when his body was discovered at 6 a.m.
But he wasn't.
So he couldn't have been out there for very long.
Jennifer McCabe handed her phone over to police just days after O'Keefe's death.
And the contents were all extracted by Detective Garino.
Nowhere in Garino's report did it mention anything about a deleted Google search for Hawks Long Dime.
Interesting.
At 227 a.m.
In fact, it didn't show the 624 search for the same thing either.
And as it turned out, Gorino has a history of manipulating Celbright data extraction reports.
In February of 2021, a pregnant woman named Sandra Birchmore was found dead in her Canton apartment.
In what state police, many of whom were involved in the Reed investigation, immediately determined was a suicide by hanging with a belt.
Birchmore was last visited in her apartment by six foot four-inch Stoughton police detective Matthew Farwell, who had impregnated her and wasn't happy about it due to the fact that he was married with two kids and was about to have a third.
Farwell met Birchmore when he was working in the Stoughton High School Explorers program.
She was just 15 years old when he started having sex with her, and 23 when she died.
But far Oh man.
Canton is cooked.
Ponch.
The fuck is going on, man?
Farwell was never treated as a real suspect, just as the people inside Brian Albert's house were never treated as suspects.
He handed over his phone to Garino, who said that he couldn't retrieve 32,709 text messages between Birchmore and Farwell, much like he couldn't find Jennifer McCabe's Google searches because they were deleted too.
But celebrate extracts deleted messages and Google searches as well.
Luckily, the FBI ended up looking into the case and found all the deleted messages showing that Farwell was into violent rape fantasies.
In August of 2024, he was arrested by the FBI for murder.
If it was up to Garino, the Cannes Police and Lieutenant John Fanning, another one of Proctor's bosses who was in charge of the Birchmore investigation, Farwell would still be walking the streets today.
The Google Hold on, that's that's interesting.
Let me look just 15.
at this real quick.
Starting...
This is eight months ago.
Hold on, quick little deviation chat.
Good afternoon.
On February 4th, 2021, Sandra Birchmore was found dead in her Canton, Massachusetts apartment.
The charges filed today in federal court alleged that she was in fact murdered by Matthew Farwell three days earlier.
At the time of her death, Sandra Birchmore was a 23-year-old woman with her entire life ahead of her.
And she was pregnant with her first child.
We allege that Sandra Birchmore survived years of grooming, statutory rape, and then sexual violence, all at the hands of Matthew Farwell, who was employed throughout their relationship as an officer and then detective for the Stoughton Police Department.
And when it became clear to Mr. Farwell that he could no longer control Sandra Birchmore, he allegedly silenced her permanently.
This morning, Matthew Farwell was arrested on a federal grand jury indictment, charging him with one count of killing a witness or victim.
Specifically, Mr. Farwell is charged of violating Title 18 United States Code 1512.
And I got the indictment for you guys right here.
Killing a witness or a victim.
Now, like I said before the feds normally do not go after um murder, but um since it was involved with her being a witness or a victim, they were able to go ahead and get some jurisdiction here, which is interesting.
Um for killing Sandra Birchmore with the intent of preventing her from communicating information about his possible commission of federal crimes.
How did this all unfold?
What happened here?
Well, back in 2010, a twelve-year-old Sandra Birchmore applied to join the Stoughton Police Department's Explorers Program, which introduces teens to policing.
Officer Matthew Farwell was an instructor in that program.
And as alleged in court documents, he befriended Sandra Birchmore.
Contacted her on line, went to the library with her, became friends on Facebook, essentially groomed her.
And then he committed statutory rape by having sex with her when he was a twenty-seven-year-old police officer, and she was just fifteen years old.
Mr. Farwell continued to have a sexual relationship.
Fucking weirdo, man.
What's the...
Hold on one sec.
What's the age of consent in Massachusetts?
16.
Dude's a weirdo for that man, goddamn.
...Sanna Birchmore until her death eight years later.
Allegedly meeting her for sex regularly when he was on duty and being paid by the Stought Police Department.
Wow.
Now, in the weeks leading up to Sandra Birchmore's death in February 2021, she found out that she was expecting a baby.
And she told Mr. Farwell that he was the father.
According to court documents, Ms. Birchmore was very excited about becoming a mother, buying baby clothes and other items, taking precautions to ensure the health of her new child.
Sandra Birchmore had good friends.
She had a good job.
She had dreams of becoming a nurse.
And she had a child on the way.
But Mr. Farwell did not share in that excitement.
It's alleged that Mr. Farwell reacted quite negatively to the news that Sandra Birchmore was pregnant with his child.
And he acted angrily, it is alleged, when Sandra Birchmore started making requests of Mr. Farwell around doctor's appointments and ultrasounds and what information would be on the birth certificate.
Mr. Farwell was losing control in late 2020, early 2021.
And the information that Sandra Birchmore possessed about his illegal conduct was in danger of slipping out.
In fact, word started to get out about their relationship.
Less than two weeks before she was found dead, someone called the Stoughton Police Department and disclosed that Matthew Farwell had had a relationship with Sander Birchmore.
And when Mr. Farwell learned about that, that call, he became visibly angry.
Mr. Farwell, it is alleged in these court papers, started to lose his patience, lose his temper, and the six foot four-inch Mr. Farwell started to be physically violent with four foot ten inch Sandra Birchmore.
What?
Senator Birchmore told her friends that Mr. Farwell had pushed her and shoved her.
This story has played out in several Massachusetts communities.
Let's show you a map right now.
In Stoughton is where Matthew Farwell met Sandra Birchmore and allegedly groomed her as a sexual predator.
In Canton is where Birchmore went into custody as he was driving her.
Leave their Outgate shopping center in Revere, couldn't believe their eyes when the FBI closed in and took the former Stoughton police detective into custody as he was driving a gravel truck.
The details that later surfaced about why he was taken into Revere sucks, man.
They got the worst beach ever.
Custody made it that much more shocking.
Cell phone video from a revere strip mall shows the take Oh shit.
Let me see here if I can get this bigger.
Cell phone video from a revere strip mall shows the take.
Yeah, it looks like they got him down on the floor here.
Down of former Stoughton detective Matthew Farwell after his indictment in the murder of a pregnant woman more than three years ago.
People came in the floor and said...
Oh, they...
...that, um...
The FBI was all front and arresting someone, so I went outside and just seen a bunch of cops running around.
Chris, who doesn't want to use his last name, was working at the Northgate shopping center when the FBI swarmed the property and arrested the former police officer who was wearing a t-shirt and jeans and behind the wheel of a gravel hauler.
I don't have any respect for someone that would do that, especially to a child.
He and others who watched the scene unfold say they are blown away by the accusations that Farwell groomed Sandra Birchmore when she was a teen and sexually abused her before staging her suicide in 2021.
It's a crying shame that we have these cops doing this top behind closed doors.
I think he's a clown.
He should never been doing what he was doing, and it's out of hand.
Later in the day, others who learned of the arrest and called themselves supporters of justice, showed up at the Mowgli Federal Courthouse in Boston to see that courthouse many times.
See it firsthand.
It just breaks my heart.
It's a very nice courthouse.
They have like they're right on the water.
Her and her baby would have been fine.
They would have been absolutely fine.
That's crazy, bro.
So he ran that case, I guess.
Alright, let's get back to where we were with uh Turtle Guy.
Search was not discovered until we just went down a little rabbit hole there, but we're back, chat.
We're back.
April of 2023, when Reed's forensic expert Richard Green found it.
This is what ultimately caught my attention and led to widespread publicity that the case wasn't getting before.
Like many, I assumed the DA's office was run by ethical people who wouldn't knowingly prosecute an innocent woman, especially when there was evidence that someone inside the house was responsible for John's murder.
But I underestimated just how corrupt they were, and just how determined they were to get Karen Reed.
Two days after my first article reached millions of people, an outrage was spreading over the case.
The DA's office announced they weren't dropping the charges and would be disputing the 227 Google search, which they claimed never happened.
But how could they know this on April 20th, 2023, if they hadn't hired their own expert yet?
Any comment on that?
Why you Google that at 227?
Any comment, Mr. McCabe?
Any comment?
I couldn't show your face in court.
I drew him back.
That's hilarious that he'd be harassing them like this, but this is what got him in trouble, though.
What are you hiding?
What did you do?
What why did you delete all those phone calls, Miss McCabe?
Why did you delete all those phone calls?
Why did you delete your Google search?
The Google search was not discovered until April of 2023 when Reed's forensic expert Richard Green found it.
This is what ultimately caught my attention and led to widespread publicity that the case wasn't getting before.
Like many, I assumed the DA's office was run by ethical people who wouldn't knowingly prosecute an innocent woman, especially when there was evidence that someone inside the house was responsible for John's murder.
But I underestimated just how corrupt they were and just how determined they were to get Karen Reed.
Two days after my first article reached millions of people, and outrage was spreading over the case.
The DA's office announced they weren't dropping the charges and would be disputing the 227 Google search, which they claimed never happened.
But how could they know this on April 20th, 2023, if they hadn't hired their own expert yet?
Over the next six months, they went searching for experts who would tell them what they wanted to hear.
Jennifer McCabe might not have Googled Hoss Long the Dying Cold at 227 a.m.
