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Forensic scientist from the Laboratory for Crime of Massachusetts State Police has been discovered during Karen Read murder trial These evidence collected in red solo cups has never been tested in the death of their boyfriend police officer in Boston, John O’Keefe.
The testimony on Wednesday came from O’Keeefe’s niece, which he cared after her parents died within a few months, as well as forensic experts involved in the search for read Lexus SUV and crime testing.
Maureen Hartnett of Massachusetts state The crime police lab testified that she had found a broken glass, scratches, and at least one recess on the back of the Reada vehicle, as well as blood and blood and blood that recovered from O’Keefe’s clothing.
She also wrapped the evidence that Canton police collected in red solo cups, although she testified that it had never been tested. As a result, she couldn’t even recognize her as blood.
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Karen read the court during a short recess during a murder trial in Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, Massachusetts, on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (Mark Chavous/Enterprise News via AP, Pool)
She collected samples for additional testing, but testified that she did not perform testing herself. That was someone else’s responsibility.
She also testified that she could not exclude that any of the damage to SUV happened before 29 January 2022, Morning O’Keefe died.
The image of the red solo cups used by Canton police used to collect blood evidence was shown during the trial of Karen Read 6 May 2025. In Dedham, Massachusetts. (Matt Stone/The Boston Herald by AP, Pool)
The red substance, described as a “red-brown” by the time she saw her, was collected by the canton police from the front lawn to 34 Fairview Road under the snow dust in the place where they believed that investigators believed O’Keefe was found.
“I think you test it anyway, even if there is No custody chainJust to context the case, “said Paul Mauro, a retired NYPD investigator that follows the case.” If there was a fight inside the house, O’Keefe would probably return. If the blood in the snow returned to one of the Alberts or Higgins, if you are defense, do backflips. “
However, if there are still swabs, the defense could ask them to test them today, he said.
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John O’Keefe officer (Police Directorate in Boston)
But the police could also do a better job by collecting and documenting evidence, especially after a series of cases where officers had to defend unusual decisions, including someone else to fulfill the level of the evidence bag, using a food bag and sending someone home to grab the blowing of leaves without work to a police station to get the right evidence.
Other clumsy moments included a bag with evidence with the wrong number of broken lights and a short delay after the state police sergeant was asked to open the wrongly marked bag with one of the victims of the sneaker inside.
“You do not have to do the murder investigations daily to know that if you have collected a bunch of things from the crime scene, keep it and make sure he has been reported to evidence so you can take it later because you don’t know where it goes,” Mauro said.
“If they knew enough and worried enough to take patterns from the scene, as imperfect as they did … and put every cup in a separate stop and a home bag, started it, closed it as good as they could in the blizzard. It is inaortally. It’s not perfect, but Brano.”
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The accused Karen read discussions with her lawyers during the trial of murder at Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, Massachusetts, Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (Mark Chavous/Enterprise News via AP, Pool)
Defender Robert Alessi also asked Hartnett about two photos intended to show the same lonely hair pattern recovered from the back of SUV.
“You could claim that the snow had sealed him there,” Mauro said.
Read the charges of the charges of second -degree murdera drunken murder and fled from a deadly accident in O’Keefe’s death.
Prosecutors claim that she reversed her Lexus SUV to O’Keefe and left him to die on the ground during the blizzard.
She stated that she was not guilty of all charges, and her lawyers say she never hit O’Keefe.
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William Read, left, father Karen Read, was greeted by defense lawyer Robert Alessi, before the start of the Karen murder trial, he read at Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, Massachusetts, May 9, 2025. (Mark Stockwell/The Sun Chronicle via AP, pool)
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While prosecutors showed photos of her broken rear light, and investigators testified that she played a role in their readings allegations, her lawyers played close up as it appeared to return to O’Keefe’s parked car before she and two other women found O’Keefe on the field off the road Fairview.
A group of people were there the night before at a party after a night drinking.
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Read, talking to reporters outside the court, she claimed she saw O’Keefe leaving the party before she left.
Other witnesses, testifying under the oath, told the jurors not to enter inside.
