Karen Read Trial: 9 Shocking Moments From Boyfriend Cop Murder Trial Openings
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More than two years after Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe was found dead in the yard of a fellow police officer in Canton, Massachusetts, the murder trial for his girlfriend, Karen Read, has begun. Prosecutor Adam Lally told the jury Read is a murderer who hit O'Keefe with her SUV and left him to die in the snow after an argument. But Read's attorney, David Yannetti, told jurors Read is the victim of a vast cover-up spearheaded by a state trooper. Law&Crime's Angenette Levy details 9 top moments from opening statements and testimony from O'Keefe's brother in this episode of Crime Fix - a daily show covering the biggest stories in crime.
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Def 6r
I know this will make for one heck of a Netflix series regardless of trial outcome.
It’s going to be just like the other Netflix proving Boston police framing a man for Det Mulligans murder to cover up 4 detectives including Mulligan were robbing drug dealers of drugs and money and wanted the case to quickly be solved even though the real cop killer got away with murder.
@@Andrey_Khaustov1480 ok hipster
Nothing will be the end of America.
@@Andrey_Khaustov1480 lol bro, what drugs you on
Yeah, she'll be played by Laverne Cox
Everyone that left the house didn’t see the body laying out on the lawn. Because there was no body on the lawn. He was killed in the house. The prosecution should be jailed after this case. There’s no chance that the prosecutor believes that he’s saying.
Bingo
I few weeks ago I got hit by a car while I was driving on my bike. We were on a public road and going way faster than someone would go backing up into a drive way. The car almost had no damage, my bike and my body had most of the damage. So how fragile was her car if the light broke with such a minor impact. And how fragile was his body if he was killed by that kind of impact without someone driving over him…? This whole case is wierd and fuckedup.
And where’s the blood? Only a few drops where the body was found but ME said he was missing pints?
She did not do this. That taillight and his face are not the same height. And he was in the middle of the lawn- so he couldn’t have fallen back and just hit his head. His torso would have had SOME injury. Even 1 single bruise. There’s no way she did this. It also looks terrible that that family redid the basement; sold the house, got rid of a dog they’ve had for 7 years. Something ISN’T RIGHT HERE
They have DNA evidence, you fool.
Facts 💯
Never seen a Lexus bite and scratch an arm like that. I have seen a german shepherd attack a persons arm countless times.
Bologna. Not a single bite mark on his arm was found. If it was an animal, it was a group of vultures with sharp claws, not a dog with dull claws. He was backed over by the Lexus, the undercarriage tearing up his arm. Read is guilty of murder!
Why didnt proctor go into the house during his investigation? Sounds like he made up his mind.
It’s amazing watching a prosecutor argue a case he knows in his heart is a sham.
so the victim got up and took parts of her taillight and stuck them in himself??? SMH! :)
@@ktermalkut8332if you understand the case, they’re not saying the victim did that.
@@taralilley9047 it was IRONY because te person said something very silly:) did you not see the SMH and :) in my comment?
A sham? Googling how long it takes to die in the cold is a sham? Parts from her vehicle tail lights being found is a sham? Voicemails saying she hated him is a sham? Fighting that very same day was a sham?
@@Nicholas-HTXAre you saying Karen googled how long to die in the cold??
Just google the autopsy pictures …that 100% screams he was beaten!
They’re also speculating that their dog may have chewed him up.
Those poor children… they have experienced such loss from people who loved them dearly. 😢
I know its absolutely heartbreaking 😢
IMO, that's what's been lost in all of this.
What happened their parents?
@@JosephineB63 Their mother died of cancer about 10 years ago and their father of a heart attack about 2 months after that 😔
@@Anna-cx4tg Sounds like heart-break to me.💔
She will be acquitted.. there is too much reasonable doubt, the cops are shady af
So no one in the house text him and said yo where you at I thought you were coming over after the bar. Free Karen Read
The prosecution's opening was dry and sounded like he was reading from an old boring instruction manual. It makes him sound like a robot.
He's scared. He knows the feds are watching this trial closely.
Where is all the blood if this happened outside? Lost multiple pints (per ME) but only 6 drops collected from snow.
Very valid point. If she hit him wouldn’t there almost be splatter?
4/30/24 Maybe it was in the house that was never even checked 🤔 Is this a Murder case or trying sympathy case for guardians of children? Heard more about that. Witnesses stacked All related, who has most to lose?????
It's with OJ Simpson's knife and murder outfit. In the police coverup location
it was another house
@@applejuicejunkie316 do you know that a relative of OJ had a history of using a knife while OJ never did. OJ took the fall for the guy and the police were only focused on OJ
Find a body outside of a house with only 6 drops of blood around the area. Why wasn't the house searched? This is absolutely responsible doubt. So why is this case even at trial?
