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

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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?

 
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By Munashe Kwangwari and Eli Rosenberg • Published May 17, 2024 • Updated on May 18, 2024 at 12:41 am​


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Jennifer McCabe testifies​

Around 12:15 p.m., Matthew McCabe's wife, Jennifer McCabe, took the stand. She was one of the three women, along with Read and Roberts, who found O'Keefe's body on the lawn of 34 Fairview Road on the morning of Jan. 29, 2022.

She testified about how she and her husband met her sister at the Waterfall around 9 p.m. on Jan. 28, 2022.

"He was my friend. I loved John. He was an amazing guy," McCabe said when asked what she thought about O'Keefe. She also detailed how O'Keefe told her that he was dating someone new, and he wanted McCabe to meet her.

McCabe said she met Read for the first time when they both came over to her house in July of 2020, and occasionally socialized with them at sporting events, birthday parties and other events.

"I enjoyed Ms. Read. I really liked her. I thought we connected from the beginning. She was very easy to talk to. She had MS, I have MS... It was nice to have someone who understood what I was going through. So we had that in common."

On the night before O'Keefe's death, McCabe said she left the Waterfall around midnight. As multiple previous witnesses have described, she said the mood at the bar that night was positive.

She also testified about a conversation with Read about how Read was frustrated that she and O'Keefe didn't have more time together, and that his family wasn't helping out more with raising his niece and nephew.

And she talked about how everyone left the Waterfall and how she gave O'Keefe directions back to Albert's home, where people were gathering after leaving the bar. But she said O'Keefe never came into the Albert house that evening.

McCabe testified that she saw a dark SUV outside of the Albert home that night and texted O'Keefe, "Here?"

Lally looked to have the text exchange between McCabe and O'Keefe entered into evidence, but the defense objected. The judge asked him to redact certain images from the text messages over the lunch break, and adjourned the trial until 2 p.m., when McCabe returned to the stand.

The text messages between McCabe and O'Keefe were entered into evidence after the lunch break, with Lally asking about the specifics of their exchange.

The first was at 12:14 a.m. on Jan. 29, 2022, from O'Keefe to McCabe, saying "Where to?"

At 12:27 a.m., McCabe sent O'Keefe a text, saying, "Here!?" She said she sent that text after seeing a dark SUV out front of the Albert home on Fairview Road. Four minutes later, she sent a text saying, "Pull behind me." She said she sent this message after seeing the SUV move, to tell O'Keefe to park behind her vehicle.

At 12:40 a.m., she sent another text to O'Keefe saying, "Hello." McCabe said she wasn't sure if the SUV was still there or if it had already left by that point.

At 12:42 a.m., she texted O'Keefe, "Where are you?" And then "Hello" at 12:45 a.m.

McCabe said she never received any response from O'Keefe.

The next text she sent to O'Keefe was at 4:59 a.m., when she said, "Please answer." She then added, "Karen is worried we need to find u" and followed with another text asking him again to answer so she would know that he was OK.

McCabe said the later texts were prompted by a phone call she received from O'Keefe's niece, who was with Karen Read. Similar to what her husband testified, McCabe said at 4:53 a.m., she was woken up by her phone. She said she could hear Read screaming her name in the background and that she eventually got on the phone.

McCabe said Read told her she had gotten in a fight with O'Keefe and he hadn't come home. McCabe described Read as hard to understand and "extremely irrational" during the call. McCabe also said Read kept asking "could I have hit him?" and that she mentioned she had a damaged tail light.

McCabe began trying to get in contact with other people to see if she could track down O'Keefe, and she said at this point her husband was awake and told her they had seen Read and O'Keefe outside of her sister's house.

McCabe said she wound up leaving the house to look for O'Keefe when Read showed up at her home, screaming. McCabe described Read as "hysterical" at this point. They were joined by Kerry Roberts and the three of them decided to go back to O'Keefe's home, McCabe driving Read's car.

“I saw missing pieces from the tail light," McCabe testified, saying that when they arrived at O'Keefe's driveway Read showed them the damage.

McCabe said they checked the house for O'Keefe and spoke with his niece before leaving again, this time heading over to Fairview. She said this time all three women were in one car, with Roberts driving, McCabe in the passenger seat and Read in the back. She said Read continued screaming their names and repeating certain phrases like "could I have hit him?"

As they drove back to Fairview, McCabe said between the weather and the darkness the conditions were bad and it was hard to see. As they approached the Albert home, McCabe said Read shouted "there he is" and started banging on the car door to be let out.

Roberts unlocked the door and McCabe said Read ran right to where O'Keefe was laying. McCabe said he was flat on his back and covered with snow.

“I saw Kerry wiping the snow off of John’s face and I could not believe that that was John laying there.”

McCabe called 911 and she said Roberts and Read began attempting CPR while they waited for first responders. She said Read continued to scream.

Police and EMTs arrived and began working on O'Keefe. McCabe testified that when an EMT asked them what happened, Read said "I hit him" three times.

"When she spoke to the paramedic it was crystal clear: 'I hit him,'” McCabe said.

McCabe said she and Roberts were placed in a car with Read, who kept asking, "is he dead?" and asked them to pray.

The defense has made a search on McCabe's phone of "hos [sic] long to die in cold" central to the argument of Read's innocence. Her attorneys say she made this search at 2:27 a.m., hours before 911 was called to report O'Keefe had been found in the snow.

Prosecutors have disputed this timing, arguing McCabe made the search after O'Keefe was found unresponsive.

