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Pretty Lies And Alibis

RECAP: Day 17 Karen Read Trial DNA Expert & Taillight Reconstruction Witness

Pretty Lies And Alibis

GiGi McKelvey

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

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

  1. Witness: Andre Porto - Forensic scientist - DNA results


      2. Witness- Ashley Vallier - Mass. State Crime Lacb - reconstructed broken taillight pieces






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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 Friday, May 16th.

0:07.7

We had a really short day in court. In fact, court adjourned around 1220 for the day. So this episode is going to be very short.

0:16.7

The Commonwealth starts out with a video of an interview Karen gave and she's talking about when she found John in the snow.

0:25.2

She says she saw a piece of glass perched on his nose, so she pulled it out, and as soon as she did, blood started gushing down his face.

0:34.1

The first witness up for the day was Andre Porto, and he did DNA testing on the items in this case.

0:41.7

I'm going to really just combine the direct and the cross because it was repetitive, and that way we can just hear what both sides said at one time.

0:52.0

The root of the hair that was found on the back of the SUV had no usable

0:56.3

DNA. The witness did send the shaft of the hair to a company called Bodie. I assume later on

1:04.1

we may hear from that company about the results of the testing on that hair shaft. The fingernail clippings

1:10.5

the DNA only belonged to John.

1:13.3

As far as the taillight, we know John was a contributor,

1:17.0

and the defense asks about the other two contributors that were found.

1:22.5

Those were unknown, and the witness said could be anybody.

1:27.0

He was not asked to compare the unknown samples to police chief Berkowitz or Kevin Albert.

1:33.7

He also cannot say when that DNA was deposited.

1:37.8

As far as the broken drinking glass, John's DNA was on there as well as two unknowns.

1:44.0

He was never asked to compare DNA to

1:46.2

Brian Albert or Brian Higgins. For the blue jeans on the upper right leg area of

1:52.8

the genes there was John's profile and two unknowns. Another area of the upper

1:59.0

right leg John was a contributor as well as one unknown.

2:03.6

Although the witness says there could have been more than two contributors.

2:07.2

The witness said the unknowns could be anybody.

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