Karen Read Trial Day 12 Recap: Tail Light Fragments, Black Straws & Bloody Jeans
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3 • 791 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Today’s courtroom drama in the Karen Read trial was nothing short of explosive. In this episode, we break down the full testimony of Massachusetts State Police Sgt. Yuri Bukhenik as he’s grilled by defense attorney Alan Jackson in a cross-examination that left the jury visibly shaken. From accusations of bias to disturbing revelations about former Trooper Michael Proctor’s involvement—and his now-infamous text messages—this trial is heating up fast. We walk you through the moment Bukhenik refused to call Proctor the “lead investigator,” the implications of that refusal, and how the defense is building a case that the entire investigation may have been corrupted from within. You'll also hear about key pieces of physical evidence introduced today: taillight fragments, a broken cocktail glass, and John O’Keefe’s frozen baseball cap found buried in snow. And if that weren’t enough, the prosecution had to deal with a labeling error on O’Keefe’s sneaker evidence mid-trial—prompting a recess to verify what went wrong. This episode dives deep into everything revealed on May 8, 2025, from both legal and psychological angles. If you’re following the Karen Read trial, you can’t afford to miss this.
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| 0:00.0 | The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be |
| 0:06.9 | wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak you |
| 0:13.8 | to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching their peak in the afternoon. |
| 0:21.3 | Not in the mood for miserable weather? |
| 0:23.5 | Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express. |
| 0:26.3 | Sun Express, non-stop sunshine. |
| 0:30.4 | The weather. Tomorrow, expect a... |
| 0:33.2 | Biting cold front. |
| 0:34.5 | Mmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be wearing or taking off. |
| 0:39.0 | The night will be wild and untamed. |
| 0:41.2 | Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak you to the skin. |
| 0:45.0 | By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching their peak in the afternoon. |
| 0:51.1 | Not in the mood for miserable weather? |
| 0:53.3 | Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express. |
| 0:56.2 | Sun Express, nonstop sunshine. |
| 0:59.9 | This is the Hidden Killers podcast with Tony Bruske and continuing coverage of the case against |
| 1:05.7 | Karen Reid. |
| 1:07.5 | You were sitting in the courtroom on May 8th, watching Sergeant Yuri Bruchenek take the witness stand again, you could almost feel the tension thicken in the air like humidity before a storm. |
| 1:23.7 | There wasn't a lightning strike, at least not at first, just the quiet, calculated approach of defense attorney Alan Jackson, rising to his feet and signaling to the jury that the prosecution's carefully painted picture was about to get a few cracks. |
| 1:40.7 | This wasn't about whether a taillight matched or a timestamp aligned. |
| 1:45.6 | It was about rot. |
| 1:48.5 | About whether the foundation of the entire investigation was stable or whether it had been poisoned from the very start by its own lead investigator. |
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