How & Why Did Karen Read Think John O'Keefe 'Wasn't Mortally Wounded' When She Drove Away?
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 21 April 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
What really happened that night—was it a tragic accident or something far more calculated? Karen Read's shifting stories and foggy memories make it hard to pin down the truth. One minute she’s unsure if she even hit him, the next she’s got vivid recollections involving loud U2 music and emotional play-by-plays. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski to dig into the inconsistencies and psychological clues that may reveal what’s really going on in her mind.
We’re talking memory blackouts, the bizarre Dateline clip, and whether someone can genuinely convince themselves of a false reality. And what’s the deal with her relationship with John O’Keefe? Why do empathetic people seem to end up with partners who bulldoze holidays and flip out over innocent conversations?
Throw in booze, alleged toxic dynamics, and potential narcissistic traits (we’re not diagnosing, just observing), and you’ve got a tangled mess that keeps getting weirder. Is Karen a victim of her own mind—or does she know more than she lets on?
What other memories might surface—and will any of them actually lead to the truth?
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.1 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:06.1 | But she was thinking he wasn't mortally wounded, which, again, I find that part very odd. |
| 0:11.8 | What's your thoughts? |
| 0:12.5 | I don't have the clip readily available, but do you know what I'm talking about? |
| 0:15.2 | Dateline Dennis Murphy is talking to her. |
| 0:17.2 | She's basically going through a laundry list of, I didn't know what was going on. |
| 0:20.5 | And I'm just |
| 0:21.1 | paraphrasing here. Like, did I hit him? I might have clipped him with the car. I mean, it seemed like I |
| 0:26.2 | could have that, but I didn't know what happened. He didn't look mortally wounded. But I mean, |
| 0:32.4 | maybe could I have a clip? Like that's, it was just kind of nuggeted in there between theory and he didn't |
| 0:40.6 | look mortally wounded. It wasn't, you know, had I looked back and I, if I did, and I didn't |
| 0:46.4 | see him mortally wounded, it was, I didn't see him morally wounded. That's a weird one to me. |
| 0:51.7 | That is very weird. Yeah. It doesn't fit the rest of the narrative at all. |
| 0:56.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:56.5 | So that's what you look for when, you know, is someone telling the truth? |
| 1:00.3 | You look for consistency in what they say and the way that they tell the story. |
| 1:04.6 | And if people are lying, there are typically little things that leak out that are inconsistent. |
| 1:10.4 | Yeah. And I'm wondering if that was |
| 1:12.6 | one of them. And how a story goes from that to, it's impossible. I could not have hit him. |
| 1:20.0 | Right. I don't know how you get there, especially if that's not your initial story. That's always |
| 1:26.3 | been rather bizarre to me. Excuse me. Yeah. Yeah. And the place I always go back is I, |
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