Two months later, they found Jessica Hyde, whose report left open the possibility that the search may have happened at 227.
Unsatisfied, they somehow came across a former Calgary Alberta police officer named Ian Wiffin, who worked for Sellbright and was promoting his new app called Art X. Whiffin greenlights updates to celebrate software and was able to make sure that the 227 Google search did not come up on the updated version.
He spent much of his testimony promoting his own app, which Selfright did not endorse.
Somehow, the Commonwealth knew on April 20th that seven months later they would have an expert from Canada who would reach this conclusion.
Karen Reed was furious with her boyfriend for ignoring her calls and texts and leaving her alone to watch John's niece.
She fell asleep sometime around 1 30 and woke up at 4 30.
This time her emotions changed from angry to worried.
John would never not come home to his niece and nephew, and he would never ignore that many phone calls from Reed.
He was drunk, the weather conditions were dangerous, and she began to become extremely worried that something horrible happened.
She woke up John's niece and used her phone to call Jennifer McCabe at 453 a.m., who was awake and had never gone to sleep all night for some reason.
By that point, John's body hadn't been on the lawn for very long, if it was even there at all.
Jen needed to delay Karen from going to 34 Fear of your Road.
She told Karen that John never came inside that house, but volunteered to go out looking for him with Karen.
She invited Karen to come to her house, and Karen is seen backing into John's Chevy Traverse in the driveway as she went out looking for him at 5.07 a.m., cracking her rear tail lights in the process.
Karen went towards the waterfall bar first, then drove back towards Jen McCabe's house.
Her car is seen a mile and a half from McCabe's house at 5 18 a.m.
But since she didn't know Ken very well and had no idea how to get to McCabe's house, she pulled over in the Canton Cemetery, and her phone records show that she All right, chat.
So I'm doing some maintenance right now.
My guy Andy is here.
If the stream turns off, I'll be back.
Okay.
We're gonna just hit one of the circuit breakers here.
It shouldn't affect this room.
But if it does, you guys know what's going on.
So I guess Andy, the moment of truth, go ahead, try it.
Alright, we're still live.
Sweet.
Uh for which computer?
Where Bill is.
Where Bill's is?
Yeah.
All right.
You need the password for it?
Right now?
All right.
She called her parents.
Alright, we're still alive, Chad.
We're still fine.
Give me one sec.
And Googled McCabe's address.
She ended up getting there at 5 35 and picked up Jen, who convinced her to go back to One Meadows Ave to search the house for John, as if he would jump out of the closet and yell, peekaboo.
This was all part of Jen's plan to delay Karen from returning to 34 Fear of View Road.
Jen and Karen were met at John's house by his friend Kerry Roberts.
And after searching the house without taking her shoes off, something the Commonwealth would later claim was evidence that she murdered John.
The three of them jumped into Kerry's car and headed towards Fairview Road.
When they arrived there, Karen immediately saw John's body on the lawn where she had been idling her car, waiting for him to call her back and say everything was okay inside.
She jumped out of the car, rushed over to John, who was lying with a cell phone underneath his body, and began to perform CPR.
Meanwhile, Jennifer McCabe called 911 and told them getting the inch on him.
So this is Jennifer McCabe.
She says she's at 34.
Guys, did I miss something good?
Chad, did I mean something good?
And by the way, there the on the official police report, it actually says 32 Fear of View Road.
She says 34 Fearview Road at least three times in this tape, and they still put 32 Fear of View Road.
They also don't put Brian Albert Sr.'s name on it.
They just put B. Albert, he's the only one not listed out.
But listen to what she says there.
There's a man passed out in the snow.
Now keep in mind who is man?
No.
She knows who this man is because Karen Reed has gotten out of the car already and said, There's John.
And they're going, they're they're literally looking for John, and they get out of the car when they see him.
So she knows who it is.
She says there's a man passed out in the snow.
Now keep in mind, this is a quote unquote man who she was just with six hours prior.
She was just with them six hours prior, at the very least, according to her own story, they were together at the waterfall bar.
And she invited him back to that house.
Carrie, Carrie, Carrie, Carrie.
She says Carrie Carrie seven times.
And I think she says Jen Jen Jen here.
I know, I know, I know.
I I know that sound.
I know that the Hey Mark, read this into the salute on CC.
Nigga trying to get me banned.
Listen to the fear in her voice.
When Karen jumped out of the car, she was calling O'Keefe and left her phone in Kerry's car.
A four-minute voicemail was left on O'Cube's machine that picked up McCabe's 911 call, which was immediately followed by McCabe whispering what sounded like no one's coming out to help.
Jennifer McCabe phone records show that she called her sister Nicole Albert inside the house at 6.07 and 608 and spoke to her for durations of seven and nine seconds.
Not enough time to have a conversation, but enough time to say, stay inside, no one's coming out to help.
First call happened at the exact time that you can hear Jennifer whispering, no one's coming out to help.
Nicole Albert was awake and Jen McCabe was telling her to stay inside the house.
For some reason, Jennifer McCabe deleted those two answered phone calls to her sister.
Well, she and Nicole claimed that the two answer phone calls were never answered, and that she never deleted them, Even though Jen's phone records show that she did.
Disputing forensic data is a common theme with the McAlberts and the Commonwealth.
Officer Seraf was the first cop who arrived on the scene.
His report says nothing about a car accident or Karen Reed uttering incriminating statements.
Yet at the grand jury, several months later, his story evolved, and he claimed that Reed said, This is all my fault.
Although the Canton police were the first to respond to the scene, they were ultimately conflicted off of the case because O'Keefe's body was discovered on Brian Albert's front lawn, and Brian Albert's brother, Kevin, is a detective in the Canton police department.
Kevin Albert is drinking buddies with Proctor, who was later reprimanded when text messages revealed that the two of them had done some day drinking while investing a cold case on Cape Cod, and Kevin Albert woke up hung over and realized that he left his gun and badge in Proctor's work vehicle.
Oops.
Oh wow.
Ah, man.
Paramedics arrived shortly after Officer Seraf, which included a woman named Katie McLaughlin, a close personal friend of Caitlin Albert.
They graduated high school together, did cross country, and are photographed together in countless social situations up until a few months before O'Keefe's death, including trips to the beach, hot tubs, and a baby shower.
Despite this, both she and Caitlin lied at the trial and said that they were just acquaintances who went to high school together.
McLaughlin was one of nearly a dozen paramedics.
Remember, that's the firefighter chat.
This girl, she's a firefighter that um heard her say, um, did I hit him right here?
She responded to the scene.
Yet she was the only one police spoke with prior to Reed's arrest.
On January 30th, Kevin Albert told Proctor that he wanted Proctor to interview McLaughlin and offered up Canton Police Department headquarters to do so.
Despite the fact that CPD was supposed to be conflicted off the case specifically because of Kevin Albert.
McLaughlin told Proctor that she heard Reed say, Hit him, I hit him, I hit him, I hit him at the scene.
Well, Reed was standing next to Jennifer McKee, Officer Seraff and McLaughlin.
Well, Keith was being was already in the ambulance.
That was her story.
There's just a couple problems with that, though.
Officer Seraff, four other cops, and five of the first responders testified that Karen Reed never said I hit him.
And police dash cam footage shows that when these four were standing together, John wasn't in the ambulance yet.
Karen was arrested two days after McLaughlin told Proctor she said, I hit him.
And according to firefighters Anthony Flamotti and Timothy Nuttle, they talked about her case every day at the firehouse.
Yet no other firefighters besides McLaughlin were ever questioned by Proctor until February 8th.
By that time, the I hit him lie was all over the news and was the talk of the fire house.
And thus Nuttle and Flamati both told Proctor that she said it.
However, on cross-examination, it was revealed that neither of them was anywhere near Karen when McLaughlin claims that Karen uttered those words.
Despite the fact that there was a hysterical woman screaming on their front lawn, bright, flashing fire and police lights illuminating the area and an aggressive German shepherd that barked a lot and easily spooked inside the house.
And phone data showing Nicole Albert spoke to Jennifer McCabe at 6 07.
Brian and Nicole Albert claimed that they slept through the whole thing.
Brian Albert, a trained first responder, did not come out of the house while a fellow Boston police officer was lying dead on his front lawn.
The bedroom window was the closest to where O'Keeffe's body was found, and they testified that Chloe was in the room with them.
But Chloe, Brian, and Nicole did not wake up.
However, their neighbors in what Matt McCabe would later call the Asian house did wake up and take these pictures, showing how impossible it would be to sleep through it.
Canton police sergeants, Sean Good and Michael Lank and Lieutenant Paul Gallagher arrived after Seraph, all of whom spent their entire lives in Canton.
Good graduated and was friends with Courtney Proctor and Julie Albert's sister Jillian Daniels.
Lank was good friends with Chris Albert since high school, and 20 years prior, he was involved in a drunken bar fight in which he came to the rescue of Chris and assaulted and arrested two brothers who Chris had started trouble with.
God damn, it's like uh it's like there's like a whole fucking the whole town knows each other, dude.
None of these three cops had any sort of curiosity or suspicion about how a dead cop ended up on Brian Albert's front lawn.
John didn't seem dressed for the weather and was missing a shoe.
