Karen Read Trial Day 9: A "Confession", Red Solo Cups, & No Body On The Lawn??

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

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🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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A firefighter-paramedic says she heard Read confess, but never never wrote it down. Meanwhile, a party guest swears she’d been to the house over 20 times… but somehow forgot the family dog. And multiple witnesses say they saw Karen sitting in her SUV, but not the body prosecutors claim was lying in the snow. Nobody saw anything. Nobody remembers anything. So… is this a cover-up? Or just the worst collective memory in Massachusetts? In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down every angle of Day 9 in the Karen Read retrial.

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0:00.0	Hi there. I'm Ashley Bainfield and this is Drop Dead Serious. We're now in week three of the Karen Reed retrial. And today, the courtroom turned up the heat. On the witness stand, a paramedic who says she heard Karen Reed confess, and yet she never wrote it down.
0:25.8	There was also a lifelong friend of the Albert family who suddenly cannot remember the Albert family dog.
0:33.7	And a police friendly witness who may not be as neutral as she claimed.
0:39.2	Today we're skipping the slow stuff when we're going right to the highlights.
0:42.3	So let's get started with Sarah Levinson, a nurse and longtime friend of both Julie Nagel and Brian Albert Jr.
0:50.7	Remember, Brian lived at the home where John O'Keefe was found frozen in the snow. Sarah testified
0:56.3	that she'd been to the Albert home more than 20 times, including the night of the
1:01.7	fateful party, and that everything that night seemed normal. Sarah said that she and Julie arrived
1:08.1	at the party around 7 or 8 p.m., driven by Julie's dad, and said that when they got there, the place was already filled with members of the Albert family.
1:19.3	Four other girls showed up.
1:22.7	So Courtney Alba came by herself, and then Catherine Dutie, Emily Fabiano, and Mary Kent all came together.
1:33.7	Are those friends of Brian Juniors?
1:35.6	Yes.
1:36.1	Did you know who all of them were?
1:37.7	Yes.
1:38.4	Were you friendly with them?
1:41.6	Some of them, yes.
1:43.4	We were all friendly but not friends.
1:47.0	One of Brian Jr.'s cousins come at some point?
1:51.0	Yes.
1:52.0	You mentioned that the visitors, the young woman that came to see Brian Jr. left.
1:59.0	After they left, did somebody else come to or arrive at Fairview?
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