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Manipulation or Miscommunication? Jurors Hear Karen Read’s Final Texts to O’Keefe

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

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🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Manipulation or Miscommunication? Jurors Hear Karen Read’s Final Texts to O’Keefe
What if the only thing they can prove is that she was drunk?

Defense Attorney Bob Motta, host of Defense Diaries, joins Tony Bruski to dissect the tangled web of Karen Read's statements, intoxication, and the dangerously blurred lines of memory and guilt. From fluctuating drink counts to the question of blackouts, the conversation unravels how intoxication is being used both as a weapon and a shield in this case. Motta doesn't just analyze her words—he lays out how the defense can turn chaos into reasonable doubt.

This isn’t about proving who’s likable—it’s about whether a jury can convict someone whose every retelling contradicts the last. The deeper you go, the more disturbing it gets: relationships layered with manipulation, emotional volatility, and the raw reality of alcohol-fueled confusion.

How much of what Karen says is trauma and how much is strategy? And if she was truly blacked out, does that make her less guilty—or more dangerous?

#KarenRead #DefenseDiaries #BobMotta #JohnOKeefe #TrueCrimeAnalysis #DrunkDefense #CourtroomStrategy #ToxicRelationships #MurderTrial #LegalBreakdown

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0:00.0

This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. Here now, Tony Brucey.

0:06.2

I know there's a lot of clips that are going to keep coming out. I'm guessing there'll be a grand finale towards the end, but they've already been pretty powerful.

0:13.3

One of the more powerful ones I think that we've seen thus far where they go back to back to back to back with different clips is Karen talking about her drinking habits

0:21.5

and talking about what went on that night. And we heard everything. We heard vodka tonic every 40

0:28.2

minutes. We heard I had four. I had six. They weren't that strong. And then I ordered an

0:34.7

extra shot and poured it in there. The last one that they had played

0:39.0

where it really, she goes on like a three, four minute explanation of how many drinks she had.

0:44.6

I mean, that pretty, I mean, it's like, okay, it's spoken like an alcoholic, not saying she is,

0:49.8

but when you're going on that long of an explanation tour of how many drinks you had,

0:55.9

there might be a problem going on there.

0:59.0

How do you think that lands?

1:00.1

I mean, none of it proves that she killed him,

1:02.0

but it also shows that her credibility isn't the greatest that she said all these different

1:08.0

versions of how much she had that night to all these different

1:11.6

people then it started to make you wonder what else is she not being accurate about it but

1:16.2

she just doesn't remember to me it like that's what i'm saying i said it earlier and i want to stand

1:22.3

by it that the fact of the matter it doesn't change a goddamn thing the only thing that they could

1:25.9

prove beyond a reasonable doubt is that she was drunk.

1:29.4

If they should have, you know what they could definitely nail her on as a DUI?

1:33.3

Yes.

1:33.8

Like they could absolutely nail her on a DUI.

1:36.7

So like if I'm the defense, I'm not trying to run from it because it is what it is.

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