Will A Sloppy Investigation Set Karen Read Free? Bob Motta Talks
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🗓️ 13 May 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Tony Brueski and Bob Motta tackle the elephant in the courtroom: the sloppy, questionable, and arguably negligent police investigation into the death of John O’Keefe. From the inexplicable failure to request a consent search of the Albert residence — where O’Keefe was allegedly dropped off — to the mishandling of key evidence like clotted blood in Solo cups and a fragmented taillight that appeared only after Proctor revisited the scene, Motta argues that this case is riddled with procedural red flags.
Motta explains the legal strategy at play — invoking the Bowden defense — which allows the defense to argue that reasonable doubt stems not from what the state proved, but from what they failed to investigate. If you’re prosecuting Karen Read but never checked inside the house she claims O’Keefe entered, did you really do your job? The trial, Motta says, doesn’t hinge only on what happened, but on what the government didn’t bother to find out.
Tony plays devil’s advocate, raising the issue of practical challenges like a blizzard burying the crime scene — but Motta maintains: if Proctor hadn’t tunnel-visioned on Karen Read from day one, better decisions would’ve followed. The system didn’t just fail Karen Read — it failed John O’Keefe too.
This episode breaks down the difference between proving innocence and exposing investigative incompetence — and why the latter just might be enough for a not guilty verdict.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:06.1 | It's easy to sit here on the sidelines because you and I haven't been arrested, you know, |
| 0:11.2 | after a night of heavy drinking and trying to put the pieces together with your life on the line. |
| 0:17.9 | Like after the fact, you know, it's like, I just think that the reality is that she has |
| 0:23.3 | no idea what happened that night. And I think that once she hired on some, some lawyers that |
| 0:29.3 | started digging into the discovery and namely, again, the science, man. I mean, like, I don't |
| 0:35.0 | give a shit what she said. i i care whether we're seeing here |
| 0:38.7 | that that shows that she he was beat up in a house i mean i like like you know that's not my thing |
| 0:44.9 | yeah like whether or not that happened i have no fucking clue sure all i can do all i can do frankly |
| 0:52.6 | is look at what the science shows with respect to whether or not |
| 0:58.4 | there was a motor vehicle pedestrian strike. And like, I don't, like, the rest of it is all |
| 1:05.1 | outside noise to me. And like, I get why, you know, people hang their hats. I mean, you see it in every single case, you know, when they start looking at your life under the microscope. |
| 1:15.1 | And if you're like Karen and you make bad moves and you start talking to all kinds of people and you're telling all kinds of different stories because you don't know what the fuck happened. |
| 1:23.6 | And then they bring those back to you. |
| 1:26.0 | You know, it's not a good look. But at the end of the day, |
| 1:29.7 | the only thing that we have to really hang our hat on is to whether or not there was a motor |
| 1:35.3 | vehicle strike is the science and the evidence. So, you know, look, I mean, we're going to hear |
| 1:40.3 | Welcher from the Commonwealth. I'm going to see what that guy has to say. And then I'm going to, you know, but understanding he's a hired gun. Like there's, |
| 1:48.1 | there's no two ways around it. And if you follow trials, you understand that both sides |
| 1:53.5 | have hired guns. If you're the government, you're using a government employee, that is a |
| 1:58.0 | hired gun. If they're doing what they did here and they hired somebody from the outside, he's a |
| 2:02.8 | hired gun. |
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