If you or I invited a cop to our house and he ended up being found dead on our lawn with only one shoe on, the cops are definitely gonna ask to search the house and get a warrant if you said no.
But this was Brian Albert's house, a well-respected veteran police officer.
As Proctor's text messages would later show, they weren't going to hassle him.
And they claimed there was no probable cause to search the house, despite the fact that none of them applied for a warrant, so a judge could determine that for them.
For all they knew, John had been killed by someone who also killed the people inside the house.
Yet they allowed Jennifer McKee to go into the house by herself at 6 34 a.m., where she claims she woke up a sleeping Brian and Nicole.
Jennifer McCabe was the quarterback of the entire cover up.
She didn't cause John's injuries, but she was essential for making sure that those who did were never held responsible.
Jen made sure to speak with every police officer that she could in order to push the narrative that Karen was responsible for John's being on the lawn.
Dash cam footage shows Jen turning her back as John's body was being wheeled into the ambulance.
She was too busy talking to Officer Sarah and laying the groundwork for framing Karen Reed.
Jen's phone records show that she was talking to Carrie Roberts all day on January 29th, making sure that Carrie, a potential loose end, believed that Karen had killed John.
She spoke to John's mother and made her feel the same way.
She hid the fact that her cell phone data shows that on January 30th, she went to Sergeant Lank's house for an hour.
She never disclosed this.
But when confronted with the information at trial, she said that she had just gone there to talk to Lank's wife.
Jen continued to show up for Karen Reed's hearings wearing a justice for JJ button.
How can you wear those buttons when you covered up his murder?
And comforted the grieving family in court.
What a psychopath.
Soon after that, the sun came out, and Lieutenant Gallagher began to search the grassy area where O'Keeffe's body was found.
There was less than three inches of snow on the ground at that time, so he used a leaf blower to clear off the light dusting and search for clues.
He found transparent pieces of what appeared to be cocktail glass.
But what he didn't find was 47 pieces of bright red tail lights, some as big as a dinner plate that Michael Proctor and the state police would find over the course of the next three weeks.
The search was conducted on video too.
Do you see any red tail light here?
Transparent cocktail glass is much harder to see than bright red tail light on bright white snow.
This cannot be emphasized enough.
There was no tail light anywhere near John's body at 7 a.m., nor was there a missing shoe.
Around this time, Karen Reed made statements that she was suicidal and she was sectioned for the next four to five hours.
During this time, the McAlberts were allowed to talk together away from police and get their story straight.
At 9 a.m., McCabe called Lank on his cell phone to tell him that she suddenly remembered Karen saying, Could I have hit him?
Her story later evolved at trial to did I hit him?
But she accused Lank of misquoting her in the original report.
Police knew that protecting the crime scene was essential, especially since it was snowing and evidence could easily get buried.
But the Cannon police just left the crime scene completely abandoned the entire day.
No crime scene tape put up, no cops to watch over the area and make sure the scene wasn't tampered with.
Yes.
Unsecured.
Yes.
And Brian Albert didn't offer his house up as a command center for officers to come out of the cold.
Blood droplets found at the scene were putting red solo cups.
Just any solo cups or the solo cups that you took back to the station from 34th there.
Were acquired from the deputy police chief Tom Keller, who lived across the street.
It looks like an evidence bag, it just doesn't say can't police on it.
Police chief Tom Keller, who lived across the street.
It looks like an evidence were acquired from the deputy police chief Tom Keller.
What do they have FBI badge behind them, though?
Who lived across the street?
It looks like an evidence bag.
It just doesn't say Camp Police on it.
It says stoppage up, but it's it does look like an evidence back.
It's the same thing.
It should be noted that Kelleher had a ring camera pointed directly at the area where Commonwealth alleges that John was hit by a car.
Michael Proctor never even asked to look at the ring camera footage.
Because again, this is astounding.
Look how close that is.
It's right there.
I could even put my camera up there.
Yeah.
Like that's that's the view it would have gotten.
Meanwhile, Proctor and his partner Yuri Buchanick didn't even go to 34 Fear View Road that day to investigate the scene.
At 11:30, they decided it was finally time to interview some witnesses.
But instead of separating them and recording their interviews at a police station, which is what detectives always do, they decided to interview just four witnesses.
Jennifer McCabe, Matt McCabe, Nicole Albert, and Brian Albert at the McCabe's house.
After being together all morning getting their story straight, the four of them drove across town in the middle of a blizzard where they were interviewed by Procter and Buchanan.
At no point was anyone in the house treated as a potential suspect who had to be ruled out.
Their story was a simple one and was blindly taken as gospel by police.
John O'Keefe never came in the house.
But this story strained credulity because there's no possible way that none of them would hear or see a three-ton vehicle striking a man, and that none of them would see his body laying on the lawn when they left.
The four McAlberts all told the same story.
They went out to the bar, things seemed fine.
Karen and John pulled up outside.
He never came in.
She left.
And in the morning, when Jen and Karen went out looking for him, Karen had a crack tail light and said, could I have hit him upon finding his body?
That was it.
That was all Michael Proctor needed to hear to determine that Karen Reed was the killer.
He didn't speak to anyone else, but he had made up his mind by 12.30 p.m.
By that time, no tail light pieces had been found.
No one saw a body on the lawn.
No surveillance video was pulled, and none of the first responders were interviewed.
Nonetheless, Proctor and Buchanan had determined that Karen Reed was guilty, so they got in their car and drove to her parents' house indicting to seize her phone and car, which he knew was the murder weapon based solely on what Jennifer McCabe had told him that Karen Reed had said.
A cover up is easier to cover up when you involve less people.
It's not what the police did do during the investigation they made that made it a cover-up.
It's what they intentionally didn't do.
Proctor didn't interview Julian Eagle, Caitlin Albert, her boyfriend Tristan Morris, Brian Albert Jr., or any of the people who were admittedly at the house that night.
Sarah Levins very, very sloppy police work, man.
Very, very fucking sloppy police work.
Julie Nagel wasn't interviewed until nine months after O'Keefe's death, and only after the defense filed a motion in which they pointed out how impossible it would be for no one to have seen a body on the lawn.
Conveniently, for the first time at her interview, Julie Nagel told Proctor that she saw a dark, shadowy figure on the front lawn.
She didn't say it was a body because she would have had to call police if she did.
But calling with a dark, shadowy figure was her way of suggesting that something might have been there without implicating herself.
Conveniently, at trial, Julie Nagel's story also evolved.
This time claiming that the dark shadowy figure was actually a five to six foot black blob.
She testified that she realized the next day that the black blob was John O'Keefe, but didn't come forward to speak with police about it.
Then there's Colin Albert.
Despite admittedly being at Brian Albert's house that night, Colin wasn't interviewed by police until 18 months after John's death, and only in regards to him being a victim of alleged witness intimidation.
Conveniently, on the day Karen Reed was arrested, Colin's mother Julie Albert sent Proctor's sister Courtney a text message offering a thank you gift to Proctor for not interviewing Colin.
Instead of telling her that this was unethical, Proctor told her to give the gift to his wife Elizabeth instead.
Colin Albert never had to hand over his phone or answer any questions from police.
His existence at the house was hidden, despite the fact that Steve Scanl somehow knew he was there that night.
Colin claimed that he was home in bed by 12 30, but yet at 12 33, minutes after Reed left 34 Fearview, and John O'Keefe's phone moved for the last time.
Colin called a friend named Aaron Beattie.
She didn't answer, as kids at that age almost never call each other, and when she contacted him the next day, he goes, Never mind.
For telling people this story, Erin Beattie and her father Tom Beattie were harassed and ostracized by adults in the Canton community.
Jennifer McCabe and her friend Jill Thomas reportedly told 17-year-old Aaron Beattie to quote, put a dick in your mouth instead of talking so much.
Chris Albert confronted Tom Beattie and tried to get him to say that Colin never called Aaron that night.
They were going out of their way to pressure the Beattie family to lie and cover for Colin.
Since Colin didn't speak with police and his parents did the speaking for him, an alibi for Colin was finally presented a trial, claiming that he was picked up by Jennifer McCabe's daughter Allie at 1210.
As evidence, the Commonwealth submitted an unverified screenshot of a text message with the name Colin at the top.
No cell break report, just a screenshot that Chris Albert gave prosecutor Adam Lowley.
At 1210, Allie tells, which she claims is Colin, I'm here.
But it doesn't say where here is.
For all we know, she could have been picking up Colin to drive him to 34 fear of you, which would make sense because the party wasn't really starting until everyone else got back from the bar.
Allie testified that she was driving people around all night and that Colin Albert was her last pickup at 1210.
She said she was home in bed.
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We're still cooking over here, baby.
There's no brakes on his train.
Her life 360 data shows that she was driving around till 130.
But just like all the phone calls and Google searches in this case, the Commonwealth's response to this was that it was just a mistake.
If we're to believe Colin's story, it would mean that a 17-year-old who likes to drink and party asked Ally McCabe for a ride to 34 VR View Road to wish his much older cousin a happy birthday in person, then had her pick him up 90 minutes later in order to get her get him back home as soon as his fun uncle and his friends showed up to party.
Right.
Meanwhile, Chris Albert initially testified that he left the waterfall bar and was home at between 1205 and 1210.
