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Welcome back to On the Record.

It's week six of the Karen Reed murder trial and the drama did not slow down this week.

The spotlight turned to science, sell drama did not slow down this week.

The spotlight turned to science, sell data and reads Lexus SUV.

From expert reconstructions to emotional recordings, the courtroom became a battleground

of facts, theories, and forensic doubt.

The prosecution wrapped their case, but not before one final clip of Karen Reid that left the room holding its breath.

In the pre-dawn hours of a snowy January morning in 2022, the lifeless body of Boston police officer John O'Keefe was discovered face up in the front yard of 34 Fairview Road in Canton, Massachusetts.

A dedicated cop and beloved uncle, O'Keefe's sudden violent death sent shockwaves through the community.

His girlfriend, Karen Reid, a finance professor, was quickly cast from grieving partner to accused killer.

Prosecutors claim she dropped him off at the home of a fellow officer

after a night of drinking and then struck him with her SUV while backing up

and left him to die in the cold.

They point to broken taillight fragments, a cracked rear light on her vehicle,

an expert testimony putting together a digital timeline. But Reed's defense tells a different darker story of a brutal beating inside that house, a cover-up, and a law enforcement conspiracy to frame Karen Reid.

As the courtroom drama unfolds, the jury must

weigh the evidence and figure out how John O'Keefe died.

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