McCabe testified Friday that she made the search at Read's request after they found O'Keefe.

"She grabbed my hands and she said, 'Google hypothermia, Google how long it takes to die in the cold," McCabe said on the witness stand. "I had my phone out, and it was cold, and my hands were frozen, and I have MS, and I took my phone out while she was screaming and shaking my arm, and I attempted to Google 'How long does it take to die in the cold.'"

She told the court, "my hands were shaking," as she tried to complete the search and that she may have looked it up multiple times, but doesn't think she actually got the answer.

“I was completely just in a state of shock and disbelief,” she said.

Read's defense team maintains that the search was made hours earlier.

"That Google search was at 2:27 in the morning. That's when the Google search happened, and you'll find out why we know that in short order," defense attorney Alan Jackson said outside court Friday.

McCabe said that at one point, a police officer asked her to go inside and wake her sister, which she did by walking into the Albert home and upstairs to her sister's bedroom. Nicole and Brian Albert were asleep, according to McCabe, who said at first they appeared confused as she tried to explain to them what was happening.

After a few minutes the Alberts got up and got dressed, McCabe testified, coming downstairs to Officer Lank, who was waiting to speak with them. McCabe said she knew Lank, both of them having grown up in Canton. She said Lank eventually left but returned later with another officer when she called him.

"He had told me if there’s anything you remember please give me a call," McCabe said, noting that she got Lank's phone number from Julie Albert, who also arrived at the home at some point that morning.

I told him about the comments and the remarks that Karen Read had been stating that morning," McCabe testified. "I said that she told one of the EMTs that she hit him," she added.

McCabe said throughout the hours she was at her sister's home that morning several other people arrived at different points, including her husband Matthew McCabe, who she said she called, Julie Albert, and Brian Higgins. Eventually she returned home with her husband, and said it was there she was interviewed by Massachusetts State Police - troopers - Michael Proctor and Yuri Bukhenik.

She noted that at one point she called Brian Albert because she "wanted his support." Albert was at the McCabe home during her state police interviews, McCabe said.

Court has wrapped up for the day Friday.
 

By Munashe Kwangwari and Eli Rosenberg • Published May 17, 2024 • Updated on May 18, 2024 at 12:41 am​


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Matthew McCabe returns to the stand​

Matthew McCabe returned to the stand on Friday morning after beginning his testimony on Thursday.

Assistant District Attorney Adam Lally started by asking McCabe how he woke up on the morning of Jan. 29, 2022.

"I awoke to the screaming of 'Jen, Jen, Jen.' So when I woke up, I thought there was somebody in my bedroom."

When he woke up, he said he realized his wife Jennifer McCabe was actually on the phone.

"I asked my wife, 'What is going on?' and I could hear her saying, 'I'm on the phone with Karen -- she can't find John.'"

He said the phone conversation continued for a couple minutes, and then continued screaming from Read on the other end of the line.

"She didn't know where John was and the last time she saw him was at the Waterfall," McCabe said of what Read was saying to his wife.

He said his wife then started making phone calls to other people who had been at the Waterfall Bar & Grill the night before.

But Matthew McCabe said he remembered seeing Read's vehicle outside 34 Fairview Road that morning.

"I thought she was crazy," he said of Read. "Because I saw her vehicle... I saw the black SUV arrive to 34 Fairview that morning."

He said Jennifer McCabe told Read that, but she said she didn't remember going there.

Matthew McCabe said he also heard Read say something to the effect that she had "broken her taillight" on her vehicle.

"We were completely confused as to where John was... we knew that John had mentioned that he was potentially going to be meeting up with another person, so my wife called that individual to see if by chance... did John not go with her, did he get out of the car, did he go somewhere else?"

He said his wife made several phone calls, but no one answered.

Matthew McCabe said he tried texting and calling O'Keefe, saying "Where the hell are you? Now Karen and Jen are out looking for you," but never received any response.

He said his wife went downstairs and Matthew McCabe started getting dressed. They were planning to drive to the house of the man they thought O'Keefe might have met up with. He said he then heard yelling in his front yard, and realized it was Read.

"I told my wife, 'Peaase tell her to shut up. She's going to wake up the whole neighborhood,'" he said.

Matthew McCabe said he assumed O'Keefe was just sleeping on someone's couch.

He said his wife and Read then went out looking for O'Keefe, while he stayed home with their four kids. About an hour later, he said his wife called him and said they had found O'Keefe at 34 Fairview Road. He finished getting dressed and drove to Fairview to meet them.

He recalled seeing an ambulance, and said Kerry Roberts was also there. She said she was dropping Karen off and was going to go pick up O'Keefe's parents.

On cross-examination, defense attorney David Yannetti asked about Jan. 22, 2022, when Matthew McCabe and his wife went to the Hillside Pub in Canton and ran into O'Keefe and Read. They hung out with them for about an hour, along with Brian and Nicole Albert and several others.

McCabe said during that time, O'Keefe and Read appeared to be enjoying each other's company.

Yannetti then moved to the Waterfall on Jan. 28, 2022, asking what the mood was like and if O'Keefe and Read were getting along.

"Everything was good," McCabe said. "There were no arguments that I saw."

Yannetti also asked McCabe about Brian Albert and Brian Higgins, who were both at the Waterfall on Jan. 28, 2022, and whether he saw them practicing fighting.

"I recall them grabbing each other, I don't recall them squaring up like they were fighting each other," he said. "They were playing grab-ass with each other."