He said that Colin got home 15 to 20 minutes later and came upstairs to say goodnight to his parents.
There was a problem with that story though.
Chris is seen on surveillance video at the waterfall bar at 1213, and it would take him at least seven to eight minutes for him to walk home from there.
By his own admittance, his son Colin got home much closer to 1245, which meanwhile, Chris Albert initially testified that he left the waterfall bar and was home at between 1205 and 1210.
He said that Colin got home 15 to 20 minutes later and came upstairs to say goodnight to his parents.
There was a problem with that story though.
Chris is seen on surveillance video at the waterfall bar at 1213, and it would take him at least seven to eight minutes for him to walk home from there.
By his own admittance, his son Colin got home much closer to 1245, which meant would mean that he was still at Brian Albert's house when John O'Keefe arrived.
This is why the defense is so suspicious of Colin Albert.
The McAlberts and the Commonwealth are insistent that Colin wasn't there when John O'Keefe was allegedly killed.
But why would it matter if he was inside and John O'Keefe was killed outside by Karen Reed?
Why did he call Aaron Beattie, a girl he wasn't dating out of the blue at 1233?
Why did his family try to silence the beaties?
Why did his mother offer Proctor a thank you gift?
And why were his knuckles so cut up in a picture a few weeks later?
Colin had an explanation for that too, which illustrated just how easily he could lie with a straight face.
And I was walking up the driveway and I slipped down the driveway and I tried to catch myself, but I had something in my left hand.
So I tried to brace myself with my right hand and I ended up sliding a little bit down the driveway.
Obviously, that was a lie, which begs the question if he didn't do anything wrong.
Why did he have to lie?
Colin also testified he'd never been in a fight before.
Shortly after that, the internet found three videos of him fighting, proving that he lied about that too.
Why lie if you have nothing to do with it?
Crazy, bro.
Nothing hide.
You're a bitch, bro.
Fuck you.
Yeah, fuck you, you pussy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Stinko, boy, you be knocked out KO.
Bang bang.
These are questions an investigator looking for the truth could have grilled them on.
Colin was a hothead and previously had issues with O'Keefe.
But when the lead investigator is Michael Proctor, whose mother describes Colin's family as a second family, you don't have to worry about being questioned by police.
Or perhaps the most obvious witness that's crazy that the state police took this case and this guy took this case knowing that he was going.
I would have he should have recused himself as the lead investigator.
Like if if I was like friends with people like that and they were being investigated, I would literally hand the case over.
I'd be like, Look, I can't do this.
I know these people.
And I handed it off to somebody else.
That's crazy that he actually still took the case, retarded.
Proctor went out of his way not to speak to was Brian Lucky Lochren.
Proctor interviewed DPW director Michael Trata and claimed that Trotta told him that the Can DPW does not plow Fairview Road.
This was an outright lie.
I tracked down Mr. Trotta and asked him myself.
Is there any reason that Lucky Loughran, Brian Loughran, would have been plowing that road at 2.30 in the morning?
We generally have two people on every route.
So it's usually a town plow with a contract plow.
After that, I trucked down Lucky, uh, who was happy to tell me what he witnessed that morning.
Lucky said that he did first plow Brian Albert's house at 2 30 and didn't see a body on the lawn.
When I asked him if he would have seen a body if a body was there, he was insistent that he would because bright lights and uh the constantly looking on the yards and scanning sidewalks in case the animals ran into the road.
Lucky told me that when he tried to do another plow of Fearview Road an hour later, he couldn't because there was a Ford Edge parked in the exact spot where John O'Keefe's body would be discovered three hours later.
At least three members of the Albert family, Kevin, Bryan, and Colin owned a Ford Edge at the time.
If there was nobody on the lawn at 230, which Lucky Lochren and seven other witnesses said there was not, then Karen Reed couldn't have struck him at twelve thirty.
Then a Ford Edge appeared, then there was a body.
You do the math.
The fact that the state police didn't put out an all points bulletin looking for that Ford Edge is all the evidence you need to know that this was a cover up.
Remember, this cover-up wasn't so much what the cops did to cover it up, it was what they chose not to do.
Choosing not to interview Lucky Lochran was deliberate.
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And logically, they'd have to pursue whoever was driving to Fort Edge since they were allegedly right next to a dead cop on the lawn.
Michael Proctor didn't want to pursue any leads that didn't point to Karen Reed.
The state police finally decided to interview Lucky Lochren eighteen months after the death of John O'Keefe and two days after I published this bombshell interview with him.
But Proctor and Buchanick weren't trying to learn more about the Ford Edge.
They were trying to discredit his testimony and get him to say that I illegally wiretapped Lucky.
At trial, Brian Tully testified that he didn't investigate the Ford Edge because Lochran couldn't possibly be sure it was a Ford Edge.
But it had four wheels and an engine, and whoever was driving it was supposedly parked next to a dead body.
The police caught think was run over by a car.
So wouldn't you want to find out who that person was and speak with them?
Nah.
Better just pin it on Cameron Reed.
Rather than question any of these witnesses, Proctor and Buchanan drove to Dyton to seize Cameron Reed's car, which they hadn't seen yet, because they were certain that it was a murder weapon.
No tail eight had been discovered at the scene yet.
At 2 30, they called and asked Dyton police for a tow.
When they arrived an hour or so later, they didn't take a picture of Cam Reed's car to show the condition of the taillight before it had been towed.
According to Michael Proctor's report, and as with all the witnesses, they didn't record any of their interviews with Karen.
Reed's car was towed at 5 30 p.m.
This time is critical because the state police began searching the area where John O'Keefe's body was discovered at 5 45 and found four pieces of taillight.
If the car was towed at 5 30, then there was no way it could get from Dighton to Canton in a blizzard, normally a 40-minute drive in time to plant taillight.
But as it turned out, Michael Proctor was lying about what time he towed the car.
Video surveillance from the Reed's house shows the car being towed at 4.12.
And a Dighton police report confirmed this.
This meant that Proctor was unaccounted for with Reed's car for 78 minutes and would have more than enough time to get the vehicle to Canton and plant taillight before the state police search at 545.
Nevertheless, in pretrial hearings, the Commonwealth continued to lie about what time the car was towed.
Adam Lally said in court filings that Bill Reed's ring video didn't reset for daylight savings, but the sun set that day at 456, and there was still sunlight in the video at 412.
Eventually, after realizing that they couldn't lie their way out of this one, the Commonwealth called it a scrivener's error, even though the digits 412 are nowhere near 530 on a keyboard.
The state police cert team, led by a lieutenant O'Hara, began arriving at 34 Fairview Road at 451, searched the area where John's body was discovered.
By that point, Proctor's commanding officer, Lieutenant Brian Tully, determined that O'Keefe was hit by a car and told O'Hara that they were looking for pieces of taillight.
The scene was unsecured the entire day and more than 18 inches of snow had fallen since the Cannon Police searched the area and didn't find a single piece of taillight.
Internal messages show that the cert team was ready to start digging at 5.30, but that Lieutenant Tully did not give them the green light.
Time was of the essence, and snow was continuing to fall.
What was Tully waiting for?
Simple.
They needed to wait for Karen Reed's car to arrive in Canton first.
They could have brought the vehicle to any state police barracks close to Dighton, including Middleboro or Foxborough.
Yet they insisted on bringing the car to the Canton police department less than two miles away from Brian Albert's house where Kevin Albert was working.
The car is seen on video, which was shown for the first time in Reed's first trial entering the Canton Police Sally Port Garage at 5 36 p.m.
Proctor could be seen hanging around what appears to be the left rear tail light, which was not broken.
In other words, there was no evidence Proctor went anywhere near Reed's broken right rear tail light, except there's just one problem.
The video shown in court was intentionally inverted.
What appeared to be left was actually right, and Proctor was hanging out there for a while.
In the video, the word police appears backwards on another vehicle parked in the garage.
So does the number four on one of the garage's overhead doors.
Defense attorney Alan Jackson believes it was no accident.
The timestamp across the bottom is not inverted.
And there appears to be somebody standing near it.
Who's the guy in the watch cap in the winter cap back there by that right rear tail light the entire time by himself?
The Commonwealth was trying to deceive the jury.
The cover-up was happening right in front of millions of people.
For 20 seconds at 5 37, the video cuts out.
And when it begins again, you could see another unknown man who was not in the video before, leaving the area where Proctor was standing by the right rear taillight.
Who was this man?
And did he have pieces of taillight with him when he left?
Was it Kevin Albert?
Or Brian Higgins' close friend, Chief Ken Berkowitz.
The Commonwealth still can't explain who that was.
But coincidentally, five minutes later, after that, Lieutenant Tully gave the cert team the go-ahead to begin their search.
Lieutenant O'Hara testified that he had no idea who several members of the cert team were, but said that he believed they were Canton police.
Minutes after they began searching, someone, they never said who found a piece of red tail light under 18 inches of snow.
This was the exact same area Lieutenant Gallagher searched on video during the daylight with the leaf blower on video and did not find any taillight.
Yet the cert team was able to find it under all that snow with minimal effort in the dark ten minutes after Reed's car arrived at Camp Police.
Whoever this officer who found the tail eight was was never testified at trial.