Searched? Why? KR was outside screaming she hit him. On body cams. She talked and talked, many witnesses. She owned it. Her father is on video relaying her words. That's it, that's all. No reason to search a home!
You understand what severe cold temperatures do to blood flow right? Think about elementary school...
@@based8223the ME said he had lost pints of blood….,so where is it??????
@@based8223are you saying blood disappears in the cold?
No one has seen the 100 autopsy report and you're saying misinformation that hasn't been verified confirmed trial. 😮
The charge itself makes it all even more shady for me. Should never have been charged as intentional murder imo
Even if she did do it- let’s say her car hit him. She didn’t do it on purpose. And the whole “I did this, I hit him” or whatever she said that night I think is any woman blaming herself first- in multiple capacities. That’s just what we do.
That google search tho 👀
4/30/24 Exactly accident or didn’t do anything at all to him! Prosecutor said Karen demanded to go to that home, and was driven there, not alone. He contradicted his own statement!
I live in MA. People are furious because it seems like they charged 2nd degree because he was a cop, indicating that his life was more important than everyone else.
@@CONCERNEDcitizenforever she didn’t make the Google search.
Dig deep on this one, this trial shouldn’t be happening with this judge. She knows the family whose house this all went down at. If you listed you hear her constantly sighing 😮💨 and letting objections happen when it starts to get deep with defense questions
she's not sighing, she's clearly out of breath whenever she speaks
My heart goes out to his family, after all these tragic deaths, they’re lied by so called friends. Trying to frame an innocent person…so despicable.
The defense already raised reasonable doubt in the opening statement. This trial is a waste of time and money, they shouldn't have brought it to trial.
This is what I’m confused about…the fbi definitively said that he did not die from getting hit by a car…why are we here? Why are we prosecuting this woman?
Should we be out finding out who actually did it?
Opening statements are not evidence.
Their friend never comes in and they never could be bothered to try and contact him or look for him. Some friends!
The prosecutor's opening statement was junk. I don't consider that a highlight, although I appreciate your effort in giving equal attention.
I don't even know if the content was junk. My ears heard every single word he said, but my brain didn't register any of them.
5/1/24 Hurt painful to my ears listening to him speak At all!
Proctor telling his buddies he wished Karen would unalive herself and that he searched her phone without a warrant looking for nudes - DONE! This trial is over.
Don't forget that he had her vehicle for 90 mins longer than he reported to.
@@amandamosteller1371 That and the 2:37am call ("how long to die in the cold") will not be easy to dispute because its accurate. No way to fake a sector extraction with that data on it. Later searches do not matter that would be a red herring.
What would nude photos have to do with the death of John okeefe???
@@amandamosteller1371really? First time I’m hearing that!
@@missychelle33 yes. He put on document that he took the vehicle at a certain time but cameras showed the time stamp and he had the vehicle for an unaccounted 90 mins
The tail light wasn't broken in that footage. If its not broken at that time then the pieces found had to be planted, or the footage is altered. But also how do you hit and kill someone with a car but do no damage to thier legs or torso?
Or get any blood on the vehicle .. their story is terrible 🤦♂️
The footage is 100% altered
Both are true. Bingo
I pray Karen Read gets a fair trial
4/30/24 There already playing unfair! All witnesses related, lie say he wasn’t ever there night of incident.
@@erikamccarthy1457she killed him the 🌎 knows that let's be honest
Angenette Levey, brilliant analysis 👏
The prosecutor is scared. He knows the feds are watching this trial!
The people outside the courthouse shouting “wE LoVe YoU kArEn” like she’s a celebrity are so cringey. Lmao I can’t.
Is that your way of saying you want her autograph some day? Just come out and say it, no need to beat around the bush :)
Not as cringey as a corrupt police force framing her for murder
@@Physics072😂
And trying to get nude photos off her phone.
I always hate it when the victim's family is so dead-set on the defendant being guilty - especially in a situation like this where there's clearly various shady things going on with this investigation. Especially with the scratch and bite marks on the arm, and the fact that they never bothered investigating that house. What does the victim's mom think of the google search that the one woman did? Does she just think it's irrelevant or something?
Though, granted, maybe the investigators and prosecutors have been talking to her a lot, so she's kinda seeing everything from their perspective and just believing what they're telling her.
The victim's arm looks like dog bites. They do not look anything from getting run over or hit by car.