Asked what he meant by "grab-ass," he said it was a "figure of speech."

"Like a bear hug or something. I thought I recalled them doing a bear hug. That's what's in my memory."

McCabe also confirmed that Albert and Higgins were two of the people who went back to Brian Albert's home on Fairview Road. He acknowledged that others in the group, including O'Keefe and Higgins, were also invited to the Albert home.

McCabe said he was one of the last people to leave the Waterfall that night. His wife was already in their car in the parking lot, and he met her there and they drove to the Albert home on Fairview Road.

He said they parked in the driveway, and there were "at least two" other vehicles already parked there.

When he arrived, he said there was also a Jeep with a plow parked at the end of the driveway, in front of the mailbox. He later found out the Jeep belonged to Higgins.

McCabe also confirmed he saw a black SUV parked in front of the Albert home at some point that night, and Higgins' Jeep was still parked in front of the mailbox at that time. Yannetti also questioned McCabe about several inconsistencies between Friday's testimony and his previous testimony about the location of the black SUV.

During his previous testimony, he had said he only saw the black SUV in two different spots, but on Friday he said he saw it in three locations. But McCabe denied Friday that he had contradicted himself.

At one point, Yanetti asked McCabe, "Is this funny?" after he noticed that McCabe was smiling in response to his questions.

"It's not funny, sir. It's been two years of misery," McCabe replied.

Yannetti then returned to a phone conversation Jennifer McCabe had with O'Keefe as the McCabes were driving to the Albert home on Jan. 28, 2022. O'Keefe had texted Jennifer McCabe asking for directions to the Albert home, and she called O'Keefe to tell give him specific directions.

Matthew McCabe said he assumed that O'Keefe and Read would be arriving at the Albert home.

McCabe also testified Friday that he never saw O'Keefe inside the black SUV, never heard any yelling, crash noises or screams of pain coming from outside the Albert house.

"There was music playing in the house, so I didn't hear anything," he said.

McCabe said when he left the Albert house that night, he left with his wife and Karen Levinson and Julie Nagel, previous witnesses in the case who the McCabes were giving a ride home. The black SUV was no longer there, and he said he didn't see anyone or anything on the lawn.

McCabe also testified that he never heard Nagel say "What was that?" or anything about the "black blob" she testfied earlier this week she saw on the lawn as they left.

Yannetti also asked McCabe about a group text exchange he was part of in the days after Jan. 29, 2022 with his wife, Brian Albert and Nicole Albert. On Feb. 1, three days after O'Keefe's death, he asked McCabe if he was at or near the Albert home on 34 Fairview Road, watching what investigators were doing in that area.

"I was not monitoring anything that the troopers were doing," McCabe said. "If I had driven down the street dropping somebody off or picking somebody up and saw the troopers, I saw the troopers."

Yannetti then showed McCabe a text McCabe reportedly sent to the group text saying that state police troopers were out in front of the Albert home, close to one of the next-door neighbor's home.

Brian Albert responded with a question, "Right now?" and Matthew McCabe said yes.

McCabe then texted the group that he was trying to get a picture of what he was seeing.

"I said I was going to try to take a photo," he said. "I just happened to be driving through the neighborhood... I was not monitoring what was going on, I just happened to drive by at that moment."

Court took a break shortly after 11 a.m., returning just before 11:30 a.m. with Matthew McCabe back on the stand.

Yannetti then displayed images from the group text exchange mentioned before the morning break.

"Troopers back out front... And looks like more has been dug up there or at least looks like it" Matthew McCabe said in one text message sent to the group.

Brian Albert replied, "Right now" and McCabe responded, "Yes."

Albert then responded again, saying, "Ok."

McCabe then texted the group, "I had to pick up a car. So drove through."

He then texted. "Trying to get picture."

Yannetti then produced three more pages of text messages to McCabe, which McCabe confirmed were from the same group chat mentioned earlier.

One of the texts included McCabe talking about the ongoing investigation into O'Keefe's death.

In that exchange, Albert wrote at one point, "Hope they don't think she's making it up after the fact for some reason," referring to an interview Massachusetts State Police Trooper Michael Proctor had conducted with Kerry Roberts, who was one of the three women, along with Read and Jennifer McCabe, who found O'Keefe's body. Albert added in a text moments later, "but if they barely interviewed her, that's on them."

Yannetti also asked about several other texts, including one on Feb. 1, 2022, at 12:51 p.m., in which McCabe said "Ask Chris to ask some questions," referring to Chris Albert, Brian's older brother. He then texted, "Tell them the guy never went in the house," which he said was in reference to O'Keefe.

Brian Abert's response in the text chain was, "Exactly"

Yannetti asked McCabe if the text chain was everyone trying to get their stories straight that O'Keefe never went inside the Albert house.

"John never went in the house. It's not a story, it's a fact," McCabe said. "I was saying, 'We don't know what happened. He never came in the house.'"
So a cop decides to stay home with the kids and let his wife go out in a snow storm to find a missing cop??? Oh, come on!
 
This story is a month old, but it is about the federal investigation into this case.


Federal probe of Karen Read murder case highly unusual, legal experts say​

Story by Shelley Murphy
• 1mo • 5 min read

And of note:

During a pretrial hearing last month, Yannetti said federal authorities hired crash reconstruction experts, who concluded that O’Keefe’s injuries were “inconsistent” with being struck by a car.