They also found John's missing size 12 shoe that the Camp police completely missed during their search.
So either the Cam police are blind and incompetent or the tail eight in the shoe were planted.
Shortly after that, someone on the search team found three more pieces of tail light.
Once again, we don't know who, but Brian Tully had seen enough.
And now that he had some physical evidence linking Reed to the crime scene, he shut down the search.
O'Hara offered to come back the next day in the daylight to search some more, but Tully told him he was all set.
Instead, the state police were instructed to drive by on their way to work to see if any tail light presented itself.
And wouldn't you know it?
It did.
Over the course of the next three weeks, Chief Burkowitz, Sergeant B. Kennick, and Proctor found a total of 47 pieces of red tail eight.
The pieces actually became bigger as wild.
Uh, real quick, Barbie Trauma.
Jeez, was uh the last time a guy named John Snow got that dirty, it was a game of thrones.
Okay.
Um, hey Marron, read this, do it.
No, sorry, I read that one already.
Mark, can you explain this?
If the 30-year-old and the partner 16 years old, is it not still considered jail time because the age gap is too wide?
Well, the if it's the a if the if they have the age of consent, then the age gap doesn't matter.
It's only when they don't have the age of consent, then you can potentially deal with the Romeo and Juliet laws.
But every state is different, comfort zone, so don't hold me to that.
Every state is completely different.
And then there's also still federal law.
JJ goes, brother.
I know you're the thin uh blue line guy, but you have to admit, yeah, this is shady as fuck.
I believe it.
Karen could walk just on the prosecution's witnesses.
The defense doesn't even need to do anything in my humble opinion.
As time went by, leading to this dinner size.
It's very, very shady, bro.
You got that?
Cam police, the cert team, and everyone who went to the house for three weeks didn't see that piece of taillight, just a few feet from the curb.
Of course, Proctor didn't take any pictures of any of this because documenting isn't really his thing.
After all, it's just the murder of a cop.
Who cares about completely incorrect police reports?
No chain of custody and a complete lack of documentation.
You would think after the second or third time the tailight presented itself that the state police would have preserved the crime scene, but not these Keystone cops.
They just kept doing their drive-bys until they could put the entire tail eight together like a jigsaw puzzle.
Here's the problem though.
Reed's tail eight did not look like this when she pulled out of John's driveway at 507 seconds after backing into his car.
As you can see, the tail eight was cracked, but not completely broken.
Don't take my word for it.
Listen to Dyton police sergeant Nicholas Barros, who observed the condition of the taillight at the Reed House and made sure to point out I saw that there was some damage to the right rear taillight.
Um, to my best ability and recollection, that tail light was not completely damaged.
It was cracked and that a piece was missing, but not completely damaged.
Perhaps the biggest obstacle for the Commonwealth was explained to John O'Keefe's injuries.
In the words of John's brother Paul O'Keefe, John looked like he had gone five rounds with Mike Tyson.
People who get backed in the cars have bruises and broken bones, but not John O'Keefe.
Instead, John had two black eyes, a three-inch laceration in the back of the head that looks like he was hit by a head.
John had two black eyes, a three-inch last wow.
And parallel linear cuts exclusively on his right arm.
And did I mention that Brian Albert owned an aggressive German shepherd named Chloe with a documented history of biting strangers and dogs?
They tried to hide this from the court by opposing a defense motion for Canton Animal Control Records and having Brian Albert's attorney, Greg Henning, lie in open court by claiming that Chloe never bit a human being.
Animal control records show that Chloe sent at least two people to the ER.
According to Dr. Marie Russell, who has done thousands of autopsies, those are dog bites on John's arm.
And guess what?
The six-year-old family dog was suddenly re-homed a few months after John's murder.
They claim Yeah, just so many things stacking up, man, that just make it look very bad for the prosecution.
There's no way she gets convicted.
There's too much reasonable doubt, bro.
There's just too much doubt.
And the defense has done a really good job of attacking the witness's credibility, creating the doubt.
And even if she did it, she's gonna walk, bro.
I'll tell y'all that right now.
And they sold the house and they ripped up the basement floor too.
But there's nothing suspicious about that.
The Commonwealth originally claimed that Cameron Reed struck John O'Keefe while doing a three-point turn, and they stuck to this theory for the first 18 months after Reed's arrest.
But after a turtle rider pointed out that it would have meant that the wrong tail aid was broken, they quickly Abandoned that theory.
Hold on one second.
Turn.
And they stuck to this theory for the first 18 months after Reed's arrest.
But after a turtle rider pointed out that it would have meant that the wrong TLA was broken, they quickly abandoned that theory.
Interesting.
Interesting.
So how did John get those cuts on his arm?
Surely the grass didn't do that.
And if he had gotten run over, then his body would be covered in bruises and broken bones.
The jury That's a good point.
If he did get hit by the car, it would have been the other side that would have gotten the um that would have gotten uh smashed.
The tail lights would have been smashed on the other side.
That's a really good point.
He needed an explanation from an expert, and that's where this guy came in.
Trooper Joseph Paul is Norfolk County's crash reconstruction expert, and he's got an associate's degree in administration to prove it.
For the first time at trial, the Commonwealth explained that John was actually standing in the middle of a blizzard with his arm extended into the street.
He had just gotten into a huge fight with Karen, and even though everyone is out that night, they seemed happy together.
According to Trooper Paul, Karen Reed, who was parked in front of the neighbor's house for some reason, began gunning it in reverse, hitting 24 miles an hour in just 62 feet.
She sideswiped John O'Keefe, and the tail A hit John exclusively in the arm that was hanging out over the road for some reason.
This caused the taillight to shatter into 47 pieces, all of which the Canton police department couldn't find in broad daylight.
After striking John's arm, it caused him to then catapult 30 feet and do a pirouette in mid-air before hitting his head on the curb and then bouncing another 10 feet onto the grass, where he finally came to his final resting place on top of his phone.
How did his phone end up underneath him?
You ask, Trooper Paul had an answer for that too.
What's your theory?
They just did.
Just it.
And somehow, as he landed, tucked that cell phone underneath his body.
They just did.
That's that's the evidence of the scene.
I can't.
I didn't put the evidence there.
So he didn't.
Um it just did.
Okay.
And how did he get the laceration in the back of his head?
Simple.
The grass did it.
You see, it was cold out that day, and when it gets cold, the ground turns into a blunt object that causes a cut like this, which looks like Professor Plum hit you with lead pipe.
I decided to test this theory out to see if it was even possible to accelerate to 24 miles an hour and 62 feet.
This is 62 feet.
We're gonna mark it off right here.
Alright.
Boom.
Alright.
And that's where 62 feet is.
See my car up there.
See where the uh truck mark is on the ground.
That's 62 feet.
So look at you mark 62 feet off, right?
So that's where Karen Reed started.
Started.
That's where the back of her car started, okay?
And you see the line down there, the other line, that's where he got hit.
Okay, so probably not 62 feet.
So this dude just stood here and is like, yeah, yeah, come hit me.
Come hit me.
Like, think look at by the way, look how far away the car is.
You see somebody coming at you in reverse right there like that.
That's plenty of time to get away, right?
Oh, yeah.
Like just like just jump out of the way.
The first time I hit 14 miles per hour and ended up driving over the curb because the road curves right where his body was found.
I hit something.
You're on the curb.
Am I really?
Yeah, you're on the grass.
Then I got up to 17 miles an hour, and finally, when I put the pedal to the metal, I was able to hit 19.
So I hit 19 miles an hour there.
That was pretty uh, I mean, that felt fast as shit.
Yeah, it looked fast.
And let me tell you, it was scary.
Try going that fast in reverse, and you'll see that it feels like a roller coaster.
It's not natural.
There's no possible way you can accidentally run into someone at that speed.
Keep in mind, I did this in perfect conditions with a Lexus that had a comparable engine to Reed's car.
I couldn't come close to 24 miles an hour, and I wasn't a good enough driver to avoid the curb.
But the Commonwealth would have you believe that Karen Reed transformed into a NASCAR driver, hitting 24 miles an hour in 62 feet, cutting the wheel just in time to intentionally hit her target in the arm.
Oh, yeah, and no one inside the house saw or heard it happen.
And they call us conspiracy theorists.
You don't have to be a doctor to realize that this was complete bullshit.
But luckily, the defense had not one, but two doctors who testified as to the scientific reasoning why John O'Keefe wasn't hit by a car.
Dr. Daniel Wolfe and Dr. Andrew Rentchler are crash reconstruction experts who work for a company called ARCA.
They have contracts with the Department of Defense and the NHL and were hired by someone, the defense wasn't allowed to say who at trial to run tests in order to see if John O'Keefe's injuries could have come from a motor vehicle collision.
They made it clear that the laws of physics said that John O'Keefe could not have been hit by a car and that a side swipe would not knock him out of his shoe.
So not only does the red tail late bloom on Brian Albert's front lawn like a perennial plant every February, but Newton's laws of physics also ceased to exist there at that time.
After Reed was indicted for murder, arrested, and released on a hundred thousand dollar bail, she realized the Commonwealth was pressuring her to take a plea deal for manslaughter.
Video footage of her arrest and booking on June 9th, 2023 shows Reed telling Sergeant Bukinick.
