[Bonus] Ms. Trial Update: Michael Proctor Withdraws Appeal After Phone Extraction
This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens)
This Feels Criminal | Formerly Killer Queens
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🗓️ 25 October 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Former Massachusetts State Trooper Michael Proctor — the lead investigator in the Karen Read case — has officially withdrawn his appeal to get his job back. This comes just days after prosecutors recovered hundreds of thousands of messages from his phone… despite his lawyer claiming the data was gone. In this Ms. Trial update, I break down what happened, what it means for the appeal, and why it could have ripple effects on other high-profile Massachusetts cases.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, y'all, I'm Terrella, your chief counsel of Birdlaw, and this is Trial Watcher, a new segment by |
| 0:06.1 | This Feels Criminal, aka formerly known as Killer Queens. |
| 0:10.6 | This is where I sit through all the courtroom chaos so that you don't have to, and boy, |
| 0:15.1 | is there some chaos this week. |
| 0:17.3 | Let's get into it. |
| 0:18.1 | All right. |
| 0:18.7 | You guys know that there has been so much drama |
| 0:21.2 | surrounding the Karen Reed trial, all of the post-Karenreed trial things. There are other cases |
| 0:27.9 | that are being affected by all of the corruption and drama in the Massachusetts State Police, |
| 0:36.5 | the Norfolk DA. Well, we are back to disgraced, former Troopa Michael |
| 0:44.6 | Practa. Okay? That's my Boston accent. Sorry to anybody who lives in Boston. I'm from Tennessee. |
| 0:51.6 | He got fired after his text messages came out. This is what he and his lawyer |
| 0:56.5 | want you to believe that he just got fired for text messages. He has been fighting to get his job |
| 1:04.5 | back because as his lawyer and he say, no other state trooper has gotten fired for just text messages. Like, he shouldn't be |
| 1:13.1 | fired either. They should find some other form of discipline, whatever. Anyway, that's not really the |
| 1:18.0 | truth, though. As we know, and as came out in the first Karen Reed trial, he also had a situation |
| 1:24.4 | where he was drinking and driving drunk in his state issued cruiser and he was |
| 1:30.9 | on duty that night with another police officer this was a canton pd police officer kevin albert well if the |
| 1:38.6 | last name albert sounds familiar that's because kevin albert is the brother of brian albert who |
| 1:43.9 | owned the house and the lawn |
| 1:46.3 | on which John O'Keepe was found dead. So he's a Canton PD. For whatever reason, Michael Proctor, |
| 1:53.9 | Kevin Albert are like working a case together. And so they were working that night. They're on duty, |
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