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Pretty Lies And Alibis

RECAP: Day 16 Karen Read Trial - Medical Examiner Takes The Stand

Pretty Lies And Alibis

GiGi McKelvey

True Crime, News, Daily News, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

The medical examiner takes the stand and explains the injuries to John as well as the internal signs that hypothermia played a role in his death





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0:00.0

What you know, alibiers. Welcome to another episode of Pretty Lies and Alibis. I'm Gigi. It's Thursday,

0:06.3

May 15th. I hope you guys have had a good day so far. Mine has been amazing. My son found out today

0:13.5

that he passed his EMT national certification test, and he graduates tonight. So it's a happy day around Gigi's house. We're going to jump

0:23.1

right in. Back on the stand was Maureen Hartnett. She was still on cross-exam. There was no testing of any

0:30.7

alleged taillight found on scene for biological materials, things such as blood, saliva, or skin cells. As far as the hoodie and the

0:40.5

t-shirt, she did find debris on both pieces and combined those scrapings. She explains the scrapings

0:48.5

remove the debris. And the reason she combined from both the sweatshirt and the t-shirt into one container is because

0:57.4

the clothing had already commingled and it wouldn't be appropriate to separate those.

1:03.2

There's no description of the actual debris she found, such as whether it was fibers or hair.

1:10.0

She really didn't do any examination.

1:12.4

She just packaged it.

1:14.2

There was also no note of any plastic,

1:17.2

but she said that's not part of her analysis.

1:20.4

She will shake the bag to be sure any debris that settled on the bottom comes out.

1:26.3

They show the evidence bag filled out by Trooper

1:28.9

Proctor. The clothing was collected January 29th from the hospital. She doesn't know the journey

1:35.9

of the two items before she received them. There were clippings from John's fingernails from

1:42.1

the autopsy and those were submitted. A Norfolk

1:45.3

detective unit submitted those to the lab. She has no knowledge of the chain of custody of any of

1:51.5

the items prior to those being sent to the lab. On redirect, back to those red solo cups in the paper

1:59.0

bag. She had never seen blood preserved in cups like that before.

2:03.8

She only saw scratches to the right side of Karen's SUV, nothing on the left or in the middle.

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