Karen Read Confession? Snow blower, Solo cups, & chain of custody | Case Brief

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🗓️ 6 May 2025

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Day 9 of the Karen Read Retrial happened on May 5, 2025. We continue with Cross Examination and finishing up the testimony of Hannah Knowles from the Massachusetts State Police Crime Laboratory who explains the blood alcohol conversions and retrograde extrapolation, and how timing is critical in this case. Testimonies from Ryan Nagle, Heather Maxom, and Sarah Levinson provide insights into the events at 34 Fairview, including arrival times and observations of Karen Read's SUV. Sarah Levenson's surprisingly states never seeing the dog, Chloe, at the Albert's residence despite being friends with Brian Albert Jr. for many years.

Katie McLaughlin, the female EMT who Jen McCabe stated Karen read said, "I hit him" three time in front of took the said. She also said that she heard Karen read say, "I hit him," but it was four times. Cross-examination by Alan Jackson focused on the timing of these statements and used dashcam video to break down these interactions and how her testimony does match up with what is happening on the video. Unfortunately, Jackson spent a majority of the time trying to get a "gotcha" moment by trying to prove that Katie McLaughlin and Caitlin Albert are close friends but he was unable to recreate that moment from the first trial due Special Prosecutor allowing Katie to explain her acquaintance relationship with Caitlin ahead of the Cross Examination. Jackson did manage to impeach Katie based on her words of first trial where she said that she knew of a girl by the name of Caitlin Albert that went to her school but that victory was short lived because he tried to being in picture evidence that kept being objected and sustained by Judge Cannone.

Last witness of the day, Lt. Paul Gallagher, worked for the Canton Police Department at the time of the John O'Keefe's death and was the site supervisor. His testimony reveals issues with evidence handling and a lack of reports. It was his decision to use a leaf blower on the snow to uncover evidence, put blood found in the snow in Red Solo Cup and then transport them in Stop & Shop bags and found and handled the shattered drinking cocktail glass. Lt. Gallagher never wrote a report about his methods or even logged evidence with the blood he transferred. Questions about the chain of custody and why crucial information regarding Karen Read's statements was not relayed to the site supervisor. We also learn that Lieutenant Gallagher was not interviewed until just before the previous trial on April 3, 2024 by the Prosecution. We will resume with Cross Examination on Day 10. Stay tuned as we continue to follow the Karen Read Retrial and provide detailed breakdowns of each day's proceedings.

RESOURCES

What You Need to Know About the Retrial - https://youtu.be/89Jpa8vz1RQ

Karen Read Retrial Playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsbUyvZas7gKOJlfL__9F027hlETVU-vo

Karen Read Trial - 2024 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsbUyvZas7gKUeCUzApgsEuQRXu5IXeTS

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0:00.0	Welcome back. It's time for a case brief, keeping you in the loop with the cases you care about most, just more briefly.
0:05.2	If you want the full coverage, it's linked in the description below. But for now, let's get into it.
0:10.4	It is Monday, May 5th. We are in day 9,000 of the retrial of Karen Reed, and we are resuming with the Commonwealth's witness on the stand.
0:22.6	They finished Jen McCabe's testimony on Friday. That was something. And we are back with
0:29.1	the laboratory supervisor who was talking about blood alcohol and blood alcohol conversions.
0:35.4	This is the process of taking the blood alcohol serum test that was done at the hospital for medical purposes for care and read.
0:43.9	Later, those results were taken to the state crime lab and they take the results, like the paper with the results, take the paper with the results,
0:50.9	and then run it through a number of conversions to come up with a blood
0:56.3	alcohol conversion at the time the blood was taken at nine o'clock a little after in the morning
1:01.4	on January 29th and then a retrograde extrapolation which gives you a range at the time of driving
1:07.5	the commonwealth when they originally asked the crime lab to do this,
1:11.7	pinned that time of driving at 1245. We know that that timeline is going to have to shift by about 10
1:17.3	minutes or so, which for this case is incredibly significant because minutes and the timeline in this
1:23.7	case are going to matter very much when you look at all the cell phone data. But we are only at the tip of all of the cell phone data. We haven't gotten into the rest of it yet. So we will see all the rest of that data as it comes in. Here are my curiosities for the week. Are we going to get to law enforcement witnesses this week. Not crime lab, not people piecing together
1:48.6	the tail light, not the scientific law enforcement witnesses, but like law enforcement that went
1:56.9	out to the crime scene. Or are we going to see the accident reconstructionist first?
2:02.0	Are we going to see more of the newer experts and the injuries to John O'Keefe before we even get
2:08.8	to law enforcement? Are we going to get to other civilians? Those that were inside the house at 34
2:13.3	Fairview? Is the government even going to call everyone that was inside the house at 34 Fairview or not?
2:18.9	Are we going to hear from Brian Albert, Matt McCabe, and the rest of it? And when are we going
2:24.3	to get there? The order that they are going in is so much different. Last trial, it was like four
2:29.1	witnesses and it's like, oh, we're just going straight in chronological order. The government is doing a much different timeline
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