Hey everybody. I'm Ashley Banfield. Welcome back to another episode of Drop Dead

Serious. Today was day seven in the Karen Reed trial, I should say retrial. And we are back

with Jennifer McCabe on the stand. Remember, Jen McCabe is the sister of the woman who threw the party at 34 Fairview Road.

That homeowner's husband, Brian Albert, was a Boston cop, just like John O'Keefe, the victim, who died.

And it was Jen McCabe who made the 911 call.

And it was Jen McCabe who Googled how long to die in the cold with the infamous misspelling

of the word how, written as Hoss.

This morning started off friendly with more questions from the prosecution.

But by the afternoon, yeah, things took a drastic turn, as they do when cross-examinations get

underway.

It's all fine and dandy when you're dealing with a friendly, right?

You're a prosecution witness and it's the prosecutor who's asking you the questions.

Yeah, that part's the easy part.

It's when the defense gets its chance to come at you.

That's when things get tense. And the defense

came out swinging, especially when things got personal and fast. I should mention to you that Jen

McCabe did great. I mean, her attitude on the stand is like night and day compared to the last trial.

She is holding it together.

And by the way, that is really, really important because you have got to make sure that the

jury doesn't see that you're one way when you get the friendly questions and another way

when you get the not so friendly questions from the cross-exam.

If the jury decides all of a sudden you're a changed person, they are just not going to

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