Okay, you're aware of he was beaten up by Brian McConnell Albert.
we're all in on the same joke, right?
My tail end is cracked and John is polarized.
Karen realized that she was up against the most powerful and corrupt government officials who felt political pressure to get a conviction for an alleged cop killer.
In September of 2022, she hired high profile LA based attorney Alan Jackson and his associate Elizabeth Little, specifically because of Jackson's experience with cell phone data extraction.
Jackson had previously represented Kevin Spacey in Nantucket after he was falsely accused of sexually assaulting a young man.
The data extraction showed that a number of exculpatory text messages from the alleged victim's phone were deleted by his mother, Heather UNRWA, a WCVB reporter, and Jackson got the case thrown out.
In October of 2022, the Reed team pretty damn good attorney to do that.
Filed a motion asking the court to order that several people inside the house, including Brian Albert and Brian Higgins preserved their phones.
For the first time, they put on the record their theory that John O'Keefe was killed inside the house and that Karen was framed afterward.
Shortly after the motion was filed, Brian Albert's youngest brother Tim Albert posted this ominous threatening message on Facebook telling the world that if you fuck with his family, he won't hesitate to make you the most miserable person.
Judge Peter Krupp allowed the motion for the preservation order.
But the day before it was to be put into place, Brian Albert and Brian Higgins were tipped off to it by the Norfolk County DA's victim witness advocate Steve Nelson.
Brian Albert immediately got rid of his phone.
And Higgins removed his SIM card, placed the phone and SIM card in separate trash bags, and drove them to an army base in Cape Cod where he disposed of them in a dumpster.
They both not looking good, man.
Both pretended that this was normal when they testified.
Back to the ARCA experts.
Guess who hired them?
Not the defense.
It was actually the FBI.
Shortly after the addition of Jackson and Little, Reed's defense team reached out to the United States attorney's office because they believed their client was the victim of a police cover-up and corruption in the DA's office.
The USAO easily could have ignored them, but they found their claims credible and ended up launching an investigation into the investigation of John O'Keefe sometime around December of 2022.
On April 10th, 2023, Colin Albert was visited in his Bridgewater State dorm room by two FBI officials with the subpoena to appear before a federal grand jury.
Several others inside the house also received summons, including Brian Albert and Brian Higgins.
I wrote my first story in the canton cover up a week later, and the Karen Reed case blew up overnight.
In May of 2023, Lucky Loch Ren was also visited by two FBI agents as he repeated the same story that he told me.
There was no body on Brian Albert's front lawn at 2 30.
Everyone in the house immediately lawyered up.
Brian Albert's family hired attorney Greg Henning.
Colin Albert hired Joe Krauski Jr. and Higgins hired Brian Connolly.
Higgins immediately cut tie with the Albert family and began ignoring their messages.
Clearly, they were worried about what Higgins would tell the grand jury.
This prompted Kevin Albert to send a text message to Higgins telling him that he was making everyone worried.
But worried about what?
Just tell him the guy never came in the house.
Jennifer McCabe, Matt McKay, Brian Albert, Colin Albert, Sarah Levinson, Julie Magel, Michael Proctor, and several others ended up testifying before a closed door grand jury session.
Although no indictments have come as of yet, the FBI hired Arca to see if Karen Reed could be ruled out as a suspect.
She was.
From there, they began secretly monitoring the McAlberts and Proctor's phones, and their suspicious, incriminating text messages were included in a 3,000 page report that was given to both the Commonwealth and the defense shortly before trial.
The report is what showed And that's how they were able to get the the the um uh Proctor's because I was wondering, I go I was like searching this like how the fuck did Proctor's um text messages get into the defense?
And it was because this FBI um investigation basically Brian Albert and Higgins were tipped off to destroy their phones.
The investigation to start is what showed Brian Albert was given to both the Commonwealth and the defense shortly before trial.
The report is what showed Brian Albert and Higgins were tipped off to destroy their phones.
The investigation discovered that Albert and Higgins lied to the state grand jury that indicted Karen Reed when they testified they were sleeping at two AM.
At 22 a.m., Albert called Higgins, but Higgins didn't answer.
Higgins called back right away and they spoke for 22 seconds.
After being confronted with the fact that they clearly lied about being asleep, Higgins and Albert came up with a new lie.
They butt dialed and butt answered each other.
In fact, Albert testified that after drinking all day, the man in his fifties decided to have sex with his wife Nicole, and while they were having sex, he butt answered Higgins but dial.
A February first, 2022 group text message with the McCabe's and Alberts shows that Matt McCabe was telling the others to instruct Chris Albert to tell the media.
Tell them the guy never went in the house.
Correct?
Yes.
Mr. McCabe, who was the guy that you were referring to?
Does he have a name?
That would be John.
Why would they need to instruct Chris Albert, who wasn't at 34 Fairview Road that night, to say this if John never came inside the house?
The text also showed that the McAlberts were heavily monitoring police activity at the scene and discussing who was telling the police what.
A quantico trained forensic expert from the FBI also confirmed that Jennifer McCabe's Google search happened at 227.
But perhaps the most damning thing the FBI discovered were Michael Proctor's text messages.
Yeah, uh two twenty seven.
Yeah, and that that goes for um that's important for the uh defense that Jennifer McCabe searched that at two twenty-seven because that means why the hell would you search that at two twenty-seven if he wasn't already like out there, or you didn't plan to put him out there.
On the evening of January twenty-ninth, twenty twenty-two, he was going through her cell phone, uh Karen Reed, and they showed the text message what he did and made him look like a retard.
When one of his friends named Bird asked Proctor if the homeowner would quote get some shit for having a dead cop on his lawn.
Proctor responded by saying, Nope, homeowner is a Boston cop.
Literally saying that the reason Brian Albert wouldn't be treated as a potential suspect as he normally would was because of his status as a police officer.
The messages with his friends that night showed that he had already decided that Karen Reed and Karen Reed alone was guilty, telling them that there will be, quote, serious charges brought on the girl.
He couldn't hide his disdain for Karen Reed, telling his friends she's a whack job.
These are your words, trooper Proctor.
And she probably is a whack job.
Let's be honest here, guys.
But for him to put that in text and for it to be read out in court, crazy, bro.
Punch.
She called John O'Keefe 50 times.
Yes, she's a babe.
We fall river accent though.
No ass.
When she's a babe, no ass, though.
That's funny.
That's fucking funny, man.
These guys.
Incredible.
Asked if she would be skating on the charges, he replied, zero chances she skates, she's fucked.
He told them that, quote, all the powers that be want answers ASAP, indicating political Uh Bruce Banner says, You say uh she's most likely gonna walk even if she did it, but how?
And if she didn't do it, then what what do you think?
Well, the case is too compromised, bro, at this point.
I think she's going to walk because the case is just way too fucking compromised.
...pressure to charge Reed quickly.
Proctor's text not only showed his bias, it showed what a pig he was.
When asked if she was attractive, Proctor made fun of her medical conditions.
She's got a leaky's poo.
On the day that she was indicted, Proctor texted fellow Norfolk state police detective David DeChico and said that Reed was attractive.
If you like women who shit themselves right before arresting.
This is funny, bro.
Reed for murder on June 9th.
Proctor texted his wife Elizabeth and told her we're gonna lock this whack job up.
On August 17th, in a group text that included his superior officers, Lieutenant Fanning and Sergeant Buchanneck, Proctor said that he was going through David Unetti's retarded client's phone.
No nude so far.
I hate that man, I truly am since we're alleging that Proctor's investigation was flawed.
Proctor's text also showed that he and the Chico discuss ways to manipulate the medical examiner.
Proctor called Emmy Irene Scortibello a whack job because her report said that the cause of John's death was undetermined.
Bro, me seeing this stupid shit, bro, makes me say, like, goddamn, I gotta get back on the job, man.
These niggas keep fucking up, bro.
Incredible.
Guys, I'm out to go back to the government, man.
Put some of these weirdos in jail.
Holy shit, man.
Chico mocked Proctor for not being able to pressure the Emmy to come back with a homicide determination.
Proctor really hated Scorty Bello, and she turned out to be a great witness for the defense of the trial because she testified that John could have been hit with the blunt object.
Perhaps most disturbing was Proctor's text messages with his sister Courtney, in which they both talk about how they hope Karen Reed kills herself so that the O'Keefe family didn't have to sit through a trial.
Jurors were never told about the federal investigation, so they had no idea that all of these text messages came from the feds, or that Arca was hired by the feds, or that the investigation itself was so suspect that the U.S. attorney himself, Josh Levy, had conducted a grand jury in which all these witnesses were grilled about their lies.
Jurors afterwards said that they thought Arca was paid to lie by Cameron Reed's car insurance company.
Had they known about the federal investigation, it certainly would have impacted their verdict, which is exactly why Judge Beverly Connoni didn't allow it to be mentioned in court.
Speaking of Judge Cannoni, the former public defender hasn't exactly tried to hide her obvious bias for the favor of the Commonwealth.
Judge Cannoni wouldn't allow the defense to hold an evidentiary hearing.
She allowed the Commonwealth witnesses who aren't doctors to testify about the causation of injuries, but not defense witnesses, and put sanctions on defense attorneys over a misunderstanding involving paying for witnesses, travel expenses, but never once reprimanded the Commonwealth for presenting an inverted video at trial.
