Battle of Experts in Karen Read's Retrial | Vinnie Politan Investigates Podcast

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🗓️ 14 June 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Vinnie Politan analyzes the testimony of multiple experts, including crash reconstructionists, in Karen Read's retrial.

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0:00.0	The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are simply that.
0:04.8	Opinions.
0:05.8	All are presumed innocent until proven otherwise in a court of law.
0:09.8	Sensitive topics are discussed.
0:11.8	Discretion is advised.
0:15.5	The I'm Viti Politan.
0:28.6	The subject of my investigation is the death of Boston police officer John O'Keefe
0:33.6	and the dramatic retrial of his girlfriend Karen Reid.
0:36.6	It's a case with no eyewitnesses to the alleged crime,
0:39.3	which is why expert testimony is so important.
0:42.3	Here's the story.
0:48.3	Karen Reid stands trial again for the tragic January 29th,
0:51.3	22 death of her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O'Keefe,
0:57.0	who was found dead in the snow outside of a home in Canton, Massachusetts.
1:02.0	Prosecutors alleged Karen Reid struck John O'Keefe with her Lexus during a blizzard,
1:07.0	leaving him to die from blunt force head injuries and hypothermia. At the retrial, accident reconstruction experts from both sides take center stage.
1:16.6	Dr. Jutson Welcher, a biomechanical engineer for the prosecution,
1:20.6	used live paint transfer tests and backing trials with a replica SUV
1:26.6	to assert that torn fabric and tailgate fragments
1:30.1	align with Karen Reed's Lexus backing into John O'Keefe.
1:35.5	In stark contrast, Daniel Wolfe from ARCA for the defense conducted crash dummy experiments
1:42.0	under simulated conditions. Wolf concluded that none of his results replicated the damage on John O'Keefe's clothing or on Karen Reid's SUV.
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