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🗓️ 19 June 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Jessie and Andie recap Karen Read’s 2025 retrial, tracing the case from Officer John O’Keefe’s death to Read’s acquittal on homicide charges and lone conviction for OUI. The episode details key differences from the 2024 mistrial, the effect of intense media coverage, turning-point testimony, the jury’s decision, reactions from both families, and what civil and administrative battles still lie ahead.
Sources:
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/18/nx-s1-5435406/karen-read-acquitted-trial-verdict-not-guilty
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/karen-read-trial-verdict-jury-06-18-25
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/us/karen-read-trial-verdict.html
https://www.vox.com/true-crime/411568/karen-read-retrial-updates-new-evidence
https://people.com/karen-read-verdict-murder-trial-reaction-11757625
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0:52.8 | Welcome back to current affairs, our show about the cases of Love Gone Fatally Wrong that are in the news right now. |
1:03.9 | If this is your first love murder episode, definitely tune back in on Wednesdays for our real main full-length episode. Okay, so today we are giving |
1:13.1 | you a verdict update on the Karen Reid trial or retrial rather, the result of which has the |
1:19.7 | true crime world buzzing. So if you are just tuning in only to hear the verdict, if you have been |
1:26.5 | under a rock already, We do not want to |
1:29.7 | bury the lead. We want to get that information to you right away. So Andy, would you like to do |
1:33.5 | the honors? Y'all, it is not guilty. Not guilty. What? What? Basically, we will break this all |
1:41.6 | down at length later. Yep. So on this special current affairs episode, |
1:46.6 | let's break down what happened? Like with the first trial, with the second trial, |
1:51.7 | obviously you guys probably all know the background, but Andy, why don't you give us a 30 second |
1:55.5 | recap? Yeah. If you want the full scoop, you can definitely tune in on our main feed. |
2:01.3 | May of 2024, I did a deep dive on the entire case, the situation, the crime, what potentially |
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