How Karen Read’s Own Mouth Is Sinking Her Defense
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 9 May 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Karen Read says she’s the victim of a cover-up—but according to attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis, her own words are doing more damage to her defense than any government conspiracy ever could.
In this episode, Faddis takes us inside the legal implications of Read’s profanity-laced rants about John O’Keefe—especially the ones she allegedly made while lying in bed with O’Keefe’s orphaned niece and nephew. He explains how this kind of language, especially in front of children, isn’t just ugly—it’s evidence. The kind a jury remembers. The kind you can’t walk back.
Faddis breaks down how these statements suggest consciousness of guilt, and why no matter how the defense spins it, credibility is everything in court. And right now? Karen Read is losing hers by the minute.
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| 0:33.2 | Biting cold front. |
| 0:34.5 | Mmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be wearing or taking off. |
| 0:39.0 | The night will be wild and untamed. |
| 0:41.2 | Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak you to the skin. |
| 0:45.0 | By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching their peak in the afternoon. |
| 0:51.1 | Not in the mood for miserable weather? |
| 0:53.3 | Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express. |
| 0:56.2 | Sun Express, nonstop sunshine. |
| 0:59.9 | This is the Hidden Killers podcast with Tony Bruske and continuing coverage of the case against |
| 1:05.7 | Karen Reid. |
| 1:07.2 | Oh, it continues to get more and more interesting, and we're going to dig deep into it. |
| 1:11.9 | This time, from the perspective of the law, the legal end of it. |
| 1:18.3 | We got former prosecutor and defense attorney, Eric Fattis, with us. |
| 1:23.2 | Eric, I'm just going to throw it out to you initially because everybody has different points of this trial that's been standing out to them since we last talk. |
| 1:29.3 | What to you has been, you know, one or some of the more poignant moments here in the trial of Karen Reed? |
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