Untested Blood & Teen Testimony — Attorney Eric Faddis on the Karen Read Trial’s Explosive Week
The Trial Of Karen Read | Justice For John O'Keefe
Tony Brueski
2.2 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Attorney Eric Faddis returns to break down what may be the most pivotal week yet in the Karen Read trial — a week that saw emotional testimony from John O’Keefe’s niece and nephew and shocking revelations about critical evidence that was never tested. The courtroom was left reeling as jurors learned that blood found inside the home and on household items was never submitted for forensic analysis — a potentially massive gap in the state’s investigation.
But that’s just the start. We dive into the testimony of the two teens who lived with John O’Keefe. Their words painted a stark portrait of the final weeks of his relationship with Karen Read — not as a couple growing closer, as Read’s defense has claimed, but as a household filled with tension, volatility, and escalating verbal abuse.
With Eric Faddis guiding us through the legal framework, we examine how the prosecution is constructing a motive using the testimony of these young witnesses — and how the defense might counter by attacking credibility, suggesting manipulation, or claiming bias.
Then we get into the elephant in the room: how can you claim to have conducted a thorough investigation when blood at the crime scene remains untested? Eric walks us through whether that constitutes negligence, prosecutorial strategy, or something more sinister.
If you're trying to make sense of how the evidence — or lack thereof — is shaping this trial, this episode breaks it down from every legal angle.
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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. |
| 0:18.6 | I got to say, not looking that great for Karen Reid, but the defense still has to take their turn and we'll see what they bring. |
| 0:25.2 | They've been bringing some interesting points thus far. I think one of the bigger ones that's been standing out to me, Red Solo Cups, not about how the evidence was gathered or why it was gathered in red solo cups and not 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. |
| 1:04.2 | 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 bag, |
| 1:22.1 | so they grabbed Red Solo cups and gathered it, basically stating, we either get it now or we don't |
| 1:27.1 | 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, |
| 1:36.2 | but we don't have any information on what was found in those cups about the blood itself, |
| 1:41.7 | 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 |
| 2:01.2 | and evidence, what's the reason you do that? Well, one of the biggest reasons is the next step |
| 2:06.0 | is to test it, to see what's in there. Is it only John O'Keeves' blood? Are there other findings |
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