Dogs don’t bite/scratch with just 2 teeth and no lower teeth. Did the dog just have 2 teeth?
@mandystrong8196 girl bye I have a scar on my left arm from a chow chow biting me and only one tooth broke my skin and that was his canine ending up with 3 stitches
@@lulac4933 And was that a german shepherd?
After seeing Melanie’s video with the dog expert I agree with you !
I'm sure the area would have been covered in dog DNA did they say anything about that?
I think social media and movies are starting to influence detectives and judges. They instantly compare it to another famous story and they make up their minds before they even hear the full story. It’s like when you tell your mom the truth but she won’t believe you no matter what because she thinks she knows more than you, but no one knows more about what you did than YOU. This case is very strange
I thought the prosecutor's opening (perhaps necessarily) was dry and complicated
He knows he’s sunk. The case is lost and it’s going to turn around on all of them badly.
Agreed
It's a summary of court filings the full facts and will be connected at trial.Defense are over dramatic but have a nothing burger since they are not required to prove anythinng.
Which becomes an lot easier when the lead investigator is tainted.
Brian Walshe prob gonna walk because of that loser.
If there was ever a case of corruption in police this is it. WHAT an utter waste of TAX Payers Money
Beyond a reasonable doubt. That is the standard. You don’t have to think she’s innocent. But the prosecution’s case seems to be innuendo and speculation. That’s not what we do here.
I can’t even hear or understand what the prosecutor is saying. He sounds like he mumbling into a muffled mic. Wth! If I was in the jury I would not believe him based on that alone lol.
Neither are mic'd up which is the Court's responsibility as they use their own in house audio system. Blame is souly on the Judge as it's his Courtroom. It's so annoying!
And the constant sniffing gets annoying
I hope you're never allowed in a court room
I thought it was me, he's impossible to listen to
Who thinks the police are framing her and if yes, why?
More things point to the cops than to her
All the evidence points to the Alberts and Mccabe.
I think he was sleeping with a cop wife, it was found out, and something bad went down. Maybe with Jennifer, who's house the party was at.
Because the cops in the house beat him & left him for dead and they don’t want to go to jail!
@@jjs1023 If the cops beat him why did they leave his body outside the house implicating them all?
If this happened in the home, then why would they dump the body on their front garden? Unless they kicked him out alive, and he collapsed and hyperthermia killed him?
So they could easily frame his girlfriend! She brought him to the house remember? Plus, I think the women at the house - to whom Karen probably confided about the issues they had before that evening - helped in orchestrating the whole thing!
@@Voyager759bingo
It takes a will of steel to try to focus on Lally's babbling.
so he was killed by his police buddy and they now are covering it up
Jennifer McCabe at 2:27am typed in how long does it take to die in the cold?why?
Answer is obvious.
But the bozo prosecutors are desperate and will spin it another way
The state will be disputing that issue, that McCabe did the research AFTER the victim was found unresponsive.
looking forward to seeing how she answers that one
Karen, who was drunk driving, later stated multiple times to multiple witnesses that she hit him, why?
@Anna-cx4tg she said "did I hit him?" In shock, not knowing what could've happened.
I find it funn6 how you completely ignored all the facts of the case and picked this one out. Typical bias. Maybe you should actually do research before asking questions.
If the dog bit you must aquit
The victim’s mother (behind the attorneys speaking) is so distracting to me-her facial expressions and shaking of her head. I wonder if she distracts the jurors and if the court will allow this to continue.
The mother and John were not close. He fought to care for his niece and nephew! Please Google!
The same judge just admonished a grieving widow of a murdered police officer and his family for showing emotion in court.
I don't buy the prosecutions story im sorry. It doesn't add up. Once i heard the autopsy report i felt like something is way off. A cracked tail light really? His injuries do not seem like he was hit by a car, more like beat up and thrown outside. He had dog bites for goodness sakes and the people sold their house and got rid of the dog. Seem weird to anyone?
Think she's been framed,why else would the owner of the hse sold his hse n gave the dog away(supposedly he was)in a fight n was attacked by the dog
The defence opening had me convinced she's being frame 😮 of course Not 1 person said he entered the home because it's a conspiracy to frame KAREN ?
I am wondering, A. Levy, why you did not highlight Investigator Proctor's text messages to his friends regarding the Read case. Although I am not a criminal lawyer, it seems important that the lead investigator is telling his friends that he is searching K. Read's phone for her nudes and that he hopes she kills herself. I don't like making comparisons, but we all remember Detective M. Furman's negative impact on the O.J. Simpson trial.
So what is the comparison?
Why does Levy need to tell you what Proctor did while it’s in an on going investigation!?
