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The medical examiner testified that he could recognize the cause of John O’Keefe’s death as a head and hypothermia injuries, but couldn’t determine if this was a murder, accidentally or any other way on Thursday during a murder trial Karen read In the death of his boyfriend in 2022, a 46-year-old police officer in Boston.
Dr. Irini Scordi-Bello, a forensic pathologist from Massachusetts’s main doctor, performed an autopsy on O’Keefe 31 January 2022.
While Scordi-Bello found that O’Keefe died of Head trauma and hypothermiaDeath Method – as he suffered these injuries – he was indeterminate.
A blunt impact on his head was the main cause of death, she testified, but hypothermia contributed. He had a deep cut and bruises to the back of the head. Once she looked inside, she found multiple skull fractures and bleeding in the brain. And his body temperature when he arrived at the hospital was 80.1 degrees compared to a normal body temperature of 98.6.
The accused Karen read, exactly, talking to her lawyer Alan Jackson, before starting the trial at the Norfolk Superior Court on Thursday, May 15, 2025, in Dedham, Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Mark Stockwell, pool)
She first talked about an external examination, saying that she found similar injuries to his face, head, hand, hands and knees other witnesses, including paramedic and police, had already described the jury.
He had “superficial” scratches and cuts on his arm, which did not penetrate the skin or expose oily or muscle tissue, testified.
Dr. Irini Scordi-Bello, a medical examiner who performed the autopsy of the victim of John O’Keefe’s murder, testifies during the trial of Karen read at the Norfolk Superior Court on Thursday, May 15, 2025, in Dedham, Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Mark Stockwell, pool)
She also performed an internal examination and looked at additional injuries.
On the back of his skull found Multiple fractures with a cut on the right side of the head.
This injury is consistent with a fall back And with her head to frozen soil, she testified during the cross-examination of defenders Robert Alessia, who asked Scordi-Bello if O’Keefe should keep a circular wound instead of a linear found on an autopsy.
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Defender Robert Alessis is questioned by the forensic scientist Massachusetts Maureen Hartnett during the Karen trial read in Norfolk Superior Court on Thursday, May 15, 2025, in Dedham, Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Mark Stockwell, pool)
“Nothing is in line with this injury and the fall of one’s – on the back of the head – with a blunt surface,” she testified.
“Falling back, where a person affects the back of the head on the apartment, frozen soil … Would you expect that kind of scattering from that kind of fall?” Alessi followed. “Not only a general fall backwards, but a specifically falling back where the back of the head strikes straight, frozen soil. Would you expect that?”
“I could,” Scordi-Bello said. “That.”
However, she also said that she did not find signs of grass on the back of O’Keefe.
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John O’Keefe shown in a undated photo. O’Keefe died on January 29, 2022. His girlfriend, Karen Read, was accused of hitting him with her Lexus SUV and fled. (Karen’s kindness read)
Alessi also tilted her on the discovery of hypothermia, asking if the inner injuries of O’Keeefe’s stomach and pancreas could be caused by factors that were not freezing temperature.
She testified that it was possible that his pancreas could bleed from a device used to help paramedics with the efforts of CPR, but that would not damage his stomach. However, she later testified that a stomach ulcer could cause o’keefe alcohol without taking his antacid drug.
The toxicology report did not find prescription drugs or medicines in his system at the time of his death. He had a blood alcohol level. And he prescribed an antacid to prevent stomach ulcers.
Dr. Irini Scordi-Bello, a medical examiner who performed the autopsy of the victim of John O’Keeefe’s murder, explains the jury of autopsy during the Karen trial read in Norfolk Superior Court on Thursday, May 15, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Mark Stockwell, pool)
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Even after issuing the Death Certificate, O’Keefe’s a mode of death remained indefinite. Scordi-Bello testified on Thursday to stand on her findings about the cause, trauma of head and hypothermia.
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After Judge Beverly Cannone sent the jurors home on the day, Alessi claimed that new announcements about expert witnesses from the opening, which spent reports for the prosecution, would put the whole defense “if it was allowed in the game.
The discovery was dated on May 8, but the defense received it on May 11, he said.
Karen Read listens to the testimony of Jennifer McCabe during the Norfolk murder trial at Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, Massachusetts, Wednesday, April 30, 2025. (Greg derr
“I don’t like to use hyperbolic words, but the word was used against us – ambush, ambush, ambush,” Alessi said. “If there is ever an example of an ambush, that’s it.”
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Cannone did not announce the decision before the court to go to the day.
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