Prosecutor Hank Brennan delivered his opening statement in the second murder trial for Karen Read on Tuesday.
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00:00At 6.04 a.m. on January 29, 2022, the alarm bell sounded in the Canton Fire Department.
00:16Firefighter, paramedic, Timothy Nuttall knew what that meant. His heart skipped a beat,
00:21he raced to his equipment, and he picked up his bag, which was meticulous. There was a sign
00:27and a signal, and then there was a voice commanding that there was a cardiac arrest.
00:33The most serious of calls for a firefighter and paramedic, that means that a person's heart
00:39has stopped. He didn't know who it was, he didn't know where it was, he took his bag,
00:45he had just gotten to the station, and he rushed to the ambulance. He was one of the most secret
00:50paramedics that morning. Another paramedic, Anthony Clamatti, would be running this mission.
00:56He jumped in the back of the ambulance, the door was shut, and they headed off to 34th Fairview Road.
01:04As he drove, the firefighter Nuttall could not see anything.
01:10He couldn't hear anything, other than the engine of the ambulance. He could feel it sliding
01:16across the road. It was near blizzard conditions. He calmed himself, he steadied himself. This is
01:24what the firefighters and the paramedics are trained to do, to focus. And he focused on his task.
01:31He looked around the back of the ambulance to make sure that all the tools were in place.
01:35The ambulance was meticulous as well. This was Anthony Clamatti's ambulance, and it was well-stopped.
01:43He calmed himself, and he thought about what was going to happen.
01:47What should he be looking for? What is his next steps? He played the scenarios through his mind,
01:52and every calm was above him. As the car pulled up the 34th Fairview, the ambulance,
01:58he stood at the back door, and the doors opened, and he stepped out into bedlam.
02:04He could hear a woman screaming and shrieking, the cold, hard air slapping on his face,
02:09and the wind, blizzard conditions, swirling around him. You will hear him tell you how he rushed
02:16towards those screens, in the darkness, the snow. And when he got there, he saw a three woman
02:22surrounding a man lying, not moving on the ground. He walked up to the man, and he reached down,
02:31and he tried to find any signs of life, pulse, anything, and he found nothing.
02:39And he got up, and he walked over to the woman, and he walked over to that friend of Karen Lee,
02:45and he told her that he thinks that that man was gone. And then he heard the yell from Anthony Clamatti,
02:53the chief, and he said, come back, let's go, because you'll learn that in the cold, even if somebody's
02:59heart stops, even if they're presumed to a past, sometimes you can still save a life.
03:05So you'll see on a dash cam video, you'll hear from testimony, he went back to that man, who's John O'Keefe.
03:12He went back to him, and that crew, coordinated effort, they did everything they could to save his life.
03:19They got on their knees, they began CPR, and firefighter Neto will explain, as he mailed over John O'Keefe,
03:25he looked up, and the defendant approached him, and you'll see it on the video.
03:31Now, he wanted any information, because when you're trying to save someone, you want to know,
03:35are they on drugs, medications, do they have a heart condition? And he looked up at Miss Reed,
03:41and he said, what happened? And you'll hear her words to a firefighter Neto. She said,
03:48I hit him, I hit him, I hit him. And it was at that time, with the words of the defendant,
03:57that she admitted what she had done that night, that she hit John O'Keefe. Now those words didn't
04:05mean anything to firefighter Neto. They weren't in contact, they didn't reconcile with the injuries,
04:10it didn't help him in his treatment, so he ignored it. Now, firefighter Neto is not a police officer.
04:17He is not an investigator, he is not a victim. He's a first responder. And so he takes that
04:25information, it was useless to him, he continues to work on John O'Keefe trying to save his life.
04:31You'll see the team put him on a stretcher, and when they lift him from the ground, even though there is
04:36snow accumulating, underneath John O'Keefe is simply grass, hard, brown, frozen. And
04:45Demetra's body lay it in his cell phone. They bring him to the ambulance, and when they bring
04:51him to the ambulance, you'll see on the videos that other first responders speak to the defendant.
04:57One first responder, with a diplomat issue, will say, I hit him, I hit him, oh my god, I hit him.
