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A forensic scientist of the Massachusett State Police Crime Lab Karen Read’s murder process These evidence collected in red solo cups were never tested in the death of their Boston police officer, John O’keefe.
The testimony on Wednesday came from O’keefes niece, which he took care of after her parents had died within months, as well as forensic experts who were involved in the search for Reads Lexus SUV and Crime Labor tests.
Maureen stubborn Massachusett’s state Police crime laboratory testified that they found broken glass, scratches, scratches and at least one dent on the back of Read’s vehicle as well as blood and debris from O’Keefe clothing.
She also dabbed the evidence that Canton’s police had collected in Red Solo cups, even though she said that she had never been tested. As a result, she could not even identify it as blood.
Karen Read leaves the court during a short break during her murder trial in front of the Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, Massachusetts, Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (Mark Chavous/Enterprise News about AP, pool)
She collected rehearsals for additional tests, but said that she did not carry out any tests herself. That was the responsibility of someone else.
She also said that she could not rule out the damage to Reads SUV before January 29, 2022, the tomorrow when O’keefe died.
A evidence of red solo cups used by the cantonal police to collect blood evidence will be issued during the Karen Read Court on May 6, 2025 in Dedham. (Matt Stone/The Boston Herald about AP, pool)
The red substance, which was referred to as “red -brown” when she saw her, was collected by the canton police from the front of the 34 Fairview Road under a snow at the point that the investigators believed in O’keefe had been found.
“I think you test it anyway, even if there are No custody chainJust to contextualize the case, “said Paul Mauro, a retired NYPD investigator who is pursuing the case.” If there was a fight in the house, O’keefe would probably have hit it back. When the blood in the snow returned to one of the Alberts or Higgins when they are defense, make back flips. “
However, if the swabs still exist, the defense that they will be tested today could.
The Google Timeline from Karen Read was again derailed as a 2nd expert dispute claims
Officer John O’keefe (Police authority in Boston)
The police could also have done a better job in order to collect and document evidence, especially after a number of cases in which the officers had to make unusual decisions, including another person who filled the level of an evidence pocket, with a shopping bag instead of a base pocket and sending someone home to send a blower to send someone to the police station to send the right ones To obtain evidence.
Other unpleasant moments were an evidence pocket with the wrong number of broken rear lights and a brief delay after an Sergeant of the state police had been asked to open a mischievous evidence pocket with one of the victim’s sneakers.
“You do not have to make an investigation into murders every day to know that if you have collected a few things from a crime scene, you can keep and make sure that it is evidence so that you can call it up later because you don’t know where to go,” said Mauro.
“If you knew enough and took enough care to take out samples from the scene, how imperfectly they did … and they put every cup in a separate stop and shop bag, initialized it, it was as good as possible in a snowstorm. It is unorthodox. Not perfect but defending.”
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The accused Karen led talks with her lawyers during her murder trial in front of the Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, Massachusetts, on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (Mark Chavous/Enterprise News about AP, pool)
Defender Robert Alessi also asked Hartnett after two photos, which supposedly show the same lonely hair sample that was recovered from the back of the SUV.
“You could argue that the snow sealed it there,” said Mauro.
Read faces charges of Second degree murderDrunk driving and fleeing, before a fatal accident in O’keefe’s death.
The public prosecutor claims that she had reversed her Lexus SUV to O’keefe and let him die on the floor during a snowstorm.
She has not guilty to all the charges, and she said her lawyers that she never met O’keefe.
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William Read, left, father of Karen Read, will be welcomed by defender Robert Alessi on May 9, 2025 before the Karen Read Mord’s Procedure begins. (Mark Stockwell/The Sun Chronicle via AP, pool)
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While the prosecutors showed photos of their broken taillight and the investigators testified that this played a role in their allegations against Read, their lawyers played a close -up video when they returned to O’keefes parked before they and two other women found O’keefe on site before the Fairview Road House.
A group of people had been there to drink after a night after a night.
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Read, spoke to reporters outside the court building and claimed that she saw O’keefe left the party before she went.
Other witnesses who say under oath told the jury that he hadn’t gone.
