Karen Read Had Time To Try And Save John O’Keefe, Former Prosecutor Eric Faddis Weighs In
The Trial Of Karen Read | Justice For John O'Keefe
Tony Brueski
2.2 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
John O’Keefe didn’t die instantly. That’s the key takeaway from neurosurgeon Dr. Aizik Wolf’s testimony—and it could have seismic consequences for Karen Read’s defense.
In this premiere breakdown from Hidden Killers, Tony Brueski is joined by Eric Faddis, a former prosecutor, to explore what it means when a medical expert tells the jury there was a window of time—a chance to act, to save a life, to call for help. If Karen Read was responsible for hitting O’Keefe, then her decision to leave the scene could represent not just moral failure, but criminal negligence.
Was it second-degree murder—or fatal inaction? Faddis unpacks the legal duty to render aid, how it factors into jury instructions, and whether the timeline now favors the prosecution. This is where law, medicine, and morality collide.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Hidden Killers podcast with Tony Bruske and continuing coverage of the case against Karen Reid. |
| 0:07.4 | It's been a lot of new testimony coming out, new evidence coming out, expert witnesses saying some, |
| 0:14.3 | depending how you take it, pretty damning things or things that raise more questions. |
| 0:18.9 | Again, it's the two sides of this case that take every piece and go, |
| 0:22.1 | this is great for me. This is, I mean, okay, I guess you can kind of, maybe, sort of, I don't know, |
| 0:28.0 | depending how you want to spin it. Do you need to discuss all the ladies in the trial of Karen Reed, |
| 0:32.4 | Eric Fattis, defense attorney, former prosecutor, there's been a lot. You just had Dr. Azik Wolf testifying the other day. |
| 0:41.0 | He's the neurosurgeon who just reminded me so much of on Seinfeld doctor or a investigator |
| 0:50.4 | bookman from the library. We just very much, what do you think about that, Jerry? |
| 0:57.1 | But very, like, knows his stuff. |
| 1:00.1 | I wouldn't question Dr. Bookman, and I wouldn't question Dr. Isaac Wolf, who testified. |
| 1:05.9 | Eric, from a legal strategy perspective here, how does a defense team leverage this expert testimony |
| 1:14.2 | when the prosecution thinks is pretty strong? I mean, he basically said the injury to John O'Keefe's |
| 1:20.8 | head came from falling on the back of his head, not from a strike in the front, not from a hammer, |
| 1:26.7 | not from a fist, not from anything, but falling back on his head. not from a strike in the front, not from a hammer, not from a fist, |
| 1:27.6 | not from anything, but falling back on his head. What are your thoughts? |
| 1:33.3 | You know, that's going to be a tough one for defense to navigate, because as you know, |
| 1:37.3 | their general theory is that John O'Keeves went into the house, there was some physical altercation, |
| 1:42.6 | he was killed or injured and then brought outside in the front of the house, there was some physical altercation, he was killed or or injured and then brought |
| 1:46.0 | outside in the front of the house. And so, you know, could the defense argued that, hey, |
| 1:52.5 | there's that gas on John O'Keefe's eye? Maybe he was hit in the front and that caused him to hit his |
| 1:58.0 | head. And then he became unconscious and they carried him out into the front yard, these cops, |
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