Karen Read’s Words Are Now Exhibit A for the Prosecution
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 12 May 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Screaming “he’s a f-ing pervert” and “f-ing another girl” in front of children isn’t just bad optics—it’s potentially devastating evidence in a courtroom.
Former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins us to break down how Karen Read’s own words are now being used to frame the case against her. Whether it’s the profanity, the fury, or the context—lying next to John O’Keefe’s kids after he’d allegedly just been left to die—every detail matters to a jury.
Faddis explains how this language plays into prosecutorial strategy, why emotional outbursts can suggest guilt, and how jurors tend to weigh credibility when a defendant starts attacking the very people they're supposed to protect.
When you’re on trial for murder, words can be weapons. And in this case, the defense is losing control of the narrative.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. Here now, Tony Brucey. |
| 0:06.1 | We saw a lot of push on first responders in the trial of Karen Reid in the last week or two from Alan Jackson, and we've heard some really interesting testimony as well. |
| 0:15.2 | Let's take a look at Kate McLaughlin. She's a paramedic firefighter, first responder, who is another individual who for no reason, |
| 0:21.8 | doesn't even seem like she wants to be here in court, |
| 0:23.4 | and I don't blame her one bit, |
| 0:25.2 | also heard Karen Reed say, I hit him. |
| 0:27.9 | Let's take a look at how that played out. |
| 0:29.5 | Once we had come to a stop, |
| 0:31.8 | I asked if there had been any significant trauma that happened |
| 0:35.6 | that preceded this, |
| 0:38.1 | and she answered with a series of statements that she repeated, |
| 0:43.4 | I hit him. |
| 0:45.1 | I hit him. |
| 0:46.3 | There was a woman next to us who told her to calm down, stop talking, calm down. |
| 0:53.3 | You're hysterical. |
| 0:54.9 | So she repeated, I hit him, and a police officer asked her, said, you what? |
| 1:02.1 | And she repeated it again, I hit him. |
| 1:04.8 | And the officer then signaled for his sergeant to come down to the scene or down to where he was. |
| 1:13.4 | When she first told you that she had hit him, you said there was another woman next to her. |
| 1:19.5 | Did you know who that woman was? |
| 1:22.4 | Not at the time. |
| 1:23.6 | Do you now know who that woman was? |
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