In July of 2023, the defense filed a motion to recuse the judge after Matt McCabe's brother Sean messaged this award-winning journalist and said that he was going to murder me and bury my corp.
Oh shit.
In the front yard of Auntie Bev's Seaside Cottage.
Somehow, Sean McCabe knew that Cannoni owned a seaside cottage down the Cape that was just a couple miles from his house.
Additionally, Judge Cannoni's brother is a lawyer who represented Chris Albert in 1994 when Albert was convicted of killing a Hungarian foreign exchange student in a hit and run car crash.
To the surprise of no one, Judge Canoni denied the motion recuse after determining that she wasn't biased.
Little did I realize that Sean McCabe was going to be the least of my problems.
You see, I was too effective at getting the word out about the Commonwealth's blatant corruption.
I was holding protests in the courthouse steps before hearings, and even though the rolling rallying cannon, where we stopped at the homes of the McAlberts and Proctors for five minutes each, and I explained to the crowd of a hundred or so people what they'd done to cover up the murder of John O'Keefe.
The state police in Norfolk D. This nigga, bro.
He's going, this guy going hard, bro.
No wonder they want to silence him.
In August of 23, DA Michael Morrissey issued a press release video in which he inappropriately vouched for the truthfulness of the McAlberts, said that Michael Proctor didn't know any of the witnesses, and demanded that the protest stop.
But of course we didn't.
Colin Albert didn't commit murder.
Jennifer McCabe, Matthew McCabe, and Brian Elbitt.
These people were not part of a conspiracy and certainly did not commit murder or any crime that night.
They have been forthcoming with authority, providing statements, and have not engaged in any cover up.
They have not suspects in any crime.
They are merely witnesses in the case.
Oh.
Trooper Proctor had no close personal relationship.
Any of the parties involved in the investigation.
What?
And he had no reason to step out of the investigation.
Every suggestion to the contrary is a lie.
On September 25th, 2023, I published a story after getting a tip that a car resembling Jennifer McCabe's was seen parked at the Proctor's house.
If true, it would mean that Morris he had lied in the statement about the Proctors not being friends with any of the witnesses.
In order to verify this, I asked Turtle Riders if one of them could run a license plate for me and gave them the license plate number of the car Parked outside Proctor's house.
Several people ran it for me, but one of them was an Avon police dispatcher named Janelle Webb, and it was traced back to her.
For the crime of peacefully protesting, reporting the news, and exposing the fact that Michael Morrissey is a liar.
I was arrested on October 11th, 2023 at my kid's bus stop and charged with nine counts of felony witness intimidation, three counts of picketing, and one count of conspiracy to commit witness intimidation.
I was indicted two months later.
Since I was out on bail, another charge would mean that my bail could be revoked for 60 days.
Naturally, then Brian Tully and Special Prosecutor Ken Mello began conspiring with the side chick I was seeing on Friday nights, deputized her as a witness and got her to invite me over her apartment so that they could falsely accuse me of hitting her and have me charged with witness intimidation.
Oh shit.
For that, I was sentenced to 60 days in jail on my birthday the day after Christmas.
The trial began on April of 2024 and lasted almost three months.
On the final day of closing statements, Judge Cannoni called up a juror who was visibly disgusted by the Commonwealth throughout most of the trial and told her that she'd been reported by Lieutenant John Fanning, who was somehow in charge of juror security for allegedly talking about the case at a bar six weeks prior.
And Judge Canoni then appointed a former cop who was hit by a car to be the jury foreman, exempting him from the lottery that would determine who the alternates were.
Clerk Jim McDermott drew two numbers out of a bucket, but didn't show anyone in court what the So much fucking problems here, man.
This is the problem with the state, man.
These dudes are just not thorough.
Fucking messy, messy, messy.
Those numbers were.
Two other jurors who planned on voting not guilty were named alternates and not allowed to deliver it.
After five days of deliberations, the deep division is not due to a lack of effort or diligence, but rather a sincere adherence to our individual principles and moral convictions.
To continue to deliberate would be futile and only served to force us to compromise these deeply held beliefs.
I'm not going to do that to you, folks.
Your service is complete.
I'm declaring a mistrial in this case.
Judge Cannoni declared a mistrial without pulling any of the jurors.
Just when you thought things couldn't get any more corrupt, jurors started speaking out afterwards.
The one charge that we were not very clear on, and not everybody was in agreement with was essentially the manslaughter charge, involuntary manslaughter.
So that was the one that we were not clear on.
But the other two charges, which was essentially second-degree murder as well as leaving a scene of an accident, was very clear.
all 12 agreed that was not the case.
And since the jury instructions were not clear, they had no idea that they could acquit on two charges and hang on the third.
So now Karen Reed will have to face those charges again, despite half the jury coming forward and swearing that they voted to acquit her.
Trial two will be very different from the first trial.
All right.
Jacob Proctor has been fired, and it's unclear if he or the disastrous Joseph Hall will be called as witnesses by the Commonwealth.
We know that they've abandoned They definitely won't bring Proctor back as a witness, no fucking way.
Several of their own witnesses that were favorable to Karen Reed, and they've added fake YouTube doctors as expert witnesses who will try to prove that Trooper Paul what he couldn't do in the first trial.
The Norfolk County DA's office has hired mob attorney Hank Brennan, a close personal friend of mass murderer Whitey Bulger to be lead prosecutor for the Commonwealth.
They have a dozens of ADAs who get paid to do that job already, but all of them refused to do it, and there was no that way they were going with Lunchbox Lally again.
Brennan claimed that he wanted to ensure Karen Reed got a fair trial, but since taking over, he spent most of his time trying to prevent her witnesses from testifying.
Thus far, Brendan has shown a deep personal obsession with getting things he's not entitled to, like phone records for me and everyone in Karen Reed's family.
But the facts and the science remain on the side of Karen Reed.
Some may say that it's hard to believe that this many people could be involved in a conspiracy, but it's really not that complicated.
Five well-connected people with ties to law enforcement.
Brian Albert, Nicole Albert, Matt McCabe, Jennifer McCabe, and Brian Higgins spoke to police after being alone for hours and getting their simple story straight.
The guy never came in the house.
The lead detective was from Canton, and his family called the Alberts a second family.
All he had to do was cover for them, plant some tail light, and avoid doing normal detective work.
His bosses instinctively covered from because cops don't snitch on other cops.
From there, it's just people trusting institutions.
It all makes sense.
It all fits.
Karen Reed, defying the laws of physics, cell phone data no longer being reliable evidence, and eyewitnesses not seeing something that they definitely should have seen does not make any sense.
There can never be justice for John O'Keefe without justice for Karen Reed.
She is undeniably innocent, which means by default that the McAlberts are undeniably guilty.
We may never know exactly what happened to John O'Keefe when he went inside Brian Albert's house.
But we know as a fact that he was beaten up by several people.
You know what?
The fact that they didn't search the house is a big fucking problem.
Attacked by a dog and thrown out on the lawn to die in the cold.
We know as a fact that the State police are well aware of this and that they allowed Michael Proctor to intentionally subvert justice.
But we also know that we will never stop fighting for justice until Karen Reed is free.
All right.
Not bad, man.
Made a very compelling case.
Two shareholders and trying to save my own life.
Um, I was bitter at first, but I understand it.
I just had such strong tender feelings for, and I still do for fidelity.
Um, I would have stayed there forever.
I was very happy there.
But as former coworkers have reached out, have donated incredibly generously.
I feel like, all right, it's the company is the people.
Yeah.
And they've been there for me.
And um you miss that.
I miss working every day.
I miss just being ordinary and um not feeling like people are looking at me everywhere I go.
Does that happen?
It does I don't know that everyone is, but I know people approach me everywhere I go, and I have to imagine there's people who aren't approaching me that recognize me.
But I I've come to terms with the fact, Ted, that this is this is what my purpose is in in my life.
It wasn't working at Fidelity, it wasn't teaching a night class at Bentley.
Those jobs are replaceable.
Someone else is doing the job, someone else is teaching.
Someone else is the dean at Bentley now that my father's gone, and we're here to shed light on the corruption that exists in this state.
And I feel humbled by it in some ways.
It's a nightmare, and I wish it never happened.
But I also feel that I can handle this, and I don't feel weaker as it goes, I feel stronger.
And the public support is a big the restoration of my reputation, which was a big loss, has re-energized me, has energized me, rejuvenated me.
But this is this is what I'm here for.
And I get messages constantly from mainly from people I've never met, and from people that are suffering, and it's a lot of women that have either had like a physical loss of a spouse or a child or an illness similar to mine or with a colostomy bag.
Um, or colossally oh, that's why they were making fun of her for the poop stuff.
Okay.
Or have been the victim of of uh, you know, police harassment or um some type of unfairness with the criminal justice system.
Um, and there's a lot of suffering in this world.
Mine is just very visible, but I I do feel honored isn't the right word, but I'm humbled by it, and I feel like this is your purpose.
And a lot of people have purposes thrust on them that they didn't really want.
So people will stop you on these streets.
What do they say to you?
A lot of time.
