Will Michael Proctor's Bad Police Work Set Karen Read Free?
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 14 January 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
The Karen Read trial continues to spiral into murky territory, with more questions than answers about the reliability of the investigation. Former lead investigator Michael Proctor finds himself at the center of a storm of allegations—bias, planted evidence, and questionable conduct spanning multiple cases. From shocking texts about Read to his involvement in other controversial cases like the Brian Walsh and Sandra Burchmore investigations, Proctor’s name has become synonymous with doubt.
Can the jury, knowing these alleged missteps, truly remain impartial? And should this trial even proceed with so much hanging in the balance?
When even the judge might be tempted to throw in the towel, you have to wonder—how far can a broken system bend before it breaks?
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| 0:23.0 | The blood washed away, but the guilt never does. |
| 0:25.9 | Welcome to Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske, featuring psychotherapist and author |
| 0:30.7 | Chauvonne Scott. |
| 0:32.3 | At the end here, we're not really hearing a whole lot new that's coming into play. |
| 0:36.7 | It's just kind of arguing of what can we add in or what can coming into play. It's just kind of arguing of |
| 0:37.9 | what can we add in or what can we take away. It's a lot of about taking away and what is going |
| 0:43.0 | to be led in. I feel like this is going to be somewhat of a different trial. I don't think that |
| 0:48.7 | we're going to see Karen come up with any sort of other defense. I feel like we're going to still |
| 0:52.9 | double down on the actual, that he was |
| 0:56.3 | beat in the house. How much stronger do you think that argument is going to be this time, |
| 1:02.1 | despite there being no evidence of it, although it wasn't investigated. They never went into the |
| 1:06.8 | house. And you have all of the baggage this time around of Proctor and of other people |
| 1:13.8 | in those police forces that were involved with this investigation, having some real shady |
| 1:18.8 | questionable actions around them, not necessarily specifically on this case. |
| 1:23.6 | Certainly, there's a lot of questions here on this case if something was done, but the external as well |
| 1:28.9 | that paints this picture. We were just beginning to uncover it during the last case. Now, it's out there. |
| 1:34.0 | It's in the psyche of the jurors in that town that are going to know these extra facts, whether or not |
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