Sometimes, Karen Reed may take things into her hands, like she did when she got a “weak pour” at the bar the night her boyfriend died.
According to a 2024 interview given for a documentary about the findings of the research, she was unhappy with her alcohol levels and added an extra shot herself.
The clip aired in court on Thursday as part of a retrial Murder crime With the death of her boyfriend, John O’Keefe.
“The drink they poured me into McCarthy, the place I consumed most of my alcohol, was the weakest vodkatonic,” she told camera. “It tasted just like all the soda water with lime, but it doesn’t mean it needs to be a martini, but there might be a vodka splash.”
Witness Key Karen Reed admits that the testimony of the Great Jue was not true.
Karen Reed listened to his testimony at a trial at Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, Massachusetts on Thursday, April 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, Pool)
She says she complained to O’Keefe about it and he suggests ordering another shot and dropping it herself.
“So each drink was counted as a double,” she continued. “I’ll get a vodka tonic and then pour some shots.”
Read sprinkled drinking at CF McCarthy bar in Canton. [the] Alcohol” She consumed on January 28, 2022.
Reading, she explained how she poured multiple shots into a glass as the bar was offering weak drinks and complained that she “tasted vodka soda like all the water of lime and soda.”
Watch: Karen Reed 2024 TV interview with a local bar retracement
“The people we were with ordered a shot and gave me something I didn’t drink, but I poured it into my drink,” Reid said.
Massachusetts State Police Detention. Nicholas Guarino will review his cell phone logs while testifying during a Karen Lead Trial held at Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, Massachusetts on Thursday, April 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, Pool)
“So, now it’s my fifth and sixth drink, my seventh drink, this is a shot that all men did and I poured it. So, it’s one glass I have.” She added that the cocktail has “three drinks.”
Special Counsel Hank Brennan had the Massachusetts TPR. Nicolas Guarino read a series of texts between reads and O’Keefe throughout the day when the ju-decides died.
Guarino read both the history of the phone call between the read and O’Keefe, starting that morning, and its text. O’Keefe appears to be unhappy with the argument, and he writes that he is “fed up with constantly claiming and fighting.”
By the afternoon, the conversation had turned into an evening plan. At 2:38pm, with a read called O’Keefe, he refused the call, not only ringing it unanswered, but sent it directly to voicemail.
After 10 seconds, read the text “Pls Answer?”
Prosecutor Hank Brennan will ask questions at the Karen Reed trial held at Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, Massachusetts on Thursday, April 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, Pool)
“There’s no Karen. I don’t know why I need to announce that I’m grabbing a drink and enjoying it,” O’Keefe replied.
She asked him to call again. He tells her he is busy taking care of his nie and nephew.
“We have to take them to [doctor]”He wrote, ‘He has practice.’
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She called twice. He made the first one cry, and refused after the second 44 seconds.
Karen read John O’Keefe together in pictures without dates. (Commentary by Karen Read)
For the next 20 minutes he continued to ignore her phone, and before calling her nine minutes later, she texted him.
After some follow-up texts, O’Keefe said, “As I said, as I said, [doctor] Well, he’s practicing to 6. If you want to start drinking, go for it. ”
Reed said she didn’t know what the practice was but wanted to see him, not his home, to give him “space.”
CF McCarthys’s At 614 Washington St., Canton, MA. Karen reads and John O’Keefe meets him the night of his death. (Richard Beetham from Fox News Digital)
And back and forth, O’Keefe texted her at 3:39pm.
At another point in the conversation, she said she would rather meet in town “for a drink” than hang out at his house.
When O’Keefe said his friend Mike Camerano was coming, he suggested reading again.
“Don’t you want Mike to go out a little?” she replied. “I want to be the day since the jump.”
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Guarino texts the two who were sent from that morning until about 8:35pm
On March 29, 2025, the waterfall bar and grill at 643 Washington Avenue in Canton, Massachusetts was read by a second bar before his death, and O’Keefe visited. (Richard Beetham from Fox News Digital)
The Brennan case highlighted the drinking of reading materials, but experts said ju-describers might be on their side to reading O’Keefe’s reaction.
“I thought this presentation backfired in that it looked like a normal, troubled couple. She wakes up and leaves this relationship where you are used, not as a motive for murder, but Linda Kenny Burden, whose past clients include Phil Spector, Casey Anthony and Aaron Hernandez.
“And the text showed me a deep, jealous John O’Keefe, like a plumber,” she added.
Officer John O’Keefe poses for his headshot. O’Keefe’s girlfriend, Karen Reid, is on trial for the murder after it was found out she died outside her Massachusetts home in January 2022. (Boston Police Station)
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Around 8pm, before O’Keefe met up for a drink before he read, she told him she was leaving because she had run out of hot water. He told her he would fix it on Sunday or Monday.
It could support defence theory that O’Keefe maintained his injuries due to the possibility of an altercation between the accused and other men who shared his own romantic texts, rather than maintaining his injuries in a clash with Reid’s SUV, Kenny Baden told Fox News Digital.
Brennan played the ID clip after Guarino finished reading the text. Judge Beverly Canone then said that due to confusion with the witness, the ju judge could return home that day.
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They are expected to jump on the bus to see the crime scene in person trial It will resume on Friday.
