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"I Saw Nothing": Snow Plow Driver Stands Firm | Karen Read Trial Day 27

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

True Crime

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

A snowplow driver says he passed 34 Fairview Road again and again, and NEVER saw a body.  On Day 27 of the Karen Read trial, the defense leaned into love, memory, and doubt, as the timeline comes under fire once again. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield breaks it all down. 

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, I'm Ashley Bannfield and this is Drop Dead serious. Day 27 of the Karen Reed trial and it brought two very different witnesses to the stand, who both seem to corroborate Karen Reed's version of events. After all, we are in the defense's

0:23.0

case. A snowplow driver who says he circled Fairview Road again and again on the night that

0:30.1

John O'Keefe died and says he saw nothing. And a friend who says the last thing she saw between

0:36.6

Karen Reed and John O'Keefe that night was love,

0:40.3

a forehead kiss, a warm goodbye, and two people walking towards Karen Reid's SUV.

0:47.3

And there was one other revelation made in court today, not by a witness, but by the judge.

0:52.3

And it will have a significant impact on how court plays out

0:56.7

for the rest of the week. I'll tell you all about that in a hot minute. That's a clue. But first,

1:01.8

let's dive right into today's testimony. The day began with Brian Lockren, the Canton snowplow driver

1:08.4

who told jurors that he passed by 34 Fairview Road multiple times

1:13.2

on that snowy night that John O'Keefe was found frozen in the front yard.

1:18.5

Every time Lockren passed by the house, he said he saw nothing.

1:24.1

Not a body, not a person, not even a disturbance on the lawn outside of Brian Albert's house.

1:31.4

He said the area around the flagpole was empty over and over again, even as he drove past in 20-minute

1:39.3

intervals between 2.45 a.m. and 3.30 a.m. And when asked directly if he saw a six-foot man lying in the snow,

1:49.0

his answer was blunt. Quote, I saw nothing. He told the jury he would have noticed something

1:56.3

out of the ordinary, especially because he knew that house well, said he delivered pizzas there, and that

2:03.3

he grew up in that neighborhood. And folks, this matters because prosecutors say Karen Reed

2:10.6

killed John O'Keefe with her SUV just after midnight. So if that's true, John's body would have been lying there by the flagpole each and every

2:21.5

time that Brian Lockren drove his snowplow past 34 Fairview Road.

2:26.8

And if you haven't seen a picture of that house, the flagpole is out front, on the lawn,

2:32.7

way down by the street.

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