So I just went to the cobbler to get shoes that I'm gonna wear to court this week that I wore out during trial, and the cobbler on Tremont Street, and someone in the shop said to me, just very respectfully, you know, hang in there, and we're a lot of people are pulling for you.
I hear that probably the most if I if I could generalize the sentiment.
We're pulling for you, hang in there.
Um, I was walking through the common when the weather was warmer in the fall with a uh uh an old friend from Fidelity and accused of fatally striking her Boston police officer boyfriend John O'Keefe with her car during a snowstorm back in 2022.
Her defense, though, claims a massive cover-up by local law enforcement.
Before I bring in my guest, let's take a closer look at the evidence in the case against Karen Reed.
Here's our own court TV crime and justice correspondent Matt Johnson now to walk us through the crime scene.
We're here in Canton, Massachusetts.
This is just outside of Boston.
And on January 28th, 2022, Karen Reed and John O'Keefe went out drinking.
They went drinking here at the waterfall bar and grill.
Around midnight, the bars begin to close.
So everybody is invited back to Jennifer's sister's house, which, according to GPS, is about an eight-minute drive.
Let's go check it out.
They eventually make their way here.
To Fairview Road in Canton, and at this house.
This house was owned by Brian and Nicole Albert.
At the time, Brian was a good friend of theirs, and also a Police officer.
Now, what happens next is what this case is all about.
Prosecutors say that the couple actually got into a fight.
And when O'Keefe exited the car, Karen Reed backed over him, leaving him to die in the curb here in front of this house during the snowstorm.
Police collected a lot of evidence at the scene, including what appeared to be a broken cocktail glass with blood around it, and also a broken tail light.
Now, Reed says when she pulled up to the house here, she wanted to know if the couple was really invited.
It was late at night.
So she watched John O'Keefe walk up to the front door over there.
And when he didn't return to the car and didn't return her phone call, that's when she said she went to his house and fell asleep.
The next morning, Karen Reed hasn't heard from John.
So she starts making phone calls.
And then she comes back here to the last place she says that she saw him over at this house on Fairview.
And that's when he's discovered, lying in the snow dead.
Now Reed's defense says a very different story.
They say that John was actually beaten up in the basement of this house and attacked by the family dog.
They claim that he was dragged outside and left in the snow to die.
Now, being here on Fairview Road in Canton, a few things come to mind.
Why didn't someone see anything?
Because the neighborhood, it's it's fairly dense.
The houses are close together.
But you have to keep in mind that this happened in January in the middle of the night, and it was also a snowstorm.
White out conditions.
Now, another key for the defense is the snow plow driver who said that he cleared Fairview Road here the morning that John O'Keefe was found dead.
I wonder what this house is worth.
Reed.
Let's see here.
905,000.
This is what it looks like.
Yeah, and this is clearly when they used to live here.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Five bedrooms, four baths, big backyard.
Big pool.
Let's see here.
What's the average income?
Demographics.
21,000 people.
81% white Thank you.
Six percent African American.
That's good.
Um, what's the median income here?
Let's see.
Oh, wow, mean income 109,000.
So, yeah, the you the you gotta you gotta have money to live in this town.
Nicer town.
He claims that he didn't see a body in the road or near the road.
All right, let's welcome our guest for this hour.
Criminal defense attorney, Lara Yaretsian.
Thank you, of course, for joining me this hour to talk about the Karen Reed case.
All right, court is dark.
A lot of evidence is presented.
The second trial's been very different than the first trial.
You have a different prosecutor, you have a different presentation of evidence.
You have different evidence being presented, including yesterday, a witness about um some of the evidence that was found.
I want to talk specifically about the fact that there was testimony yesterday, Laura, that some of the tail light, there was trace evidence of it on John O'Keefe's clothing.
I think that makes a pretty good connection.
Of course it does.
I mean, they basically, as far as the prosecution is concerned, it's gonna they're gonna argue that there was contact between the vehicle or the tail light and John O'Keeffe's body, and hence the transference.
That's an easy one.
But we'll have to see what the defense is gonna do because I bet you they've got some experts themselves are gonna be challenging this.
Really great point.
I think that they will as well.
But talk about the third party culprit defense.
Because the judges ruled that they're not allowed to use that unless the door is open.
But it doesn't mean they can't argue that something else happened to her, that something else happened inside him rather, John O'Keefe, that something else happened inside that house.
Do you think that this time around it's smart to say something happened inside the house?
He was dragged outside, the dog attacked him.
Or do you think perhaps a broader defense of many things could have happened because there's not enough evidence that she hit him with the car?
Would that have been a better way to go maybe?
Look, it all All right, women talking, no one cares.
Um so guys, I am going to uh I think I'm gonna call it a night chat.
It's been uh we're about to cross into the seven-hour mark.
Yes, we're crossing into the seven hour mark.
I am going to cover um tomorrow.
I'm going to cover Charlie Kirk debate.
I'm going to cover Charlie Kirk debate.
Which I think is going to be...
I think...
Let me see if I...
Was it this one?
Let me see if I...
I'm trying to remember where the fuck I put it.
Or where it went.
Hold on one sec, I guess.
Okay, I think this is it.
Christian.
How are you, Charlie?
Yeah, this is the one I'm gonna this is the one I'm gonna cover.
So I'll cover this debate tomorrow, chat.
Um it's gonna be a good one.
I'm gonna break down this debate.
Uh and then I'm also going to uh and then have I got time, I'll cover Jubilee as well.
Have I got time?
Which will be this one right here.
I don't want to hear y'all talk about Karen Reed no more.
I gave you guys a seven hour stream dedicated just to Karen Reed, bro.
We covered every angle.
We covered every fucking angle, man.
Uh what is it?
It's uh what are we gonna search here?
We're gonna search uh oh yeah, Jubilee.
You're a Christian.
So this is hour and a half.
This is nine minutes, so I'll I'll do both tomorrow.
I'll do both of these debates tomorrow for you guys.
So um so yeah.
That's that's what we're gonna do.
It's gonna be it's gonna be a good one, chat.
It's definitely gonna be a good one.
Uh let's see here, what else we got?
Is there anything else on Karen Reed that y'all wanted to cover before I get off?
Let me make sure I didn't miss any of your guys'super chats.
Let me make sure I didn't miss any of your guys'super chats.
all right I'll do the Sudan War another day.
Because I don't think I'll have time.
Because we gotta give you guys money Monday tomorrow.
We're gonna do uh Money Monday.
And we're gonna do uh also guys give me a favor.
Follow me on Instagram.
Okay, Fed Reacts.
That's my Instagram account.
Follow me on there.
okay So make sure to check me out over there.
Mario the first says the case was trash.
Complain to the people that you're the complaint to your uh colleagues, buddy.
Like, I mean, they've been asking for this shit for a minute, bro.
I've gotten so many requests for Karen Reed, bro.
So I'm just giving the people what they want, man.
Really don't know what to tell you, nigga.
If you want to bitch about it, you can bitch about it.
Here, let's watch a little bit more of this, then we'll close out.
And someone just was running, some guy maybe about 25, 30 years old, running to the stream of seven hours.
With a comment, and he waited until he passed me, and this was about five o'clock.
There were people everywhere, and he just yelled free Karen Reed.
People will yell that in a busy area, but it's it it's constant, and it's heartwarming to me that this is my old stomping grounds.
I used to live here in the building on the other side of this park lane.
That was my first apartment.
I met my best girlfriend there, and then I started working at Fidelity.
Were you in your 20s when you all?
I was in my 20s.
I was in my 20s when I started at Fidelity.
I'd been somewhere before that, but um, but this this area is comfortable to me, and it was a year that was kind of in hibernation where the general public did not know the truth of what happened.
Right.
So I didn't know when I went out, what are people thinking?
I would go check my mail or bring my garbage barrels in at night.
I'd wait until night time, and then I'd go out to the street on Gilbert Street where I used to live in Mansfield, and I'd I just didn't want anyone looking at me or wondering or judging, and now I can only go out when I have energy and I'm ready to engage and I'm receptive to it.
I mean, if we're having a rough day with the case or something personal, um, it's I can't just go out and be anonymous and just sit and someone will approach you.
But it always feels good and it makes me think right, these these are common people, these are the the jurors.
Yep.
Um yeah, she's gonna walk, bro.
She's gonna walk.
Uh what I'll what I might do, guys.
I might go up to Massachusetts when it's um when it's closing arguments.
Maybe I'll do that for you guys.
But uh anyway, guys, love you ninjas.
I'm gonna get off.
I'm gonna get some food.
I'm fucking dying.
Take Frank for a walk, feed him too.
He hasn't eaten yet.
So I'll be back tomorrow uh at five.
Um it's gonna be a good time.
And uh yeah.
Catch you guys tomorrow.
But of course, you guys know I gotta if I'm gonna go ahead, I gotta every single time, every single time, every single line.
Every single hour, every single time.
I'll catch you guys back here tomorrow at 5 o'clock.
I know it's hard to believe it's the whole forest, not one tree I wish every branch and leaf They're born to deceive But I'm telling you the truth.
It's not just one or two, it's every single Jew.
They all hate you.
And it really breaks the heart, but the letter of the chart and they only bring the sponsor.
We've got a dance mine.
That's just starting based.
Or you'll get in.
Every single time.
Every single crime, every single time.
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