Karen Read Trial Day 10 Recap - 52 Calls, 1 Dead Cop, More Karen Admissions
The Trial Of Karen Read | Justice For John O'Keefe
Tony Brueski
2.2 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In today’s explosive courtroom testimony, jurors in the Karen Read murder trial were confronted with the one voice that might matter more than any other: Karen Read’s. On May 6, 2025, prosecutors played a series of voicemails and video clips recorded in the hours surrounding the death of Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe—and for the first time, the jury heard Karen Read describe, in her own words, the night everything fell apart.
This video dissects the 8 angry voicemails and 52 missed calls Karen Read made between midnight and 6 a.m.—including the final voicemail recorded live as O’Keefe’s body was discovered. You'll hear how prosecutors used her tone, language, and admissions to build a timeline of escalating rage and self-doubt. We’ll also examine the HBO interview clips played in court, where Read speculates she might have hit O’Keefe and recalls him taking her vodka soda—details that directly connect to physical evidence found at the scene.
But the evidence didn’t stop with her voice. We break down key testimony from Lt. Paul Gallagher and Lt. Kevin O’Hara, showing how early searches turned up nothing, only for taillight shards and O’Keefe’s shoe to be found 12 hours later under feet of snow. Add in dashcam footage showing Read’s Lexus with a broken taillight, and it becomes clear why this case hinges as much on weather, timing, and investigative gaps as it does on motive.
Finally, we cover Judge Beverly Cannone’s ruling to exclude the Sandra Birchmore case, denying the defense its broader narrative of institutional corruption—at least for now.
If you want a complete breakdown of the day prosecutors turned Karen Read’s own words against her, this is the video to watch.
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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 | You know it's rare in a murder trial? |
| 0:09.6 | When the most damning evidence doesn't come from a witness, a cop, or even a lab report, but from the defendant's own mouth. |
| 0:19.4 | On May 6th in front of a packed courtroom in Dedham, Massachusetts, |
| 0:24.6 | the jury in the Karen Reed trial listened not to lawyers or experts, |
| 0:28.9 | but to Karen Reed herself, her voice, unfiltered and raw, |
| 0:35.2 | echoed through the speakers in a series of voicemails. She left for Boston |
| 0:39.3 | police officer John O'Keefe, the night he died. Fifty-two calls, to be exact. Eight voicemails, |
| 0:48.4 | one spiraling. Message after another, forming a timeline that prosecutors didn't need to interpret. |
| 0:58.8 | They just hit play. |
| 1:02.5 | I want to talk about all those in just a second. |
| 1:04.7 | First, welcome if you're new here. |
| 1:07.0 | Really appreciate it. |
| 1:08.0 | Be sure to press subscribe so you don't miss any of our coverage on this |
| 1:11.2 | case and the many cases we cover here. And yeah, leave your comments. I want to hear what you think |
| 1:17.5 | about all this stuff that's in this case because it's a cornucopia of everything. So in the |
| 1:23.2 | comment section on YouTube, please do comment. We do check that and, you know, find interesting |
| 1:28.0 | things in there quite a lot. And I also like hearing other perspectives, too. As long as they're, |
| 1:32.0 | you know, on that sane path, that's good. So please do comment. And like I said, please do press |
| 1:38.7 | subscribe. We do greatly appreciate that. So the first voicemail was left at 1259 a.m. just minutes after Reed's phone |
| 1:47.5 | connected or connected to O'Keefe's home Wi-Fi. That's important because it grounds her at the |
| 1:53.6 | house, at 34 Fairview Road at the exact time she says she dropped him off. Her voice in that text message, agitated. She's yelling, |
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