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?

 

[Cousin Dupree]

The reconstructionist said U-Turn, but meant three point turn.

 

[Cousin Dupree]

Trooper Paul is splitting hairs trying to screw up Jackson's questions, it's not working.

 

[Cousin Dupree]

Trooper Paul didn't even try to clarify which key cycle matched up to where the car was at the time it was started.

 

[Summer_Breeze]

Experts testify in Karen Read trial, reveal messages showing Read and O'Keefe arguing

Controversial testimony continued Monday morning when the Karen Read trial resumed.

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Jackson also asked Paul about several elements of his report, including how far O'Keefe's body was found and how many pieces of plastic were found and where. He also asked about how Paul determined where O'Keefe's body was, and if that measurement was off, if every other measurement in the report would be off.

"Hypothetically," Paul replied.

Jackson also pointed out that Paul described the incident leading to O'Keefe's injuries on Friday as a "U-turn," but Paul clarified Monday that it was in fact a "three-point turn."

"Those are two very different maneuvers, you agree?" Jackson asked.

"I was trying to say... it was a U-turn. It's a three-point turn... they're still making a U-turn. She was turning around."

 

[Summer_Breeze]

Experts testify in Karen Read trial, reveal messages showing Read and O'Keefe arguing

Controversial testimony continued Monday morning when the Karen Read trial resumed.

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Jackson also sought to challenge Paul's expertise, asking about the calculations he used in his report to determine how far O'Keefe's body moved after being hit by a vehicle.

At one point he asked Paul to confirm his calculation.

"No, because the vehicle is too heavy and the body too light," Paul said.

"Where'd you learn that?" Jackson asked.

"It's in my math," Paul replied.

Jackson asked if Paul was formally trained in physics, kinematics or biomechanics. Paul said he was not, but many aspects of those fields of study were included in his accident reconstruction classes.

"Exactly how was that taillight shattered? Explain it to us," Jackson asked.

"The tailight in this case was shattered when it struck John O'Keefe's arm... based on what I saw of his injuries, it was from his upper part of his arm down," Paul said.

 

[Summer_Breeze]

Morning break.

 

[Cousin Dupree]

They'll be coming back here:

 

[Summer_Breeze]

Experts testify in Karen Read trial, reveal messages showing Read and O'Keefe arguing

Controversial testimony continued Monday morning when the Karen Read trial resumed.

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"Did you account for the fact that his arm is on a hinge? His shoulder?" Jackson asked, referencing the fact that Paul's report said O'Keefe flew 30 feet after being struck.

He also asked how Paul could account for the fact that he didn't break his arm or even suffer a bruise.

On redirect, Lally asked Paul to again explain why he believes O'Keefe's injuries are consistent with being struck by a vehicle. He explained that his experience as an accident reconstruction expert, roadway evidence and witness statements all led him to that conclusion, including Read's own admission that she performed a three-point turn before leaving the scene.

 

[Summer_Breeze]

Experts testify in Karen Read trial, reveal messages showing Read and O'Keefe arguing

Controversial testimony continued Monday morning when the Karen Read trial resumed.

www.nbcboston.com

"Based on the evidence from the vehicle, based on the injuries to John O'Keefe, the taillight appears to be broken into sharp plastic pieces that could have ripped his arm," Paul said, "and also the dent with the scratches above it is consistent with a hand holding a glass and the glass on top smashing on the vehicle and the hand smashing the vehicle."

 

[Guess Who]

Experts testify in Karen Read trial, reveal messages showing Read and O'Keefe arguing

Controversial testimony continued Monday morning when the Karen Read trial resumed.

www.nbcboston.com

"Based on the evidence from the vehicle, based on the injuries to John O'Keefe, the taillight appears to be broken into sharp plastic pieces that could have ripped his arm," Paul said, "and also the dent with the scratches above it is consistent with a hand holding a glass and the glass on top smashing on the vehicle and the hand smashing the vehicle."

