1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:03,559 Speaker 1: Crime a art hourly update breaking crime news Now. 2 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:06,360 Speaker 2: I'm Nicole parton. The second murder trial of Karen Reid 3 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:10,520 Speaker 2: resumed on Friday, following a brief pause caused by extreme 4 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:15,320 Speaker 2: heat in the Massachusetts courtroom. During the proceedings, Daniel Michael Wolfe, 5 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:19,959 Speaker 2: an expert in accident reconstruction, provided testimony focusing on whether 6 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:23,680 Speaker 2: Reed could have fatally struck her boyfriend, Boston Police officer 7 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:26,960 Speaker 2: John O'Keeffe with her vehicle. Did you reach any. 8 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:30,280 Speaker 3: Opinions or conclusions as to as to relating to the 9 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:35,040 Speaker 3: punctures or poles in the hoodie that you saw that 10 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:36,880 Speaker 3: was related to John O'Keeffe. 11 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:37,360 Speaker 2: Yes. 12 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:42,880 Speaker 3: Do you have an opinion or conclusion as to whether 13 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:45,680 Speaker 3: or not the damage that you saw to the hoodie 14 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 3: related to John O'Keefe is consistent or inconsistent with a 15 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 3: impact from a right rear tail light of the subject suv? 16 00:00:56,760 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 3: It was inconsistent and what do you base that opinion on? 17 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:03,360 Speaker 2: Based upon all of the impact hasting that we did 18 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:06,920 Speaker 2: with the closed atd ARM in the laboratory as well 19 00:01:06,959 --> 00:01:07,560 Speaker 2: as the field. 20 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 3: In any of the testing that you did, did you 21 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:17,080 Speaker 3: ever see tail like pieces, cut, puncture or fray the sleeve. 22 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 2: Of that puddy no. Reed's defense team is working to 23 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 2: establish that she had been wrongfully accused in connection with 24 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:29,160 Speaker 2: O'Keefe's death. His body was discovered beneath the snow outside 25 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:32,360 Speaker 2: the residence of a fellow officer in January twenty twenty two, 26 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:35,960 Speaker 2: after Reed and O'Keefe had spent an evening drinking with friends. 27 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:39,800 Speaker 2: Prosecutors alleged that Reed, in a fit of drunken rage, 28 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:44,119 Speaker 2: reversed her Lexus SUV into O'Keefe after dropping him off 29 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:47,280 Speaker 2: at a house party, subsequently leaving him to die in 30 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 2: the harsh blizzard conditions. She faces charges of second degree murder, 31 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 2: vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, and leaving the scene of an 32 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 2: accident resulting in death. Earlier in the week, jurors heard 33 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,240 Speaker 2: from a woman who accompanied Read ann O'Keefe to the 34 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:05,200 Speaker 2: bar that night before his death, as well as a 35 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 2: snowplow driver from Canton, Massachusetts, who claimed he did not 36 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:12,519 Speaker 2: see O'Keeffe's body in the yard of retired Boston Police 37 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:15,680 Speaker 2: officer Brian Albert when he drove by on the morning 38 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 2: of January twenty nine, twenty twenty two. This trial marks 39 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:23,280 Speaker 2: Read's second attempt at exoneration, as her previous trial concluded 40 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:26,560 Speaker 2: last year with a hung jury. Wolfe, who heads the 41 00:02:26,639 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 2: accident reconstruction department at the Pennsylvania firm ARCA, analyzed whether 42 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 2: O'Keefe's injuries could be attributed to a collision with Reed's vehicle. 43 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:39,200 Speaker 2: He suggested that the damage to her right tail light 44 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 2: was generally consistent with being struck by a drinking glass 45 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:46,840 Speaker 2: rather than a human being, which could be pivotal in 46 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 2: casting doubt on the prosecution's narrative. He expressed skepticism regarding 47 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:57,560 Speaker 2: the methods used by the prosecution's crash reconstruction expert Judson Welcher, 48 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:02,800 Speaker 2: highlighting that his analysis left real questions unresolved. Welcher had 49 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:07,200 Speaker 2: stated that Reed's vehicle reversed approximately eighty seven feet at 50 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:09,800 Speaker 2: a speed of twenty four miles per hour around the 51 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:14,519 Speaker 2: time O'Keefe's phone was locked, asserting that his injuries could 52 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:17,920 Speaker 2: have stemmed from a car accident. Will further elaborated on 53 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,920 Speaker 2: how he tested Welcher's theory by using crash test dummies 54 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:26,359 Speaker 2: to simulate the impact scenario. The jury instructions filed by 55 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 2: Reed's legal team indicate that she may choose not to 56 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:33,200 Speaker 2: testify in the retrial, reminding jurors of her Fifth Amendment 57 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 2: right against self incrimination and instructing them not to hold 58 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 2: her