Critical pieces of testimony were shared Thursday in the Karen Read murder trial, with the jury hearing eight voicemails Read left for John O’Keefe, her Boston police officer boyfriend, as well as testimony on O’Keefe’s location and cause of death. Read is accused of striking John O’Keefe, her...
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Trooper Guarino testifies about Read's voicemails
Massachusetts State Police forensic expert Trooper Nicholas Guarino was called back to the stand.
He shared texts between Read and Laura Sullivan, a close friend of O'Keefe's who has previously testified in the trial, from after O'Keefe's death.
Guarino was then asked to share texts between Read and O'Keefe, in which she indicated she was going back to her house. The last read, "I'm back in Mansfield. The kids are home alone."
Assistant District Attorney Adam Lally moved on to the phone call record between Read and O'Keefe, which involved more than 50 calls, though there was no indication that the pair spoke.
"There were eight voicemails from Mr. O'Keefe's phone from the 29th until the phone was discovered, all from Ms. Read, no one else," Guarino said. He also noted that Read's phone indicated she connected to the wifi at his house at 12:36 a.m.
All eight voicemails were played for the court — the first was left on O'Keefe's phone a minute after her phone connected to the wifi at his house.
"John, I f------ hate you!" she said in that voicemail.
The second, from 12:42 a.m., only played the sound of undetermined beeps, walking and bumping.
At 12:59, Read left a third voicemail saying, "John, I'm here with your f------ kids. Nobody knows where the f--- you are, you f------ pervert."
The fourth message, at 1:02 a.m., has no content. At 1:11 a.m., she leaves a longer message, screaming that she's with his neice and nephew and again calls him a pervert.
At 1:18 a.m., Read leaves a sixth message, sayig she needs to go home and ending, "You're f------ another girl…you're a f------ loser, f--- yourself!"
The next message, from 5:23 a.m., Read can be heard screaming.
The eighth and final message, from 6:08 a.m., has been
played before in the trial. In it, mumbling, screaming and the sound of a vehicle's wipers can be heard — it's from when Read, Jennifer McCabe and Kerry Roberts were at the Fairview Road home, having found O'Keefe's body. Guarino noted someone can be heard on the phone with 911.
Read also made three calls to a contact listed as her mother, at 1:10 a.m., 4:40 a.m. and 4:42 a.m. — the last of which was answered, Guarino testified. There was also a call placed to a contact listed as "dad."
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