05:04And then she was interviewed, or asked questions for background information, not a criminal investigation,
05:09just background to try to help John. And she was asked questions about his background,
05:14and during that conversation, you won't hear it, see the defendant with a person by name
05:21Jen McCabe, and a firefighter McLaughlin, and she tells the firefighter McLaughlin,
05:27the third first responder, I hit him. They bring Mr. O'Keefe to the hallucinatory hospital,
05:35and his body is cold. The doctors work feverishly. They treat him, trying to save him. They try to
05:41warm his core. And unfortunately, firefighter, not all his first instincts is accurate.
05:48John O'Keefe passes.
05:54So why are we here today? We are here today because John O'Keefe was killed by the actions and conduct
06:03of that defendant, Karen Wheat. You will learn, in this case, through facts, science, and data,
06:10you will learn that on January 29, 2022, when the defendant and Mr. O'Keefe were in front of 34 Fairview
06:21Road, all the way to the left side in a dark corner near a flagpole, you will learn that Mr. O'Keefe got
06:27out of the car. He got out, and he stood by the side of the road after an argument with the defendant.
06:37That argument, that anger fueled by heavy intoxication, you will learn from the science
06:42and data as he stood by the side of the road. The defendant, to her SUV, drove away. She drove
06:49at least 35 feet away. The argument had pulled her. It had ended. But then she stopped. She stopped.
06:57She put the Lexus into neutral, and she waited for two minutes. And the facts and the science and data
07:04will tell you that despite the fact the argument is over, she then put the Lexus into reverse,
07:11put her foot on the gas pedal, and began to press. Not 25%, not 50%, up to 75% acceleration.
07:21There was a light dusting of snow. The Lexus tire spun backwards. She went backwards at least 70 feet.
07:27She clipped John O'Keefe. He fell backwards, hit his head, broke his skull, and there he lay at the corner
07:37of Fairview Road. On the ground, lying on top of his cell phone, alone. And then the defendant
07:50will later tell that when she left, he didn't look mortally wounded. Yet he was. And she simply drove away.
08:00John O'Keefe. Now, before I tell you about the data and the facts and the science, and I walk you
08:06through that, I'd like to tell you a little bit about John O'Keefe. John O'Keefe was a young man,
08:12a local kid, a very well-liked, loved. John O'Keefe is the son of Peggy O'Keefe,
08:21John O'Keefe Sr., and the brother of Paul O'Keefe.
08:27Grew up in Canton, worked hard, he became a police officer. But what you're going to learn,
08:33the fact that he worked for the Boston police officer, as a Boston police officer, was just a
08:37fraction of his life. It was a small, really unimportant part, because the biggest part of
08:43John O'Keefe is he was a family man. Not in the traditional sense. You see, John O'Keefe never
08:49had biological children. John O'Keefe was never married. But John O'Keefe had a sister,
08:57and she had two children. And when the children were 63 years old, his sister, unfortunately,
09:02moved back. And shortly after, his sister's husband got a job of people to help. He didn't sit by.
09:11He saw these two recently orphaned children, and he stepped in, and he said he was going to raise
09:15them. So he put aside his career, he put aside his job, and he moved in with the children,
09:20and he raised them like they were his own. They were his passions, his love. He was a new parent,
09:27successors, failures, like all parents. And he raised the children with the help of people
09:32in the community, with the help of his brother, with the help of his family. And they led a good life.
09:42Enter Karen Reed. Around COVID, the defendant and Mr. O'Keefe reacquainted,
09:51and they started a relationship. And you'll hear that even though the defendant had her own home,
09:55she was staying with Mr. O'Keefe a lot, four, five, six times a week. And to most of the world,
10:01it was a pretty good relationship. They spent time together. They did activities with their
10:06children together. She helped with providing the children, feeding the children. It was a steady
10:12relationship. Until about the beginning of 2022. And then things began to unravel. There was tension.