But state authorities allege that O’Keefe suffered serious head injuries after being struck by Read. Norfolk Assistant District Attorney Adam Lally told the judge that documents provided by the US attorney’s office were “largely consistent” with the state’s theory of the case. He said all of the witnesses who were present at Albert’s house around the time of O’Keefe’s death testified before the federal grand jury that he never went inside and “there was no fight; there was no attack.”


The federal crash reconstruction report was among some 3,000 pages of documents, including grand jury statements by witnesses, that the US attorney’s office turned over to Read’s lawyers and state prosecutors in February. Those documents were impounded by Judge Beverly Cannone, who is presiding over Read’s case, and were not made public. But they may be used to question witnesses and challenge their accounts of what happened to O’Keefe.

The defense also may call the federal government’s crash reconstruction experts to the stand.
 
The taillight she broke, backing into him before she left, wasn't broken. This is witnessed by a few people who saw her there alone in her car. People who've been trained to look for things. At that point, O'Keefe was probably in the house. I believe they have cellphone data proving so.
I guess we will see if they do. Or you will. I can't give this one a lot of time but try to check it.

Your first sentence is a bit confusing. I have seen or read a bit of testimony and yes I get that whoever and her brother and so and so, etc. saw the black SUV and did not notice a broken tail light and so on. However these are all or most all drinking drunken people first of all and not looking for such. Also, was this before or after she struck him that they saw the vehicle? Seems to me it would be before if they pulled up behind it or near, etc. I haven't watched all by a long shot but it doesn't convince me.

Again, not sure I'd find her guilty of this charge but I certainly do not believe the other scenario. I have stayed open to being convinced of it when watching more, listening to more, etc but haven't been. NOT that the defense has to prove another scenario. I think in some ways they'd have been better off without one and just arguing and defending the lack of enough and so on re her and this charge and the investigation and flaws.

I'm also not sure all these people who claim rides to and from and were not drinking or driving although some have texts showing the requests for rides so those are probably accurate. I don't believe or like the other side either/all of the P or the "bunch" believe me but I don't believe the fight and dog story and conspiracy. Other than that, I can be on the same page with a lot.

Back to your statement, I heard or read those witnesses. Not convinced they saw the vehicle before she hit him either. And not ALL placed her alone in her vehicle. I do it and have done it too but you have an extreme bias in this case imo and look for things to fit it. I have been the same don't get me wrong. And I recognize it. You have it with RL in Delphi. We all do it at times. You do recognize that don't you?

I don't feel I do in this one. I do NOT like the other side and most of the people. I don't like her though either. I DO AGREE WITH YOU ON A LOT. I just don't buy the alternate story and I believe she killed him. And I really don't have a single emotion about any of them. Rare for me but I don't. I think there are corrupt on the one side. I don't think though that means they or whoever killed him and framed her. Etc.
 

By Munashe Kwangwari and Eli Rosenberg • Published May 17, 2024 • Updated on May 18, 2024 at 12:41 am​


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Jennifer McCabe testifies​

Around 12:15 p.m., Matthew McCabe's wife, Jennifer McCabe, took the stand. She was one of the three women, along with Read and Roberts, who found O'Keefe's body on the lawn of 34 Fairview Road on the morning of Jan. 29, 2022.

She testified about how she and her husband met her sister at the Waterfall around 9 p.m. on Jan. 28, 2022.

"He was my friend. I loved John. He was an amazing guy," McCabe said when asked what she thought about O'Keefe. She also detailed how O'Keefe told her that he was dating someone new, and he wanted McCabe to meet her.

McCabe said she met Read for the first time when they both came over to her house in July of 2020, and occasionally socialized with them at sporting events, birthday parties and other events.

"I enjoyed Ms. Read. I really liked her. I thought we connected from the beginning. She was very easy to talk to. She had MS, I have MS... It was nice to have someone who understood what I was going through. So we had that in common."

On the night before O'Keefe's death, McCabe said she left the Waterfall around midnight. As multiple previous witnesses have described, she said the mood at the bar that night was positive.

She also testified about a conversation with Read about how Read was frustrated that she and O'Keefe didn't have more time together, and that his family wasn't helping out more with raising his niece and nephew.

And she talked about how everyone left the Waterfall and how she gave O'Keefe directions back to Albert's home, where people were gathering after leaving the bar. But she said O'Keefe never came into the Albert house that evening.

McCabe testified that she saw a dark SUV outside of the Albert home that night and texted O'Keefe, "Here?"

Lally looked to have the text exchange between McCabe and O'Keefe entered into evidence, but the defense objected. The judge asked him to redact certain images from the text messages over the lunch break, and adjourned the trial until 2 p.m., when McCabe returned to the stand.

The text messages between McCabe and O'Keefe were entered into evidence after the lunch break, with Lally asking about the specifics of their exchange.

The first was at 12:14 a.m. on Jan. 29, 2022, from O'Keefe to McCabe, saying "Where to?"

At 12:27 a.m., McCabe sent O'Keefe a text, saying, "Here!?" She said she sent that text after seeing a dark SUV out front of the Albert home on Fairview Road. Four minutes later, she sent a text saying, "Pull behind me." She said she sent this message after seeing the SUV move, to tell O'Keefe to park behind her vehicle.

At 12:40 a.m., she sent another text to O'Keefe saying, "Hello." McCabe said she wasn't sure if the SUV was still there or if it had already left by that point.

At 12:42 a.m., she texted O'Keefe, "Where are you?" And then "Hello" at 12:45 a.m.

