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Massachusetts suspects for murder Karen read She returned to court on Monday to the trial of her ex -boyfriend’s death, Boston police officer John O’Keeefe, as DNA experts and a digital forensic scientist witnessed the prosecution, linking the victim with a lone hair pattern found on SUV Read and tighten the time lane about the final moments of his life.
But under the cross -examination, a witness with key new evidence for the state revealed what seems to be an excessive CV.
O’Keefe, 46, was found dead on January 29, 2022. His then girlfriend, now-45-year-old, was accused of stabbing him with his 2021. Lexus SUV and left him to die on Earth in a blizzard in Canton, a suburbs of about 20 miles south of Boston.
Karen Read arrives at the superior court of Norfolk County, May 19, 2025, in Dedham, Massachusetts. (Hans Pennink for Fox News Digital)
Karl Miyasako, DNA analyst with Bode Technologies in Virginia, testified that mitochondrial testing of DNA connected the hair found on the back of Read’s vehicle on O’Keefe. However, he testified, the hair was a match with those associated with the Matriarchal Mother’s line, which means that both his niece and nephew could be a source.
The sample was too small to test for autosomal DNA, which could have provided with certainty with a particular individual, he said.
Digital forensics analyst Shargess testifies to the prosecution during the re -re -re -re -re -case of May 19, 2025. (Pat Greenhouse/Boston Globe via AP/Boap)
But the case was an unexpected turn when Shanon Burgess, a Texas expert On the digital forensics for smartphones and vehicles, they admitted that his credentials did not agree with those in his CV.
He was on the booth to explain the procedure and analysis of the “black box” data removed from the read car. The key information was missed during the first case, he said, and found them on the micro SD card and managed to draw it, answering the questions that remained unanswered with an earlier analysis of another expert.
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Bill Read and his wife Jenny walk with his daughter, Karen Read, in the superior court of Norfolk County, May 19, 2025 in Dedham, Massachusetts. (Hans Pennink for Fox News Digital)
However, after a cross -examination, defense attorney Robert Alessi has questioned Burgessa “Mendacity” or unreliability after discovering inconsistencies in the biography of experts.
Several of his versions and his official bios of the opening describe him as a bachelor’s at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, in various years. None of them were right, he admitted. No degree.
“I represented I didn’t have a degree,” Burgess Alessi said.
Karl Miyasako from Bode Technology testifies during the trial of Karen Read 19. May 2025. (Pat Greenhouse/Boston Globe via AP/Boap)
“But here,” Alessi said, pointing to one of at least three CVs with a conflicted dates he introduced as evidence, “you represented that you were doing it, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” Burgess said. “It’s there.”
Experts say his expertise is probably not needed, but the appearance of lies damages his credibility.
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“He doesn’t need a bachelor’s science for this technology field,” said Grace Edwards, Massachusetts defender which carefully follows the case. However, she said, the mix could turn off the jury and lead to the members to completely neglect its findings, as well as potentially persecute other cases that have already been completed.
“How many courts have witnessed with a” encouraged “CV?” she asked, using an acronym for a curriculum Vitae, his academic resume.
Lawyer Robert Alessi, a cross witness, a witness to Jessica Hyde during the Karen Read Murder trial on May 7, 2025. (Greg derr/Patriot Ledger via AP/pool)
Burgess’s testimony regarding the classes in Read’s Lexus and O’Keefe’s iPhone could be crucial in the case of the Prosecutor’s Office. He said they had a variant between 21 and 29 seconds, and the last recorded victim’s interaction with the phone, pressing the lock button, occurred at 12:32:09
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Read made her car from the reverse between 12:32:04 and 12:32:12, testified Burgess, based on computer records recovered from her Lexus.
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Burgess is expected to return to the booth on Tuesday. Reading could face life in prison if convicted of the main charge, second -degree murder. She has also been charged with drunken driving, murder and escaping from a deadly accident.
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She declared that she was not guilty, and her defense denied that her vehicle had clashed with O’Keefe at all.
