One Scene, Two Realities How Crash Experts Could Split The Karen Read Jury
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 20 May 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
A single scene. One victim. But two completely different interpretations of what happened. That’s the challenge now facing jurors in the Karen Read trial, as dueling accident reconstruction experts present radically different theories of how John O’Keefe died — and what Karen Read’s vehicle had to do with it.
In this episode, we dive deep into the war of the experts. The prosecution argues that Read reversed into O’Keefe with her Lexus SUV, leaving him fatally injured in a blizzard. But the defense has countered with their own specialists — experts who suggest the injuries are inconsistent with a vehicular strike, and that the blood patterns don't match up with a hit-and-run scenario.
So how does a jury make sense of it? Attorney Eric Faddis helps us understand what jurors are actually allowed to weigh when expert opinions directly contradict each other — and how bias, credentials, courtroom delivery, and even juror fatigue can come into play.
We also explore the consequences of this forensic standoff. Could the confusion actually benefit Read’s defense? And does “reasonable doubt” thrive in environments like this — where even seasoned professionals can't agree on the physics?
The outcome of this case may hinge on a jury’s gut instinct in choosing which expert they trust more. And that decision could mean the difference between a guilty verdict and an acquittal.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. |
| 0:03.2 | Here now, Tony Brewski. |
| 0:06.0 | Let's talk about the illness of not that long ago, where they took the day off, |
| 0:13.1 | kind of out of nowhere. |
| 0:14.7 | Courts out, then it started rum, the rumor started rumbling, and people had their opinions of, |
| 0:19.9 | well, what's going on? And then we |
| 0:21.5 | officially did here. It was Karen. She wasn't feeling well. Um, allergies, apparently the, |
| 0:28.0 | the reason for canceling court that day. Um, even her own dad, who her own dad really might |
| 0:34.3 | want to just muzzle it for a little bit because he seems to be not helping |
| 0:38.4 | Karen in many ways. It's like, yeah, you know, she's feeling better now. She was, you know, |
| 0:43.7 | she was just exhausted. I'm paraphrasing here. And I get it. Of course you're going to be |
| 0:49.4 | exhausted. This has got to be insanely emotionally taxing for anyone who is on the stand innocent or guilty. |
| 0:57.4 | But to completely call off court because of allergies? |
| 1:01.9 | I mean, they drug Michael Jackson into court in his pajamas one day because he was feeling down. |
| 1:08.5 | Karen Reed is not Michael Jackson. |
| 1:15.0 | Why? How? What was going on behind the scenes here that you got Bev to agree and you got the defense and the prosecution to agree |
| 1:20.8 | because you need all three to say court's going to be done for the day? What, what in your opinion, |
| 1:25.2 | happened here to allow that to take place? You know, this was a pretty permissive allowance that the judge gave Karen Reed to miss trial due to allergies. |
| 1:35.6 | You know, I've had cases where the defendant or a witness is pregnant, and they ain't feeling so great. |
| 1:40.6 | We look at the Ditty case, Cassie Ventura, the lead victimist. |
| 1:44.0 | But on the stand, |
| 1:44.6 | I think she's on our third day now, you know, eight months pregnant or so. I've had cases |
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