They Never Tested the Blood! Eric Faddis on the Stunning Oversight in the Karen Read Case
The Trial Of Karen Read | Justice For John O'Keefe
Tony Brueski
2.2 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
In this jaw-dropping episode, Attorney Eric Faddis helps us unpack one of the most baffling oversights in the Karen Read case: blood was discovered on key objects in the house where John O’Keefe was last seen alive — but it was never tested.
How does that even happen?
We take a hard look at what this missing forensic testing could mean for the integrity of the entire investigation. Blood on a cup, a kitchen item, and even on interior surfaces might have held critical answers — but according to courtroom testimony, those samples were never analyzed. Eric walks us through the legal fallout of such a lapse: Is this just bad police work, or something more strategic? And could it ultimately derail the prosecution’s narrative?
We also examine how this revelation plays with jurors. Does it feed the defense’s claim that Karen Read is the target of a botched and biased investigation? Or will the prosecution argue that the untested samples don’t matter — that the case is strong enough without them?
This episode is for anyone who’s ever asked, “Why didn’t they test that?” — and wants a real answer from someone who’s been on both sides of the courtroom.
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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. |
| 0:08.0 | More questions and, well, we need some answers on some of these things. There's certainly a lot that's been going on in the trial of Karen Reid. A lot of it thus far, I got to say, not looking that great for Karen Reed, but the defense still |
| 0:22.3 | has to take their turn, and we'll see what they bring. They've been bringing some interesting |
| 0:26.5 | points thus far. I think one of the bigger ones that's been standing out to me, Red Solo Cups, |
| 0:32.4 | not about how the evidence was gathered or why it was gathered in Red Solo Cups and not |
| 0:37.4 | evidence bags, |
| 0:38.1 | I think they explained that pretty well in the middle of the nor'easter. They were doing what they |
| 0:42.2 | could get it or don't get it at all. But what they did with it after is, I think, the piece I have |
| 0:47.9 | a question about. Joining me to discuss, Eric Fattis, defense attorney, former prosecutor. |
| 0:53.3 | Yeah. So they gathered the blood samples, the pieces of coagulated blood that were in the snow outside of 34 Fairview all surrounding John O'Keefe. |
| 1:04.3 | It's, I mean, it's easy, you know, if you're just on the surface saying, oh, well, that must be Johns. |
| 1:10.4 | I mean, logically, he's the only one that's |
| 1:12.2 | out there with injuries and laying in the snow. One would think that would be, but you want to make |
| 1:17.1 | sure. So they gathered the evidence in the middle of that Nor'Easter. They didn't have evidence |
| 1:21.7 | bag, so they grabbed Red Solo cups and gathered it, basically stating, we either get it now or we |
| 1:26.9 | don't get it at all. |
| 1:28.2 | So they got it, put it in a paper bag, and then sent it off to evidence, where they did take it, |
| 1:36.1 | but we don't have any information on what was found in those cups about the blood itself, |
| 1:41.6 | who it belonged to, with a case that is, you know, fraught with |
| 1:45.8 | conspiracy, seems to be kind of a big step to be missing. I mean, why not just process it? |
| 1:54.5 | That's certainly my question as well. I mean, if you're going to go through the trouble of gathering |
| 1:59.0 | it and securing it and storing it |
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