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Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

Karen Read Trial Day 3: Vodka Tonics & A Relationship In The Toilet?

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

True Crime

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Jurors heard testimony from a firefighter who found John O’Keefe in the snow, read tense texts between Karen and John, and watched clips of Karen’s own words in national TV interviews. In this episode, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down everything that happened on Day 3.

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0:00.0

The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be

0:06.8

wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain

0:13.0

that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching

0:18.7

their peak in the afternoon.

0:23.0

Not in the mood for miserable weather.

0:25.6

Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express.

0:28.7

Sun Express, non-stop sunshine.

0:41.0

Hi there. I'm Ashley Banfield, and welcome back to another episode of Drop Dead series.

0:46.2

It's day three of Karen Reid's retrial unfolding in Dedham, Massachusetts.

0:49.0

And today was short, but it wasn't sweet.

0:55.7

Jurors got a blistering view into the relationship between Karen Reed and her boyfriend, John O'Keefe,

1:01.2

a Boston cop who was found dead in the snow outside of a house party three years ago.

1:06.3

Prosecutors say Karen hit him with her car after a boozy night and a day of fighting.

1:13.1

Karen says he died inside that house party and that she's being framed by the real killer or killers.

1:19.3

If you are new to this case and you need an overview or even if you've been following the case but you need a refresher,

1:24.3

I got a few podcast episodes about this case and they'll be linked in the show notes.

1:28.0

And if you're watching this on YouTube, the episodes will be in the video description. That should help you get back up to speed. So back to today, and that blistering

1:34.9

view into their relationship that I just mentioned. It came in the form of text messages, a barrage

1:41.3

of messages and phone calls that showed a desperate and angry Karen Reid

1:46.0

battling with her boyfriend in the hours before he died.

1:50.2

Jurors also today watched clips from Karen Reed's media interviews,

1:55.2

where she talks openly about vodka tonics and how much she had to drink

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