Karen Read’s Meltdowns Examined by Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 14 May 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Karen Read’s words don’t just reveal her state of mind—they may seal her fate.
In this compelling breakdown, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott explores how jurors are likely to interpret Karen Read’s profane, erratic statements, especially those made around children and during high-stress moments. From calling John O’Keefe a “f-ing loser” to berating his orphaned niece and nephew with emotionally charged language, Read’s verbal behavior may reflect something deeper—something jurors can feel, even without clinical terms.
We look at how language can function as psychological evidence, how reactive rage contrasts with authentic grief, and why credibility in the courtroom often hinges more on behavior than the story told on paper.
This is where psychology meets justice—and where Karen Read’s emotional outbursts may speak louder than any digital timestamp.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.2 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:07.2 | Let's take a listen to another one here. |
| 0:09.9 | This is the way she describes John is always been baffling to me. |
| 0:15.7 | Like when she's looking at the video where she sees him getting in the car for the last time. It's poor guy. |
| 0:22.9 | It's just, it, it doesn't speak to the level of like what happened to him. It doesn't |
| 0:28.5 | speak to an emotional connection that seems appropriate. She refers to him as a buffalo on the |
| 0:34.5 | prairie. Let's, um, let's take a look. John looked like a buffalo on the prairie. Let's take a look. John looked like a buffalo on the prairie. |
| 0:41.2 | It was just a lawn and a heat that wasn't a bush or a hydrant or a dog. It was a weird |
| 0:50.8 | shaped lump at that time in those elements. |
| 0:55.0 | And I was looking to find him on the side of the road. |
| 0:58.0 | There's a little bit more to it. |
| 0:59.5 | If I'm going to pause that for a moment. |
| 1:01.3 | It was a weird shaped lump in the snow. |
| 1:04.1 | So you really couldn't see what the hell it was. |
| 1:06.8 | But she knew exactly what it was. |
| 1:08.9 | And she was expecting to find him there, in her own words. |
| 1:14.2 | Let's just watch the other piece of this. |
| 1:16.5 | I was expecting I'd find him. |
| 1:18.6 | I was looking to find him on the side of the road. |
| 1:21.3 | I was expecting I'd find him. |
| 1:23.7 | If you saw him go into the house, why would you be looking to find him on the side of the road? |
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