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Week three of the Karen Read murder trial is shaping up to be another big one as the prosecution continues to use a bit more “oomph” in its prosecution this time around to counter the full sideshow of the defense.
As casual observers of the case and not being bothered to Google search for what’s up-coming in the trial this week, we’re sitting here pleased in our lack of knowledge of what’s coming as we can be semi-honestly surprised as who is coming to the stand in the near future.
I mean, it’s not like we haven’t seen this play out before in the past year. Oh, right.
Karen Read is on trial for the second-degree murder of boyfriend John O’Keefe. A Boston police officer connected loosely, if you believe the defense, to a nefarious crime family of McCabes and Alberts made up of members of the Canton, Massachusetts, police force, politicians and housewives.
Read herself has described O’Keefe’s family and friends as vicious entities that never accepted her relationship with the police officer. She contends that O’Keefe’s family has been in on the conspiracy to frame her for his murder, covering up for the true killers based on this hatred of her.
It was revealed by Read in season one of the trials of Karen Read that she even though did start a flirtatious affair with a less than dashing ATF agent, kissing the man at O’Keefe’s residence weeks prior to O’Keefe’s death, she was not involved in O’Keefe’s death at all.
This was backed by her defense’s claims in season two of the Many Loves of Karen Read, that her car made no contact with John O’Keefe’s body, PERIOD. Even though they can’t directly say that someone else killed O’Keefe, the story has been and always will be that the Alberts and McCabes conspired to murder O’Keefe and blame Read for the death.
In their version of events, the not so dashing ATF agent was so angry at seeing Read with O’Keefe that he convinced members of the McCabes and Alberts to murder O’Keefe at the home of one of his friends to punish Read.
They contend that in the three hours or so between the ATF agent seeing Read and O’Keefe “lovingly” partying together and the death of O’Keefe, a vast impenetrable conspiracy played out that brought in all of the police forces in the area, emergency services, unrelated witnesses, hundred of people who were more than likely asleep at the time of the events that night… all to frame Read for murder.
In their version of events, O’Keefe was attacked as soon as he entered Brian Albert’s house to attend an afterparty after a night out drinking at local bars. All the family members at the party have all lied about not seeing him in the house, and later that night, the members of the crime family played their part in the conspiracy to blame Read for the murder.
But to believe Read’s story would also lead someone to believe that the all-knowing all-seeing McCabe and Albert families, which haven’t cracked in three years of scrutiny, were also incredibly moronic in carrying out said conspiracy.
With the sheer amount of federal and local law enforcement involved in alleged conspiracy, the placement of O’Keefe’s body has remained a glaring aspect of Read’s claims. Defying logic as the body could have been transported to points in the state (even in a blinding snowstorm) where it would never be found.
O’Keefe would have been reported missing. There’d be a half-hearted attempt to find him. His body would turn up two or three years later if anything. No one would be charged, and frankly, no one would probably care outside of his immediate family and friends.
Instead, O’Keefe’s body lie on the front lawn of the home of a police officer whose afterparty O’Keefe allegedly attended. It was dumped there by the conspirators, according to Read, being buried only moments before her arrival on the scene after assembling a search party consisting of members of the conspiracy.
There are holes the size of a Zamboni in her defense, of course. As in Read’s quest for fame, she has since admitted in multiple interviews what several witnesses to the discovery of O’Keefe’s body already heard her say – that she thought she hit O’Keefe while also admitting that she was intoxicated and probably shouldn’t have been driving.
There was taillight damage on her car corresponding to striking something that night and, oh yeah, she removed the murder weapon and took it to parts unknown the same morning.
But it was a conspiracy, and everyone is lying and everyone else is at fault.
The conspiracy is unyielding after three years, ya’ll.
As for last week, Read’s defense bungled their attempts to blame the murder, conspiracy, and everything evil in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on prosecution witness Jennifer McCabe.
Defense attorney Alan Jackson’s timing was off and his key takeaways for the Jury were blocked by his inability to bring an improved game to his handling of the witness. He decimated her testimony last year and seemed to rely on the same tired approach to the witness he used a second time.
Instead of a wide-eyed witness who fell apart under cross examination, McCabe was prepared and gave back to Jackson as good and if not better than what he threw at her.
If the whole defense of Read came down to this moment, and yes, we know it doesn’t, then it’s Game Over, man. Mission failed and you may as well get a plea deal for Read before her own words eviscerate any chances for acquittal in the second season of the Many Lies of Karen Read.
The trial continues this morning. We’re tired, cranky, and biased. Our YouTube coverage begins at 8:55AM Eastern time regardless.
