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Crossfire, Confidence, and Closing In: Week 8 In Karen Read's Retrial | On The Record Podcast

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🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In Week 8 of Karen Read's retrial, experts debate O'Keefe's injuries, dog bites, and taillight evidence. Biomechanics and forensics dominate as the defense rests its case.

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0:00.0

The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are simply that.

0:04.8

Opinions.

0:05.8

All are presumed innocent until proven otherwise in a court of law.

0:09.8

Sensitive topics are discussed.

0:11.8

Discretion is advised.

0:13.8

On the record, I'm Cody Thomas.

0:15.6

As the defense winds down this week, tensions explode, experts clash, and Karen Reid makes her final move.

0:22.7

Here's a quick recap of the case before we dive into the final days of testimony and the

0:27.2

Karen Reed murder retrial. Karen Reed stands trial again for the tragic January 29th,

0:33.5

2022 death of her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O'Keefe, who was found dead in the snow

0:40.3

outside of a home in Canton, Massachusetts. Prosecutors alleged Karen Reid struck John O'Keefe

0:46.5

with her Lexus during a blizzard, leaving him to die from blunt force head injuries and hypothermia.

0:53.3

At the retrial, accident reconstruction experts

0:56.1

from both sides take center stage.

0:58.7

Dr. Jutson Welcher, a biomechanical engineer

1:01.6

for the prosecution, used live paint transfer tests

1:05.8

and backing trials with a replica SUV to assert

1:09.7

that torn fabric and tailgate fragments align with Karen

1:13.5

Reed's Lexus backing into John O'Keefe. In stark contrast, Daniel Wolfe from ARCA for the defense,

1:21.6

conducted crash dummy experiments under simulated conditions. Wolf concluded that none of his results replicated the damage on John O'Keefe's clothing or on Karen Reed's SUV.

1:33.4

These competing expert narratives now shape the heart of the trial with jurors weighing forensic science against reconstruction models and witness accounts.

1:46.6

Week eight kicked off with courtroom drama right out of the gate.

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