S3 Ep257: John O'Keefe: Commonwealth vs Karen Read (Part 3)

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🗓️ 6 December 2024

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

In the early morning hours of Saturday, January 29th, 2022, Boston Police officer John O’Keefe was found dead in a snowbank outside a home in Canton, Massachusetts. According to the medical examiner, O’Keefe had died from blunt force trauma and hypothermia. At first it seemed like a tragic accident, maybe a slip on the ice, a fall that ended in death. But as investigators dug deeper, things became far more complicated and Karen Read, O’Keefe’s girlfriend, became the center of the investigation. Evidence that there had been trouble in paradise in the romantic relationship began to surface, but so did other disturbing possibilities. What seemed like a domestic tragedy was quickly clouded by allegations of police corruption and cover-up, and an investigation that many believe was compromised from the start. What if the very people tasked with upholding the law were covering up the truth? Was John O’Keefe’s death a result of an angry lovers rage- or the collateral damage of a police force protecting its own? In this case, the line between justice and corruption becomes confusingly blurred. Evidence disappears, witnesses are silenced, and as the truth slowly rises to the surface, it may reveal a web of lies that’s more dangerous than anyone could have predicted. Was Karen Read the scapegoat in a larger cover-up? And what role did corruption within the police department play in distorting facts. This may not be just a story of love gone wrong, it may in fact turn out to be a story of power, deceit, and the price people will pay to keep the darkest of dark secrets buried. Join us as we delve deep into the case of John O’Keefe and Karen Read, and help us see if we can get closer to the truth.

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Crime Weekly. I'm Stephanie Harlow. And I'm Derek LaVaser.
0:17.5	All right. So today we're diving into part three of the John O'Keefe and Karen Reed case. I know before
0:23.9	we get into the episode, there's a few things Derek wants to talk about. So take it away. Yes. If you
0:30.8	watch Crime Weekly News, you can probably skip this first part if you haven't. Big announcement. We have
0:35.5	funded our second case for criminal coffee. Right now,
0:38.7	we're calling her Carolyn. That's, and that's a name that we're coming up with. It's not like
0:42.8	Preble Penny where there was already a name established. But essentially, it's been a long time coming.
0:48.5	I mentioned on Crime Weekly News. There's much more to the story that maybe one day we will share.
0:53.2	Maybe we'll do an entire episode on it, but it was very difficult to not only find a case
0:57.8	to fund, but find a case where we could track it, be involved, and hold people accountable
1:02.6	to make sure that the money was being utilized properly and that this doesn't just sit
1:07.0	on a shelf somewhere for six months.
1:09.0	So fortunately, we have some good partners. I want to
1:12.1	mention them. Moxif forensics. Shout out to them for being willing to open up this case to not only
1:18.3	criminal coffee, but also break investigative group, my company. I have two genealogists,
1:22.9	Jeremy and Ryan, who will be working hand in hand with Moxie Forensics on the investigative genetic
1:28.5	genealogy portion of this investigation.
1:32.4	Intermountain forensics, that's a familiar name for you guys.
1:35.2	They did Preble Penny.
1:36.3	They will be doing the DNA sequencing on this case to see if they can develop a profile
1:41.2	that can be examined.
1:43.0	Also want to give a shout out to Dr. Julie Feischman from the Harris County Institute of Forensic
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