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

If you were sitting in the Karen Reid courtroom, which they've now actually put a plaque up on the wall, the Karen Reed courtroom.

She's made it famous.

No, they didn't do that, but maybe someday.

If you were sitting there on May 8th watching Sergeant Yuri Buchanick,

take the witness stand, again, you could almost feel the tension thicken in the air,

like humidity before a storm.

There wasn't a lightning strike, at least not at first, just the quiet,

calculated approach of defense attorney Alan Jackson, rising to his feet and signaling to the jury

that the prosecution's carefully painted picture was about to get a few cracks. This wasn't about

whether a taillight matched or a timestamp line.

This was about rot.

But whether the foundation of the entire investigation was stable

or whether it had been poisoned from the start by its own lead investigator.

And it gets kind of messy.

I mean, well, I wouldn't say horribly messy,

but it's the messiest it's gotten thus far,

I would say, for the prosecution in this case.

I'd say probably about the biggest punch so far.

What do you think?

Oh.

I think it's ugly.

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