Center of the Storm

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🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Andrea Canning reports on the verdict in the retrial of Karen Read in Dedham, Massachusetts. Andrea Canning and Blayne Alexander go behind the scenes of the making of this episode in ‘Talking Dateline’ Listen on Apple: https://apple.co/4luyDvL Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6zzxf6dmWiTk69R8iiZQpG

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0:00.0	Tonight on Dateline.
0:02.2	I ran over to him and his eyes was swollen shut.
0:05.8	He had blood dripping out of his nose.
0:09.1	I didn't know what the hell, what the hell happened.
0:12.6	The wait is over, a verdict in the gripping, grueling Karen Reed murder trial.
0:17.9	John O'Keefe was a good man.
0:20.6	Boston police officer. She got drunk. She hit him.
0:24.4	She left him to die. John O'Keefe was not hit by a car. Their investigator was corrupted from the
0:30.5	start. The narrative was that I just became enraged and decided to nail him in the snow.
0:37.4	Was she to blame? What really happened that Stormy I just became enraged and decided to nail him in the snow.
0:39.0	Was she to blame?
0:42.0	What really happened that stormy night?
0:44.2	People love a conspiracy.
0:48.4	What do you want to say to anyone who believes that you framed Karen Reed?
0:49.3	It did not happen.
0:51.6	Karen Reed is a warrior.
0:53.8	Many women relate to her.
0:56.7	Johnny was lost in this process.
0:59.8	We never got the opportunity to grieve his loss.
1:02.1	Now, the jury has decided.
1:04.6	Mr. Foreman, members, the jury have you agreed upon a murder?
1:05.1	Yes.
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