Karen Read prosecutors' case takes shape with expletive laden messages, historic snowfall testimony
On Tuesday, special prosecutor Hank Brennan played a series of voicemails that Karen Read allegedly left John O'Keefe after authorities said she struck him with an SUV and left him to die in a blizzard.
Massachusetts State Trooper Nicholas Guarino returned to the stand Tuesday to read through text messages and phone calls between Read and O'Keefe from the evening of Jan. 28, 2022, into the following morning, when Read was among three women who found him.
Records show Read's phone connected to the Wi-Fi at O'Keefe's home at 12:36 a.m. on the 29th, Guarino said. Read made more than 50 calls to O'Keefe that morning but did not leave a voicemail every time.
At 12:37 a.m., she left the first of eight voicemails for O'Keefe.
"John, I f---ing hate you," she said, in a recording played in court.
By then, prosecutors allege O'Keefe had been mortally injured by the rear end of Read's Lexus SUV and left for dead as a blizzard picked up strength.
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