Hey there, I'm Ashley Banfield, and this is Drop Dead Serious. And today, we are diving into the chaos that was day 13 of the Karen Reed retrial. And let me tell you, it was a doozy from taillight evidence that was missing and reports that were mysteriously delayed to a full-on text message bombshell between Karen Reed and Brian Higgins.

This courtroom was on fire, y'all.

Oh, and Chloe, the dog?

Yep, we're going there too, so let's get right into it, shall we?

Uri Buchanek was back on the stand on Friday.

He is the Massachusetts State Police Sergeant who oversaw the Karen Reed investigation,

and the cross-examination of Yuri picked up right where it left off.

Intense, contentious, and filled with holes that the defense was eager to punch through.

Karen's attorney, Alan Jackson, came out swinging, putting Buchanick through the paces about where exactly on the lawn of 34 Fairview Road

he found all those taillight fragments.

When Buchanick said he wasn't going to argue semantics,

Jackson snapped back, words do matter.

And then came a bizarre detour.

Do you know what the word theory means?

I'm sorry.

English is like a third language for me.

So if you can bring up the Webster's Dictionary, I can read it out.

You want to pull up a Webster's Dictionary?

You want to say a break appropriate and pull up the Webster'sster's dictionary to define the word that you used in an

answer about 40 seconds ago. We're working off of a theory, quote unquote. You said it, not me.

You want to go get a dictionary so we can figure out for the jurors what that word means.

Objection. All right. Just to stay. Let's move along, please.

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