10:22There was arguments. In fact, just a few days before this incident, you'll hear that Mr. O'Keefe
10:32asked her to leave. But she wouldn't. You're going to be able to read text messages of their
10:39conversations on January 28, 2022. And you will see the tension in the unraveling of the relationship. You
10:47will read about the discord between the defendant and Mr. O'Keefe. You will see that when he would
10:54ignore her calls, they would become incessant. When he would try to push away, she would come closer.
11:00You will read those text messages and you will realize that this was the beginning of the end of
11:06this relationship. That night, they decided they would go out together. I want to tell you something
11:20about data and science before we get to that night. I mentioned that underneath your body was a cell phone.
11:27A cell phone is an amazing piece of technology. It is like a computer. It carries extraordinary data.
11:36And when they found your cell phone, the only companion in John O'Keefe that night, they studied
11:41the cell phone and there'll be some remarkable data that you will use in this case to find the truth.
11:48I want to mention three different things you will find in a cell phone that are critical to this case.
11:52The first is called location data. Waze, we've all heard of, Google Maps. Well, at some point that
12:00night, John put his Waze on. Waze is like a breadcrumb that will show exactly where the phone goes
12:06second by second. It is the strongest, most accurate location data that you can have. And that night,
12:14John was using Waze. It also will have healthcare data. Healthcare data will show when somebody is
12:21moving. Sometimes it's qualified as steps, but it doesn't necessarily mean somebody's stepping.
12:26Moving their arms, walking, turning. It doesn't show what direction or how far, but it shows the
12:33movement of a person. And the third thing, remarkably, there will be an expert in this case who found the
12:41data file on the phone and it tracks the temperature of the cell phone battery. That will be critical to your
12:48analysis. In this case, the temperature of the cell phone battery. And so with that, I want to take you
12:56back to the timeline of that night. After the discord, both the defendant and Stroke decided they would
13:03meet at a bar called McCarthy's. Now McCarthy's is a local bar. A blizzard is pending and people are getting
13:11together in a celebratory mood. They go to McCarthy's and they will see a video of McCarthy's. And you will
13:17watch the Bowdoin's Trophy, Friends, and the defendant drinking alcohol. And you will count eight vodka drinks
13:26that the defendant drank. They arrive at 8.50. They stay to 9.45. She consumes at least seven of those drinks
13:33in less than two hours. The last drink, you'll see where they leave the bar. She puts it under a jacket
13:41and they walk out and they go to another bar to meet other friends called the waterfall. They reach the
13:47waterfall sometime around 10 p.m. And when they go into the waterfall, you'll see a good video. And when I
13:53said south, it's already moved. You will see a group of friends of John O'Peak, many who are friends with
13:58Karen and Blue John. And you'll see them clapping and happy and joyous as they're there. You'll see
14:04many hugs between John O'Peak and his friends and the defendant and many of the people there. And they
14:11spend some time together, they're drinking and they all do a shot. And that will be at least the eighth
14:17drink within three hours that you consume. You will see from the data, not just the cell phone data,
14:24but there's some other very important data. And the other piece of data that goes hand in glove with
14:29the cell phone is information on the defendant's Lexus vehicle chips. You might have heard of black box
14:37in an airplane or there's some type of event that captures a small amount of time. Well, that was
14:42captured in the defendant's Lexus. That black box information with the cell phone data will tell you
14:49everything you need to know in this case that will bring us step by step through the entire night to
14:54get John O'Peak. And so they leave the waterfall water 1212 and you'll see that the ignition goes on to
15:04the defendant's Lexus. And both John O'Peak and the defendant in the car, they decide that they're going to go
15:10back 34 Fairview Road where we talked about earlier. They're going to go there for a get together for one of
15:17the homeowner's sons who's having a birthday party. And so as they drive back, we'll be able to follow
15:24them with this location data. When they go back to Fairview, they don't know exactly where it is and they
15:31get lost. And so John O'Peak makes a phone call, has a phone call with one of his friends, Jen McCabe. And
15:38during that phone call, which the defendant listens to because she recounts it, and trying to get directions,
15:45Jen McCabe tells John O'Peak, it's near Bella's mom's house. You'll learn that Bella, or her mom,
15:54is somebody that John had dated before. And so as they make their way through Fairview, you will see
16:03there's a road that comes down like a loop and it leads to Fairview. They take a wrong turn on the loop and
16:09then they do a three-point turn in the driveway. You'll see the exact precise driveway they turn
16:14into because some type of acceleration will be triggered that black box in the Lexus. And that's
16:21important. Keep that seven minutes before the collision. And you'll see from the ways exactly
16:27where the car was. You'll see from the black box the event of the three-point turn in the driveway.
