Karen Read’s Legal Nightmare: 3 Days That May Have Changed the Case
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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3 • 791 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Hidden Killers, former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Tony Brueski to unpack what may be the most pivotal stretch of testimony in the Karen Read trial so far. Over the course of three tense days, jurors heard from both a neurosurgeon and a forensic scientist—each delivering testimony that could dramatically alter the trajectory of this case.
Dr. Aizik Wolf described John O’Keefe’s fatal head injury as the result of a backward fall, not a physical assault, undermining claims of blunt-force trauma. Meanwhile, forensic trace expert Christina Hanley testified about red and clear plastic fragments found on O’Keefe’s clothing—material indistinguishable from Karen Read’s shattered Lexus tail light.
Eric Faddis brings legal clarity to what these testimonies mean in plain English. Are the prosecution’s puzzle pieces finally fitting together—or is the defense still holding the stronger narrative? We explore the timeline shifts, evidentiary thresholds, and the psychological impact of expert witnesses on a jury.
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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. |
| 0:07.3 | 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. |
| 1:00.0 | 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 |
| 1:14.3 | when the prosecution thinks is pretty strong? I mean, he basically said the injury to John O'Keefe's |
| 1:20.7 | 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, |
| 1:31.7 | not from anything, but falling back on his head. What are your thoughts? |
| 1:37.2 | You know, that's going to be a tough one for defense to navigate, because as you know, |
| 1:42.1 | their general theory is that John O'Keeves went into the house, there was some physical altercation, |
| 1:46.0 | 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 outside in the front of the house. And so, you know, could the defense argue that, hey, there's |
| 1:52.6 | that gas on John O'Keefe's eye? Maybe he was hit in the front and that paused him to hit his head, |
| 1:58.3 | and then he became unconscious and they carried him out into the front yard, these cops |
| 2:02.7 | who did this to another cop. |
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