Key Officers In The Karen Read & Sandra Birchmore Case Seem To Have A Cover-Up Pattern -WEEK IN REVIEW
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🗓️ 6 October 2024
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Week in review. |
| 0:02.4 | I look back at the most prolific stories of the week. |
| 0:05.4 | Every smile hides a secret, and some of them are deadly. |
| 0:09.2 | Welcome to Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:11.9 | Featuring retired FBI special agent and chief of the counterintelligence behavioral analysis program, Robin Dreek. |
| 0:19.7 | Sandra Birchmore, Karen Reed. |
| 0:22.3 | It's a case that shares a lot in common, a lot of officers in common. |
| 0:27.7 | Obviously, a lot of questions in the Karen Reed case about accountability, about cover-up, about |
| 0:32.2 | possibly planting evidence, about protecting the blue. |
| 0:35.6 | Sandra Birchmore, also a case that has a lot of those same issues in it, protecting |
| 0:40.8 | and incompetence or purposeful cover-up. |
| 0:46.3 | The disturbing part about both these cases is it involves a lot of the exact same people. |
| 0:51.3 | And when that happens, we start to see kind of a behavior arc. We see |
| 0:55.1 | consistency. We see a pattern of behavior. Joining me to discuss Robin Drake, retired FBI special |
| 0:59.5 | agent, chief of the counterintelligence behavioral analysis program. I got this in a text on our |
| 1:05.2 | Instagram account from a listener. And I wanted to make sure it was completely accurate. So I did my digging, and I went through to make sure that what was said in this text was, in fact, true. |
| 1:17.3 | I'm just going to read it here to you. |
| 1:19.6 | The first officer on the scene at John O'Keeffe's death was Officer Link, who said he heard Karen Reed say she hit him, |
| 1:25.6 | but he's the one who also did not put it in his report. |
| 1:28.9 | And the first officer on the scene at Sandra Birchmore's death was also Officer Lank, because Sandra was from Stoughton, but lived in Canton at that point. |
| 1:37.6 | The second officer was Kevin Albert. |
| 1:40.3 | Brian Albert's brother, the state trooper who investigated Sandra Birchmore's death. |
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