Ex-Girlfriend or Cop Cover-Up; Who Killed John O’Keefe
Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan
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🗓️ 23 April 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Boston Cop John O'Keefe and his girlfriend Karen Read go on a pub crawl before ending their the night at the home of a Boston cop friend of O'Keefe's at 12:45 am. 6 hours later, the body of John O'Keefe is found in the front yard of the house, covered in snow in blizzard conditions. He is wearing two shirts, jeans, socks and one shoe. Near his body on the snow are shards of glass and splotches of blood. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will take an up close look at the injuries and find out what really happened to John O'Keefe. Dave Mack will breakdown the story that has divided Boston and together they will try to answer the question: Who Killed John O'Keefe?
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Transcribed Highlights
00:01.10 Introduction, talk about weather conditions and murder
02:05.22 Discussion of Karen Read case
05:05.56 Talk about Media coverage
09:09.25 Discussion of forensics role in investigation
14:06.82 Talk about background of relationship
16:16.35 Breaking down timeline of events
19:50.94 Discussion of physical injuries
21:07.56 Talk about Blood Alcohol
25:20.82 Talk about leaving bar, going to house party
30:09.48 Talk about Text Messages, getting directions
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| 0:00.0 | In the 90s, New York Detective Louis Scarcella locked up the worst criminals. |
| 0:04.7 | Putting bad guys away. |
| 0:06.3 | There's no feeling like it. |
| 0:08.0 | Then jailhouse lawyers took game led by Derek Hamilton. |
| 0:11.5 | Scracella took me to the precinct and alive. |
| 0:14.3 | 20 men eventually walked free. |
| 0:16.6 | Now, in the Burden Podcast, after a decade of silence, |
| 0:20.6 | Louis Scarsella finally tells his story, and so does Derek Hamilton. |
| 0:25.0 | Listen to the burden on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. lasts. |
| 0:42.0 | with Joseph Scott Morgan. I have a lot of friends and neighbors down here in the deep south that aren't much of a fan of cool weather. |
| 0:56.5 | I guess that you know we you get used to an environment you grow up in it and you just kind of adjust. Certainly the environment is not going to adjust to you. |
| 1:06.5 | It's foolishness to think that. |
| 1:10.4 | If you know, if you're in England, for instance instance and you're shocked that it's raining then you know |
| 1:16.4 | shame on you but I don't mind the cold so much because it gets so very hot and oppressive down here that I'm not going to be one to |
| 1:26.5 | complain when the temperatures drop below freezing down in these parts but I got to tell you there's cold and then there's cold and |
| 1:36.7 | anytime you start to talk about the northeast in particular New England of our |
| 1:42.0 | country, those people live in a completely |
| 1:44.4 | different world and they have in fact adjusted to their environment and |
| 1:48.8 | sometimes the environment will tell the tale of any kind of case. And the case that we're going to examine today |
| 1:57.0 | is a case that has somewhat been dictated by environment. |
| 2:04.0 | We've heard a lot about snow, we've heard about freezing temperatures. |
| 2:09.3 | But most of all, we've heard about a police officer who was found dead or seemingly deceased in the snow and there was no obvious cause of death in the |
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