Peter Tragos
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Podcast Appearances
which we'll get into the shady stuff happening there as to why the FBI would even get involved.
But Karen Reed ends up hiring those guys as her experts and they do all sorts of different testing and they can never create the same action where something hitting that taillight
would explode out into the yard and on John O'Keefe the way that the prosecution said it happened in that case.
It just wouldn't happen, especially with some of the videos and pictures where the taillights are still working without busting those little actual light bulbs inside.
It was really fascinating.
Which was the case here?
Correct.
The lights were still working.
So partially, they somewhat point the finger at the guys inside the house for beating John O'Keefe to death and leaving him on the lawn.
But they allege that law enforcement actually cracked the taillight, placed the pieces there, mixed everything together so it would look like that taillight hit John O'Keefe.
And they went so far as to Alan Jackson, one of the defense lawyers in this case, had a chart of all the glass that was found at the scene.
And there was a cocktail glass that was found on Karen Reed's car that was found nowhere else at the scene.
So how really would it have gotten there but for somebody placing it on the bumper of Karen Reed's car, which was driven away from the scene, driven around the next morning, put on a tow truck, driven back.
And we're supposed to believe that some of this cocktail glass stayed on there.
And there was one hair that stayed on there that they said was John O'Keefe's hair.
Things that just were really hard to believe that the Commonwealth was trying to explain to a jury in this case.
It's a great question.
And if you look at the two criminal trials, because this went to trial twice, the first one was a hung jury.
The second one was a not guilty verdict on all of the charges dealing with ending John O'Keefe's life.
She was convicted of OUI, operating under the influence.