 

[Summer_Breeze]

New witness takes the stand​

Just before 12:15 p.m., Ian Wiffin from Cellebrite, a widely-used phone extraction tool, took the stand.

 

[Summer_Breeze]

Experts testify in Karen Read trial, reveal messages showing Read and O'Keefe arguing

Controversial testimony continued Monday morning when the Karen Read trial resumed.

www.nbcboston.com

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Digital forensics expert takes the stand​

Just before 12:15 p.m., Ian Whiffin from Cellebrite, a widely-used phone extraction tool, took the stand.

He began by testifying about how his company provides forensic support to law enforcement, and how he became involved with the case. He testified about a specific report related to a data extraction performed on Jennifer McCabe's phone and several elements that he said were deleted from the phone.

He was specifically asked by Lally about a document highlighting a list of search terms found on McCabe's phone and the method of searching. The report included the following three search terms:

• bpd & john okeefe
• hos long to die in cold
• how long ti die in clkd

None of the searches were conducted in private browsing mode, Whiffin testified.

He said the searches were conducted at 6:23 and 6:24 a.m., but he doesn't believe based on the data that the searches ever successfully loaded.

 

[Summer_Breeze]

Lunch break.

 

[Summer_Breeze]

Experts testify in Karen Read trial, reveal messages showing Read and O'Keefe arguing

Controversial testimony continued Monday morning when the Karen Read trial resumed.

www.nbcboston.com

Whiffin returned to the stand following the lunch break around 1:45 p.m., continuing his testimony about McCabe's Google searches. These included searches for Eastern Bank, the song "It's Raining Men," by The Weather Girls, a family portal for Canton High School, a competitive basketball program and what appeared to be a meal-preparation service.

 

[Summer_Breeze]

 

[Summer_Breeze]

No vehicle data recovered and destroyed all vehicle data contained therein in the process! (Infotainment system)

 

[Guess Who]

No vehicle data recovered and destroyed all vehicle data contained therein in the process! (Infotainment system)

How convenient... Again.

 

[Summer_Breeze]

Judge excuses jurors for the day. Jury to return on Thursday. (Tomorrow expert voir dire and Wednesday is Juneteeth holiday)

 

[Tresir]

Experts testify in Karen Read trial, reveal messages showing Read and O'Keefe arguing

Controversial testimony continued Monday morning when the Karen Read trial resumed.

www.nbcboston.com

Jackson also asked Paul about several elements of his report, including how far O'Keefe's body was found and how many pieces of plastic were found and where. He also asked about how Paul determined where O'Keefe's body was, and if that measurement was off, if every other measurement in the report would be off.

"Hypothetically," Paul replied.

Jackson also pointed out that Paul described the incident leading to O'Keefe's injuries on Friday as a "U-turn," but Paul clarified Monday that it was in fact a "three-point turn."

"Those are two very different maneuvers, you agree?" Jackson asked.

"I was trying to say... it was a U-turn. It's a three-point turn... they're still making a U-turn. She was turning around."

If she was in the driveway and reversed out turning that's one manoeuvre then going forward on the road as the second manoeuvre, it is a U turn. A three point turn is when you are on the street facing one way and then turn forward once to the opposite kerb, reverse turn to the other kerb, then forward again to end up going in the opposite direction ie 3 or more manoeuvres.

