Justice Pending, Episode 26: Karen Read
Final Days On Earth with Claire St. Amant
Claire St. Amant
4.5 • 784 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Claire discusses the case against Karen Read with special guest Sommer Ingram Dean, an attorney and journalism professor at Baylor University.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Rogue Media Network podcast. |
| 0:06.3 | Do you ever have a story that you just can't get out of your head? |
| 0:10.6 | One that you play the details of over and over with your friends. |
| 0:15.2 | Well, you've come to the right place. |
| 0:17.9 | I'm Claire. |
| 0:19.1 | And I'm Susan. |
| 0:20.4 | And this is justice pending. A weekly true crime |
| 0:24.4 | podcast where we discuss tantalizing crimes with more questions and answers. |
| 0:31.7 | Hello and welcome to another episode of Justice Pending. Today I'm excited to welcome a special guest, a friend of mine from college and an excellent attorney and professor of journalism at Baylor University. Summer Ingram Dean, welcome to the show. |
| 0:51.4 | Hi, Claire. Thanks so much for having me. This is so exciting. It is. It really is great to have you on the show. I know we have lots of conversations about all sorts of criminal cases and legal issues, but now we get to do it for an audience. Yeah, should be a good time. It should. So, yeah, it should be a good time. |
| 1:11.8 | It should. |
| 1:18.2 | So, yeah, it's been a while since you and I have been in the newsroom together, if you can believe it. |
| 1:21.8 | I don't want to say how long, but you just did. |
| 1:23.6 | I did. |
| 1:25.5 | I called out, I did the math summer. |
| 1:47.8 | Yeah, pretty crazy to think that, yeah, that long ago, we were just intrepid little student journalists. I still, anytime I talk about my background in journalism or as a student journalist, I credit you with inspiring me to always just sort of get out there and not be afraid to search for the truth. So, and I still find you as an inspiration. So I love that summer. That's great to hear. |
| 1:54.7 | I have wonderful memories of working stories with you. So I was excited to get you in the studio and talk about |
| 2:03.4 | a wild and crazy case, Karen Reed. Yeah. It's certainly been, I mean, I guess it's been |
| 2:12.8 | several years now. That's quite the journey. Yes. The shenanigans have been in the news. Yeah. |
| 2:19.6 | So I thought it would be a good one for us to discuss because we could talk about some of the |
| 2:24.9 | media attention the case has gotten. We could talk about legal issues and decisions that have been made |
| 2:30.5 | by the judge and attorneys and lots of drama, lots of drama in this case summer. |
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