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S3 Ep312: Crime Weekly News: Karen Read Will Be Found NOT GUILTY

Crime Weekly

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True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.89.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Karen Read, accused of killing her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, is now on trial for a second time. With jurors now deliberating after hearing months of testimony, the case hinges on conflicting narratives: prosecutors claim Read struck O’Keefe with her car, leaving him to die, while the defense argues she’s being framed and a law enforcement cover-up is at play.

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone, welcome back to Crime Weekly News.

0:15.7

I'm Derek Lavasar.

0:16.6

And I'm Stephanie Harlow.

0:18.0

And as we're recording this, just so this context, it is Tuesday afternoon 4.19 p.m.

0:24.7

And as you can tell from the title of this video, we're talking about Karen Reed.

0:29.0

And yes, I came up with the title of this episode.

0:32.1

I believe that Karen Reid will be found not guilty.

0:34.5

But it's not as clear cut as that.

0:35.8

And we're going to talk about it. So first off, for anyone who doesn't know, we were also just recording our Darley-Routier

0:41.7

part five episode, and I was following Twitter in the news to see if there were any updates.

0:46.8

And there was a lot of movement today with the jury.

0:49.7

We're going to break that down.

0:51.0

And we're going to give our opinions as to why we think, and we're not legal

0:55.4

experts, why we think that she will ultimately be found not guilty of the two more extreme

1:00.9

charges. There's some other charges that she may be found guilty of based on the questioning that

1:05.4

was asked. We're going to talk about all of it. Anything you want to say, Stephanie, before we dive into

1:10.2

again, we're just, we just finished Darley-Routier. We have not researched this. We're going

1:15.2

off what's been put out there on X and all that stuff. And this is going to be a different

1:19.1

crime weekly news. There's no script. We're just going to be talking about it. But I think based

1:23.0

on the questions, I feel very confident in saying she's going to be acquitted. I think that's the only

1:28.2

appropriate outcome. And somebody actually texted me last night because they know that I've covered

1:31.9

this and talked about it. And it appears a lot of people are just jumping on to this now and

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