Breaking Down Every Angle of the Karen Read Case and Trials: Crime Week Begins, with Peter Tragos | Ep. 1218
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What is the background of the Karen Read case?
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Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly and welcome to Crime Week here on the Megyn Kelly Show, or as we like to call it, True Crime Christmas, because nothing says Christmas like true crime. All week we are bringing you deep dives on some big legal cases you likely know well and others you might not know much about. We're talking to a lawyer, a private eye, the woman at the center of a shocking fraud case, and our good pal Maureen Callahan on a serial killer case she covered extensively. But we begin Crime Week with a crime and trial that has captivated the country for years now. Karen Reid's courtroom drama has sparked intense debate, raised questions about police conduct, and fueled fierce divisions online.
And the legal saga is far from over. In fact, there is a new development just this month. Not just one, actually more. Peter Tragos, attorney and host of The Lawyer You Know on YouTube. He's so good on this. He's covered every twist and turn of this case. You will love listening to this conversation. And he joins me right now. I've been talking a lot about Riverbend Ranch because I love their steaks. For the last 35 years, Riverbend Ranch has been creating an elite Angus herd by using ultrasound technology to identify genetically superior cattle with a focus on flavor and tenderness. All Riverbend Ranch cattle are born and raised in the USA. They never use growth hormones or antibiotics, and the beef is processed right at the ranch in their award-winning USDA-inspected processing facility.
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She was a single woman dating a law enforcement officer, had a great job in finance, and her family was a close-knit family, loved each other for all intents and purposes. When she reconnected with this boyfriend who was an officer and they go out for a night on the town, they had a bit of a tumultuous relationship. And then that night after some drinking at the bar, hanging out with a bunch of friends, everything changed forever.
So the prosecution, which would ultimately be charging her, alleges that they left this bar, they drove over to a friend's house, another cop, and that her boyfriend got out of the car, that he then walked up to the front door of the friend's house and went Sorry, this is what she alleges. She alleges he went to the front door of the house, he went inside, and something terrible happened to him. The prosecution said, no, he got out of your car, he never made it inside, because you ran him over. You backed up into him at something like 24 miles an hour, hurting him, casting him into the snowbank, where he then later died from blunt trauma and hypothermia. Is that the basics?
Yeah, I mean, it turns on what happened after they got to 34 Fairview. Everybody's basically on the same page. They went to a couple bars. They were hanging out together. They were drinking together. Karen Reed is driving her Lexus. Nobody disputes that. John O'Keefe, who was her boyfriend and the victim in this case, sitting in the front seat. They drive to 34 Fairview to hang out with the McCabes and the Alberts, who are all connected to law enforcement and connected to people in Canton. She drops him off. He gets out of the car. There also seems to be third party witness testimony that he gets out of the car. After that, that's where the stories kind of turn. If you believe the prosecution and the witnesses inside 34 Fairview, he never makes it inside the house.
She backs up, hits him with her Lexus because she's angry at him about, you know, a multitude of things and they're fighting and.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the background of the Karen Read case?
0:00–10:14
2
How did the prosecution's allegations shape the case?
10:14–27:18
3
What evidence did the defense present in Karen Read's trials?
27:18–35:10
4
What role did internet searches play in the prosecution's case?
35:10–48:00
5
How did the 'Turtle Boy' influence the public perception of the case?
48:00–55:07
Speakers
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