Legal Analysis: Could Inaction Be the Crime in the Karen Read Case?
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Karen Read is on trial for second-degree murder—but what if the case is less about what she allegedly did, and more about what she didn’t do?
In this edition of Hidden Killers, Eric Faddis, former prosecutor and legal analyst, explores the idea that inaction—not direct intent—could be central to the case. With Dr. Wolf testifying that John O’Keefe did not die immediately after his injuries, and with no evidence that Karen Read ever attempted to render aid, the legal question becomes chillingly simple: if she left him there, did that constitute a fatal decision?
Tony and Eric dig into the duty to render aid, legal definitions of “depraved indifference,” and how a failure to act—especially when time could’ve saved a life—can cross the line into criminal liability. This isn’t just about science. It’s about responsibility.
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| 1:03.2 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 1:09.4 | Another big thing recently in the trial of Karen Reid, Hank Brennan's got the clips. |
| 1:14.0 | He keeps going through them. |
| 1:15.1 | And I think there's like, as we're sitting, there's like 21 or some more clips still |
| 1:19.2 | to come. |
| 1:19.8 | I can't wait. |
| 1:21.8 | Because thank goodness, the folks at Investigation Discovery who did the doc didn't delete their stuff from the cutting room floor |
| 1:28.9 | not that you normally would but they had the goods i'm wondering how long they sat there thinking |
| 1:34.2 | gee we might need to provide this at some point they did a good job just on the dock but i mean |
| 1:41.6 | this is like you know the the DVD extras almost that they could have been had people still get DVDs. |
| 1:49.1 | What else do you think? Pure speculation we're going to hear from Karen Reid before we actually talk about some of the things we did hear from Karen Reid out of her own words this week. |
| 2:00.0 | You know, so far there have been clips that really show some inconsistencies. |
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