Welcome back to Kern Affairs, our show about the stories of Love Gone Fatally Wrong that are in the news right this very minute.

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while our extensive full-length deep dives come out on Wednesdays.

It's been another crazy week in the murder trial of Karen Reed, outside Boston.

There was an entire new section of Tik-Toc that is just people following every wild twists and turn.

For those of you who only have so much time to dedicate however we've got you covered.

Friday was a big day in the trial and the first witness to testify that day was Jessica Hyde, a digital

forensics expert specializing in cell phone data.

Hyde began by describing the process of extracting and analyzing Google searches.

She focused on a specific search she examined,

Haas or How Long to Die in Cold.

Previous testimony from witness Jennifer McCabe

confirmed that she searched the phrase on the day of

O'Keefe's death. The defense team argued that the search occurred at 2.27 a.m.

while McCabe and the prosecutors maintained the search was conducted closer to 6.30 in the morning,

after O'Keefe's body was found lying in the snow.

Hyde explained that it's hard to pinpoint exactly when the search occurred,

noting that 227 a.m. is just the time when the tab was

opened. It's about the tab not about the search, Hyde clarified. Hyde was briefly

cross-examined by defense attorney David Yannetti who pressed her on

whether the evidence she reviewed would rule out McCabe making the search at

227 a.m. She insisted it was unlikely but could not rule it out entirely.

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