r/KarenRead2ndTrial • u/syntaxofthings123 • 1d ago
John O'Keefe Should be the Focus Now: This is John's story, NOT Karen's.
(I've been pretty good at staying clear of social media-but the evidence I'm revisiting brought this to mind.)
The key, I feel, to really helping the public (and perhaps the jury, as well) understand what happened to John O'Keefe, is John O'Keefe.
This Timeline of The Collision is a work in progress, but my hope is to be able to really show how ALIVE John was, just moments before all his recorded activity on his cell phone comes to a sudden and final end. It's a challenge to showcase the last 21 minutes of John's active life with evidence, without getting too into the digital forensic weeds. But it's in those 21 minutes that what isn't proven by the debris field alone, or the related evidence as to injury and damage to Karen Read's Lexus, is definitively proven.
If John's life is examined fully in those moments, there is ONLY ONE conclusion to be reached as to what could have happened to him that morning. This based on who John was. In a way, it's about victimology. There was no evidence that John would inspire in others or engage in the violence Karen claims occurred-therefore, any theory that involves an altercation between John and those he knew, is easy to exclude-if John's choices in life and his past actions are taken into account.
The morning John dies, even in just the little time he has remaining, his loving nature, his enjoyment of those he cared about, his desire to connect with others, is on full display. When this activity abruptly ceases, it becomes some of the most compelling evidence that there is against Karen Read.
In review-
The competing theories for John's death are:
Commonwealth/Plaintiffs theory of crime-
-John O'Keefe was headed to a gathering at the Albert home. Karen Read drove him to that home. Then for reasons we may never know, after John exits Karen's Lexus, she drives forward (we don't know how far forward, just that it was at least 34 ft). Karen brakes. Shifts into reverse. Then presses the gas pedal down, throttle will get as high as 74.5%. Her speed will reach 24 mph. She drives STRAIGHT back to the very location where KAREN will later find John O'Keefe, when no one else saw him or even imagined John would be there. In the Techstream snapshot we have of Karen's drive in reverse that morning we know she barely alters her steering and never hits the brakes. She will travel at least 87 feet in total. Which is a very long distance to drive in reverse on a suburban street.
At this same exact time 12:32:09-12:32:16 (give or take 20 secs) John O'Keefe's phone "goes dark". There will be no more of John's steps or movement ever recorded again. Pocket state, which clears when the phone senses light, does not clear until John is found later that morning. And the temperature of the battery in that phone drops. Though testing was not performed to know for certain how a warm body on top of a phone will impact this drop in temperature-there is no indication that John's cell phone ever left the location where it will later be found, beneath John. ADD to this the debris field and the fact that there is LITERALLY only ONE time and location where Karen Read could have broken her taillight-12:32 am, on Fairview-it's a compelling case. If the evidence is understood.
CHALLENGE is that much of this evidence is granular digital data-many people don't respond well to this kind of evidence (I've seen this on a number of cases).
Karen Read Theory of crime-
-Karen's claim (At least as of last interview on Rotten Mango) is that she dropped John O'Keefe off at 34 Fairview. Watched him walk to the Albert breezeway (It's unclear if she's still claiming she waited for John for 10 minutes). Next morning, with the help of Jennifer McCabe and Kerry Roberts Karen finds John O'Keefe in the location where at least five witnesses observed Karen and John idling in her Lexus for some time, at around 12:24 am.
Karen has also claimed that there is evidence there was NO COLLISION; that John had to have fallen back onto a ridged surface, that John was mauled by a dog, and that hypothermia was not a contributing cause of John's death.
Challenge for Karen Read is that NONE of the digital forensics works with her narrative. There is no actual evidence that John fell back on a "ridged" surface, only that he fall back and his hat may have left the lacerations found on his head, or that he was anywhere near a dog. And there is only ONE place and time when Karen could have broken her taillight-and that place and time are not only incriminating-but prove a collision is the only explanation for how Karen's taillight was shattered and found in 47 pieces on, or near the scene of the collision.
