Karen Read’s SUV Data Matches John O’Keefe’s Final Phone Activity
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🗓️ 21 May 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Hidden Killers with Tony Brueski, retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins us to examine one of the most critical pieces of evidence in the Karen Read trial—the digital timestamp data pulled from her Lexus SUV. What happens when two clocks—one in a vehicle, one in a phone—tell the same story?
We break down how forensic analyst Shanon Burgess identified a “backing maneuver” in Read’s SUV at 12:31:43 a.m., and how that exact moment aligns with the final activity recorded on John O’Keefe’s iPhone, which locked at 12:32:09 a.m. After adjusting for clock variance, the match becomes nearly exact—suggesting Read’s vehicle was in motion at the same time O’Keefe’s phone went dark.
Jennifer Coffindaffer explains why this kind of data is so compelling from a law enforcement perspective and why digital forensics often eliminates ambiguity where witness testimony fails. This isn't speculation—this is tech doing what tech does best: recording truth in milliseconds.
We also examine the defense's efforts to challenge this timeline and ask the question—can anyone seriously argue with time-coded data?
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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. |
| 0:07.2 | It continues to be one of the most interesting trials, I think, that we have ever covered here. |
| 0:13.7 | The trial of Karen Reid. |
| 0:15.1 | We're continuing to break it down as more and more pieces of evidence come to light. |
| 0:20.1 | And more and more pieces of evidence come to light and more and more pieces of minutia |
| 0:24.0 | keep getting introduced into the dialogue by the defense of Karen Reid, hoping to maybe convince |
| 0:31.8 | some jurors of reasonable doubts that Karen struck John with her car, despite the timestamps matching up DNA and, you know, |
| 0:40.4 | Karen's own words. |
| 0:41.7 | Join me to discuss Jennifer Coffin-Daffer, retired FBI special agents. |
| 0:45.6 | So here we go. |
| 0:47.2 | Let's start with talking about the timestamps. |
| 0:52.0 | And there's a lot to get through here. |
| 0:53.5 | We just saw the testimony just the other day. |
| 0:58.0 | The timestamp details being brought to light that basically show. |
| 1:04.7 | Okay. |
| 1:06.3 | His phone stops actively being active at precisely the time the vehicle strike occurs with the Lexus SUV. |
| 1:16.1 | Let's talk about the time stamp. |
| 1:18.1 | How they got here. |
| 1:19.6 | Let's go with that. |
| 1:20.9 | Why now? |
| 1:21.8 | Why did it take so long for this time to be, I guess, aligned. |
| 1:28.7 | What was the issue here? |
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