16:31And then they'll be turned down to Fairview. But before they get there, at 1223, a truck is coming
16:38the other way. And the witnesses in that truck will say they blinked the lights. One of them saw a man
16:43and woman in the car, drawn in the defendant. And then they followed the Lexus because they were going
16:49to the same house. The truck stopped at the driveway, and the Lexus, the defendant's car,
16:55rolled here as of the waves. And we counted second to second. Never stops. It rolled very slowly all the
17:03way to the end of the yard in the corner where there's a tree line and a flagpole. And they reach that
17:10location at 1234-33. And they're in the car and they stay there. The truck waits. They speak to somebody
17:18in the house. They come out. The person goes back to the house and they have about five minutes. We're now down
17:24two minutes before the collision. The truck waits. And now it's just the defendant and John. And while
17:31they're waiting outside, 1227, John gets a text from Jennifer Cave, parked behind us in the driveway.
17:401229, she texts again. Are you coming in? You'll hear that Jennifer Cave and others look out the window
17:46and see the defendant's Lexus in front of the flagpole at the far end. It's snowy, it's dark,
17:54it's windy. They're waiting. You will know that John O'Keefe was in that car, that Lexus, and didn't move
18:02because his health care data is not moving. It's not moving until 1231-56. At 1231-56, he begins to move.
18:13He will have 20 seconds before he falls. 20 seconds.
18:19He gets out of the car, the Lexus. And in that 20 seconds, you'll hear that user initiated,
18:27he looks at the phone, at the text message to Jennifer Cave. There's now 1232-09. He closes the phone
18:36the phone the last time. It will be the last time he uses that phone. From the waterfall bar,
18:42you'll see that he can use it in that pocket. And at that time, 1232-09, the last user, he has seven
18:50more seconds to move before he lie dormant the rest of the night. We'll also have the information
18:57coming to the fence, Lexus, lap blocks. The blocks run differently than 37 parents, but it's right
19:04in the heart of that time. And you will see, through the data, at that time, when he makes his last
19:10movements with the phone, is when her car leaves, 34 feet at least, slumps. Beautiful. And then shoots into
19:20the reverse of the tire spinning right towards him. Right where he got out. You'll know they're arguing
19:27because the next morning, she tells a firefighter I'm sad because our last moments were fighting.
19:35She drives away. They said, he's made later statements that when she left, he didn't look
19:44mortally wounded. He lied on the ground on top of his phone, light dusting of snow. The snow now
19:51picking up. And he's just there. It's 1237. Now, when he's in the car, before he gets to Fairview,
20:01the battery temperature of that phone is 77 degrees. 77 degrees in the warm car. Now that he's been outside
20:07at the car for five minutes, drops to 72 degrees. She drives to his house. She makes a phone call
20:16at 1233 after she's left Fairview. She calls again at 1236 33 and leaves a message you'll hear. And you
20:25will hear the anger and rage in her voice. She leaves a message, John, I fucking hate you.
20:32Pardon my language. You will hear the simmering. And if she leaves that message, he lies on the side of
20:41the road. He gets another text message. It's unanswered. He's in the cave. Where are you? 1245. Battery temperature.
20:5061 degrees. He's stopped. He gets almost 40 calls from the defendant that night. It's all right.
20:59It's all right. But it never ends. You'll hear from an expert that the light never initiates. The
21:05healthcare data never owns. Is John alone? There's only at the end of his phone. At 1253,
21:16cell phone drops. It's almost 60 degrees. 1259, the defendant needs another message.
21:23And John's phone. Now, she hasn't spoken to anybody. Nobody has spoken to her. But her
21:30message is out. You'll learn the message says, John, nobody knows where you are. And this is where the
21:38plot in the cover up begins. The evidence will make clear that she knew who was there. But she did not
21:46call 911. She did not go back to him. She did not leave an anonymous family. She left. The night wears
21:55on. It's now 107. Battery temperature. 55 degrees. 114, she calls her mother. No answer.
