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Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

The Question That Could Break the Karen Read Case 'Did I Hit Him', FBI Behavior Expert Talks

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

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🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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The Question That Could Break the Karen Read Case 'Did I Hit Him', FBI Behavior Expert Talks  

In this episode, we focus on one of the most puzzling—and potentially case-defining—moments in the Karen Read trial. When she allegedly asked, “Did I hit him?” before John O’Keefe’s body had even been discovered, it sent shockwaves through the timeline and raised one chilling question: why would anyone assume that?

Joined by former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke, we take a deep dive into the psychological and behavioral implications of this question. Was it a moment of genuine fear, trauma-induced speculation, or the subconscious emergence of a truth she was trying to hide? Robin breaks down how professionals in behavioral analysis interpret spontaneous language, particularly under high stress and emotional duress.

Throughout this episode, we unpack why timing is everything. Saying the wrong thing too early can reveal far more than intended—and juries notice. We look at Karen Read’s overall behavior before the discovery of the body, and why her assumption that John was outside and possibly dead doesn’t align with what she should have known in that moment.

Whether you're watching this trial with a mind for justice, psychology, or forensic investigation, this is one of those episodes that cuts right to the core of what behavior reveals. Words matter—especially when they come too soon.

This video is a must-watch for anyone following the Karen Read case and trying to separate truth from narrative.


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0:00.0

This is the Hidden Killers podcast with Tony Bruske and continuing coverage of the case against

0:05.9

Karen Reid. Where what do you make of the fact that she seems to have something that is driving

0:15.7

her to say that she's concerned that he he's outside, that he got hit by a snowplow there, that he's dead,

0:24.3

which she said to Carrie, could I have hit him, did I hit him, which she then continues to say

0:30.3

until they actually find the body and then continues with that after they find the body.

0:35.6

But they're driving around town in a snowstorm.

0:39.6

These girls come and try to pick her up

0:41.4

and they're trying to figure out what's going on.

0:44.2

And she's on this direction of,

0:47.6

of I hit him, could I have hit him,

0:49.6

before they found the body?

0:52.6

Why there?

0:53.4

Why is she going there even?

0:55.1

Because if you're out and everybody's drinking and having a good time and if you saw him go into the house, which she claims that she did, although just minutes before at this moment in time, she says she doesn't remember dropping him off and that they left each other at the waterfall.

1:10.0

And then suddenly she's met with oh uh no i saw your car

1:13.5

outside my house last night karen that seems that doesn't make any sense then she has to grapple with that

1:19.6

and she's going back to i could i have hit him not he's sleeping with another woman which she was doing

1:26.3

the night before because that could be

1:28.2

plausible, you know, not, I think, for the character of John O'Keefe, but in her messed up, whatever is going

1:35.1

on in her mind, paranoid mind, that seems like a plausible idea to her, that he could just be

1:41.3

passed out on someone's couch if he went into the house that night

1:44.2

and they all been drinking maybe john just crashed there those seem like very plausible ideas

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