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Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

The Psychology Behind Karen Read’s 'Confession' – Shavaun Scott Breaks It Down

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

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🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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The Psychology Behind Karen Read’s 'Confession' – Shavaun Scott Breaks It Down
What happens when a woman with a hazy memory, a high blood alcohol count, and a house full of police becomes the center of a homicide investigation? Day one of Karen Read’s retrial kicks off with the kind of courtroom tension and narrative twists that force you to question everything. Was it an accident fueled by alcohol and chaos, or a convenient scapegoating wrapped in power dynamics and alleged cover-ups?

Psychotherapist and author Shavaun Scott joins to dissect the psychology behind Karen Read’s shifting statements—from early speculation and remorse to outright denial. Is she a woman genuinely haunted by blank spaces in her memory, or is she rewriting reality to survive? We dive into how trauma, peer pressure, and legal strategy might be colliding in one of Massachusetts' most polarizing trials. Featuring analysis of her Dateline interview, courtroom developments, and deeper insight into gaslighting and false memory, this episode explores what makes this case so disturbingly unforgettable.

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0:00.0

This is the Hidden Killers podcast with Tony Brewski and continuing coverage of the case against Karen Reid.

0:08.1

What happens in a relationship packed with passion, alcohol, and alleged personality disorders, and it collides with the old boys club of Massachusetts law enforcement.

0:19.6

In this episode, we're going to be diving into day one of the Karen Reed retrial and a bit into day two.

0:27.0

And where this is all going, where prosecutors say she drunkenly backed over her Boston cop boyfriend after a fight.

0:34.1

Or now the story is more so she clipped him, I guess.

0:38.9

The defense says, hold up.

0:41.1

There's a escapeboat goat going on here for a full house of cops who know really what happened.

0:46.8

We got paramedics, shattered taillights, dateline confessions, but we also have inconsistencies,

0:52.9

allegations of police coverups, and just enough

0:55.4

circumstantial confusion to make your headspin. Joining us is psychotherapist and author

1:01.6

Chavon Scott, who specializes in the psychology of criminal behavior, narcissism, emotional

1:07.2

manipulation. Shavon, when you look at this case, do you see the mind of a woman who might have blacked out

1:14.1

and made a fatal mistake or the psyche of someone gaslit into believing she didn't do something

1:20.6

that maybe she did do?

1:23.7

Yeah, it's one of those cases that is so convoluted and confusing.

1:30.1

But we know by how much alcohol she had had that night,

1:34.3

that very likely at best she had memory impairment at worst,

1:39.9

which I think is more likely, she has no actual recollection.

1:44.8

And so she's trying to fill in the blanks with guesses at this point.

1:49.2

And of course, she's guessing for something that means she didn't do anything wrong.

1:55.5

But clearly early on, she wasn't sure.

1:58.7

Yeah.

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