22:05114, 53. Does that read number two? 50 degrees. The defendant had healthcare data on her phone as well.
22:19And we don't hear that it stops around that time. And you later learn that she admits to a
22:24fall asleep and passing out. But then she wakes. Five o'clock. She is frantic. She wakes up John's
22:33niece and she is unhelpful. She is yelling. She's screaming. She asks her niece to call Jen McCabe.
22:41She calls Jen McCabe. And you'll hear Jen McCabe recounts. Out of her deep sleep, she wakes up and she hears,
22:47Jen, Jen, Jen, Jen, Jen. Screaming Jen's name. John's dead. Hang up the phone. Jen McCabe.
23:03Calls down. And then she says, what's going on? And she says, well, I left him at the waterfall.
23:09That's the beginning of her. She tells Jen McCabe, I left him at the waterfall. Jen calls back and says,
23:16he's fine, well, front. He didn't leave him at the waterfall. She hands on.
23:22She then minutes later calls another person, Carrie Roberts, a friend of John O'Keefe.
23:27Someone who's not friends with the defendant, but they know because they helped raise the kids
23:31when they interacted. She had nothing to do with the night before. Wasn't at the bars.
23:35Was home with her family. She calls her and says, I think John had to buy a plow.
23:41I think he's dead. Now, Carrie, with that information, calls 911.
23:46She calls hospitals. You can hear her voice. She's concerned about him.
23:52And then she has another call from the defendant.
23:56And she tells the defendant, come to my house.
23:58I will help you look at him. And the defendant says, I was so drunk last night. I don't remember anything.
24:07Waiting for her to arrive. She learns she doesn't arrive. Instead, the defendant goes to Jen McCabe's house.
24:12Terry Roberts, the other friend, and then goes to Jen McCabe's house. Pulls behind the car.
24:17And when she does, she's undoubtedly, but she can hear the defendant say, my taillight's broken.
24:22My taillight's broken. And she looks. And it's snow packed with the right taillight.
24:27She can see her.
24:28She can hear the taillight missing.
24:31The defendant desperately wants to go to 34th Fairview Road.
24:33But Terry Roberts takes over and says, we're going to go back to John's house.
24:37Maybe he's in the house and you didn't see him.
24:39So both cars, driven by Terry Roberts and then Jen McCabe, with the defendant, go back to
24:44John O.P.'s house. You'll see a ring video. You see them go into the house and they look around and
24:49you'll hear about the woman, Jen and Terry, enlisted into this task. Look for John O.P.'s. They cannot
24:55find him. And then when Kerry Roberts comes into a room, she sees the defendant looking. The defendant
25:01is simply standing there, staring at the wall. At that point, the defendant insists. They got to go back
25:06to Fairview Road. They decide they'll take one car. Kerry Roberts is taking charge. She's going to drive.
25:11They leave Mr. Reed's Lexus and John O.P.'s driveway and they drive back towards the 34th Fairview Road.
25:18There it is lizard-like conditions. It is dark. They can barely see a thing.
25:23And when they get close to the edge of the 34th Fairview, you hear the defendant's side of the
25:27screen. There he is. Both women look and they can't see anything. She starts kicking the door. The
25:33defendant's kicking the door. Let me out. Kerry Roberts stops the car and lets her out and she sees the
25:39defendant run exactly to where John O'Keefe is in the darkness. Just where she left him.
25:47Kerry gets out of the car and starts to walk towards where the defendant is and she sees the
25:52defendant lying on a body. She can't tell who it is because the face is still covered with snow.
25:57And she comes over and looks and she wipes off the snow from John O'Keefe's face.
26:01She realizes that one of her best friends in the world is John O'Keefe. And she starts trying to do
26:07first aid. They start to move him. And coincidentally at 6.06 when they start to move him, the cold air hits
26:13that cell phone battery. It drops from 50 to 43 degrees. And they try. Jen McCabe calls 9-1-1.
