Key witnesses in Karen read the murder of testifying for the 3rd day

One of the key witnesses at Karen Read Retrial Murder continued to testify for the third day of Friday about the events of the death of Read girlfriend Read, Boston Police officer John O’Keefe, who was found unresponsive in the snow outside the Massachusetts home in 2022.

The prosecutor accused, after the night of drinking at Canton, which was read to attack O’Keefe with his Lexus SUV outside of gathering at the house of another officer and left him to die in a snowstorm in January 2022. The autopsy found that the 46-year-old man died of hypothermia and blunt injury to the head.

After the jury could not reach the verdict in the trial of the murder early last year, Read was re -designed with accusations including the second level of murder, vehicle murder while operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol and leaving a collision that caused death. He claimed to be innocent and declared innocent.

Jennifer McCabe, a friend of O’Keefe who had testified during the first trial, took the establishment for the third day during the re -trial on Friday at Dedham, Massachusetts.

In his extensive testimony this week, McCabe told that he had attended a social meeting at a bar of the night before O’Keefe was found unresponsive in the snow with him, read and others. McCabe was also in a gathering after a meeting at a bar in a house owned by his sister and brother-in-law, a Boston police officer.

McCabe and other friends from O’Keefe – Kerry Roberts – witnesses of other main trials who testified last week – driving by reading snowstorms to find O’Keefe after he had never come home the night before, finally found him outside the unresponsive McCabe sister’s house.

McCabe testified on Wednesday that when talking to the first respondent at the scene, he heard reading saying, “I hit him, I hit him, I hit him.”

Defending lawyer Alan Jackson roasting McCabe about his memories of events on that day and on days, weeks, months and years later, highlighting the inconsistency in various testimonies and opposing police reports.

In one example, Jackson noted that, after receiving a call from O’Keefe’s nephew and read that O’Keefe was missing, McCabe called his sister, even though he did not mention the call while testifying to the jury who was charged with reading the accusation of murder and murder.

“Nothing is evil,” McCabe said about the call, testifying that his sister did not answer and he did not remember to call him.

Asked by Jackson about the use of the word “evil,” McCabe said, “there is nothing about me who calls my evil sister, and I feel like you are quipped possible and not.”

Jackson also asked McCabe about the damaged taillights in the Read SUV. McCabe testified that the first read mentioned the damaged taillights in the morning call with O’Keefe’s nephew, although Jackson said it was not included in the police report. McCabe stands near his account.

When pressed for forgetting certain details from that time, McCabe said, “There are certain things that I will never forget.”

Jackson’s cross examination also focuses on the search for Google McCabe for how long it takes to die in cold. He testified this week that Read asked him to go to Google that after finding O’Keefe in the snow, with a search conducted after 6 in the morning even though Jackson said there was evidence that was made at 02:27 that morning, a few hours before O’Keefe was discovered. McCabe denied him to search at 2:27 in the morning and said he was looking for later that morning, at the request of Read.

Jackson also accused that group conversations including McCabe and several family members showed that they were colluding on days after death to coordinate their statements, who were rejected by McCabe.

When he wrapped his cross-examination, Jackson baked McCabe at the moment after they found O’Keefe in the snow outside his sister’s house, and why he didn’t run to examine his sister and brother-in-law.

“The reason you not enter the house is because you know better,” he accused.

McCabe said he was not worried because “something happened in the front yard that has nothing to do with anything in the house.”

“You are not at all worried about them because you know what really happened, right?” He replied.

“At that time, I did not know that he was hit by a vehicle and a tailli was found next to him,” he replied.

In directly, the special prosecutor Hank Brennan asked McCabe about the state of his mind after finding O’Keefe.

“I was surprised, confused, nervous, scared, anxious – my friend lay there on the ground, I didn’t know what was happening,” he said.

In Google’s search, McCabe confirmed that Read asked him to find how long to die in cold, and that he had never tried the search before that.

Brennan put forward McCabe’s text with Roberts that day, including where Roberts sent an SMS, “I can’t stop looking at him in the snow, Jen, this is terrible.”

“What is the state of your mind’s collusion?” Brennan asked McCabe, who he responded, “No.”

McCabe has been dismissed as a witness. The trial was postponed for that day, with a forensic scientist from the Massachusetts State Police Crimes in the holder.

Following McCabe’s testimony on Wednesday, Read McCabe allegations lying on the pulpit, said he had never told the witness to search for Google that morning.

“Each statement is different. Under oath. Not under oath,” he said. “This is very similar to what we saw a year ago.”