Put it this way. That’s just one small part. Buckle up.
4/30/24 Prosecution looks like he’s under interrogation, uncomfortable , keeps moving and clearing throat. Guilty people tend to do that when lying about things they know!
Am I the only one weirded out that the whole family is dropping dead? Sickness, murder, “accident” whatever it is… oddly coincidental that the whole family is dying within the same time frame…
Same time frame? His brother and brother's wife died about 10 years ago.
I agree, the prosecution’s case is very weak. I still don’t believe she “murdered him”. Something else went on here.
we'll see how they present their evidences and conduct their witnesses but based on the opening statements, the DEFENSE has the major upperhand here. The autopsy reports even before this trial started was already a source of doubt. the CLAW & BITE MARKS, the tail lights and his injuries that didn't match... PROSECUTION has a lot to do here, that's for sure.
Wait until then END
His mother needs to control her snarky face
Why is the defense attorney statement, clear and easy to understand. The prosecutions is grainy and difficult to hear.
He mumbles . All the hearing prior were the same.
Thanks. He needs to figure out a way to stop it. It hurts the States case!
The state got nothing.
6:05 he hit john if he was hit...i think the dog got him tho
It looks like this case wasn’t charged correctly.
Prosecutor looks unsure of himself.. hes toast
Simply disagree with the American judicial system 🙄 to much fame hungry people involved I mean jurors being interviewed and writing books is absurd ....
I don’t know if she’s guilty in reality, but (IMO) she’s not guilty beyond a reasonable doubt for 2nd degree murder. I don’t understand why they didn’t go with involuntary manslaughter…
If the defendant orchestrated a cover up by pretending to search for the victim and pretends to try to save his life, why would she ruin it all by saying, I killed him, it's my fault? The homeowner where the body was found never came out of the house, even with all the EMTs, Ambulance, police. The homeowner was never concerned or curious that his friend was found dead on his front lawn.
Cops did it
Auntie Bev got her hair done
😂😂😂😂
I can’t wait until the prosecutors and police go on trial
Wow the O’Keefe fam cant get any more sad.
Im torn at this point (much like the comment section). But things are very sketchy. I can't wait to hear all the testimonies and evidence !! This outta be interesting 🤔
This comment section isn’t very torn, she’s innocent and almost every comment is saying that
@@Trashpanda887y lol wtf are you mad about?
@@rogcat7181 absolutely nothing, just pointing out every comment is calling her innocent it’s not split at all.
The D.A. sounds so bored and mechanical.
He was very hard to follow. Gave way too many names and details, which felt overwhelming to me as a listener trying to understand the bigger picture
@@lovesomeone7285 Totally agree.
I hope once she is exonerated they charge the Albert’s with his murder. All the evidence points towards them.
I’d rather be a suspect in a murder than have to sit there as a juror and listen to the State’s prosecutor make that opening statement. That was the most monotonous, boring, and life sucking opening statement I’ve ever heard. For a case that’s gotten so much notoriety, the commonwealth really sucked the life out of the case from the get-go. What a wasted opportunity to make an impression on the jurors.
Even if she is guilty, which I don’t think she is, so far.. the fact about not checking the house , all the shotty detective work & the whole message thing, yea.. I think it’s way reasonable doubt!
She admitted hitting John as she stood outside with the police. On tape.
@@ImaOKay522 was she drunk or under duress? Seems to me they didn’t even LOOK inside the cops house. Those messages are VERY damming.
@@gloriahufnagel5556 she was still driving around town hours after she hit him. Evidently the bac test says she was at the hospital same morning. So.....
@@ImaOKay522 BUT.. if he’s over 6 feet, why is there no damage to his BODY??
@@ImaOKay522 Get your facts straight and stop trolling people!
why is her trial videoed so well? all these close-ups of her. strange cause not all trials are.
The prosecutor is just talking about the witnesses who we will hear from anyway. And at times I was confused during his opening statements. I wished he just told us about the evidence they have against her.
They have none that's the issue 😂
@@TruthNationUncensored I’m just now learning about this case. There is so much information
Lunchboxlally is questionable for sure
😂 I see what you did there 😉
She will walk cos(there's 2many loop)holes,hence frame
There is video of outside the o’keefe house so they should be able to show that she let’s them see the broken light right. And If someone I love is missing I would also insist we start at the place I KNEW there we last. So why do people find that part so wierd? As if the police would do anything else when someone is missing…
Karen has lost so much weight, the stress of all this is taking its toll
I can’t get over how dry the prosecutions opening statement was lol so boring
It's not supposed to be entertainment.