26:20And that's when a police officer arrives. Firefighter Nuttall and his crew. And when they lift him,
26:26that cell phone battery that is shot down to 37 degrees, Kerry Roberts picks it up and puts it in
26:32her pocket and immediately starts to warm as she moves to help get her data. Showing movement starts
26:40again.
26:44At that point, nobody knows what happened. The Canton Police Department come. You can see that police
26:50cars and cruisers, they're not sure. So they look in the area where John O'Keefe is and find a glass
26:55from the bar near the body. They find blood spots. They try to put the blood spots in plastic containers.
27:02They don't know what they're looking for at this point. There's no
27:06information. They don't believe or know that there's a crime. They just know that John O'Keefe
27:10somehow ended up here with the broken glass and the blood. And so that morning, you can see the work
27:18of the Canton Police Department try to uncover a little bit around his body to see what they could
27:22find, which is very little. And then, Kerry Roberts goes and picks up Peggy O'Keefe,
27:31tells her the news, and they go to the hospital.
27:35They go to the Good Samaritan Hospital, and Kerry Roberts is walking, and Peggy O'Keefe is going to
27:40go see her son with her husband. And as she walks down the hall, Karen Reed is also at the hospital. See,
27:47there was some reports of maybe she was upset or suicidal, so they second her. They put her in for
27:52evaluation to make sure she could say, you know, hear Peggy O'Keefe tell her. She walked down the hall,
27:57there was her son. The defendant was screaming, is he dead? Is he dead?
28:03As she walked by Karen Reed, she stopped and she said, Karen, what happened? And we'll hear that
28:14Karen, he was excited and yelling, he was dead. His thoughts were excited and he becomes stolen.
28:22He doesn't say a word.
28:23Peggy O'Keefe pays respects to her son, and then she has to go back home because she has to tell her children.
28:37Now, while she's out, the police department sends an officer to the house to make sure the children are
28:43safe because they're alone at their home. And when the officer pulls in, he doesn't notice anything,
28:48but you'll see on the dash cam, the dash cam video notes or something, that tail light has a big missing piece to it.
28:57They can't find the children. Ultimately, Peggy comes home, a friend can take it down,
29:02and they bring the nephew home, and he is
29:07distraught. And then Peggy hears a knock on the door. It is the defendant, her father.
29:14They want to come in. They come in, they open the door, and they ask them to go upstairs to John's room.
29:26And she's busy consulting her grandson. They go upstairs for about 15 minutes. They come down,
29:35and put them where they leave. Now, they got there from the defendant's father, drove his wife and the father to that house.
29:47But when they leave, they take two cars. They take Galaxas, the broken tail light, with them back to the
29:53defendant's father's house.
29:57And you will learn that when police start getting some of the information, they learn about the broken tail
30:02light. They learn information that she had told people that she had picked him. They went down to see her.
30:09And on their way down, they decided they would get a orange tape to the Lexus.
30:14When they get down to Dighton, where the car is, you'll hear from the trooper lieutenant who took a look
30:21and you can see the missing pieces going. They went in and spoke briefly to the defendant. They took the car,
30:27they brought it back to Ken. And so, what to learn from a friend of the defendant's that will help with
30:33the science and data is that not only was the cell phone left behind, but also around that area,
30:40broken tail light was littered around John O.D.'s body. Littered around that area. When they got
30:48into the hospital, they noticed there was a shoe missing. As time went by, stone melted. The young
30:53this excavation, they found a shoe on a little firm on the border between the street and the grass.
31:01You'll learn days later, when they did a plant excavation, they found this path frozen into the ground.
31:10Ultimately, they would find over the course of 10 days, the snow melted almost all,
31:14every piece of that broken tail light in that area. The path, the sneaker, the glass.
31:27When the defendant left the trooper behind, or something in the trooper, I'll trace evidence.
31:35You'll learn on the back of her Lexus, around the tail light area, beyond DNA, and stuck to the side,
31:44grasping one last piece of John O'Keefe's hair.
31:52Now, John O'Keefe fell backwards in his head after he was put in the car. And you're going to hear from a
31:59very renowned doctor and neurosurgeon. He just treated thousands and thousands of headaches.
