Welcome to Boston Confidential, Beantown's True Crime podcast.

Boston is a great city, but there's more to it than the Freedom Trail in Fenway Park.

There's a startling underbelly to the city, and Boston Confidential will take you on a guided tour of the hub of the universe, Boston, Massachusetts.

Hey, everybody, welcome back to Boston Confidential. My name's Barry McGuire, and I'm your host. I'm a 20-year private investigator on the streets of Boston, and I help run a company called Impact Due Diligence

Investigations.

If you need anything in terms of investigative services, feel free to contact me at

Impact.

If I can't help you personally, I'll certainly direct you to the right person or agency.

All right, guys, let's get to it.

Just some housekeeping stuff as we usually do at the outset of each episode.

The Karen Reed trial is heating up.

Well, it's really not at the trial stage just yet.

I think there's still in the discovery phase, but there was a motion just the other day.

And Turtle Boy was there covering it naturally, but there was a motion just the other day, and Turtle Boy was there covering it naturally, but there was a motion for her to recuse herself, remove herself from the bench

in that trial. She has stated she doesn't know any of the people involved in the case and would not recuse herself.

There is another portion of that motion that is still under advisement, but she is going to be the judge going forward.

You know, we all probably knew that to be the case.

There doesn't seem to be any direct connection.

You know, a lot of people seem to believe that the Albert somehow no, Judge Canone,

if I'm pronouncing her name correctly, she says it's not true. Who knows? I've been trying to watch

the proceedings, the hearing, and I'm having a hard time, but I just joined a group on Facebook,

and somebody helped me out. Somebody by the name of Star in the group directed me to the right location, I think,

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