McCabe said she never received any response from O'Keefe.

The next text she sent to O'Keefe was at 4:59 a.m., when she said, "Please answer." She then added, "Karen is worried we need to find u" and followed with another text asking him again to answer so she would know that he was OK.

McCabe said the later texts were prompted by a phone call she received from O'Keefe's niece, who was with Karen Read. Similar to what her husband testified, McCabe said at 4:53 a.m., she was woken up by her phone. She said she could hear Read screaming her name in the background and that she eventually got on the phone.

McCabe said Read told her she had gotten in a fight with O'Keefe and he hadn't come home. McCabe described Read as hard to understand and "extremely irrational" during the call. McCabe also said Read kept asking "could I have hit him?" and that she mentioned she had a damaged tail light.

McCabe began trying to get in contact with other people to see if she could track down O'Keefe, and she said at this point her husband was awake and told her they had seen Read and O'Keefe outside of her sister's house.

McCabe said she wound up leaving the house to look for O'Keefe when Read showed up at her home, screaming. McCabe described Read as "hysterical" at this point. They were joined by Kerry Roberts and the three of them decided to go back to O'Keefe's home, McCabe driving Read's car.

“I saw missing pieces from the tail light," McCabe testified, saying that when they arrived at O'Keefe's driveway Read showed them the damage.

McCabe said they checked the house for O'Keefe and spoke with his niece before leaving again, this time heading over to Fairview. She said this time all three women were in one car, with Roberts driving, McCabe in the passenger seat and Read in the back. She said Read continued screaming their names and repeating certain phrases like "could I have hit him?"

As they drove back to Fairview, McCabe said between the weather and the darkness the conditions were bad and it was hard to see. As they approached the Albert home, McCabe said Read shouted "there he is" and started banging on the car door to be let out.

Roberts unlocked the door and McCabe said Read ran right to where O'Keefe was laying. McCabe said he was flat on his back and covered with snow.

“I saw Kerry wiping the snow off of John’s face and I could not believe that that was John laying there.”

McCabe called 911 and she said Roberts and Read began attempting CPR while they waited for first responders. She said Read continued to scream.

Police and EMTs arrived and began working on O'Keefe. McCabe testified that when an EMT asked them what happened, Read said "I hit him" three times.

"When she spoke to the paramedic it was crystal clear: 'I hit him,'” McCabe said.

McCabe said she and Roberts were placed in a car with Read, who kept asking, "is he dead?" and asked them to pray.

The defense has made a search on McCabe's phone of "hos [sic] long to die in cold" central to the argument of Read's innocence. Her attorneys say she made this search at 2:27 a.m., hours before 911 was called to report O'Keefe had been found in the snow.

Prosecutors have disputed this timing, arguing McCabe made the search after O'Keefe was found unresponsive.

McCabe testified Friday that she made the search at Read's request after they found O'Keefe.

"She grabbed my hands and she said, 'Google hypothermia, Google how long it takes to die in the cold," McCabe said on the witness stand. "I had my phone out, and it was cold, and my hands were frozen, and I have MS, and I took my phone out while she was screaming and shaking my arm, and I attempted to Google 'How long does it take to die in the cold.'"

She told the court, "my hands were shaking," as she tried to complete the search and that she may have looked it up multiple times, but doesn't think she actually got the answer.

“I was completely just in a state of shock and disbelief,” she said.

Read's defense team maintains that the search was made hours earlier.

"That Google search was at 2:27 in the morning. That's when the Google search happened, and you'll find out why we know that in short order," defense attorney Alan Jackson said outside court Friday.

McCabe said that at one point, a police officer asked her to go inside and wake her sister, which she did by walking into the Albert home and upstairs to her sister's bedroom. Nicole and Brian Albert were asleep, according to McCabe, who said at first they appeared confused as she tried to explain to them what was happening.

After a few minutes the Alberts got up and got dressed, McCabe testified, coming downstairs to Officer Lank, who was waiting to speak with them. McCabe said she knew Lank, both of them having grown up in Canton. She said Lank eventually left but returned later with another officer when she called him.

"He had told me if there’s anything you remember please give me a call," McCabe said, noting that she got Lank's phone number from Julie Albert, who also arrived at the home at some point that morning.

I told him about the comments and the remarks that Karen Read had been stating that morning," McCabe testified. "I said that she told one of the EMTs that she hit him," she added.

McCabe said throughout the hours she was at her sister's home that morning several other people arrived at different points, including her husband Matthew McCabe, who she said she called, Julie Albert, and Brian Higgins. Eventually she returned home with her husband, and said it was there she was interviewed by Massachusetts State Police - troopers - Michael Proctor and Yuri Bukhenik.

She noted that at one point she called Brian Albert because she "wanted his support." Albert was at the McCabe home during her state police interviews, McCabe said.

Court has wrapped up for the day Friday.
So supposedly they even knew before they actually found him that her taillight was broken and still failed to find 40+ pieces of taillight even after their leaf blower use in their attempt to gather evidence? Could see blood, that is covered in snow and is flat, but not see ANY of the taillight pieces that are not flat??? Sheesh.
 
Article from two weeks ago:

4 takeaways from Karen Read trial: texts, taillight damage and first witnesses​

Story by Luis Fieldman, masslive.com
• 2w • 6 min read

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Snowplow driver​

Yannetti told jurors that a private detective hired by Read’s team went to Canton’s Department of Public Works to learn whether Fairview Road was plowed on the night of Jan. 28, 2022.

