Karen Read’s ‘Pervert’ Rant and Screaming Fits: A Therapist’s Perspective
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 12 May 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Karen Read’s defense is unraveling—not because of what others are saying, but because of what she keeps saying.
In this episode, renowned psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins us to examine how Karen Read’s own words—her rants about John O’Keefe being a “f-ing pervert,” her bizarre meltdown over the name “Kathy,” and her attacks on the very children John raised—are doing more damage than any witness ever could.
Shavaun brings a clinical lens to this emotional spiral, explaining why Read’s behavior may indicate narcissistic rage, disordered attachment, or a loss of emotional control under pressure. We explore how these traits can present in high-stakes legal settings, and how they’re often dismissed—until they show up on the record.
When your words become your worst evidence, psychology matters more than ever.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Hidden Killers podcast with Tony Brewski and continuing coverage of the case against Karen Reed. |
| 0:07.4 | It's been wild in the trial of Karen Reed, full emotional outburst, forensic, |
| 0:16.2 | firefights, and even some Red Solo Cup crime scene shenanigans as we gear up to chat with forensic |
| 0:23.3 | psychologist, Sivan Scott, about what all this drama means in human terms. Let's recap the latest |
| 0:29.0 | from Karen's own explicit-laced voicemails and a panicky, I hit him at the scene allegedly |
| 0:36.2 | to the defense's elaborate house party, |
| 0:38.0 | gone wrong theory, getting poked full of holes. There's plenty to unpack. Shavon, based on |
| 0:44.5 | everything we've seen, what do Karen's shifting words and behaviors tell you about her state of mind |
| 0:52.0 | that evening? You know, I always go back to a very intoxicated woman. |
| 0:57.7 | There's no doubt about that. |
| 0:59.6 | And a lot of emotional garbage cooking with her, |
| 1:05.6 | not a happy, stable relationship by any means. |
| 1:09.4 | And just hysteria, you know, a lot of drunken hysteria which is a |
| 1:14.6 | bad combination always what's interesting about this is this is just the little snapshot that we got |
| 1:20.6 | to see of her life we got to see this chaotic moment um do you think it happened in a vacuum do Do you think she's just, this is just a complete |
| 1:29.1 | one-off and she's just this hysteric and acting like this, you know, this was a big one-off? |
| 1:35.3 | Or, I mean, this is just speculation, but is this likely kind of a pattern of behavior with her |
| 1:40.4 | in certain way, shapes, or forms? Yeah, people, people by her age have established patterns of how they do relationships, |
| 1:49.3 | what they call love, you know, tends to be, certainly sounds like with her, what we know about |
| 1:57.1 | that night and her phone calls, her 53 phone calls, that there's a pattern of mixing |
| 2:03.9 | anger with love and a lot of concern about her partner's sexual behavior. And I would guess |
| 2:11.9 | that this is the way she does relationships, probably not just this moment in time. You think there's some |
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