silence against her for crime injustice. News after this 59 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:49,680 Speaker 2: and now to Florida, where Governor Ron Dessentis has suspended 60 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:54,000 Speaker 2: the Osceola County Sheriff Marcos Lopez from his office on Thursday, 61 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:57,920 Speaker 2: shortly after he was arrested on felony charges of racketeering 62 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:03,480 Speaker 2: and conspiracy to commit racering. Florida Attorney General James Uttmeyer's 63 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:08,760 Speaker 2: Office of Statewide Prosecution charged Lopez and four other individuals 64 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 2: in a quote massive Central Florida gambling operation, according to 65 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:16,920 Speaker 2: a press release issued by the Attorney General's office. Initially 66 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:21,640 Speaker 2: engaging the operation for campaign contributions and personal payments, Sheriff 67 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 2: Lopez played a multifaceted role in expanding and protecting this 68 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:30,240 Speaker 2: illegal enterprise, using his office to shield the enterprise from 69 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:34,560 Speaker 2: law enforcement. The release said. Desantes has appointed Christopher Blackman 70 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:38,360 Speaker 2: to take over the Ossola County Sheriff's department. Blackman had 71 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:41,600 Speaker 2: been serving as the Central Region Sheriff for Florida Highway 72 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 2: Patrol since twenty twenty three. Loppez began serving the Ossola 73 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 2: County Sheriff's department in two thousand and three, while he 74 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 2: was still serving in the US Navy Reserve. He rose 75 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:54,720 Speaker 2: up the ranks before ultimately being elected sheriff in twenty twenty, 76 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:58,000 Speaker 2: becoming the first Hispanic and Osciola County to do so. 77 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 2: There have been scandals under Lopez's tenure, including a twenty 78 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:05,400 Speaker 2: twenty two sheriff deputy killing a man who drove a 79 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 2: car carrying two passengers accused of shoplifting forty six dollars 80 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 2: in pizza and Pokemon cards. A grand jury report later 81 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 2: said the killings could have been avoided if not for 82 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:21,359 Speaker 2: their faulty judgment and their department's poorly crafted policies on 83 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:24,880 Speaker 2: the use of appropriate force in response to a minor crime. 84 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:28,360 Speaker 2: Lopez also ended up agreeing to pay two hundred and 85 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 2: fifty dollars in a fine last year in a plea 86 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:35,040 Speaker 2: with a state attorney Andrew Bain, for inadvertently posting a 87 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:37,919 Speaker 2: photo on social media of a crime victim who was 88 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:41,120 Speaker 2: a minor. That led Bain to add Lopez's name to 89 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:45,560 Speaker 2: his office's Brady Identification system, which lists the names of 90 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 2: law enforcement officers who have a history of misconduct. The 91 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:53,400 Speaker 2: Attorney General's press release says a multi agency investigation led 92 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 2: by Homeland Security Investigations and joined by the Florida Department 93 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:01,039 Speaker 2: of Law Enforcement began looking into Lopez then his associates 94 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:05,160 Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three. The investigation ultimately uncovered a criminal 95 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:11,520 Speaker 2: organization operating an illegal gambling enterprise throughout central Florida, particularly 96 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 2: in Lake and Osceola Counties. The statement said Lopez and 97 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:19,440 Speaker 2: his associates ran a lottery, slot machines and gambling house 98 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:23,160 Speaker 2: out of a business known as Fusion Social Club. According 99 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:27,520 Speaker 2: to the charging documents, the alleged criminal operation generated twenty 100 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:31,240 Speaker 2: one million dollars in profits, according to the Attorney General. 101 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:34,840 Speaker 2: According to officials from the Lake County Jail, Lopez is 102 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:38,480 Speaker 2: being held without bond pending a June thirty arraignment. 103 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:42,920 Speaker 1: How could a beautiful, young first grade teacher be stabbed 104 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:49,640 Speaker 1: twenty times, including in the back, allegedly die of suicide? Yes, 105 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:54,000 Speaker 1: that was the medical examiner's official ruling after a closed 106 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:57,719 Speaker 1: door meeting. He first named it a homicide. Why what 107 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:04,040 Speaker 1: happened to Ellen gerg a huge American miscarriage of justice 108 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:09,720 Speaker 1: for an in depth look at the facts. See what 109 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 1: happened to Ellen on Amazon. All proceeds to the National 110 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:18,320 Speaker 1: Center for Missing and Exploited Children. 111 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:21,840 Speaker 2: For the latest crime injustice news, follow crime alert hourly 112 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:25,400 Speaker 2: update on your favorite podcasting app with this crime Alert. 113 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 2: I'm Nicol Hartner.