Trooper Proctor wrote in a police report that after one conversation with the head of the Department of Public Works, he determined that the streets had not been plowed and did not follow up after that single conversation, Yannetti said.

Yannetti said the private investigator spoke with the same department head who said the street actually was plowed that night.

The private investigator tracked down the snowplow driver who drove down Fairview Road that night. The driver told the investigator that he drove a truck called “Frankenstein” due to its size and it had a lot of spare parts, Yannetti said.

The driver said he’s careful driving down the roads in that truck and keeps an eye out for fire hydrants and yards to the sides of the plow and that he passed by 34 Fairview Road at 2:30 a.m., according to Yannetti.

“(The snow plow driver) confirms that at about 2:20 a.m. John O’Keefe was not on that front lawn,” Yannetti said.

The snowplow driver said that when he went back to Fairview Road at 3:30 a.m., he saw a Ford Edge on the side of the road where O’Keefe was later found, according to Yannetti.

Yannetti said no police investigators interviewed the snow plow driver.

Read’s taillight​

Lally told jurors on Monday that footage from a Canton police officer’s cruiser on the morning O’Keefe’s body was found will show the right taillight of Read’s vehicle was cracked.


When Read woke up that morning, Lally said, she called two friends — Jennifer McCabe and Kerry Roberts — after she noticed that O’Keefe was not home.

Read met with McCabe and told her that she noticed her taillight was cracked, Lally said.

Lally said during opening statements that shards from a cocktail glass were found on the bumper of Read’s car and that surveillance from the Waterfall showed he walked out with a cocktail glass in hand.

During Yannetti’s opening statement, he said that Trooper Proctor wrote on a search warrant that he towed Read’s car at 5:30 p.m. but that the defense team obtained surveillance footage that showed Proctor picked up the car 90 minutes earlier.

“The words on the sworn affidavit were a lie,” Yannetti told jurors. “You will learn that the timing is important.”

At least four police officers searched the snow of the home’s front lawn after O’Keefe was taken to the hospital and zero pieces of broken taillight were collected, according to Yannetti.


Later in the day, after Read’s car was seized, Proctor went back and found pieces of taillight buried in the snow, Yannetti said.

A week later, former Canton Chief of Police Kenneth Berkowitz drove by the house and found additional pieces of taillight, Yannetti said.
 
Article from two weeks ago:

4 takeaways from Karen Read trial: texts, taillight damage and first witnesses​

Story by Luis Fieldman, masslive.com
• 2w • 6 min read

<snip>

Snowplow driver​

Yannetti told jurors that a private detective hired by Read’s team went to Canton’s Department of Public Works to learn whether Fairview Road was plowed on the night of Jan. 28, 2022.

Trooper Proctor wrote in a police report that after one conversation with the head of the Department of Public Works, he determined that the streets had not been plowed and did not follow up after that single conversation, Yannetti said.

Yannetti said the private investigator spoke with the same department head who said the street actually was plowed that night.

The private investigator tracked down the snowplow driver who drove down Fairview Road that night. The driver told the investigator that he drove a truck called “Frankenstein” due to its size and it had a lot of spare parts, Yannetti said.

The driver said he’s careful driving down the roads in that truck and keeps an eye out for fire hydrants and yards to the sides of the plow and that he passed by 34 Fairview Road at 2:30 a.m., according to Yannetti.

“(The snow plow driver) confirms that at about 2:20 a.m. John O’Keefe was not on that front lawn,” Yannetti said.

The snowplow driver said that when he went back to Fairview Road at 3:30 a.m., he saw a Ford Edge on the side of the road where O’Keefe was later found, according to Yannetti.

Yannetti said no police investigators interviewed the snow plow driver.

Read’s taillight​

Lally told jurors on Monday that footage from a Canton police officer’s cruiser on the morning O’Keefe’s body was found will show the right taillight of Read’s vehicle was cracked.


When Read woke up that morning, Lally said, she called two friends — Jennifer McCabe and Kerry Roberts — after she noticed that O’Keefe was not home.

Read met with McCabe and told her that she noticed her taillight was cracked, Lally said.

Lally said during opening statements that shards from a cocktail glass were found on the bumper of Read’s car and that surveillance from the Waterfall showed he walked out with a cocktail glass in hand.

During Yannetti’s opening statement, he said that Trooper Proctor wrote on a search warrant that he towed Read’s car at 5:30 p.m. but that the defense team obtained surveillance footage that showed Proctor picked up the car 90 minutes earlier.

“The words on the sworn affidavit were a lie,” Yannetti told jurors. “You will learn that the timing is important.”

At least four police officers searched the snow of the home’s front lawn after O’Keefe was taken to the hospital and zero pieces of broken taillight were collected, according to Yannetti.


Later in the day, after Read’s car was seized, Proctor went back and found pieces of taillight buried in the snow, Yannetti said.

A week later, former Canton Chief of Police Kenneth Berkowitz drove by the house and found additional pieces of taillight, Yannetti said.
Another thing... Them saying she stated her taillight was "cracked". "Cracked" is not at all what I would describe something that has 40+ pieces missing from it.
 
Yes, the 'P' word is involved and I'll leave it at that.

