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The jury listened to details about a trip to Aruba that happened a few weeks before John O'Keefe was killed. On this trip was the defendant and the victim, along with a number of family and friends. Two sisters who vacationed with Karen Read and her boyfriend. Prosecutors wanted to present evidence that the couple's relationship was rocky in the weeks leading up to his death. The State claimed this was part of the motive for Read to kill him.
The jury listened to details about a trip to Aruba that happened a few weeks before John O'Keefe was killed. On this trip was the defendant and the victim, along with a number of family and friends. Two sisters who vacationed with Karen Read and her boyfriend. Prosecutors wanted to present evidence that the couple's relationship was rocky in the weeks leading up to his death. The State claimed this was part of the motive for Read to kill him.
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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, EP90 "The Two Sisters And The Aruba Vacation"The jury listened to details about a trip to Aruba that happened a few weeks before John O'Keefe was killed. On this trip was the defendant and the victim, along with a number of family and friends. Two sisters who vacationed with Karen Read and her boyfriend. Prosecutors wanted to present evidence that the couple's relationship was rocky in the weeks leading up to his death. The State claimed this was part of the motive for Read to kill him.
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S1, EP91 "An ATF Special Agent"Testimony took jurors back to the bar where Karen Read and her boyfriend, John O'Keefe were hanging out hours before he was killed. He would be found in the snow on the lawn of a retired Boston police sergeant. On the stand was ATF Special Agent Brian Higgins. He would later admit to jurors that he sent flirty texts to the defendant while she was with O'Keefe. Prosecutors hoped this would show that they had a rocky relationship before he died and help prove their theory of what happened.
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S1, EP92 "Brian Higgins"An ATF special agent testified for the State. But he wasn't there because of his job. He was telling jurors about his connection to the defendant and the victim, John O'Keefe. Was Brian Higgins was with Karen Read and her boyfriend at the bar hours before he died. The state brought in texts between read Higgins to try to show that there were issues in her relationship with John O'Keefe. This was key to the prosecution's case which alleged she killed him because things between them were strained.
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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, 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, 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, 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.