 

[Summer_Breeze]

Karen Read murder trial: Live updates as forensics expert testifies about internet searches

Read is accused of killing her boyfriend, a Boston police officer, by striking him with an SUV and leaving him to die in a snowbank.

www.wcvb.com

Updated: 3:48 PM EDT Jun 17, 2024
David Bienick
Reporter

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• 3:44 p.m. Lally has started showing Facebook chat messages exchanged between O'Keefe and Read.
• 3:39 p.m. Guarino says the defense's cell phone expert reached several incorrect conclusions, including that phone calls were deleted.
• 3:31 p.m. Guarino says Read's cell phone did not have much useable GPS data but O'Keefe's had "quite a bit."
• 3:28 p.m. After they got access to Read's phone, they found some communications with her attorney. They're not allowed to look at them. So they sent to AG's office which removed those messages then returned the phone several months later.
• 3:25 p.m. Guarino says they used a system that bypasses the iPhone's protection system so that it could enter more than 10 passwords before the iPhone wipes itself clean. Says it took from Jan to Aug to break into Read's phone.
• 3:22 p.m. Guarino says Proctor provided him with O'Keefe's cell phone and Read's cell phone. Says they could not initially break through the password protection on Read's cell phone.
• 3:17 p.m. Guarino says he also two computers taken from O'Keefe's home: a Dell laptop and an HP Pavillion desktop. "We were looking for a Ring video," Guarino says. They found none. Says O'Keefe used his cell phone to access the Ring system.
• 3:10 p.m. Guarino says the computer chips also did not provide any useable data.
• 3:04 p.m. Guarino removed the entertainment system for Read's SUV on Feb 2, 2022 and attempted to do a data extraction on it. Says initially they couldn't do it so they removed the computer chips from the mother board.
• 2:59 p.m. Next prosecution witness: Trooper Nicholas Guarino. Guarino says it was him not Proctor who reached out to Ian Whiffin about conducting cell phone data analysis in this case.

• 2:54 p.m. "Nothing in there that tampering occurred," Whiffin says.
• 2:53 p.m. Whiffins says he tested multiple versions of IOS and found the same data results each time.
• 2:52 p.m. Whiffin says it would be possible to alter the extraction data but that doing so would leave a trace. "It's potentially possible but would require a large amount of knowledge and skills," Whiffin says.
• 2:47 p.m. Defense attorney David Yannetti begins cross examination. He says Whiffin's analysis was not done on the same version of IOS as Jen McCabe's iPhone was using in 2022.
• 2:43 p.m. Whiffin is now demonstrating his ArtEx tool to show how he analyzes cell phone data.
• 2:37 p.m. Whiffin's bottom line: the Safari tab was opened at 2:27am to show two sports-related websites and the two hypothermia-related searches were done at 623am and 624am. Says it's "impossible" the record could have been deleted by the user.
• 2:33 p.m. Whiffin continues to testify about his charts regarding Jen McCabe's cell phone usage. It's technical and similar to testimony jurors heard last week. A couple jurors are yawning.
• 2:06 p.m. Whiffin is explaining tables of data regarding the Google search
• 1:49 p.m. Case resumes after lunch
• 12:59 p.m. Whiffin says if a Safari tab is minimalized, the timestamp is not updated.
• 12:50 p.m. The record shows "hos long to di in cold" at 6:24:18am and "how long ti die in clkd" at 6:23:51am. Whiffin says he believes the results for each search never fully loaded on the phone.
• 12:40 p.m. Whiffin says the item is deleted but he doesn't believe the user intentionally deleted it. Says one method of user deletion would have resulted in more widespread loss of data.
• 12:35 p.m. Here's a record that shows the Google search related to "hos (sic) long to die in cold." It has a timestamp of 2:27:40am and is listed as a deleted record.
• 12:27 p.m. Reminder: Prosecution says Read asked McCabe to search about hypothermia AFTER O'Keefe was found. Defense says McCabe did the search on her own in the middle of the night.
• 12:25 p.m. About 2:27am timestamp: "That's not the time in my opinion that the search was conducted." Says other things going on with phone at that time. Says "plenty of evidence" that the search happened at 6:23am and 6:24am.
• 12:20 p.m. Whiffin says he was contacted last September to determine how Jen McCabe's 2:27am cell phone timestamp occurred.
• 12:12 p.m. Next prosecution witness: Ian Whiffin, digital forensics expert for Cellebrite. Originally from the U.K., previously worked for Calgary police.