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Jurors in Karen Read's murder trial learned more about what happened to the car the defendant was driving the morning Boston police officer John O'Keefe lost his life.
Prosecutors brought in an expert in the field of digital forensics. They wanted to clear things up for the jury about the exact time Jennifer McCabe Googled the phrase: How long to die in the cold?
The jury listened to a dispute over the timestamp on a Google search. The State claimed the search was done at the crime scene where John O'Keefe was found.
Jurors got a demonstration from a digital forensics examiner. He was called to the stand to confirm the time a Google search was made the morning John O'Keefe lost his life.
Investigators looking into John O'Keefe's death collected four different cell phones. It included the victim's, Karen Read's, Jennifer McCabe's, and Kerry Roberts'.
The relationship drama between Karen Read and John O'Keefe spilled out in text messages. Jurors read through exhibits of the cell phone data, and it showed the couple had been fighting the day before and the day of the victim's death.
Judge Beverly Cannone held a hearing on whether an expert witness for the defense could testify to the jury.
The judge had another Defense expert to hear from to decide whether that witness could testify to the jury. This was a crash reconstructionist who would dispute the state's allegation that John O'Keefe was hit by Karen Read's SUV.
Phone records discussed in the trial proceedings revealed a rocky relationship between the defendant and the victim, John O'Keefe.
Karen Read's text and voicemail messages presented to the jury revealed that things were strained between the defendant and her boyfriend, John O'Keefe.
Jurors learned more about John O'Keefe's movements in his last hours alive. Cross-examination began on Trooper Nicholas Guarino who specialized in digital forensics. Karen Read's defense zeroed in on the work that Guarino did in this case.
Karen Read's defense stirred things up with the state trooper on the witness stand.
Prosecutors accusing Karen read of murdering her boyfriend called in a neuropathologist to testify. Dr. Renee Stonebridge broke down her findings from her examination of the brain of John O'Keefe.
Jurors listened to testimony from the medical doctor who performed the autopsy on John O'Keefe. Dr. Irini Scordi-Bello found that he sustained blunt force trauma to the head and suffered from hypothermia.
The medical examiner on the stand said the manner of John O'Keefe's death was undetermined.
Jurors saw autopsy photos as part of the state's case. On the stand was the medical examiner who did the full external body examination on John O'Keefe.
The State's final witness was still under cross-examination. Dr. Irini Scordi-Bello testified that the injuries she examined on John O'Keefe's body could be consistent with both a hit-and-run and a severe beating involving blows to his head.
A snowplow driver testified that he was working in the very area where John O'Keefe was found in the snow.
The Defense's first expert witness testified. Dr. Marie Russell was a retired emergency medicine physician and forensic pathologist.
The State had more questions for the Defense's expert in the study of dog bites.
Jurors listened to more expert testimony from the Defense's forensics examiner. Richard Green put a different light on the data retrieved from the phones of Karen Read and John O'Keefe.
Karen Read's defense called in the services of a retired medical doctor for the second time in her murder trial. This time jurors listened to the expert testimony of a forensic pathologist. He gave a different take on how John O'Keefe died.
According to the Defense's forensic pathologist, there's no evidence of John O'Keefe being fatally hit by a car.
Jurors were brought back in the topic of accident reconstruction. Karen Read's defense wanted to challenge the State's assertion that she reversed her car at over 20 miles an hour to hit her boyfriend, John O'Keefe.
The expert witness on the stand testified that his firm was hired by an outside agency to analyze the damage to Karen Read's SUV which the State claimed she used to hit John O'Keefe.
Karen Read's lawyers brought in another biomechanics expert to testify.
Karen Read's defense went first in delivering closing arguments. Her attorney, Alan Jackson, told the jury that the prosecutors lied and that the accusation that Karen read killed her boyfriend, John O'Keefe, was a quote travesty of justice.
Judge Beverly Cannone gave both sides just one hour to deliver their closing arguments.
Prosecutors gave an elaborate timeline to the jury on how the murder of John O'Keefe occurred.
The jury began deliberations after more than two months of testimony. They were told different stories about John O'Keefe's death and what happened during this murder investigation.