The Karen Read Murder Trial: Killer or Cover Up Murder with Joshua Schiffer

Zone 7 with Sheryl McCollum

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🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Karen Read, 43, of Mansfield, is accused of second-degree murder and other charges. The prosecution says she hit her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O'Keefe, with her vehicle outside of a home in Canton during a snowstorm on Jan. 29, 2022, following a night of drinking. She has pleaded not guilty.

Guest Bio and Links:

Joshua Schiffer is an attorney providing legal services covering Criminal Defense, Personal Injury. Listeners can learn more about Joshua Schiffer at his website: https://chancoschiffer.com/

In this episode of Zone 7, Crime Scene Investigator, Sheryl McCollum, sits down with defense attorney, Joshua Schiffer to discuss the latest on the Karen Read trial. Together, they dissect the mysterious death of Officer John O'Keefe, featuring detailed discussions on the legal, interpersonal, and investigative angles that make this case a puzzler for law enforcement and the community of Canton, Massachusetts.

Show Notes:

[0:00] Welcome back to Zone 7 with Crime Scene Investigator, Sheryl McCollum
[0:30] Sheryl welcomes back defense attourney, Joshual Schiffer to the show
[0:45] Joshua gives a background of the Karen Read and Joshual O’Keefe case
[3:00] Details of the incident night
[7:00] The puzzling cause of death
[14:30] Examination of legal implications and potential defenses in the case
[26:00] The Feds, the local police and many unanswered questions
[32:00] Community reaction and media coverage
[44:30] “The death car, as the newspapers called it, didn't stop. It came out of the gathering darkness, wavered tragically for a moment, and then disappeared around the next bend.” -F.S.F
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Sheryl “Mac” McCollum is an Emmy Award winning CSI, a writer for CrimeOnLine, Forensic and Crime Scene Expert for Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, and a CSI for a metro Atlanta Police Department. She is the co-author of the textbook., Cold Case: Pathways to Justice. Sheryl is also the founder and director of the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute, a collaboration between universities and colleges that brings researchers, practitioners, students and the criminal justice community together to advance techniques in solving cold cases and assist families and law enforcement with solvability factors for unsolved homicides, missing persons, and kidnapping cases.

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0:00.0	All right, y'all, so look, it was 4.23 a.m., snow was falling heavily.
0:17.0	John O'Keefe's niece called a lady by the name of Jennifer McKay and told her that Karen
0:24.9	Reed was, quote, distraught because O'Keefe had not come home and was not answering his cell phone.
0:34.8	Joshua Schiffer, defense attorney extraordinaire. He's been here several times. He's part of my
0:41.6	zone seven. He ought to be part of yours. So we are not going to hesitate tonight at all because we
0:48.3	are going to, well, we're going to try our best, y'all, to run through this Karen Reed case, give everybody
0:55.7	just a brief rundown in case they have missed this case somewhere.
1:00.7	What happened?
1:02.1	So the nutshell is that there's this relationship between Karen and John O'Keele.
1:07.9	And she is a successful, beautiful financial executive. He is a handsome police officer.
1:16.9	You know, they live in this suburb. Canton, Massachusetts is just outside Boston to the south and
1:25.0	just a little bit to the west. It's a commuter town, long established.
1:29.3	All the towns up there have been around for hundreds of years.
1:32.3	So these are really ingrained, long-developed towns with a good mix of people.
1:38.3	And this whole thing started January 29th,
1:41.3	2022, correct?
1:43.3	Yes. And well, that's the incident date.
1:46.9	And when it starts, there's questions about that.
1:50.3	Oh, that's a good point, honey.
1:52.7	You're getting into these interpersonal relationships.
1:54.8	So, of course, there's going to be allegations about how strong the relationship was,
2:00.4	whether they were at each other's throats or deeply
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