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

Why Karen Read’s Words to O’Keefe’s Kids Are Psychologically Alarming

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

Tony Brueski

True Crime, News, News Commentary

2.2614 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Why Karen Read’s Words to O’Keefe’s Kids Are Psychologically Alarming

Karen Read didn’t just allegedly leave John O’Keefe in the snow. According to testimony and records, she also ranted to his orphaned niece and nephew—kids he was raising—calling him a “f-ing pervert,” a “f-ing loser,” and accusing him of cheating… all because someone mentioned a woman’s name as a navigation marker.

In this powerful conversation, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins us to discuss what these moments reveal about Karen Read’s emotional control, potential narcissistic tendencies, and the trauma such behavior may cause to children.

What does this say about Karen Read’s mental state? Why is this moment so pivotal in the trial? And how might jurors interpret this mix of rage, projection, and cruelty?

You won’t want to miss this mental health deep dive into one of the most emotionally volatile true crime cases we’ve covered.

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0:00.0

This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske.

0:03.2

Here now, Tony Bruske.

0:06.2

Of course, the conspiracy to play out involves now more than 40 people, many different

0:12.9

departments of government, and then civilians, housewives, teachers, just every normal human being from white collar to blue collar it's just a

0:25.2

section of society everyone and most don't know each other and they all would have had to

0:31.7

conspire at the same time to go against karen reed and I don't know, plant evidence.

0:37.8

I mean, because we've now heard about all the solo cups.

0:39.8

That's a big thing.

0:40.8

Like, yeah, it does, what does it even prove?

0:43.3

It's John's blood at the end of the day.

0:45.4

Right.

0:46.0

But this is Kate McLaughlin.

0:49.7

This is a first responder on the scene that they were trying to discredit about her relationship with one of the Elbert's daughters.

0:58.8

But this is her testimony, which was pretty solid.

1:03.0

It's another recognition of her saying, I hit him.

1:07.1

Once we had come to a stop, I asked if there had been any significant trauma

1:12.6

that happened that preceded this. And she answered with a series of statements that she repeated,

1:21.0

I hit him. I hit him. There was a woman next to us who told her to calm down,

1:29.6

stop talking, calm down, you're hysterical.

1:32.5

So she repeated, I hit him, and a police officer asked her, said, you what?

1:39.7

And she repeated it again, I hit him.

1:42.4

And the officer then signaled for his sergeant to come down to the scene or down to where he was.

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