Week 6 of the Karen Read Trial-Has the Commonwealth met their burden? What has been proven thus far?

Boston Confidential Beantown's True Crime Podcast

Barry J. Maguire

Drama, Whitey, Boston, Boston True Crime, True Crime, South Boston, Charlestown, Fiction, Roxbury, Dorchester

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Send us a text What a week in Norfolk County,Massachusetts! The prosecution concluded their case in chief. What exactly did they prove. It appears that the Commonwealth has NOT proven the intent factor in the second degree homicide charge. The forensic case against Karen Read is shaky at best. Dr Welcher, an accident re-constructionist was the last witness called by the Commonwealth, was simply not what they needed. He came off as every engineer at a house party, Know it all, dismissive...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Boston Confidential, Beantown's True Crime podcast.
0:11.7	Boston is a great city, but there's more to it than the Freedom Trail in Fenway Park.
0:16.8	There's a startling underbelly to the city, and Boston Confidential will take you on a guided tour of the hub of the universe, Boston, Massachusetts.
0:26.4	Hey, everybody, welcome back to Boston Confidential. My name's Barry McGuire, and I'm your host. I'm a 20-year private investigator on the streets of Boston, and I help run a company called Impact Due Diligence Investigations.
0:40.3	If you need anything in terms of investigative services, feel free to contact me at Impact.
0:45.3	If I can't help you personally, I'll certainly direct you to the right person or agency.
0:50.3	All right guys, let's get to it.
0:52.3	Hey guys, welcome back to Boston College.
0:56.1	Covering the Karen Reed trial.
0:58.9	I guess we're in week six here.
1:01.2	I'm recording here on Sunday, June 1st.
1:05.4	I've been kind of recording later in the week
1:07.4	because so many things have been breaking, you know, after court, you know,
1:13.1	on the weekends. So I'm able to get that to you. Nothing's really broken since court on Friday,
1:19.6	but it is kind of a big deal that the prosecution has ended their case and the defense has begun theirs. And the defense has ended the
1:34.4	prosecution case, I think. It was kind of a thud. They ended with Dr. Welcher. The prosecution did.
1:43.5	And the guy's just a crackpot with crackpot science and
1:47.5	is intentionally difficult when he doesn't have to be really quirky.
1:54.5	And during one of these so-called experiments, and I'll get into it as we go, he actually
2:00.3	dressed up like John.
2:02.6	And he had some funny, snarky comment about putting on a police hat or something in court
2:10.2	to Judge Kannon.
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