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Another expert on smartphone forensics testified on Wednesday at Karen read The trial that Google search Jennifer McCabe on hypothermia happened after the remains of John O’Keefe found the remains of John O’Keee, not before, as the defense claimed.
Jessica Hyde testified that with scientific certainty she could say that McCabe used her iPhone to search the “VOC (SIC) phrase to die in the cold” at 6:24 in the morning
The defense claims that the search happened at 02:27 – hours before investigators say they read, McCabe and Kerry Roberts thought O’Keefe was dead in the snow at 34 Fairview Road – she was not correct, she testified. The earlier time mark has nothing to do with the search, but it was actually assigned to the time when McCabe opened the browser card on his phone.
This testimony was supported by the earlier testimony of Ian Whiffin, a digital forensic expert Cellebite, which makes part of the software and hardware that investigators use to seek information on phones and other devices.
Karen read interviews with her lawyer Alan Jackson during the Norfolk Superior Court murder trial in Dedham, Massachusetts, May 7, 2025. (Greg derr/Patriot Ledger via AP/pool)
Hyde testified by using certain terms – “Hex editors”, “hash values” and database files, drawing in technical details on how the phone data is drawn, preserved and interpreted. Even inexperienced analysts can have problems with the meaning of things, she testified.
David Gelman, a defender in Philadelphia, who followed the case, questioned the decision of the prosecution to have expert witnesses for such a technical testimony, occupies an attitude before the noon break of the court.
“For an expert you want them to make a sense of a five -year -old,” he told Fox News Digital. “They didn’t work today. Add that it was an incredibly boring topic. I would bet the jurors just watched the watch all the time thinking about what to order for lunch.”
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After lunch, defense lawyer Robert Alessi was engaged in cross -examination, presenting the same technical conditions and nibbling on Hyde about her testimony at Read’s first trial, which was not part.
The trial ended last year in the jury’s stab, which he led the state to bring in a special prosecutor Hanko Brennan to try to try the case.
Without the presence of the jury, Alessi asked the Court of Permissions to refer to the recent Maryland case, which he said was Hyde’s an unreliable witness. Judge Beverly Cannone performed with the Brennan team and said that in that case he could not make a judge’s decision, but she said she would freely question Hyde on the methodology she used for her findings.
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Witness Jessica Hyde, an analyst of digital forensic data, talks about Jennifer McCabe’s cellphone data during the Karen Read Murder trial on May 7, 2025. (Greg derr/Patriot Ledger via AP/pool)
Under the cross -examination, she testified that O’Keeefe’s phone was not insured in alignment with the “best practices” established after the police recovered from the scene.
She paired with Alessia, often using the same technical expressions that may have alienated the jury for a direct interrogation, Gelman said.
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“The jurors do not want to go through it for days and days,” he said. “They want to get into meat and potatoes.”
Read declared that he was not guilty of charges of murder, murder and escape from the scene. She could face life in prison if he was convicted of the main accusation.
Prosecutors Massachusetts They state that she supported her Lexus SUV UI Komno killed O’Keefe before driving after a night out in Canton, a suburb of Boston.
Lawyer Robert Alessi speaks during the Karen Read murder trial on May 7, 2025. (Greg derr/Patriot Ledger via AP/pool)
Through her defense lawyers, she negated him at all.
Earlier on Wednesday on the procedure, State soldier Massachusetts Connor Keefe took an attitude to talk about how he collected evidence in that case, including McCabe and Roberts phones, as well as broken pieces of rear light and O’Keefe’s sneakers from the crime scene.
At one point he opened a bag for evidence in front of the jury, and inside she had three pieces of broken plastic, not the expected two.
State soldier Massachusetts Connor Keefa brings fragments in the rear lights into evidence during the trial of the murder Karen Read 7 May 2025. (Greg derr/Patriot Ledger via AP/pool)
“Do you know if the other piece in the bag is a piece that broke?” Brennan asked. “Do you know how it got there?”
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“No,” Keefe said.
Brennan asked the pieces to be moved to evidence, but after complaining from Read’s defense, the court sent Keefe to put the third piece in a separate test bag.
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Karen read, left, listened to lawyers Robert Alessia and Hank Brennan during the murder trial on May 7, 2025. (Greg derr/Patriot Ledger via AP/pool)
But Keefe’s testimony helped prosecutors determine A solid timeline When and where the police found broken rear light fragments: in a snow -covered street in front of 34 Fairview Road, where O’Keefe and Read were seen the night before.
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The testimony is expected to continue shortly after 9am on Thursday.
