Welcome to the global phenomenon, Surviving the Survivor, where we bring you the best guests in all of true crime.

Here's your host, Emmy Award-winning journalist Joel Waldman.

What's up S.T.S. Nation and welcome to another episode of Surviving the Survivor, the podcast that promises to bring you the very best

guess in all of true crime.

We're gonna get into Karen Reed in just one moment,

but there is breaking news, as you can see here

out of Charlotte, North Carolina.

I'll be honest, I haven't seen much other than on Twitter but multiple police

officers have been shot in I want to say Charlotte North Carolina and Shannon

here confirming Carolina and

confirming that North Carolina. So we are a very pro law enforcement show.

Love my police officers, all my first responders, and they put their lives on the line each

and every day.

And from what I'm hearing, it's not a great situation and a very tense situation and multiple SWAT units have responded so as always

please think of those who are putting their lives on the line for all of us.

So on a happier note, it is, I believe,

Debbie's birthday today, so shout out to a friend of the show, Debbie, who is celebrating a birthday today, and I sure do hope I have that right, but I'm 99% certain that I do.

Moving on to Karen Reed, this is something that Jeff and I, and we had Josh Ritter earlier in the day watching all the opening statements, and then the first bunch of witnesses who took the stand but the trial for

Karen Reed it's of course about the Massachusetts woman accused in the

two thousand and twenty two death of her Boston police officer boyfriend John John O'Keefe, got underway today as I just mentioned with opening statements.

Karen Reed of Mansfield, Massachusetts is charged with running down John O'Keefe, her

Boston police officer boyfriend and leaving him to die in a blizzard in the town of Canton Mass, which is important because the defense has an entire theory based on law enforcement in the town of Canton, Massachusetts.

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