@@Truth1561Well, that’s why you’re not an attorney.
@@Truth1561 yeah but where is the passion or conviction!? you’re charging someone with murdering her husband! and police did a messy investigation, you’d think they would attempt to be more convincing!
@@smithh199at least use some inflection and emotion!! He was so monotone and sounded like he was reading straight from his notes! He lacked all passion and his delivery made it so hard for me to even pay attention to anything he was saying!
@@mbl8398 exactly!!
Do most people think guilty? Not guilty? Have there been polls?
Overwhelming not guilty from the public, whether or not that’s true we’ll see
This is the trial of the year.
4/30/24 Defense Attorney guest Andrea hit the nail on the head 🔨
The prosecution's opening was very hard to follow. Jumping around the timeline, naming every individual involved instead of just naming the key players and using monotone did not help. And unfortunately their direct examination reflects the same. Spending too much time focusing on facts already established (the fact it was snowing, what the EMTs daily schedule is like, how long married witnesses have been married to each other, the names of children not subject to the case etc), asking compound and confusing questions, jumping around the time-line even more...
I am not a legal expert, but I have sat through lectures in classes where it was important to focus but the speaker was dull. Most of the useful information went out the window despite taking notes. I imagine it's the same for the jury. The defense knows how to pull focus and how to punctuate their speech to draw attention to key things they want everyone to keep in mind.
so the wife supposedly left the scene of the crime to go pick up reid to look for john, she didn’t see the body when she left her house lol
This prosecutor boring its like watching paint dry 😮😮
Chef Yanetti
Very alarming to see so many defending her.
Does anyone know who the women is sitting in the gallery that is crying close to Karen?
,the Woman is Officer John O'Keede Mom n Dad
Brian O’Keefe’s mom
Defense theory: She was framed but she broke her own tailight backing out of her driveway?
The defense is the cop in charge broke multiple laws and violated multiple rights and clearly attempted to frame someone they clearly were stalking, why else go through her phone to look for nudes and got mad he didn’t find any and told people about it 😮
I can’t even understand most of what prosecutor says. Poor sound system.
That’s not the sound system.
He’s a mumbler.
She was involved in the whole thing somehow!!!
I would like to know Creighton Waters opinion of the KR prosecutors opening statement
Boring prosecutor.
Maybe they’ll get someone who excites you for the inevitable Netflix saga.
@@Violetta683 I was thinking more about the jurors trying to stay awake, you know…real life stuff. But of course you just couldn’t control yourself from making a rude comment. You might want to stick to Netflix.
This first guy is way to boring. no personality and monotone. he has my attention for less than 3 minutes. sad who chose him to start
Prefer to hear the evidence before drawing a conclusion. A novel idea on the internet.
I'm not seeing 9 of anything shocking
Don't know if she's innocent but she's not likable in my opinion. It doesn't make her guilty.
Not likable?
And you know her personally?
@@pistolpete8231 no But I have an opinion
@@maryw1129 i find it very telling that the vast majority of ppl who think she's guilty or have negative things to say about her are women.
FREE KAREN READ
Woman are jealous. Esp older women.
Need to talk to her about that face of hers defense...
She has MS , a brain tumor & other medical issues. It’s not done on purpose.
Doesn't exactly have Betty Davis eyes does she?
Huh? No one even knows who that is on 2024.
How about everyone just waits to view/head the evidence. But no, let’s decide innocence based off a publicity campaign.
Exactly 💯
What about the Norfolk DA and their publicity campaign?
@@LeannaMurphy-mx7zy ok, that’s a fair point even though the idea of collaborating with a CZcamsr with dubious intentions is (IMO) extremely problematic. I can’t speak to the Norfolk DA as I haven’t heard their ‘campaign’, I’ve just witnessed the shenanigans of Turtle Boy. So how about we don’t decide guilt OR innocence based off anything other than the evidence in the trial …in other words, employing an open mind?
This guy is a snake!!
I thought she was great on the Sopranos but she never should have talked to the Feds.
This is the most boring trial ever. Drunks acting like high school buddies, including murder and a woman who thinks she pees perfume.
I watch loads of cases just summit I find interesting if that makes sense but there’s something about her look on her face carnt quite put my finger on it
She's A BROAD.
IS anyone else getting headache trying to follow that DA's flimsy little chronological story? It isn’t making sense but more of a SLUR accusation.
With lots HOLES and assumptions with MFG points in it.
Wow…So apparently the data from her Toyota has her backing up 60 feet at 24 miles an hour. So is Toyota in on the cover-up?
Yes but at what time ?