Karen Read’s defense intensified the attacks discovered by new experts on Tuesday, contradicting the schedule they said they said she did not hit her boyfriend John O'Keefe with a Lexus SUV and left him dead in a snowstorm in 2022.
Shanon Burgess, a vehicle and telephone data expert from digital forensics company Aperture, returned to the stands and conducted a cruel cross-examination on the steering wheel the next day with defense attorney Robert Alessi.
Alessi points out the inconsistencies in Burgess' resume and reveals that he made a mistake on the schedule that should have been "to the second second". There is nothing in Burgess's discovery that a fatal collapse occurred.
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Karen Read arrived at Norfolk County Superior Court in Didem, Massachusetts on May 20, 2025. (Hans Pennink for Fox News Digital)
"When you sat here today, there was no information in the black box you mentioned in your direct testimony that there was a collision on January 29," Alessi said. "Is there any?"
"Not myself," Burgess replied.
When Special Attorney Hank Brennan returned to the redirection inquiry, he pulled the brakes and asked experts about the flaws he found in his previous analysis that showed that Boston police officer O'Keefe was interacting with the iPhone after prosecutors claimed that he was fatally attacking his iPhone.
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Defense attorney Robert Alessi made a point while crossing the questioning of digital forensic analyst Shanon Burgess during the Karen Read trial on May 20, 2025. (Matt Stone/Boston Herald via AP/Pool)
Burgess testified that mathematics is out of alignment. A defense expert relies on call logs to synchronize the internal clocks in Read's Lexus SUV and O'Keefe's iPhone.
But that didn't help, Burgess explained, because experts used calls that were made when they were powered on the car, so the vehicle's internal clock had nothing to do with them. Their timing is the product of the internal clock on her smartphone, and he says the next time she turns it on, it syncs with Lexus.
These calls indicate that the difference between the vehicle and the victim's phone is only a second or two.
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Digital forensics analyst Shanon Burgess conducted research on defense attorney Robert Alessi during the Karen reading trial on May 20, 2025. (Matt Stone/Boston Herald via AP/Pool)
Burgess proved that using other metrics, including user data stored in Lexus that previously analysts failed to identify and recover, the difference swelled to between 21 and 29 seconds.
It is unclear whether Burgess' credibility is due to the juror's exhaustion of gas, as Alessi recovered online incorrectly said he had a bachelor's degree from the University of Alabama.
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"This expert needs to go home," said Massachusetts defense attorney Grace Edwards. She said the prosecution has the potential for jurors to find him "dark" and ignore his chances of finding him, even if his field does not require a bachelor's degree.
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"This is Murder case"She told Fox News numbers." And the fact that he got the wrong start and end date of the slide screamed his work was sloppy and he didn't have fact checked his work. ”
She noted that when Burgess mentioned the data obtained from Read's SUV, it was obviously mixing bits and bytes together.
"Attorney Alessi built a trap he walked into, destroying Burgess in the stands," Edwards said. "Accuracy matters when you're a technician."
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Special Prosecutor Hank Brennan was on display during the May 12, 2025 murder trial of Karen Read. (PAT Greenhouse/Boston Globe via AP/Swimming Pool)
Burgess testified that despite his formal aperture bio and an old LinkedIn account, he did not have a bachelor's degree, which seems to have been deactivated in the past few days, otherwise otherwise.
Brennan tried to fix the loss by showing jurors a two-updated resume, and Burgess has submitted his defense to the defense before the trial and showed his certificate. None of them claimed he had a bachelor's degree.
"Have you heard of Bill Gates?" Brennan asked.
“Yes,” Burgess replied, referring to the billionaire Microsoft founder who famously withdrew from Harvard before graduation.
Burgess eventually said he wanted to earn a bachelor’s degree one day, but “work, family and life” kept getting stuck.
"As a personal goal, I want to complete my bachelor," Burgess testified. "But work and life are also in the way."
After leaving the witness stand, Brennan played three readings, using her own words to discuss the schedule for the TV documentary. She said she believes O'Keeffe died at around 12:30 a.m. on January 29, 2022.
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The next witness is Christina Hanley, an analyst at Massachusetts Police Crime Laboratory, inspecting broken glass found near O'Keefe's body at 34 Fairview Road, about 20 miles south of Boston.
Hanley is expected to return to the stands at 9 a.m. Wednesday.