272: Karen Read Trial Recap Week 3: Solo Cups, Butt Dials & Witnesses Scramble to Cut Ties with the Alberts/Proctor
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What is the Karen Read trial about?
Karen Reid, accused of the January 2022 death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe, has consistently asserted her innocence, alleging a concerted effort by law enforcement to frame her. Charged with hitting her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe, with her SUV early Saturday morning and leaving him in a snowbank. The closely watched murder trial has ended in a mistrial. The prosecution is indicating that it will retry this case, and the question becomes one of how will they do it.
Hey, true crime besties. Welcome back to an all new episode of Serialistly. Hello, hello, hello. Welcome back to an all-new episode of Serialistly with me, Annie Elise. And today we've got the Karen Reid Week 3 Recap. You know these come out every Friday where I'm breaking down everything that you missed this week, all the high-level information, the key takeaways, because I know you don't have seven hours a day to dedicate to watching the trial. If you do, hopefully you're in the live stream with me every day because I'm live streaming it over on my YouTube each day and we talk during the breaks and all of that. but for those of you who don't have the time to do that that's why we put together these weekly recaps so that you can get a good understanding of what's gone down this week and you know the need to know so we are going to be talking about jen mccabe where things left off with some of her testimony some expert testimony regarding the phone the searches things of that nature we also this week heard more about the taillight the amount of drinks that were consumed
A lot of ring footage was reviewed, so there's quite a bit to go over. Before we get into all of the details, though, I do want to just say on here, for those of you who listen to the podcast only and have not been watching the live stream of the trial with me, and I apologize if you've been watching the live stream with me, it's probably going to sound redundant right now, but I'm going to share my opinion on this case and where I've stood on this case since day one years ago when I first heard about it, because I've seen some comments too that like, oh, you're biased. You are in Karen Reid's camp. You think that she's being framed and that it's this mass conspiracy when I really don't think that. And I've been very vocal about that. Maybe not enough here, but certainly over on my YouTube. I've been very vocal about that from day one. And here's where I stand with this case. I don't know how John died.
I don't know who killed John or what really happened. I don't know if it was Karen. I don't know if it was somebody inside that house at 34 Fairview. What I personally know and what I believe is that there is too much reasonable doubt to convict Karen. And that's why maybe sometimes my coverage or my opinions that I share do sound a little biased because I'm calling out the doubt. I'm calling out the red flags that we're seeing, the testimonies that aren't matching up, the inconsistencies because remember too innocent until proven guilty and it is on the state they have to show the burden of proof that karen is guilty of this and that's why i talk about a lot of the inconsistencies because i don't think that they definitively are doing that not to mention all of the shadiness with former trooper proctor the weird google searches the butt dials the destruction of phones the poorly collected evidence so
When I talk about those things, it's not to necessarily paint this grander picture of this massive conspiracy, but it's to illustrate how much reasonable doubt is there. The most devastating part about all of this, no matter what side of the argument you're on, the fact of the matter... is I don't believe in my heart that John will ever get justice. And that's really tough for, if it's tough for me to swallow that, I mean, it's got to be tough for his family and friends and everybody else. But think about it. If Karen's acquitted, which in my mind, she should be acquitted because there is so much doubt. I don't think that they can convict her fully knowing that she, you know, with full confidence that she did this.
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