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Karen Read's attorney had more questions for one of the State's key witnesses, Jennifer McCabe. She was with the defendant when John O'Keefe was found in the snow. The movement of Karen Read's black Lexus SUV was critical to the State's case. McCabe was adamant that the defendant practically confessed to hitting her boyfriend when they found him in the snow. That was what first responders also claimed to hear when they were at the scene.
Karen Read's attorney had more questions for one of the State's key witnesses, Jennifer McCabe. She was with the defendant when John O'Keefe was found in the snow. The movement of Karen Read's black Lexus SUV was critical to the State's case. McCabe was adamant that the defendant practically confessed to hitting her boyfriend when they found him in the snow. That was what first responders also claimed to hear when they were at the scene.
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S1, EP86 "Key Witness Wraps Up Testimony"The State's key witness claimed the defendant changed her story about what happened to John O'Keefe multiple times the morning he died. One of those versions was that he was killed when a snowplow hit him. Jennifer McCabe wrapped up her testimony on the stand by expounding for the jury what she and her family went through. She told them that they have experienced constant harassment in person and on social media. She called it a social media witch hunt.
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S1, EP87 "Kerry Roberts"Jurors would hear next from the other woman who had been with Karen Read and Jennifer McCabe when they found John O'Keefe. Kerry Roberts testified that the defendant was hysterical and distraught when they were out looking for him. Jurors heard about a mysterious phone call the defendant made to O'Keefe's friend. It was just minutes before he was found in the snow. She told Roberts quote: I'm afraid John might be dead. He might have gotten hit by a plow. He didn't come home last night.
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S1, EP88 "The Other Woman At The Scene"Yet another person who was with Karen read at the scene where John O'Keefe was found testified that she kept repeating: I hit him, I hit him. This is similar to what some first responders claimed to have heard. Things got emotional for John O'Keefe's friend on the stand. Kerry Roberts recalled finding him in the snow. He would be pronounced dead later at a nearby hospital.
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S1, EP89 "John O'Keefe, The Godfather"Jurors heard more testimony about how frantic Karen Read seemed to be at the scene where her boyfriend, John O'Keefe, was found. Kerry Roberts was one of the friends who was with her. She wrapped up her testimony for the State. Next, a friend who vacationed with O'Keefe a month before he died took the stand. Laura Sullivan formed a close friendship with the victim, so much so, that he became her son's godfather.
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S1, EP85 "More Accusatory Questions"The death of John O'Keefe took a mental toll on the State's key witness. Jennifer McCabe was with the defendant when they found the victim in the snow. She was the one who called 911 to try to save him. The Defense tried to poke holes in her testimony by asking her a number of accusatory questions asserting that she is covering up what happened to her friend, O'Keefe. McCabe told the jury: I never would have left John O'Keefe out in the cold to die because he was my friend that I loved.
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S1, EP84 "Challenging The State's Key Witness"The sparring between Karen Read's attorney and the prosecution's key witness was not over yet. Under cross-examination, Jennifer McCabe continued to deny that she and her family took part in a cover-up linked to the death of John O'Keefe. Jurors listened to what a key witness did in the days following John O'Keefe's death. The defense was trying to show that Jennifer McCabe's actions and statements to police were suspicious. But she denied that she was trying to cover anything up.
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S1, EP83 "Cracked SUV Tail Light"Jennifer McCabe told jurors that Karen Read's SUV had a cracked taillight. She was on the stand testifying about what happened when she and Karen Read got to the scene and eventually discovered John O'Keefe in the snow. Prosecutors believe the defendant used that car to hit him and then left him to die. During this long cross-examination, McCabe denied deleting text messages and phone logs in the days after O'Keefe's death.
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S1, EP82 "Details To The 911 Call"Karen Read's defense tried to discredit the State's key witness. According to Jennifer McCabe, the defendant was the one who admitted that she hit her boyfriend, John O'Keefe, with her car. The Defense brought up the 911 call McCabe made that morning. Before McCabe took the stand, no one else had claimed that read and O'Keefe got into a fight before he died. This aligned with the State's allegation that the defendant killed him because their relationship became strained.
