Karen Read accused of backing into boyfriend and leaving him to die *MISTRIAL*

This woman didn't do this. I'd be willing to bet that someone in the house did it. Someone in the house looked up "How long will it take for somebody to die in the cold." Karen couldn't have done that search.

Is there a cover up conspiracy?

 

[Summer_Breeze]

Karen Read trial: Jurors visit home where John O’Keefe was found dead

Jurors were taken to 34 Fairview Road in Canton, where prosecutors believe Karen Read killed her then-boyfriend in 2022, in between testimonies on Friday.

www.masslive.com

• Updated: May. 03, 2024, 4:32 p.m.|
• Published: May. 03, 2024, 4:30 p.m.
• By Ryan Mancini | RMancini@masslive.com

Under overcast skies, reporters and photographers swooped in Friday afternoon to take photos of a home at 34 Fairview Road in Canton. A group of jurors had just taken in the scene for themselves, along with a judge and lawyers.

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McLaughlin’s testimony continues​

Before the jury visited the Canton house, testimony carried on Friday with Canton firefighter Katie McLaughlin. Read’s defense attorney, Alan Jackson, questioned McLaughlin about when she approached Read to get O’Keefe’s medical history and to describe the scene.

“I was really just focused on her trying to get her to converse with me and get those questions,” McLaughlin said, adding that Read was “moving around the scene” at times in “circles.” “I wasn’t really noticing anything else at that point and she was just moving around.”

Jackson referred McLaughlin to photos taken when she spoke with Read and asked about the group of people around her, which McLaughlin identified as a civilian woman and a police officer.

McLaughlin testified on Thursday about her observations and what she heard Read say on the morning of Jan. 29, 2022. Read “seemed very upset” and “visibly distraught,” but she also replied to her questions four times with “I hit him,” McLaughlin told Jackson.

“She seemed very upset,” McLaughlin told Assistant District Attorney Adam Lally on Thursday. “She was just visibly distraught.”

“It was said in the presence of the police officers so I felt like that information was appropriately transferred,” McLaughlin said. “I just felt, based on her demeanor, I don’t think it would’ve been productive for me to continue to ask her questions at that point.”

On Friday, Jackson reiterated to McLaughlin her own testimony about hearing Read say “I hit him” several times. He asked if she told Lt. Anthony Flematti of the Canton Fire Department that Read said “I hit him” and if she wrote it down in any document or report.

She did not write any report about what happened, McLaughlin replied.

After a short recess Friday, McLaughlin returned to the stand. Jackson asked if she knew who Caitlin Albert was, someone McLaughlin said she knew of in high school. Jackson suggested she was a friend of McLaughlin, but the firefighter said Albert was an acquaintance, did not know her family and did not recall going to Albert’s house.

Caitlin Albert’s father is Brian Albert, a Boston police officer. His home at 34 Fairview Road was where first responders found O’Keefe dead, according to court filings.

Jackson presented a printed social media post from Caitlin Albert that tagged McLaughlin’s profile, featuring her in a photo. Jackson asked where they were in the photo but McLaughlin said it must have been a “local” beach, possibly on the Cape.

“I don’t know when this picture is from,” McLaughlin said. “This picture seems old to me. Could be around high school, not sure.”

The photo could have been taken around when she graduated from high school, McLaughlin said, in 2014. But she told Jackson that she had never been on a “big vacation” with a group of people, so it must have been a day trip.

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Jurors see Canton home​

After the morning’s testimony, the jury traveled by bus from the courthouse to visit the site where O’Keefe’s body was found. From 300 feet away, reporters, photographers and any onlookers watched as the trial jury walked in front of 34 Fairview Road from about 11:15 a.m. to noon.

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Firefighters speak​

Canton Fire Lt. Gregory Woodbury took to the stand after lunch and after jurors returned from 34 Fairview Road. He was one of the first responders at the scene when O’Keefe was found dead and Read spoke to authorities, he said. His primary responsibility was to conduct a Section 12, or a psychiatric evaluation of Read.

“She did not want to go to the hospital,” the lieutenant told Lally. She did not think she needed any assistance. Once a Section 12 gets written, we are required to transport [the individual] to the hospital. You have to get evaluated by hospital staff to see how mentally stable you are.”

“She kept repeating ‘Is he dead? Is he dead’” Woodbury said. “She was very up and down. She was clearly experiencing a lot of different emotions. Her emotional state was all over the place.”

