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Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

Drunken Excuses and Changing Stories: FBI Dissects Karen Read’s Consciousness of Guilt

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

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🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Drunken Excuses and Changing Stories: FBI Dissects Karen Read’s Consciousness of Guilt
The Karen Read trial takes a sharp, disturbing turn as the court finally hears raw footage never aired publicly—long-form clips where Read herself painstakingly tries to explain her drinking the night John O'Keefe died. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins to unravel how Read’s own words may have crippled her credibility, showing denial, confusion, and a chilling lack of self-awareness. What was her defense team thinking, allowing these interviews to happen? As the jury watches her admission—“he didn’t look mortally wounded”—the defense’s attempts to twist facts clash directly with hard evidence. Is the strategy unraveling before our eyes? And with the jury able to replay these damaging clips as often as they want, what chance does Karen Read have left? Dive deep into the latest twists and why the stakes have never been higher.

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0:00.0

This is the Hidden Killers podcast with Tony Bruske and continuing coverage of the case against Karen Reid.

0:07.4

Oh, here we go. It's another week in the trial of Karen Reed, and we're going to break it down where things are at as of this recording, where things might be going, where things have went, what damage has been done, what non-damage has been done thus

0:23.0

far. Jennifer Coffin-Daffert, retired FBI special agent here to join us. But before we get into the

0:28.4

conversation, of course, we have to thank today's sponsor of the show, Karen Reed Vodka.

0:34.0

Karen Reed Vodka, where memory fails, confidence prevails.

0:38.9

K.R. vodka.

0:41.1

Got to get yourself a nice bottle of that, you know, before the day starts.

0:45.0

Take a nice little shot in the morning and the day's going to be good.

0:49.2

So, Jennifer.

0:52.3

Yes.

0:54.0

There's been a lot this last week in the trial.

0:58.0

I think the thing that stood out to me most was the clip, the unedited long form clip, which I found interesting from the ID docu-series.

1:10.5

And this thing wasn't even aired in its entirety. It was only

1:14.1

aired in the trial, which makes me wonder, what else are we going to see here that didn't make

1:18.3

the air from the cutting room floor? With her going on, making about a five to seven minute

1:24.1

explanation of how many drinks she had that night, which, of course, that's,

1:28.4

it's not a healthy relationship with alcohol when you're taking five to seven minutes to

1:32.5

explain how many drinks you had. That should be a quick answer. How much damage do you think

1:38.5

that did? Doesn't show that she's a killer, but it shows not the best judgment.

1:44.8

Yeah, you know, Tony, this is really important to show a motive, if you will, not exactly the

1:53.5

motive, but what caused her to take the leap from just being angry to taking action.

2:00.4

And when individuals see that somebody is the... from just being angry to taking action.

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