Five Critical Facts the Jury Learned On Day 4 in the Karen Read Trial
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🗓️ 25 April 2025
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Five Critical Facts the Jury Learned On Day 4 in the Karen Read Trial
Day 4 of the Karen Read trial delivered some of the most important evidence yet — and it could dramatically reshape the jury’s view of what happened on the night Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe died. In this detailed breakdown, we cover 5 crucial developments you need to know from today’s courtroom drama.
Paramedic Jason Becker took the stand and revealed that when he arrived at the scene, John O’Keefe was found face-up in the snow with no visible tire tracks over his body — a fact that could severely challenge the prosecution’s theory that Karen Read struck O'Keefe with her SUV. Becker also described Karen Read’s frantic emotional state but confirmed he heard no direct admission of guilt from her at the scene.
Meanwhile, forensic evidence introduced by Dr. Garry Faller showed that Karen Read’s blood alcohol concentration was 0.093%, well over the legal limit, hours after the alleged incident. This raises major questions about her state of mind, judgment, and memory during the critical hours when John O'Keefe was left outside in freezing conditions.
We break down the 7 biggest questions facing jurors after today's testimony, including how the lack of tire tracks could introduce reasonable doubt, how Karen Read’s high BAC could impact the defense’s strategy, and why the physical evidence might not match the prosecution’s narrative.
Was this truly a case of vehicular homicide — or could the prosecution’s timeline be missing key pieces? Join us as we dig deep into today’s most explosive testimony, the new forensic revelations, and what’s likely coming next in this high-stakes true crime trial.
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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. |
| 0:07.5 | Here we are. Day four of the Karen Reed trial, a field trip today that we're going to walk through and some interesting testimony. |
| 0:18.1 | It was a shorter day in court, out by noon, even with the field trip in there. |
| 0:23.4 | Then everyone went to Chuck E. Cheese, got their tokens, and went home happy with little trinkets that will sit on the shelf for years, eventually be ripped up by a vacuum cleaner and choke done by a pet. |
| 0:38.2 | Okay, that's not quite what happened, but they did go to the crime scene. |
| 0:41.8 | No Chucky Cheese involved, though, thank goodness. |
| 0:44.8 | If you ever wanted to see what a murder trial looks like when it steps out of the actual courtroom |
| 0:52.7 | and steps into the real world, day four of Karen Reed is what it was all |
| 1:00.8 | about. No witness box, no exhibits, no cross-examinations, well, at least not while they were out. |
| 1:07.1 | Just 12 jurors, a judge, two sets of attorneys and the Canton neighborhood where everything allegedly went down. |
| 1:14.8 | This wasn't about legal arguments. |
| 1:16.9 | It was about geography, perspective, letting jurors see the scene for themselves. |
| 1:24.0 | We saw this in the Alec Murdoch trial. |
| 1:26.4 | Well, it has been a little while now. I was going to say |
| 1:28.8 | not that long ago, but a little while ago. It all centered around 34 Fairview Road, the home |
| 1:35.2 | where Boston police officer John O'Keefe was found unconscious in the early morning hours of January |
| 1:40.3 | 29th, 2022. That's the place prosecutors say Karen Reid backed into him with her black |
| 1:46.4 | Lexus SUV, leaving him to die in a snowstorm. Reed's defensive team, meanwhile, argues the |
| 1:52.3 | whole thing is a cover-up, that someone else inside the house that night was responsible, |
| 1:57.7 | and that the case against her is built on flawed assumptions and manipulated evidence. |
| 2:02.1 | But before any verdict is reached, jurors need to see the physical space where all of this |
| 2:08.1 | actually unfolded. So, on day four of the trial, the morning of April 25th, the court arranged |
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