A Body in the Snow: The Trial of Karen Read
Psych Legal Pop Podcast
Tess & Brooke Brigham
4.2 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2025
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
This exclusive behind the scenes docuseries tells the story of Karen Read, accused of murdering her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O'Keefe, and the controversial trial that has divided not only the town of Canton Massachusetts where the death occurred, but the entire State of Massachusetts and the country. Read's first trial ended in a mistrial in July of 2024. The retrial is scheduled to start on April 1, 2025. We covered the first trial in episode 178 and the verdict in episode 180.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the Psych Legal Pop podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | This is a podcast where we talk about popular culture through the lens of an attorney and a therapist. |
| 0:11.7 | My name is Brooke Brigham and I'm the attorney. |
| 0:14.1 | And I'm Tess Brigham. I'm the therapist. |
| 0:16.5 | And today we are here to talk about the documentary, A Body in the Snow, the Karen Reed case, which is streaming on, it's on Max. |
| 0:31.4 | It's also Investigation ID. |
| 0:35.3 | Is that a channel? |
| 0:36.8 | I don't know what that is. |
| 0:37.5 | It's a channel, but I think it's part of the TLC package. |
| 0:41.1 | So if you have that, just go to Max. |
| 0:45.2 | Go to Max. |
| 0:46.3 | It's easier. |
| 0:48.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:49.9 | Anyway, so this case is the timing of this is This is a five-part docu-series, and it is very interesting timing, timing-wise. |
| 1:02.8 | So we talked about, we had an episode last year on, it was June 26th of 2024, when trial the first trial was going on we did a whole |
| 1:14.6 | episode kind of covered all the the basics of what the case was about because it had gotten really |
| 1:20.4 | you know became this national news story because it was just so intriguing and everyone was talking about it and um it was |
| 1:30.8 | everyone was kind of obsessed with it so then we a few days later actually the verdict came in |
| 1:37.8 | on july first and we had another quick episode talking about the verdict um so basically it was a mistrial was declared because the jurors |
| 1:49.0 | said they could not come to a unanimous decision on the three charges. But actually, |
| 1:55.8 | they didn't really say that. That was the implication. But after the trial, it came out that they actually had reached a |
| 2:06.5 | decision on two of the three charges. But they were confused about how they could render a partial |
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