After 14 days of the Commonwealth's case I'm beyond confused. I agree that none of it makes sense about the dog and fight because we have yet to hear from the lead investigator or from the ME or a forensic phone analyst. At this point no expert has confirmed Officer O'Keefe's death happened and at what time or described his injuries. The timeline is a guessing game and it's frustrating. I've never watched a more frustrating trial. Shouldn't we or the jury know some of these basic facts by now? Not asking just throwing it out there. From my point of view the Commonwealth has spent all this time defending Colin Albert and have yet to show how or why Karen Read could have murdered Officer John O'Keefe.
It is very clear to me the P word is involved (politics I will say it so as not to confuse anyone who may think it stands for prosecution) even though I am not 24/7 on this. Agree.

I also agree with both videos I watched and linked, the trial has not been one so far that they are nailing by a long shot (prosecution).

I am glad you agree about the dog and fight because that's what I have the biggest issue with, that someone at the party killed him and this is what happened, etc. etc. and then framed her and so on and this HUGE conspiracy. I think if the D had NOT went that route with their entire public campaign which did work on much of the public it seems, they could have really nipped this. I think both sides are using this case and likely care less about any victim or defendant but for their "fame", election or to save their hides even (for those called out as corrupt).

The entire thing leaves me with a distaste and disgust for almost all. Seriously.

I don't know and wouldn't convict if I didn't know but I think she hit him whether accidentally or intentionally I don't know. And that's as simple as it should have stayed. I think it was a drinking and not perfect relationship playing into it. I don't think sober that she would have and would regret it if intentional or accidental. This is not proven to me don't get me wrong, it is just my opinion of what happened based on what I know and as you know, I have ingested a lot on this case but I have to draw back on the overload the defense has put out there and I think they went too far honestly. The whole someone in the home murdered him the dog got involved, they dumped him outside and then framed her, etc. is way TOO MUCH for me to buy. Man they were lucky she just happened to drop him off to make that work weren't they? It's just too much, too many things that have to fall into place.

Let her off, let her do six months in jail, a year of community service probation, etc. God knows that's all many others get or some such. I do NOT agree with such but mentioned two I knew that got little to nothing where they killed someone and I disagreed entirely. Hub's was long before I was ever with him, "BIL's" was as well but he was still on conditions. And both were continuing their habits/ways.

I mean the SD AG got away with it. Etc.

Why is SHE facing worse? Than the average Joe or AG of SD?
Or the KC Coach's son (also a lower coach wasnt' he?)

This is all a show imo. And I don't like it. So I am naming the little people I know who did not get the consequences they should have imo and we all know the connected don't. And I disagree with it ENTIRELY but with her it has turned into this... Whether it is ego, politics or whatever, there is another reason for it imo.

I don't see where it comes from love and defense and upset for the victim from the big bunch, prosecutorial side. And it seems to me initially, I'd have to look back and don't have time, she believed and knew she did this, but had they not went overboard, this would perhaps never have went anywhere and certainly not to what it has turned into.

And I do have to say, if she is wrongly charged or overcharged, I am not okay with that with any case BUT this one is small potatoes but has garnered so much attention that it disgusts me. It was all drinking, a party, driving, etc. Don't get me wrong, not like I've never done so in my life. I have. You live, you learn. But when you see people in power doing it and thinking immune including the victim and his gf Karen, it leaves a bad taste. I seriously do not like either side. And both sides have contributed to making this far bigger than it should be.

What a waste. And this definitely has P involved.

All jmo. I can't say I'd find her guilty though. Haven't been able to watch the trial but have read a lot and listened to a few things on it. So I do not disagree on all.


:hugs: Hoping your world is bright and all going well. Wish I had time for the basement, etc. and just chit chat and catching up.
 
Ok, even forget "on top" if the snow. How did cops miss 40+ pieces of plastic when they were supposedly looking for and collecting evidence? They are trying to say he was backed into and hurt his head on the concrete near him. How did they miss 40+ pieces that should have been right there? They could see blood, which is flar on the ground, but not notice even one piece, out of 40+ pieces, of 3 dimensional plastic? If not right there, how are they going to explain away that those pieces were away from him? How are they going to explain how none of the cops and their family members noticed her vehicle there and absolutely none of them noticed a broken tail light?
Frist, I can't speak to 40+ pieces of plastic because I haven't yet heard testimony re 40+ pieces...

At this point in the trial, the last time the vehicle was seen, no one saw damage to the taillight and no one knew that there was damage until Read told them about it.
 
Frist, I can't speak to 40+ pieces of plastic because I haven't yet heard testimony re 40+ pieces...

At this point in the trial, the last time the vehicle was seen, no one saw damage to the taillight and no one knew that there was damage until Read told them about it.
But they are supposedly investigating how a dead body of their friend ended up in their yard and she's told you that her taillight is suddenly damaged. Yet none of them saw or even thought to look for pieces? Make that make sense. So far, the prosecution has proven nothing but how incompetent this place is.
 

The jury got to see a text group chat between the McCabes and Alberts. Yannetti had Matthew McCabe read a text from Feb. 1, 2022, in which he described Massachusetts State Troopers being parked "in front of asian house." More than one juror in the case is Asian.



The defense also showed a text from Matthew McCabe to Chris Albert instructing him to "ask some questions" and then say "the guy [John] never went in the house."

When asked to clarify if that text showed witnesses "getting their stories straight," McCabe said "it's not a story, it's a fact" that O'Keefe never came into the house.

