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Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update Breaking Crime Needs Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm Nicole Parton. The Massachusetts State Trooper took the witness

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Speaker 2: stand again in the murder trial of Karen Reed after

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Speaker 2: a heated cross examination on his initial day of testimony.

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Speaker 2: Uri buck Heinnick was the only witness to testify on

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Speaker 2: May eighth, detailing the severe injuries sustained by John O'Keeffe

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Speaker 2: and recounting what Reed told investigators after her boyfriend was

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Speaker 2: discovered unconscious outside the residence of a Boston police officer.

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Speaker 2: Prosecutors alleged that Reed, forty five, intentionally struck O'Keefe, forty six,

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Speaker 2: with her Lexus SUV during an alcohol fueled rage and

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Speaker 2: left him to die in January twenty twenty two. During

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Speaker 2: his testimony, buck Heinnick guided jurors through surveillance footage from

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Speaker 2: the restaurants where Reed and O'Keefe had been dining the

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Speaker 2: night before his death. Reed's legal team argues that she

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Speaker 2: was wrongly accused of murdering O'Keefe. The case, originated from Deadman, Massachusetts,

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Speaker 2: has eva a protracted mystery that has captivated true crime

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Speaker 2: enthusiast nationwide, inspiring numerous podcast films, and television series. The

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Speaker 2: former finance professor has returned to court following a twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty four trial that resulted in a hung jury. The

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Speaker 2: first full day of testimony commenced on April twenty three,

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Speaker 2: when Judge Beverly Cononi estimated the trial would extend six

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Speaker 2: to eight weeks. Read's attorney question but Kinnick about flirtatious

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Speaker 2: text messages between Red and Brian Higgins, an agent with

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Speaker 2: the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives who was

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Speaker 2: present at the restaurant where the couple drank the night

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Speaker 2: before O'Keefe's death and at the location where O'Keefe was

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Speaker 2: later found in the snow buck. Kennick read numerous messages

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Speaker 2: sent between the two and January. At one point, Judge

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Speaker 2: Connoni tried to speed up the reading process because there

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Speaker 2: were so many text messages.

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Speaker 1: Also to make it a little bit easier for everybody,

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Speaker 1: such and Buchanic. You do not have to describe the emojis,

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Speaker 1: you don't have to say anything about what the pictures are,

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Speaker 1: and you don't have to say the punctuation. Now that

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Speaker 1: we'll be able to have it. But you are being

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Speaker 1: asked to read which text is from home. Maybe if

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Speaker 1: we agree upon the color, you won't have to say that.

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Speaker 1: Can there be an agreement with that council, We can

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Speaker 1: do that the blue levels of lead.

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Speaker 2: And the gray.

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, I appreciate that. So you can just

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Speaker 1: read the screen.

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Speaker 2: Or read what you have in front of you.

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Speaker 1: Do you want to start the beginning or no, let's

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Speaker 1: go Let's just start where I'm sorry, start where where

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Speaker 1: you ended, if you could please.

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Speaker 2: In one message, Read described Higgins as quote hot, and

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Speaker 2: Higgins reciprocated the sentiment. They talked about a kiss they shared,

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Speaker 2: and Higgins inquired about Reid's happiness with O'Keefe. Quote I

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Speaker 2: was happy, but things have deteriorated. Reid responded. She meant

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Speaker 2: that O'Keefe had cheated on her and that their relationship

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Speaker 2: had worsened following the death of his sister. After the

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Speaker 2: passing of his sister and brother in law, O'Keefe took

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Speaker 2: on the responsibility of his niece and nephew, while Reid

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Speaker 2: expressed her disinterest in having children. After the passing of

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Speaker 2: his sister and brother in law, O'Keefe took on the

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Speaker 2: responsibility of his niece and nephew, while Reid expressed her

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Speaker 2: disinterest in having children. When Higgins asked if Reid planned

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Speaker 2: to end her relationship with O'Keefe, she replied she wasn't sure.

