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Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

Big Breakdown: Karen Read BOMBSHELL Week As Forensic Expert Destroys Her Defense

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

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🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Big Breakdown: Karen Read BOMBSHELL Week As Forensic Expert Destroys Her Defense

In this video, we break down one of the most crucial turning points in the Karen Read murder trial: the forensic testimony of crash reconstruction and biomechanics expert Dr. Judson Welcher. This wasn’t just dry data—it was a methodical unraveling of the defense’s entire alternate timeline, backed by engineering certainty, 3D laser scans, and vehicle telemetry that left little room for doubt.

Welcher took the stand and presented detailed vehicle data showing Karen Read’s Lexus accelerated in reverse at 74% throttle, hitting nearly 24 miles per hour, at the exact moment John O’Keefe’s phone stopped registering activity. That moment—12:32:14 a.m.—was cross-validated by cell phone experts and aligned with the SUV’s event data recorder. This wasn’t speculation. It was math, physics, and digital forensics doing the talking.

He went further. Using an identical Lexus RX350, blue tail light paint, and comparative biomechanics, Welcher demonstrated exactly how O’Keefe sustained arm injuries that defense experts claimed could not have come from a car. The match was precise—even down to bruising and laceration alignment. He explained how the trajectory of injuries to O’Keefe’s hip and head also matched a glancing, accelerated reverse impact.

In response, the defense tried to downplay the data, even mocking the idea that a Lexus could “launch into space.” But Welcher didn’t flinch. He stayed focused, clarified the science, and held the courtroom with calm authority. Every attempt to rattle him fell flat—and that’s what made his testimony so devastatingly effective.

This is the video you need to watch if you’re still on the fence about Karen Read’s guilt. The Lexus doesn’t lie. Neither does the data. And Karen’s own post-arrest words—“What if I clipped him?”—only tighten the noose.

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0:00.0

This is the big breakdown.

0:02.2

A long look back at some of the biggest stories we're covering for you at the Hidden Killers podcast and True Crime Today.

0:09.2

This is the Hidden Killers podcast with Tony Bruske and continuing coverage of the case against Karen Reid.

0:16.7

You usually don't hear the words, 74% throttle in reverse.

0:26.4

You don't.

0:27.5

You don't hear those words unless someone is trying to launch their SUV into another dimension or escape a crashing train

0:38.9

at a railroad track.

0:45.7

There's really not a lot of reasons

0:47.3

why you're going in reverse at that speed.

0:49.1

It's not safe.

0:50.2

It's incredibly dangerous.

0:53.2

And you can easily lose control.

0:57.3

And again, there's not a lot of reasons for it.

1:02.1

There are certainly some out there, some that are very logical.

1:08.1

Some are lomaniacal.

1:13.9

It's exactly where today's testimony in the Karen Reed trial begins with an expert witness

1:19.8

walking us through a digital breadcrum trail left by Reed's Lexus.

1:26.9

The kind of forensic story, your car tells when it doesn't know it's on trial.

1:32.9

The kind of story your car tells.

1:36.4

Without any sort of opinion, without any sort of reason to say this or say that, it just says what it is because it is what it is.

1:44.3

It's just flat-out data.

1:47.3

It's not an opinion.

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