Karen Read Trial
Psych Legal Pop Podcast
Tess & Brooke Brigham
4.2 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2024
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Karen Read is on trial accused of killing her boyfriend John O'Keefe, a Boston Police officer, after dropping him off at the home of another Boston police officer, Brian Albert. Prosecutors allege that Read intentionally hit O'Keefe with her SUV and left him to die on Brian Albert's front lawn during a snowstorm. So far the investigation and trial has exposed misogyny toward Read by the lead investigator, bias against Read and corruption within multiple Massachusetts law enforcement agencies Karen Read maintains her innocence and asserts that she is the victim of a cover up by the police of the murder of John O'Keefe.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Psych Legal Pop podcast. |
| 0:05.5 | This is a podcast where we talk about popular culture through the lens of an attorney and a therapist. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Brooke Brigham. I'm the attorney. |
| 0:12.8 | And I'm Tess Brigham. I'm the therapist. |
| 0:15.4 | And today we are going to be talking about the trial of Karen Reed, which is currently still going on. This is a case that's in |
| 0:26.9 | in and around Boston, Massachusetts. And I don't know about the rest of the country. I mean, |
| 0:35.5 | I'm obsessed with it, but the people in Boston are very obsessed |
| 0:38.8 | of the whole state of Massachusetts. I think a lot of people are obsessed with it. And I was doing |
| 0:43.5 | a little reading real quick about like, why are we obsessed with it? And it's, I think, right, |
| 0:48.3 | it's got right all the elements of things that make a great John Grisham novel, truly. It is, it is like a John Grisham. I mean, it's got right all the elements of things that make a great John Grisham novel. It is like a John Grisham. It is. If you took stuff back and heard about the case, you're like, oh, that's a great, that would be a great show or that would be a great movie. You wouldn't think that this is real, but it's real. So I think that's what grabs us. Yeah, it's dividing the town of Canton, Massachusetts. |
| 1:12.8 | Oh, yes. A lot of people are pro-Caron-Reed. A lot of people are anti-Caron-Reed. |
| 1:18.9 | So, yeah, I'm sure we'll be talking about this again when the trial is over because the verdict in this trial is going to be very, very interesting. |
| 1:29.2 | Very interesting. Very telling. Yeah. And I think, I think this will impact things a lot to come, |
| 1:36.0 | right? Because, well, this is a different thing. But the FBI is investigating the investigation. |
| 1:41.0 | Right. So that's, so there is going to be more. There will be more to come. Yeah. |
| 1:45.5 | Okay. Okay. So I'm going to start out with a synopsis. And this is just kind of the basic setup of what the case is about. |
| 1:54.9 | So 44-year-old Karen Reid of Mansfield, Massachusetts is on trial, accused of murder and the death of her boyfriend of two years, |
| 2:03.0 | 46-year-old John O'Keefe, a Boston police officer. Reed worked as an equity advisor and was also |
| 2:09.8 | an adjunct professor at Bentley University in Massachusetts, where she received a BA, Anna M.A. and |
| 2:17.3 | finance. The couple did not live together, but Karen received a BA and an MA in finance. |
| 2:18.5 | The couple did not live together, but Karen spent a lot of time at John's house where he was |
| 2:23.0 | raising his niece and nephew after both of their parents died. |
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