Kelly Roberts, John O’Keefe’s best friend who was with Karen Reed, admitted that he died Wednesday, John O’Keefe and Jennifer McCabe found him dead in a snowstorm.
“Hos Long to Die in Cold” is an infamous Google search that includes typos, centered around Reid, the 45-year-old claiming he is surrounded by Massachusetts State Police. For death Three years ago her Boston police boyfriend.
When asked in front of a large ju judge who charged reading for a second-degree murder charge in 2022, Roberts testified that he heard paramedics ask McCabe about “Google Hypothermia” while praying near a police car when he released O’Keefe from the snow.
“You drew a very detailed picture in front of the Great Juice,” asked Defense Attorney Alan Jackson, pointing to a record of Roberts’ testimony behind the locked room in April 2022.
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Eyewitness Kelly Roberts emotionally describes John O’Keefe’s injuries he saw in hospital at the Karen Reed Trial at Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, Massachusetts on Wednesday, April 23, 2025. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger by AP, Pool)
“Yeah,” she said.
“Is that, except that it’s not true?” Jackson followed up.
“I didn’t hear her ask that,” Roberts said.
Roberts testified that she had not intentionally lied, but misunderstood the question when she appeared before the Great Ju judge.
Karen Reed will appear in court for trial on Wednesday, April 23, 2025 at Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, Massachusetts. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger by AP, Pool)
“That’s a bad thing,” said Paul Mauro, a former NYPD inspector who has followed the case.
Experts say admission could undermine her credibility in front of the ju apprentice.
“She lied,” said Grace Edwards, a Massachusetts trial lawyer who works near Essex County. “She committed perjury in the testimony of the Great Ju judge. She has nothing to say.”
She had said a lot for over two days.
Roberts grew up with O’Keefe, but testified that adopting her sister and her husband’s orphan children, they approached them as adults. She testified that O’Keefe’s nephew is his son’s best friend, and the two played sports and went to school together.
The defense urged him to reconsider the conviction led by fired detective Karen Reed.
Defense attorney Alan Jackson asks that he is testifying to Kelly Roberts about her grand ju court testimony when he read Karen at Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, Massachusetts on Wednesday, April 23, 2025. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger by AP, Pool)
She also became close to another witness, McCabe, after O’Keefe’s death. The two women were reading the morning of January 29, 2022, when they found him outside the home of McCabe’s in-laws, Brian and Nicole Albert. Alberts had invited groups of people, including Reed and O’Keefe, for an afterparty the night he passed away.
Reid’s defense claims she never attacked O’Keefe and that something else had killed him.
Like O’Keefe, Albert was a Boston police officer. His brother was a member of the Canton Police Station and was the first to respond to the scene. He had another brother in politics, with family friend Michael Proctor as the chief investigator.
Proctor was fired last month as an internal investigation stemming from a text message he sent about a case revealed at the first READ trial last year. Canton Police has been exempt from allegations of conspiracy in an independent audit released three weeks ago.
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Roberts was not faced cross-examination at the first trial of the read.
This time, Jackson asked Roberts whether he had created a version of the event with McCabe in advance, and asked about a meeting with McCabe and his sister. During the meeting, Roberts said police arrived to speak with McCabe and separated them and spoke to both.
Jackson asked if he knew McCabe had texted a group chat about listening to Roberts’ interview with State Police. Roberts said she wasn’t.
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Prosecutor Hank Brennan arrives at Karen Reed’s trial on April 22, 2025 at Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
“She looks like she’s being coached by Jennifer McCabe,” Edwards told Fox News Digital.
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Roberts also testified that she spoke to McCabe the morning before her latest testimony. There she wanted “good luck.” She was also sitting with another childhood friend An interview that aired While returning to the stands on the first day of Tuesday’s testimony and Wednesday.
Edwards told Fox News Digital that “Timeline” Roberts and McCabe were put together in 2022 stood out for her as problematic.
“Winners are not expected to talk to each other about the incident,” she said.
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Karen Reed’s father, William and mother Janet heard testimony at their daughter’s murder trial on Wednesday, April 23, 2025 at Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, Massachusetts. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger by AP, Pool)
During cross-examination, Roberts confirmed that she was with McCabe and was working on the event’s timeline when investigators arrived at McCabe’s house and interviewed the latter. Roberts said he is putting it together at the request of O’Keefe’s mother, Margaret “Peggy” O’Keefe.
Judge Beverly Canon interrupted a line of questions about whether Roberts claims that McCabe had texted others about eavesdropping in her own interview that appears to be happening in another room after special counsel Hank Brennan challenged her.
Roberts revealed that he has never heard McCabe do a Google search what she actually read, despite providing testimony to the big ju umpire claiming she had.
“The timeline I wrote with the help of Jennifer McCabe influenced your testimony and testified in front of the Great Jue to a statement you had never heard before, is it correct?” Jackson asked.
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“Yes,” replied Roberts.
Google search timing “Hos (sic) dies in the cold” was a major controversy among prosecutors who said that O’Keefe’s body came after the discovery of it.
Digital forensics experts are expected to dig into telephone data on both sides’ searches.
trial It is expected to last six to eight weeks after dominating the ju judge over two weeks.
Reed could face the biggest life in prison if convicted of the highest accusation, second-degree murder.
