Psychotherapist Breaks Down The Many Inconsistent And Unhealthy Behaviors Of Karen Read
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 24 April 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Could Karen Read be using the narcissist’s playbook to manipulate public opinion in her alleged role in the death of John O’Keefe? What begins as a look into a toxic relationship quickly unravels into a psychological maze of contradictions, conspiracy, and chaos.
Tony Brueski teams up with psychotherapist and author Shavaun Scott to dissect the alleged behavioral patterns that mirror classic narcissistic and borderline personality traits—gaslighting, flying monkeys, and shifting stories included. From Karen's changing public narrative and contradictory interviews to the supporters who’ve seemingly abandoned their own lives to champion her cause, nothing is off-limits.
Scott offers a psychological lens on how traits from Cluster B disorders may explain Karen’s erratic statements and emotional responses—without jumping to diagnoses or conclusions. As the conversation digs deeper, the bizarre cult-like fervor of Karen’s defenders is put under the microscope: who are these people, and how did a murder case become a full-blown social crusade?
Is this just another tale of cognitive dissonance gone wild, or something much more dangerous?
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| 0:33.2 | Biting cold front. |
| 0:34.5 | Mmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be wearing or taking off. |
| 0:39.0 | The night will be wild and untamed. |
| 0:41.2 | Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak you to the skin. |
| 0:45.0 | By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching their peak in the afternoon. |
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| 0:56.2 | Sun Express, nonstop sunshine. |
| 1:00.6 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. |
| 1:04.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:06.4 | Karen Reid, we're talking about that again today. |
| 1:09.9 | Toxic relationships, specifically, the narcissist |
| 1:13.2 | playbook, it is almost painfully predictable, gaslighting manipulation, victim playing, and recruiting |
| 1:20.7 | flying monkeys who help them attack or discredit anyone who dares oppose them. |
| 1:30.0 | Karen Reid is accused in the tragic death of John O'Keefe, |
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