Karen Trial Raw Testimony: Retired Lt. Paul Gallagher – Scene Management & Evidence Handling
The Trial Of Karen Read | Justice For John O'Keefe
Tony Brueski
2.2 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Retired Lt. Paul Gallagher described the challenging conditions at the crime scene, explaining the use of a leaf blower and Solo cups to collect evidence due to heavy snowfall. His testimony aimed to justify the unconventional methods employed during the initial investigation, emphasizing the urgency and necessity of preserving evidence under adverse weather conditions. Gallagher's account provided the jury with context for the scene management decisions made during the early stages of the investigation.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Hidden Killers podcast with Tony Brewski and continuing coverage of the case against Karen Reed. |
| 0:09.5 | The time that you were inside the residence, you did not seek to or ask permission to look around any place other than where you happen to be standing, which is right inside that front door, the family room, sort of adjacent to the kitchen area, correct? |
| 0:22.3 | That is correct, yes, sir. You didn't walk into any adjacent rooms? No, sir. No, sir. Okay. You didn't walk into any, you didn't search the kitchen area? I did not, no, sir. You didn't look through the cabinets or anything like that? Absolutely not, no. You didn't look at the glassware? |
| 0:37.6 | Absolutely not, no. |
| 0:38.6 | You didn't go down to the basement. |
| 0:40.1 | We talked about that previously. |
| 0:41.5 | Correct. the cabinets or anything like that absolutely not no you didn't look at the glassware absolutely not no you didn't go down to the basement we talked about |
| 0:40.5 | that previously correct no absolutely not okay you didn't go out to the garage |
| 0:45.4 | no sir don't look around the garage no other than walking in and and |
| 0:53.3 | basically where you just described standing while Sergeant |
| 1:00.9 | Lank was engaged with Ms. McCabe, you didn't do anything to search the interior of that house |
| 1:06.6 | for anything. |
| 1:07.6 | No, I wasn't there to search at all. |
| 1:09.2 | Okay. |
| 1:13.8 | You also didn't subsequent to that, I wasn't there to search at all. Okay. You also didn't, subsequent to that, |
| 1:21.2 | you didn't seek or receive a search warrant. No, I did not. Okay. You didn't believe that it was necessary, in your mind, it was necessary to seek a search warrant to search the interior of that |
| 1:25.1 | house. That's absolutely correct. |
| 1:34.2 | You were aware at the time that you did go into the house that Sergeant Lake had earlier reported at least the possibility that John O'Keefe may have gotten into a fight, correct? |
| 1:41.3 | I don't recall that. |
| 1:43.3 | We went over options on how he could have come to where he was, and an altercation certainly was one of them. |
| 1:49.0 | Okay, so that's fair enough. So an altercation meeting was one of them. When you say altercation, that means a physical fight, correct? |
| 1:57.0 | Sure. |
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