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Jurors heard more details about the physical evidence found in the area where John O'Keefe was discovered. For a third time in a row, the State brought in a forensic scientist from the Massachusetts State Crime Lab to tell the jury about test results. Crime scene analysts looked for a physical match when examining the evidence in the case against Karen Read. Prosecutors argued that this evidence linked her to the death of her boyfriend in a hit and run.
Jurors heard more details about the physical evidence found in the area where John O'Keefe was discovered. For a third time in a row, the State brought in a forensic scientist from the Massachusetts State Crime Lab to tell the jury about test results. Crime scene analysts looked for a physical match when examining the evidence in the case against Karen Read. Prosecutors argued that this evidence linked her to the death of her boyfriend in a hit and run.
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S1, EP119 "Reviewing Surveillance Video"Prosecutors turned the jury's attention to surveillance video from the hours leading up to John O'Keefe's death. This helped them put together a timeline of events which they hoped would convince the jury that the defendant killed her boyfriend in a deadly hit-and-run. Investigators collected footage from different locations around town to get a sense of how the defendant was moving about in the lead-up to O'Keefe's death.
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S1, EP120 "Drinks Karen Read Had"Hours before John O'Keefe lost his life, he and his girlfriend, Karen Read, were out at a bar with friends. Jurors in her murder trial got a glimpse of how many drinks she had- raising the idea that this could have led to a hit and run and John's death. Massachusetts State Police Sergeant Yuriy Bukhenik alleged that she had six alcoholic drinks in less than two hours. Police figured this out by retrieving bar receipts and watching surveillance video.
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S1, EP121 "More On The State's Murder Investigation"Jurors saw details about the crime scene through the photos that were displayed in court. Prosecutors wanted to show that it was possible for the defendant to have used her car to kill her boyfriend, John O'Keefe, in a hit-and-run. On the stand was Sergeant Yuri Bukhenik, the supervisor to the main detective on this case. Later under cross-examination Karen Read's defense had probing questions for this Massachusetts State Police trooper.
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S1, EP122 "Police Sergeant Faces Cross-Examination"The cross-examination had begun on the state police sergeant who assisted in the investigation into the death of John O'Keefe. Karen Read's defense team tried to raise all kinds of red flags about this case and how the 16-year Boston police officer died. Sergeant Yuri Bukhenik recalled that investigators initially thought John O'Keefe was severely beaten before he was found in the snow. But physical evidence and witness statements turned their attention to Karen read as a possible suspect.
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S1, EP118 "Seizing The Black SUV"A state police sergeant testified about the early days of the investigation into John O'Keefe's death. As law enforcement interviewed Karen Read, investigators were seizing her car and bringing it in to be examined. Jurors watched video of Read's car being brought into police custody. They impounded her large black Lexus SUV for the early stages of their criminal investigation, just hours after John O'Keefe was pronounced dead.
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S1, EP117 "Defendant's First Police Interview"Jurors saw the physical evidence collected by investigators. It included the clothing and sneakers John O'Keefe was wearing the night before he was found in a pile of snow. Next, the jury heard about the first formal interview the state police did with the defendant just hours after O'Keefe died. According to the sergeant on the stand, investigators drove to Karen Read's family home to ask her specific questions about the hours leading up to John's death.
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S1, EP116 "Sergeant Yuriy Bukhenik"A sergeant from the Massachusetts State Police took the stand. Yuriy Bukhenik was the supervisor of the lead detective in the investigation into the death of John O'Keefe. When Massachusetts State Police took over this case, the first thing they did was interview the defendant and impound her SUV. The state police took over this case due to a conflict of interest involving a Canton police officer.
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S1, EP115 "Third Forensic Scientist Explains"Jurors heard more details about the physical evidence found in the area where John O'Keefe was discovered. For a third time in a row, the State brought in a forensic scientist from the Massachusetts State Crime Lab to tell the jury about test results. Crime scene analysts looked for a physical match when examining the evidence in the case against Karen Read. Prosecutors argued that this evidence linked her to the death of her boyfriend in a hit and run.
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