*(the BBM is where the collusion occurs, imoo)

Long article. I haven't gotten to the Asian part yet (which is after I figure), I am stuck on the whole first part which is entirely damning to Karen. TOTALLY. and it brings me back to what I first heard and knew of this case. No one woke her up looking for John. She doesn't even recall leaving Waterfall and that was the last time she saw him, etc.? She is panicked. She KNOWS or has some memory and hopes she is wrong... Damning as hell. Of course I will give it that this testimony comes from someone BUT they did go looking for him right and these contacts are established...

That part was so gripping and reminded me of what I thought initially I only just reached the Asian part and haven't read it yet. I'm just talking about what I think really happened and not the investigation after and so on.

How did she think she got home from the WAterfall? Drove right? Don't need a BAC to see if she truly did not remember she was trashed but I think she did remember or start having recall... And hoping she was wrong and that she didn't do what she did...
 
Long article. I haven't gotten to the Asian part yet (which is after I figure), I am stuck on the whole first part which is entirely damning to Karen. TOTALLY. and it brings me back to what I first heard and knew of this case. No one woke her up looking for John. She doesn't even recall leaving Waterfall and that was the last time she saw him, etc.? She is panicked. She KNOWS or has some memory and hopes she is wrong... Damning as hell. Of course I will give it that this testimony comes from someone BUT they did go looking for him right and these contacts are established...

That part was so gripping and reminded me of what I thought initially I only just reached the Asian part and haven't read it yet. I'm just talking about what I think really happened and not the investigation after and so on.

How did she think she got home from the WAterfall? Drove right? Don't need a BAC to see if she truly did not remember she was trashed but I think she did remember or start having recall... And hoping she was wrong and that she didn't do what she did...
Every single one of them seemed to give no thought about driving around drunk. They ALL were in their invincible cop world and all felt uncomfortably comfortable in doing so. They knew none of them or their family's would get ticketed
 
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I'm talking about the people who saw her right after dropping off John. There was no damage to the light at that time. Supposedly she backed into him and broke the taillight when she dropped him off.
No one saw Read and John part ways, just that the vehicle had been out front for a certain amount of time, nobody got out nor had John returned texts or calls since shortly before having arrived at the house.
 
But they are supposedly investigating how a dead body of their friend ended up in their yard and she's told you that her taillight is suddenly damaged. Yet none of them saw or even thought to look for pieces? Make that make sense. So far, the prosecution has proven nothing but how incompetent this place is.
Even after a cop goes to her house and there is a broken taillight and STILL nobody even takes the slightest inclination to even look for taillight pieces near where he laid??? None of them?
 
And with all the cops and their family members there, not one mentioned noticing it. It was dark and none of them noticed a white tail light that should have been red. Not buying it. These guys are trained to notice details and most cops I know also teach their families that, too.
I don't know what you mean "all the cops and family members"...
It wasn't Read's vehicle that was at the scene at 6am, it was Robert's.
 
Frist, I can't speak to 40+ pieces of plastic because I haven't yet heard testimony re 40+ pieces...

At this point in the trial, the last time the vehicle was seen, no one saw damage to the taillight and no one knew that there was damage until Read told them about it.
I know of no 40 pieces myself. If true, not saying it isn't, but rings no bells with me. I've watched a fair amount about htis case before trial and now during. And although I don't recall all those days I would think that would have stood out. Do you know where that comes from and is it fact?

This case is no premeditated murder whether a fight in the home or hit by Karen It is a bunch of people (of note most) partying and drinking and out and about and/or at a house party. If she hit him intentionally, she was drunk and mad and thoughts of cheating had been festering. If she hit him accidentally, she was drunk and shouldn't have been driving. If the fight happened and a dog jumped in, again not planned and I honestly don't buy this story for an instant. But any which way about it, he died dut to some drunken night out by mostly all. it is not cold, calculated and planned imo no matter which way one looks. It was due to irresponsibility at minimum and probably all if not most drinking beyond and who are "leaders" many of them in society. Cops, higher, etc. Or their kids, underaged even.

I dont' think I have a bias at all and care less sadly in some ways--I dont' like either side. If I have a bias, that's it. think they all are worthless on both sides and wasting the air the rest of us breathe. Not a person here matters to me but all are self important to selves on both sides. I don't mean every lab person or state person or all are self important, I am talking of the key ones on both sides, I don't buy the whole huge conspiracy thing. I think it is ridiculous something like this has gone this far on EITHER side.

Also imo it is a test and sheer scare of what the majority of the public will fall for if fed enough and flooded with it. However, do they? I don't think most do. I think like her supporters, etc. outside the courthouse are certain types or part... Just like the certain crazies in Petito and so many other cases.

I do not mean that in a way that means anyone here who believes her innocent is one of such. I am talking about the overall b.s. buying of all a defense blitz puts out. Like in Delph with the Os. And of course media will run with it It is a SPLASH and sensational of course and brings views.

I don't even know if I have a point or had one. Just yakking before having to face another week I guess.

I'm very in the middle in this case. I don't have respect for any of the key players or parties on either side.

I'd add one more thing, all these witnesses saw her with no broken tail light some say at the residence and they saw her, her long hair, HER yet she had no memory of leaving Waterfall or every going there. Supposedly. Okayyyy......
 
But they are supposedly investigating how a dead body of their friend ended up in their yard and she's told you that her taillight is suddenly damaged. Yet none of them saw or even thought to look for pieces? Make that make sense. So far, the prosecution has proven nothing but how incompetent this place is.
I agree they are far from great. And totally unable in the same imcompetence to pull off a murder, a plan and a huge conspiracy such as the defense claims.
 

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