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Karen Read's Words Will Come Back To Haunt Her In New Trial, Attorney Bob Motta Explains How

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

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3791 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

What happens when your own words might be the thing that buries you in court?

As the sequel to Karen Read’s trial heats up, Defense Attorney Bob Motta joins Tony Brueski to dive into the mess of interviews, inconsistent statements, and a tsunami of alleged lack-of-empathy moments that could shift the jury’s mood from curious to convicted. We’re talking about a case where the evidence might not scream “murder,” but the personality on display just might whisper it over cocktails. Karen’s public commentary is set to become courtroom content, and while it doesn’t prove she allegedly killed John O’Keefe, it definitely doesn’t win her any popularity contests.

The problem? Her own narrative shapeshifts more than a soap opera plotline. One moment she dropped him off, the next he walked into the house, or maybe he didn’t. Karen’s version of events bends to fit the vibe of the day, and the court might not be feeling flexible. As her defense team braces for an onslaught of interview clips, the bigger question looms: Will she be forced to testify just to clean up her own mess?

Is this really a murder case—or a masterclass in how to self-destruct in public?

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0:00.0

This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brucey.

0:04.0

The trial of Karen Reid about to get underway, and there's a lot of new things that are going to be in the sequel trial,

0:14.0

things that we didn't hear in the first trial. And one of those big things is going to be a lot of clips from a lot of interviews.

0:23.6

You know, the ones that we've been talking about for like the last six, seven months.

0:27.9

Those seemingly lack of empathy interviews, cold, callous responses to people in this case that, you know, probably don't deserve the cold callousness

0:41.8

that they're receiving. It's not probably going to play super well for Karen. I know they're not

0:47.4

super happy about it, but here to help us break this all down and understand what it means

0:51.7

in court. It is Bob Mata, host of the podcast, Defense Diaries and Defense Attorney.

0:57.7

So, yeah, all those clips, they're going in.

1:01.6

Yeah, I mean, that was, right?

1:04.8

I mean, you had to know that Brennan was going to be looking to get all those clips in.

1:09.6

I mean, here's the thing.

1:13.2

I don't know how much, if anything, that they prove, but it's not a good look.

1:20.5

It certainly doesn't make her a murderer.

1:23.9

And I've said that every time.

1:25.7

I mean, it, but if we're going, I mean, because this trial, the first one really seemed to be based more on personality than anything else.

1:34.0

And that being that of Proctor and, you know, possible cover up and things of that nature.

1:38.7

This pulls her right down there, if not even lower, with some of the things that she's publicly said. And the nightmare

1:46.2

of it all is none of it needed to happen. This is all her doing. Her own words, I feel, are, I don't know

1:53.0

if they're going to sink her into the place of being convicted of murder, but it's certainly

1:58.1

not going to help you with a jury that, you know, they're human

2:01.1

beings. And if something's going to tip the scale to getting you convicted of murder,

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