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The Trial Of Karen Read | Justice For John O'Keefe

The Wildest Defense in a Murder Trial: Eric Faddis on the Karen Read Case

The Trial Of Karen Read | Justice For John O'Keefe

Tony Brueski

True Crime, News, News Commentary

2.2614 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The Wildest Defense in a Murder Trial: Eric Faddis on the Karen Read Case

Could a group of off-duty cops, neighbors, and friends really stage a murder, move a body, cover it up, and keep it quiet for over two years — all without a single witness flipping? That’s the theory the defense is offering in the Karen Read trial.

In this episode, former prosecutor and legal analyst Eric Faddis joins us to break down just how wild the claims have gotten — and whether any of it holds up under actual courtroom scrutiny. From the “murder-by-dog” suggestion to the infamous flagpole location and the now-infamous 2:27 a.m. Google search, we’re diving into the tangled web of what the defense wants the jury to believe.

Faddis gives a prosecutor’s perspective on how far a theory can go before it collapses under its own weight. He explores what a jury actually responds to: consistency, logic, and real-world behavior. And in this case? That may be the biggest challenge for the defense yet.

If you’ve been following this case and thinking, “Wait — does any of this make sense?” — this is the episode for you.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:07.5

Oh, there's a lot to break down in the trial of Karen Reed.

0:11.7

As we're about to get into week three of the trial, lots has happened, and there are a lot of things to come.

0:21.2

Joining me to discuss Eric Fattis, defense attorney, former prosecutor.

0:26.0

Yeah, we're still in the prosecution's case right now.

0:28.7

Of course, we're seeing a lot of very interesting cross with several of the witnesses.

0:33.1

Let's just start from the prosecution standpoint.

0:35.1

Before we start looking at some of the clips, what's been your take on how things have been going for them?

0:41.3

Prosecution from the first trial has really beefed up their presentation.

0:46.4

They've sort of done it in a refined way.

0:48.8

They're showing clips of Karen Reed's statements after different witnesses, which sort of show inconsistencies and

0:56.1

discrepancies. And on top of that, they beefed up their cell phone expert, which scored them

1:02.3

some points in terms of where John O'Keefe's cell phone likely would have been during this series of events.

1:08.2

And there was a lot of, let's start with the cell phone data because that was an interesting

1:13.0

one.

1:13.6

Of course, you have one expert saying this, this is what we found.

1:17.8

We dug deeper into the data.

1:20.0

It got kind of technical for a little bit, but I think he ended up spelling it out with

1:24.1

some graphics for the jury pretty well, even going as far as actually

1:27.8

demonstrating in court how the 225, how as long to die in cold was actually at six

1:36.5

something based on the browser history and the tabs and all the technicalities in that.

1:42.0

That, you know, it's a couple steps. Do you think the jury, do you think it

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