Peter Tragos
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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But the big difference in the theme and theory of the defense case from trial one to trial two was this was a big conspiracy in trial one.
Everybody was involved.
The people inside the house ended his life.
The cops covered it up.
And there was a hung jury.
In the second trial, it's, you can't prove anything.
This investigation was so bad.
These cops didn't do the interviews properly.
They didn't record them.
They didn't secure the scene properly.
This evidence doesn't make sense.
It looks like it could have been planted.
These guys have been terminated.
These text messages are disgusting, how they talk about Karen Reid and other people.
And that was a not guilty verdict.
that they couldn't prove the case.
So two very different theories, but when they were trying to prove that somebody inside the house killed John O'Keefe, it was based on jealousy because somebody inside the house had been texting flirtatious texts with Karen Reid, had kissed Karen Reid, and...
The defense was trying to use some videos in one of the bars as if these two guys were grappling and play fighting, but they were kind of getting in the mood to fight, I guess.
Some of it was a little bit of a reach, but they were trying to say that they looked over across the bar and pointed at John O'Keefe and told John O'Keefe to come to 34 Fairview because basically they wanted to fight.
And that was kind of their theme and theory of why somebody, what the motivation for somebody wanting to kill John O'Keefe inside that house.