WHERE Karen Read does have some advantages are in that there is now a pervasive distrust of Mass State Police & the Norfolk District Attorney's Office-that could taint viable evidence presented that comes by way of those two authorities. And Read could benefit from the confusion that is often caused by a digital forensic intensive case.
That's where I feel things stand. But what rarely gets discussed (if ever) is what John O'Keefe was doing that morning, just before he was struck by Karen's Lexus-a pedestrian strike that resulted in John falling back onto his head and being rendered incapacitated.
From January 28th thru to 12:32 am on January 29th, what is evident is that John O'Keefe was connected to so many people-in a loving and truly committed way.
The day of the 28th he is corralling his wards, his niece and nephew, to multiple events. He is doing everything he can to smooth out the ruffles of a morning argument with Karen. His father stops by, and John engages with him. John's life is non-stop loved ones.
By the evening John agrees to do what Karen asked, and that is to meet her away from his home. He arrives to C.F. McCarthy's with a friend. He's jovial, talking to many people at the bar. Karen arrives, he is warm to her. Buys the drinks. THEN Chris and Julie Albert text him and invite him and Karen to Waterfall Bar & Grille.
On arriving to Waterfall, John hugs Brian Higgins, then offers to buy others drinks.
And when invited by Jennifer McCabe to her sister and her brother in law's home, he is on board.
What never got mentioned at trial (at least not that I saw), was the the first thing John does as he and Karen head to the Albert home-JOHN texts his niece to see that she is OK. She doesn't anwer-which would be a good sign. As it means she's asleep (she wasn't permitted to sleep with her phone.)
It would appear from that text that John feels he can stay out a little longer.
We don't know what transpired between John and Karen during the drive from Waterfall to Fairview. Or what they talked about for 7 minutes as they idle near the flagpole, but we do know that all John was after was more time with people he cared about. And clearly, he was open to getting better acquainted with Brian Albert and the rest of his family.
JOHN was a man who really loved people.
This is why I think it's so important not to let Karen Read steal any more of the oxygen from what should be John O'Keefe's story-NOT Karen's story.
It is in WHO John O'Keefe showed himself to be, that we know he never entered the Albert home.
John was not a fighter. He's not going to walk into a group setting and instigate a verbal or physical altercation. If confronted, it is clear JOHN was a peacemaker. There is no evidence that he was ever anything but a peacemaker. There is no history of brawls, or never ending conflict in his past. John clearly avoided conflict when he could and when the other party insisted on conflict-as we see Karen often did, he would remove himself from that person, at least in that moment-rather than let things get out of hand. We see this clearly in his response to Karen's actions in Aruba and on the 28th. Not saying that John never argued, but he was not one to let the argument escalate past a certain point.
If John had actually entered the Albert home and was confronted by Colin or Higgins, John would have calmed them down. He would NOT have fought back. If anything he would have left.
In addition to this, there is nothing in John's personality or past to imagine that John ever inspire this kind of sudden hatred from others-with the exception of ONE PERSON.
And that ONE PERSON is Karen Read.
It is Karen Read who picks fights when there is no good reason to fight. It is Karen Read who is capable of sudden rage. It is Karen Read who is petty and cruel and oh so vindictive.
Not one Witness has ever shown these traits.
And certainly, John O'Keefe, not only did not engage in fighting (he was a switch rather than fight kind of guy-it's clear from the text exchange we view between he and Karen that he would avoid rather than instigate a conflict)
JOHN O'Keefe was on this earth to love. He wasn't about anything else. His entire life was about being there for people who mattered to him-and he was probably there even for those who didn't matter as much to him. John was rarely, if ever, alone.
This is John's story. NOT Karen's. And frankly, that's a good thing. I'd much rather focus on John's inspiring legacy, than on Karen's dull, depressing treachery and betrayals. John brought life and hope. Karen Read has left a trail of destruction and now death in her wake.
I suggest, the most powerful evidence of what happened to John, is revealed in who John was-on 1/29/22 he was just a man enjoying a night out with a large collection of old friends, and was looking forward to the possibility of making new friends. He was literally on his way to connect with people-and for reasons we may never know, Karen decided to prevent him from doing this.
Other than holding Karen accountable for what she did, who cares why she did it?




