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Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

Battle of the Experts: ARCCA vs. Aperture in the Karen Read Trial

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

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3 • 791 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Battle of the Experts: ARCCA vs. Aperture in the Karen Read Trial
In this episode of Hidden Killers, retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski to break down the forensic battle at the heart of the Karen Read trial. On one side, you have ARCCA—a nationally respected accident reconstruction firm—offering dramatic simulations and biomechanical assessments. On the other, Aperture’s Shannon Burgess delivers SUV telemetry data that pinpoints a 12:32 AM reverse gear event—coinciding with the last known movement on John O’Keefe’s phone.

But how credible are these experts? We dig into the court revelations about Burgess’s résumé errors and admitted confusion over basic data units—raising real questions about reliability. Meanwhile, ARCCA’s reenactment has been criticized for lacking scientific precision and leaning into visual storytelling rather than hard data.

Coffindaffer analyzes both sides from a federal investigative lens: What’s valid? What’s theater? And what would an FBI-led forensic team have done differently? If you’re confused by the dueling experts, you’re not alone. This is your guide through the noise.

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0:00.0

This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. Here now, Tony Bruske.

0:06.6

ARCA, that's going to be interesting to see they're going to give their take on all this.

0:12.5

How well do you think that will stand up compared to the other testimony that we saw from Judson and company?

0:20.5

Well, I think the issue was going to be um

0:23.7

that first of all did they have time to do the appropriate experiments they should do

0:30.7

based on what uh welcher said remember she gave them only i want to say a week. I don't know any expert that can do all

0:40.6

of that in a week's time or so. You'd have to work day and night and have 20 people working with

0:46.8

you to write a report and do all that. So I don't know if they were able to really do the testing

0:52.8

or if they just again did what Dejorno did.

0:57.9

I know it's not Dejorno.

0:59.5

And just say, well, listen, they're saying this and relying on their words and their experiments.

1:06.8

If they do that, I think it's going to fall flat.

1:08.9

But the biggest problem I think is going to be is on the heels of the woman that said they tried to coerce her not to tell the truth when all that nastiness comes in, which Canoni said, I am giving you big latitude.

1:24.5

She pointed that out to Brennan to go after them for not being honest in the first

1:30.9

trial and to the court. I think it's going to look really bad for the defense. There's a lot in here

1:37.1

that is putting a lot of doubt in the not reasonable doubt for Karen Reid, but putting a lot of doubt into the

1:45.0

legitimacy of the Karen Reid defense in terms of trusting them on anything they're presenting.

1:50.5

When we're getting just flat out down to the like the damning testimony that we saw today by

1:55.3

their own witness about the threats of you're going to go after you for perjury and all of that.

2:02.9

It's not a good look in front of that jury.

2:06.7

I don't know what's going to save them at this point.

2:10.9

It's, yeah, are you surprised at how well the prosecution is doing this case?

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