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Speaker 2: But Kinnick later indicated that while some of the texts

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Speaker 2: appeared flirtatious, he believed they illustrated Read's intent to exact

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Speaker 2: emotion an emotional revenge on O'Keefe. He said, emotional revenge

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Speaker 2: Mechinic stated she's attempting to connect with Higgins to hurt

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Speaker 2: O'Keefe by being unfaithful, but Kinnick agreed with Reid's defense

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Speaker 2: attorney that there was no evidence suggesting O'Keefe had seen

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Speaker 2: the text messages. As Reid's lawyers attempted to depict the

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Speaker 2: messages as Higgins having romantic feelings toward Karen Reid, Buckinic

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Speaker 2: highlighted that it was indeed Karen Reid who had initiated

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Speaker 2: the dialogue. In my view, the text messages were initiated

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Speaker 2: by miss Reid, who stated and started the conversation with

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Speaker 2: Brian Higgins, but Kinnick noted that Higgins responded in the

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Speaker 2: two exchange texts back and forth, back and forth, with

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Speaker 2: Higgins repeatedly asking Reid about her reasons for reaching out.

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Speaker 2: During Bukinic's cross examination, Reads attorneys pointed out that on

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Speaker 2: January twenty three, twenty twenty two, Reid texted Higgins expressing

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Speaker 2: her desire to keep communicating. Higgins replied with a text

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Speaker 2: that said humm. According to Reed's defense attorney, five days later,

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Speaker 2: on January twenty eight, the attorney noted that there were

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Speaker 2: no communications between Reid and Higgins until Higgins texted well

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Speaker 2: after seeing Red with O'Keefe at the bar the night

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Speaker 2: before O'Keeffe was found dead on May nine. Questioning quickly

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Speaker 2: became tense again as Reed's attorneys probed Buckinck regarding the

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Speaker 2: search on the lawn where O'Keefe was, but Kinnick admitted

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Speaker 2: he could not recall which member of the homicide team

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Speaker 2: collected specific evidence at this crime scene, and he did

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Speaker 2: not recognize the handwriting on the evidence bag when asked

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Speaker 2: if this implied that it was inconceivable that Proctor, who

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Speaker 2: but Kinnick responded, that's a ridiculous suggestion. But Kinnick agreed

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Speaker 2: that during his search he did not observe any plastic

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Speaker 2: fragments believed to be part of a broken tail light,

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Speaker 2: which Proctor later discovered. The defense attorney inquired if there

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Speaker 2: was any documentation tracking the evidence location in the weeks

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Speaker 2: between its discovery and Proctor's submission to the crime lab.

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Speaker 2: But Kinnick stated that the evidence was kept at the

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Speaker 2: Norfolk District Attorney's office, but there was no log in

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Speaker 2: logging the evidence. He testified that he began to suspect

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Speaker 2: O'Keeffe had been struck by a car after observing his

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Speaker 2: body in the hospital and the way the blood pulled

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Speaker 2: beneath his head. The defense also questioned whether but Kinnick

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Speaker 2: believed and explored the possibility of O'Keefe being involved in

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Speaker 2: a fight before his death, asserting that individuals inside the

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Speaker 2: home had assaulted O'Keefe and conspired to frame Read what

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Speaker 2: Crime and Justice news after this. A Nebraska man has

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Speaker 2: been charged with injecting a seventeen year old girl with

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Speaker 2: meth and phittamine before allegedly sexually assaulting her. The Lincoln

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Speaker 2: Police Department received a report from a social worker affiliated

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Speaker 2: with Lincoln Public Schools regarding a disturbing incident. The victim

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Speaker 2: disclosed to the worker that forty five year old Peterer

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Speaker 2: Lemir had provided her with drugs and assaulted her at

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Speaker 2: his residence earlier this year. According to court documents, the

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Speaker 2: girl mentioned that she had been communicating with Lemir, who

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Speaker 2: offered her cocaine in exchange for visiting his home on

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Speaker 2: the weekend. Authorities believe she went to his home in

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Speaker 2: late March to partake in drug use. The victim reported

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Speaker 2: that Lemir mixed a white powder with water and injected

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Speaker 2: her multiple times, between six to eight injections over the

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Speaker 2: course of one day. Following each injection, it is suspected

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Speaker 2: that Lemir also injected himself with the same substance. The

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Speaker 2: affidavit states that Lamir sexually assaulted the girl while she

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Speaker 2: was under the influence of drugs. Following the allegations, police

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Speaker 2: arrested Lemir on Thursday and took him in for questioning.

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Speaker 2: Investigators later confirmed that Lemir had injected the girl with methanphetamines.

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Speaker 2: During a subsequent search of his home, officers discovered two

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Speaker 2: hypodermic needles containing meth residue, as well as sixty prescriptionless

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Speaker 2: XANAC pills found in his car Lamir now faces charges

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Speaker 2: distributing a controlled substance to a minor. His bell has

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Speaker 2: been set at half a million dollars for the latest

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