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Karen Read’s Mouth May Be Her Worst Witness – Here’s Why

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

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🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Karen Read’s Mouth May Be Her Worst Witness – Here’s Why
Was Karen Read set up—or are the cracks in her story too big to ignore? New testimony is shaking up the narrative in the Karen Read trial, with explosive contradictions and an unraveling defense. Former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins to dissect key developments, including Read’s own words about the taillight fragments found at the scene where John O’Keefe died—statements that could blow up her conspiracy claim. The contradictions don’t stop there: her shifting accounts of how much she drank the night of O’Keefe’s death—and her chilling lack of empathy after the fact—paint a picture the jury might not be able to overlook. What does it mean when a defendant can’t keep their story straight on even the smallest details? And how does new forensic data about John O’Keefe’s phone and body temperature expose cracks in the defense's theory? The stakes have never been higher—and the second trial is already veering into devastating territory.

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0:00.0

This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. Here now, Tony Bruske. We are starting to see more pieces in the

0:07.8

trial of Karen Reed that go beyond just the psychological, beyond just did I hit him, could I have hit him,

0:13.8

and all of that. Tail light, that's been a big one. We've heard so many pieces of evidence from each side.

0:21.7

One side claiming, you know, we found these pieces of taillight right by John O'Keefe's body.

0:29.0

The process or the defense then saying that was planted.

0:33.1

Somebody got there and they planted those broken pieces of taillight because in the sally port it looks

0:38.6

like somebody was messing with the vehicle well now we have um direct evidence of karen reed talking

0:45.9

about picking up pieces of tail light while she was there at that scene not a situation where

0:52.8

somebody snuck back in and dropped taillight there. I mean,

0:55.7

that would be kind of impossible at that moment in time. But the fact that she herself is recounting

1:02.2

taillight at the scene of where she hit John O'Keefe. Does that completely destroy the conspiracy

1:09.0

theory of the taillight being planted at the scene of the crime?

1:14.0

It's surely problematic for defense to argue that this was planted later on when Karen Reed herself appears to have acknowledged that she was picking up taillight pieces at the scene.

1:26.4

And then not only does it,

1:28.1

does it undermine the defense's conspiracy argument regarding the taillight, but undermines

1:32.9

the entire conspiracy argument. If we can't believe Karen Reid regarding what happened to the

1:38.0

taillight and the pieces on the ground, how can we believe what her team is saying regarding

1:42.6

some, you know, really vague, unarticulated

1:45.7

incident that happened inside this house with a bunch of police officers?

1:49.3

And that's the problem with so much of this case.

1:51.8

It's word salad.

1:53.4

Karen, she just talks and talks and talks.

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