Defense attorney David Yannetti asked Woodbury about O’Keefe’s injuries, which he said included a swollen eye and scratches on his arms, which Woodbury said he saw on the body. As part of his questioning, Yannetti showed a photo of O’Keefe’s right arm with fresh scratches in the skin on a screen in the courtroom.

Canton firefighter Daniel Whitley testified next. Whitley said he spoke with Read the day first responders came to 34 Fairview Road on Jan. 29, 2022, to which Whitley said yes. Whitley said he was with Woodbury when they conducted the psychiatric evaluation.

“We had a Section 12 written, because she made threats against her life, ‘I don’t want to live anymore,’” Whitley said. “We thought that’s along the lines of a normal grieving process. We didn’t feel like it was at the level of a Section 12 to take her to the hospital.”

Whitley and paramedic firefighter Jason Becker, who testified next, both said Read was distraught and referred to O’Keefe as her husband. Becker wrote the Section 12 medical report.

“She had blood on her face, around her mouth, neck and chin,” Becker said. “With her vital signs, her heartbeat was pretty high but nothing concerning ... She would have periods of calmness and other times agitated because she didn’t want to go to the hospital.”

Becker said he asked Read if she had used drugs or alcohol. She told him no, Becker said in court.

“She asked ‘Could I have hit him? Could he be dead?’” Becker said. When asked by Yannetti if Becker knew if she had taken any drugs or alcohol, Becker said he relied on Read’s answer and nothing else.

Yannetti pressed on this point with his questioning and asked Becker if he told lead investigator and Massachusetts State Police trooper Michael Proctor that Read drank alcohol the night before O’Keefe’s body was found. After reviewing Proctor’s report, Becker confirmed he said so.

Becker’s testimony wrapped up the first week of the trial, with Cannone excusing everyone for the weekend until the trial resumes on Monday, May 6.

 

[Summer_Breeze]

Karen Read murder trial: Jurors visit the Canton crime scene

Jurors continued to not only hear testimony of what exactly went down around the body of Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe on a lawn in Canton in 2022, but got to visit that lawn and the vehicle p…

www.bostonherald.com

By FLINT MCCOLGAN | flint.mccolgan@bostonherald.com
PUBLISHED: May 3, 2024 at 9:02 a.m. | UPDATED: May 3, 2024 at 7:58 p.m.

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Paramedic McLaughlin told defense attorney Alan Jackson that Read said the incriminating words while facing another civilian woman — Kerry Roberts — and in the presence of a police officer.

“Are you aware that the female standing to your left (Roberts) reported that same exact statement as ‘Did I hit him? Could I have hit him?’” Jackson asked toward the beginning of what would be the most contentious cross examination so far in the trial.

And that’s because McLaughlin has a relationship with Caitlin Albert, the daughter of Nicole and Brian Albert, who owned the home where O’Keefe would be killed and the family central to the defense’s theory of a coverup.

After false starts through objections, the jury was removed from the courtroom for both Jackson and prosecutor Adam Lally to question McLaughlin about her relationship with Caitlin Albert.

Jackson asked many of the questions once again when the jury was brought back in, though the photographs of McLaughlin and Caitlin Albert together — and a screenshot of McLaughlin’s presence on Caitlin Albert’s social media friends list — were not allowed to be published to the jury. Jackson argued the photos should be admitted because McLaughlin’s description of the pair’s relationship was a “bastardization of the truth.”

While McLaughlin says she has known Caitlin Albert for roughly a decade, as they attended Canton High School, she said she would describe her as “more of an acquaintance of mutual friends; I wouldn’t call her a close friend.”

She also said she didn’t know that was the Albert home when she was called to the scene. She also agreed under questioning that her story had “evolved” since she was first interviewed by a State Police investigator on the case the day after the call.

Paramedic Daniel Whitley was also on that second call and said Read kept referring to O’Keefe as “her husband” while in hysterics. But he said that he thought her statements and actions were “within the normal grieving process.”

“She said, ‘I don’t want to live anymore if my husband dies,” Whitely testified. “She was very upset and she kept asking us if (O’Keefe) was still alive and we said that we couldn’t speak to that,” adding that he and others at the scene were trying to give her hope.

He also testified that Read repeatedly expressed concern over O’Keefe’s niece and nephew, who he had custody of after their parents died years ago.

