A Body in the Snow: The Trial of Karen Read (from the Patreon)

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🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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FAM! We are so excited to share episode 1 of our coverage of MAX's A Body in the Snow: The trial of Karen Read. ALL 5 EPISODES ARE AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW AND AD FREE ON PATREON! We know there was recently a not guilty verdict in Read's second trial, but come with us back to the beginning: get all the details, hear all the theories, and google "hos long to die in the cold?"

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0:00.0	I just want to know, like, who would play Jen McCabe in the movie. Oh, who cares? That's what you want to know? I was thinking about it today. I was like, who would play Jen McCabe in the movie? I can't believe there hasn't been a movie. I mean, we're, like, right in the middle. It's a circus enough. We're making a movie now. God. Hi, Julian Be Pesvali.
0:23.6	Hello, Patrick Hines.
0:24.6	All right, fam, we're doing that thing that we love to do.
0:26.2	We are jumping into the regular feed on a not regular show date to give you an episode one of a series we're covering on Patreon.
0:32.5	So this is A Body in the Snow, The Trial of Karen Reed.
0:35.3	There's five episodes.
0:36.7	All of them are available right now in ad-free on the Patreon.
0:39.9	Yeah.
0:40.1	And when we started recording this, like months ago now, the second trial was underway, so the verdict wasn't out. Yes. So by even like when we finished recording it, we didn't know the verdict. But don't worry, by the time you get to episodes four and five, if we jump in and do a little intro
0:34.7	and we let you know that we know.
0:36.0	But this is us like going in kind of cold
0:37.7	to the case a little bit.
0:38.7	Yeah, we didn't know very much.
0:40.2	It's a fascinating i mean i was obsessed with this series i'm so glad that we covered it it is twisty interning karen reid is the main talking head she said they wanted to make this documentary because they wanted it to be like the staircase like she went to the filmmaker yes so if you like the staircase you're going like this series. It's wild. That's what she wanted. All right, so enjoy it, and we'll say a quick about on the way out. Karen Reid is accused of hitting John O'Keepe with her SUV and leaving him to die in the snow. Their relationship was not a happy one. Not a single witness actually saw this happen.
1:28.1	There's a whole other side of the story.
1:29.7	This is funny, Ms. Reed.
1:30.9	They've got a guilty already.
1:35.1	So did you drive your car into John?
1:40.7	Doing this film is my testimony.
1:43.0	I want to say what happened exactly as it happened.
1:47.0	John was Boston police officer.
1:50.0	We went to a bar with a bunch of cops.
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