32:05And the wound on the back of the head fell backwards on the cracking skull. It's called a basal fracture.
32:12To create an injury called countercruple. After he was put by a car and fell backwards and
32:18put his head on that hard rock ground. Remember, there's no snow. It's just a dusting at this point.
32:24The back of his brain hits the back of his skull and bounces off. When it bounces off,
32:30these marks show a net impact. And this neurosurgeon will tell you,
32:36you've treated thousands of patients, that this injury, the reason to believe medical certainty
32:42is countercruple caused by falling backwards in your head. When the medical examiner for the state
32:48looked at it, they generally said one course probably had it is undetermined. So we brought
32:54it to the renowned neurosurgeon who does exactly this. You're also going to hear from an act of
33:00reconstruction. His name is Judd Welchin. He does not work for the state police or local police. He was
33:06hired to take a look at this case and the data. He'll come in and explain to you exactly what I talked
33:11about. How the data from that black box coincides with the cell phone and the movements of the car
33:19the moments before, during, and after the defendant struck Donald Heath with her car.
33:28Now, just a few more things I want to share with you. There are three charges
33:33against the defendant in this case. The first one is second degree murder. When most people hear murder,
33:38you're not going to be able to ever get out of that hospital. And you, you know,
33:42can't be able to do it. You don't want to be able to get him away from the hospital.
34:01She engaged in an intentional act, driving back at him at that speed, in the storm, in the darkness, knowing that he had just gotten out of her Lexus.
34:10She intended that act would cause a flame, a strong light with her death.
34:17That's what will prove to you the secondary murder.
34:20Also, operating under the influenza valve, Manslider will prove to you that she broke her Lexus recklessly.
34:27She hit John O'Keefe, and because she hit him and he fell back, she caused his death.
34:33The third charge is being seen after knowingly causing death.
34:37Again, she hit Mr. O'Keefe with a car.
34:40She knew he was injured.
34:43She left him behind and died.
34:47That's the whole group.
34:48This case will come down to the science and the data.
34:52The science and the data, the cell phone, it is the best of historians.
34:56It doesn't suffer from intoxication.
34:58It doesn't suffer from memory loss.
35:00It doesn't suffer from emotion, pride, or fright.
35:03It is facts.
35:04It is data.
35:06And that facts and data will lead you to the truth in this case.
35:11But after Ms. Reed was charged, she began what you'll learn as a campaign.
35:16A campaign to make public statements.
35:202020, nightline, bus 25, a documentary.
35:27And we've had an opportunity to get many of her statements and the footage, and we're going to show much of you.
35:32And her statements to you will confirm what you already know from the science and data, what you will already conclude from the facts independent about what she did that night.
35:44Her words will simply confirm that your judgment is sound.
35:48And you're going to hear from her own lips and many of her statements, her admissions to extraordinary intoxications, her admissions to driving the U.S., her admissions to being angry at dawn that night.
36:03And I guess I heard admissions that she told the statements that she made after she was charged.
36:26I mean, I didn't think I'd think I'd hit him, but could I have clicked him?
36:31Could I have tagged him in the knee and incapacitated him?
36:35He didn't look morally wounded as far as I could see, or could I have done something that knocked him out and his drunkenness and in the cold didn't come to again?
36:48And this would have been the moment you dropped him off at the party.
36:50Yeah, yeah, would have had to.
36:52Ladies and gentlemen, I simply ask you to follow the evidence, follow the science, follow the data.
37:09Ignore speculation, surmise conjecture.
37:13Stay true to the evidence.
37:15It will lead you to the truth.
37:17That on January 29, 2022, a very intoxicated defendant was angry and arguing about the relationship with John O'Keefe.
37:29And after the fight was over, she left, but she brought the fight back to him in the form of her SUV.
37:35She clipped him, he fell backwards, he broke his head, and then this man who helped, a lifetime of help, was left at the corner of that yard, left to die with no help.
37:50The facts, the data, and the evidence will bring you to the truth, and the defendant's own words will confirm everything you've already completed.
37:57I'll be right back to it.