“She said I can’t take care of these kids. They’re not my kids, they’re not even his kids,” he said.

The day’s last witness, Canton Fire paramedic Jason Becker, testified a similar experience on the call. He also said that Read was cooperative with them and told him that she hadn’t had any drugs or alcohol in the immediate time period and that he couldn’t recall if she told him whether she drank the night before.

After reviewing a report of his interview with a State Police investigator about two weeks after O’Keefe’s death, he agreed during cross-examination that he told the investigator then that Read said she had drank the night before.

 

[GrandmaBear]

He wasn't her husband and she'd have no rights to these kids in any way shape or form anyhow. What is it these days with cases where women refer to a bf as their kid's stepfather, etc. I see such constantly just like her claim here a bf was her husband? Or what to do about the kids that in no way could she possibly ever end up with. There's no legal relationship or marriage with him much less his niece and nephew.

Did she tell others they were married and he was her husband? I find this really strange. Almost like living some fantasy in her head. He's her hub she claims but I gather one she felt was cheating.
Sorry, having an off morning but I just can't even pretend to get this. The kids aren't hers she has no legal right to them of any kind and he was not her hub either with any legal rights to anything or any choices regarding him, his burial, his pension, his niece and and nephew or anything either. Was she still intoxicated or are these the things she had herself convinced of in life that weren't true. Grief is not going to have you forgetting you aren't married or calling a bf a husband.

Again I am having an off and very disjointed morning if not making my point well. Whatever that point may be lol. No idea.

 

[Regina]

So you are watching all? Thanks for the info.

You're welcome and in answer to your question, yes, I've been trying to watch all and I'd say I've watched most if not all of it. I mean, I'm not aware of anything of importance that I've missed.

You've asked about bodycams and I spoke to dashcam evidence but re bodycams, from what I've heard so far, there hasn't been any testimony re bodycams and so I'm under the impression that the police in Canton don't use them.

 

[GrandmaBear]

You're welcome and in answer to your question, yes, I've been trying to watch all and I'd say I've watched most if not all of it. I mean, I'm not aware of anything of importance that I've missed.

You've asked about bodycams and I spoke to dashcam evidence but re bodycams, from what I've heard so far, there hasn't been any testimony re bodycams and so I'm under the impression that the police in Canton don't use them.

So what is your opinion or do you have one yet? Can\'t recall if I have asked you before or should know. My brain today decided so far to take a day off I swear. Lol.

 

[Regina]

Just think if they'd stayed home and canoodled when his niece and nephew were in bed.

So true, and considering the weather, it was a bad judgment call to go out in the first place!
Btw, testimony from his brother and brother's wife (both Day 1) was that they had plans with John and Read to get together that night but since a snowstorm was in the forecast, they canceled the day before.

 

[GrandmaBear]

So true, and considering the weather, it was a bad judgment call to go out in the first place!
Btw, testimony from his brother and brother's wife (both Day 1) was that they had plans with John and Read to get together that night but since a snowstorm was in the forecast, they canceled the day before.

Agree. Wow. Just one decision made differently or having the same sense as the brother and wife and all could have ended up so differently.

 

[Regina]

So true, and considering the weather, it was a bad judgment call to go out in the first place!
Btw, testimony from his brother and brother's wife (both Day 1) was that they had plans with John and Read to get together that night but since a snowstorm was in the forecast, they canceled the day before.

It struck me that the info above may not be entirely accurate and so I went back to listen to the testimonies of the brother (Paul) and his wife (Erin) and see that it isn't, that is, plans wouldn't have been for that night but the next.
Also, as for the idea that John and Read may have canoodled at home rather than have gone out, Erin didn't understand how it was that John and Read were even together that night since earlier in the day, things hadn't been good between them.

 

[GrandmaBear]

It struck me that the info above may not be entirely accurate and so I went back to listen to the testimonies of the brother (Paul) and his wife (Erin) and see that it isn't, that is, plans wouldn't have been for that night but the next.
Also, as for the idea that John and Read may have canoodled at home rather than have gone out, Erin didn't understand how it was that John and Read were even together that night since earlier in the day, things hadn't been good between them.

I can't watch probably at all so I will take any info you hear or see and your take. And that of kdg and cuz too.

I've asked before to the others and am curious, does his family think she is responsible? Anything about that when the brother and wife were up?

