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Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Yahoo
State Medical Examiner testifies in the Karen Read trial, outlines injuries John O'Keefe sustained
On Thursday, State Medical Examiner Dr. Irini Scordi-Bello, who performed John O'Keefe's autopsy, took the stand for hours and outlined the injuries she found on him. Dr. Scordi-Bello, however, could not say for certain how he died. 'You were not able to reach a determination as to the manner of death of Mr. O'Keefe?' Defense attorney Robert Alessi asked. 'Correct? Correct,' Dr. Scordi-Bello answered. Graphic images of O'Keefe's autopsy were shown in court, but not to the public. 'I came to the conclusion that the cause of death was blunt impact injuries of head,' Dr. Scordi-Bello said. 'And I included the hypothermia because I saw during the autopsy that there were changes consistent with hypothermia.' She found lacerations on his arms and bleeding under his eyes. Alessi, referring to bleeding under John O'Keefe's eyes, asked her, 'Is that injury consistent or inconsistent with, a punch?' She answered, 'Could be consistent.' Special prosecutor Hank Brennan pushed back against the line of questioning. 'Did you provide an opinion that it could be consistent with a punch?" Brennan asked. 'It did provide that opinion,' Dr. Scordi-Bello replied. "Could it be consistent with broken glass?" he asked. "It's possible," she said. Maureen Hartnett, a forensic scientist with State Police, also finished her testimony on Thursday, claiming she didn't find hair or dents on Karen Read's Lexus. Download the FREE Boston 25 News app for breaking news alerts. Follow Boston 25 News on Facebook and Twitter. | Watch Boston 25 News NOW
30-04-2025
Dramatic new testimony in Karen Read retrial as key witness takes the stand
Jennifer McCabe, a friend of John O'Keefe's, told the jury she saw Read's black Lexus parked outside the home of a late night gathering where the officer's body would later be found in 2022.
Yahoo
29-04-2025
- Yahoo
Digital forensics examiner to return on the stand on Day 5 of Karen Read's retrial
Karen Read's defense team will cross-examine a digital forensics expert on Tuesday morning as the trial enters day 6. Read is accused of striking John O'Keefe, her Boston police officer boyfriend, with her SUV and leaving him to die alone in a blizzard outside of a house party at the home of fellow officer Brian Albert following a night of drinking. The defense team says the data shows John O'Keefe's cell phone never moved far away from the flagpole at 34 Fairview Road, where he was found. On Monday, Ian Whiffin, a product manager at digital forensics firm Cellbrite, faced more than three hours of questioning about data that he analyzed on John O'Keefe's phone, most notably testifying that his Waze app placed him 'very close' to the flagpole outside 34 Fairview Road in Canton, where his body was found. Three flights of stairs were climbed, but Whiffin says the location data shows he was in the car at that time and believes that's likely from driving up inclines. He says no more steps or flights were climbed between 12:32 am and 6:04 am. Jurors were sent home for the day shortly before 1 p.m. An evidentiary hearing featuring ARCCA experts Dr. Daniel Wolfe and Dr. Andrew Rentschler then started just after 2 p.m. A mistrial was declared last year after jurors said they were at an impasse and deliberating further would be futile. Read has pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree murder, manslaughter while operating under the influence, and leaving the scene of a crash resulting in death. Testimony will resume at 9 a.m. This is a developing story. Check back for updates as more information becomes available. Download the FREE Boston 25 News app for breaking news alerts. Follow Boston 25 News on Facebook and Twitter. | Watch Boston 25 News NOW
Fox News
15-04-2025
- Fox News
Karen Read's true-crime documentaries may impact second trial: court docs
Karen Read's out-of-court statements, including in popular true-crime TV programs, will play a key role in her second murder trial in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend, John O'Keefe, according to new court filings. Read is accused of backing her Lexus SUV into O'Keefe just after midnight on Jan. 29, 2022, then leaving him to die on the ground as a blizzard swept through New England. They had argued that morning, then spent hours drinking together and were allegedly involved in a fight outside another officer's house where an after-party was underway. She pleaded not guilty, and jurors couldn't agree by the end of her first trial last year, clearing the way for a new trial. Hank Brennan, a prominent Massachusetts defense attorney who was brought in to take charge of the case after the first trial ended in a mistrial, had previously requested subpoenas for unpublished transcripts of interviews with Read that included her statements, including remarks left on the cutting room floor for both TV and print publications. "The defendant has made numerous statements to witnesses, first responders, medical providers, family members, and journalists, as well as recorded statements on John O'Keefe's cellphone," prosecutors wrote in a court filing unveiled Monday. "These statements range from the defendant's immediate impressions and state of mind in the minutes and hours surrounding John O'Keefe's death to crafted narrations, sometimes in the presence of counsel that recount for the defendant's version or impressions of events months and years after the murder." Read made waves with multiple public interviews after the jury deadlocked last July, giving a magazine writer access to her former home for a weekend and sitting for multiple local and national TV interviews in which she alleged that she was being framed for O'Keefe's death by his law enforcement colleagues. More recently, she said she would've "cheered" the O.J. Simpson verdict if it were handed down today. Critics, including the relatives of the lead investigator who Massachusetts State Police fired over misconduct allegations stemming from her case, call her media tour an "unrelenting propaganda" campaign and an attempt to draw attention away from evidence against her. A separate discovery filing shows some of the Read elements that Brennan's team has turned over to her defense: They include "Dateline" and "20/20 episodes", a transcript of Read's interview for "A Body in the Snow" on HBO Max and interviews with her parents for the same true-crime docuseries. Brennan's team turned over 41 audio or video clips of interview statements but did not go into specific details about each one. Prosecutors also included a copy of the recent audit of the Canton Police Department, resumes for expert witnesses and other discovery documents. Read the three filings in one PDF: Both sides have agreed not to call a Boston Magazine editor to the witness stand, even though her reporting may be introduced at trial. This would exempt her from rules sequestering witnesses before they testify and allow her to continue covering the trial. She has a petition before the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to toss two of the three charges against her, arguing that while jurors never announced a verdict at the end of her first trial, they had cleared her of both second-degree murder and leaving the scene of an accident but got stuck on the third, manslaughter. Read faces up to life in prison if convicted on the top charge she currently faces. Jury selection continued Monday, and opening statements could happen any day once the full 12 jurors and six alternates are chosen. As of the end of the day on Monday, two spots were open.