 

[GrandmaBear]

So they weren't getting along at all even earlier in the day or SO a witness says anyhow. And this isn't LE or someone corrupt necessarily it is the SIL of John. I guess that answers my question partly right there.

Where I have trouble in this, I mean it's been quite the defense attempt and blizzard but HOW many there are here, firefighters, family, different agencies, all these people, MEs who knows and I don't feel they are ALL corrupt or in cahoots. It's just such a reach.

Do you or did you have an opinion before trial started? Or a lean? Just asking.

I admit I don't know but I just don't buy the defense story. I do buy a power abusing corrupt person or two but not necessarily that it means the killed him and framed her.

 

[kdg411]

Short recap of the names and relationships of those involved.

 

[Summer_Breeze]

Focus of testimony in Karen Read murder trial shifts to busted cocktail glass, broken taillight

A broken cocktail glass and a piece of broken taillight were among the new items of evidence introduced in the Karen Read murder trial on Tuesday.

www.boston25news.com

By Ryan Breslin, Boston 25 News
May 08, 2024 at 6:51 am EDT

DEDHAM, Mass. — A broken cocktail glass and a piece of broken taillight were among the new items of evidence introduced in the Karen Read murder trial on Tuesday.

The prosecution said the taillight and other evidence led them directly to Read, a 44-year-old Mansfield woman who is facing charges including second-degree murder in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend John O’Keefe.

The defense has argued that Read is a scapegoat for a well-connected group of people.

Going into Day 7 of testimony on Wednesday, the prosecution is expected to start with a new dashcam video of Read’s Lexus SUV in O’Keefe’s driveway a couple of hours after his body had been found in the snow in the front yard of 34 Fairview Road in January 2022.


The prosecution has previously said that daylight video shows damage to Read’s taillight.

In court Tuesday, the defense continued to question why evidence of the broken taillight wasn’t found until days later.

“Chief Berkowitz brought my attention to a piece of red glass,” Canton Police Lt. Michael Lank testified. “A lot of the snow had melted, and a lot of the ground had been revealed.”

Lank testified that his then-police chief reported seeing a piece of red taillight outside 34 Fairview Road six days after the scene had been thoroughly searched.


But not missed during the initial search was a broken cocktail glass. Prosecutors said there’s surveillance video of O’Keefe leaving a bar with a glass in hand.

Lank was also questioned about the home and he testified that he knew the then-homeowner, retired Boston Police Officer Brian Albert. He said he entered the home three separate times shortly after O’Keefe’s body was transported to the hospital.

The defense has long argued that O’Keefe was beaten up inside the home and then dragged outside.

Of the area he observed, Lank said everything appeared to be in order.

Alan Jackson questioned, “You didn’t search the house for evidence of a fight? That’s all I’m asking.” Lank responded, “No, I wouldn’t have probable cause to do that.”

After court Tuesday, Defense Attorney David Yannetti addressed the testimony about the discovery of the taillight.

“The whole scenario about an older man with not great eyesight driving by, I don’t think the jury will buy it,” Yannetti said.

Photos of items that police used to store and collect evidence at the scene of O’Keefe’s death, including red solo cups, a leaf blower, and a grocery bag, were shown in court on Monday.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Thank you. It's notable to me no one is sharing anything about what is in trial and I can only assume it is because it is the prosecution that is up and there are real facts. As I have heard there are rarely in between all the defense bluster out there over months.

Imo it's been one helluva an attempt just as the O thing Delphi defense is trying but when it gets to trial, there are real facts.

Why IS nothing being shared here as to daily testimony and evidence? Not that it's anyone's job to do so if they happen to be watching it but will that be the same when it is the defense up?

Just saying....

 

[kdg411]

Thank you. It's notable to me no one is sharing anything about what is in trial and I can only assume it is because it is the prosecution that is up and there are real facts. As I have heard there are rarely in between all the defense bluster out there over months.

Imo it's been one helluva an attempt just as the O thing Delphi defense is trying but when it gets to trial, there are real facts.

Why IS nothing being shared here as to daily testimony and evidence? Not that it's anyone's job to do so if they happen to be watching it but will that be the same when it is the defense up?

Just saying....

Lally is just VERY monotone and hasn't shown much. The defense has impeached all of the Canton LE, Canton firefighters and EMT's. The evidence he has shown was video of John & Karen at the bar being very loving, the video at the Sally port where the 6 red solo cups were sitting in an open bag on the floor next to Karen's SUV. No evidence log or chain of custody has been provided. Oh, the best evidence Lally has provided was the video of the Canton officer using a leaf blower at the crime scene.

 

[Guess Who]

Lally is just VERY monotone and hasn't shown much. The defense has impeached all of the Canton LE, Canton firefighters and EMT's. The evidence he has shown was video of John & Karen at the bar being very loving, the video at the Sally port where the 6 red solo cups were sitting in an open bag on the floor next to Karen's SUV. No evidence log or chain of custody has been provided. Oh, the best evidence Lally has provided was the video of the Canton officer using a leaf blower at the crime scene.

Yes! USING a leaf blower. Not it's just in his truck because he used it somewhere else. A guy that should know better.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Lally is just VERY monotone and hasn't shown much. The defense has impeached all of the Canton LE, Canton firefighters and EMT's. The evidence he has shown was video of John & Karen at the bar being very loving, the video at the Sally port where the 6 red solo cups were sitting in an open bag on the floor next to Karen's SUV. No evidence log or chain of custody has been provided. Oh, the best evidence Lally has provided was the video of the Canton officer using a leaf blower at the crime scene.

Well the article above sounds like a bit more than that.

Just asking. No commentary no showing it is lousy testimony or good testimony, evidence or anything. Just nothing said at all. I haven't had much time and behind on "my" cases but do coe te check and just nothingness. Trying to show interest and be fair.

 

[kdg411]

Still image from Commonwealth video evidence

 

[kdg411]

Well the article above sounds like a bit more than that.

Just asking. No commentary no showing it is lousy testimony or good testimony, evidence or anything. Just nothing said at all. I haven't had much time and behind on "my" cases but do coe te check and just nothingness. Trying to show interest and be fair.

All of the 1st responders testified that John O'Keefe was wearing something different than what is posted in the picture above.

The My Cousin Vinny movie has even been mentioned in testimony.

 

[kdg411]

This is from a journalists perspective. Lally is not winning anyone over so far. jmo

 

[GrandmaBear]

Still image from Commonwealth video evidence

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So this is her and him that night at the Waterfall or whatever the name? Wisely for once I read ahead the few posts on this (considering it is in trial) and see you say he was not wearing what he is here when found? I have no idea what that is supposed to mean. They look home for a quckie and then got dressed and decided to go back out to the party? Or someone who killed him at the party REDRESSED him in someone else's clothing?

I love you and am not trying to argue I'm just not following? The point?

As to the pic she looks engaged or trying to with him but he doesn't.

And I'll go back to it is a bad practice and bad look to beging with to have powers that be or LE out drinking at local bars unless with a clearly designated DD and even then if seen having more than one an hour, so hypocritical because more could have you belligerent, misbehaving, fighting, etc. NOT a good look.

I hope but am pretty sure you understand I am not attacking you, I just don't see it the same way. So far anyhow but am open? No testimony being shared and so I can't decide otherwise either. I actually did watch a little today when I knew to quit the Daybell LE description of the dead kids. Couldn't take any more. I got away from it and looked for something else and actually for ONCE this one popped up. So I watched for a short time. However it strikes me hard that these were two adults and not kids. Coming from that one. Cops out on a winter storm kind of night or a cop and a gf, etc. at a local bar. I know that may sound judgemental but I do think it. Coming from that case to this one it really stood out. And I've been no perfect person my entire life that way but I sure the heck wasn't a cop or his gf doing such. And I know better or realized since younger days.

I'm also sorry about this, the attention on this is ridiculous imo. I think both sides should just stop and go stay out of the public eye and quit their "specialness" and I guess continue their corruption. I see BOTH sides that way. I truly do.

What the heck are they even doing in public bars? I'm five or close to six decades old and I had my years of bars. No when you but midlife. And I can tell you the number of times I ran into our local cops out and what they were doing and where and the responsibility shown with doing so. I can also tell you of one time I knew through a job or am fairly sure the bunch covered for another.

I have yet to see any credibility here yet for some MD up fight and framing of her (why, did all hate her?) and all the other stuff.

All that said, whether enough proof to convict her, seems there was but that's what trial is for. Personally I think the dog, the fight, the framing of her is beyond believable. I do believe all involved thought they were special and immune including John and Karen.