Katie Ring (True Crime Analyst and Host) (12:30)
During direct examination, prosecutor Adam Lally plays footage from the Canton Sally port and asks trooper Yuri Buchenik what he sees. As a reminder, the Sally port is the garage at the Canton police station where they stored Karen's car. In this video, you see Karen's car and you also see a Man standing behind her left rear taillight. They use this footage to prove there is absolutely no way anyone could have tampered with her taillight. It seems pretty innocuous, but when Alan Jackson steps up to the podium the next day, he replays the footage and points something out that makes the entire courtroom gasp. For the people listening, it's available to watch on our YouTube channel at crime House Daily. But let's take a look at it. At first, a lot of people didn't see it either, but Alan Jackson points it out. If you look at the word police on the police car next to Karen's car, you'll notice that it's actually backwards, which means that the original footage is flipped. This is significant because it means that the man was actually on the right side of the car, the side of the car with the now busted taillight. There's no denying that this looks bad for prosecution, but they argue that it wasn't anything suspicious. And this is just how the footage always is. But the defense isn't buying it, because on top of all of that, there are several minutes missing from the Sally Port footage, as well as a jump in time where a man magically appears. If you're listening, we are showing the footage on our YouTube page at crime House Daily. But this isn't the only footage now missing in this case. In the first episode, I told you to remember two things. The library footage of Karen's car and John's Ring footage. Well, it turns out that both of those are now missing at the exact time Karen would be returning from 34 Fairview. Many people pointed the finger at Karen, claiming that she erased the footage. But the report from Ring shows that Karen never accessed that footage. But guess who did. If you guessed Proctor, you are correct. The ring footage was accessed through John's phone while it was in possession of Michael Proctor. So now we have three separate instances, instances of missing footage that could potentially exonerate Karen Reed. But there is a fourth, because it turns out that Brian Albert's neighbor across the street has a Ring camera. But he says nothing useful was caught on the camera, and so he just erased it before authorities even asked for it. And yes, if you're wondering, he is also a cop. Like everything else so far in this case, very suspicious. But it doesn't end there. The next pieces of evidence that investigators point to are the pieces of glass that are found on the bumper of Karen's car, a strand of John's hair found on the back of Karen's car, and touch DNA from John on the taillight housing. Once again, I find this evidence more odd than incriminating because you're telling me I'm supposed to believe that a few pieces of glass and a single hair stayed perfectly perched on a bumper through a 31 mile tow in the middle of a blizzard. We also find out in the second trial that there wasn't a single piece of glass on that bumper that matched the cup found during the first search at the original scene. The prosecution's theory is that the glass got there because Karen hit John with her car while he was holding the glass. But none of the glass matches the cup he was holding. Next is the touch DNA. But I don't think anyone is shocked that a boyfriend would have touched his girlfriend's car at some point in their relationship. What is interesting, however, is the fact that there was not a single single piece of DNA, blood or flesh found on the actual cracked part of the tail light. Again, you're telling me I'm supposed to believe that this cracked tail light, the one they claim ripped deep lacerations into John's arm, doesn't have a single drop of blood or skin on it? One piece of evidence I saw a lot of people claim proves Karen's guilt is the microscopic pieces of taillight found in John's clothing. Sounds really bad for Karen, right? Well, it does until we find out that Proctor didn't turn over John's clothes for six weeks after they were first recovered. And there isn't any record of whether or not they were stored with other evidence. Those microscopic pieces also didn't have any blood or DNA on them. And finally, we have the car data, John's Apple health data, and the WAZE data from his phone to prove Karen backed up and killed her boyfriend, John o'. Keefe. Prosecutors use a set of car data points called triggering events. But there is a huge problem here because the triggering events do not have any dates or times associated with them. This means that they cannot prove what time or even date any of these events happened. Internet sleuths point out that the timeline for these triggering events isn't exactly lining up and that there's even a possibility that this backing event prosecutors chose as the exact moment Karen hit and killed John could have actually occurred while the vehicle was in the possession of the Massachusetts State Police. Not too far fetched when you consider they are claiming that Karen backed up 80ft at 24 mph in a snowstorm and hit John without going onto the curb or grass or spinning out. Another thing that does not help the prosecution is the fact that none of the car data shows there was even a collision in the first episode. I told you to keep 12:45am in mind because this is when prosecutors originally claimed Karen hit John. This estimate was based on Jen McCabe's testimony that she saw a car drive off after she received a text at 12:45am but we find out that Karen's car connected to John's wi fi at 12:36am which makes that theory impossible. So mid trial, the prosecution actually changes their time of collision. Doesn't really give you too much confidence in this case. In the second trial, the alleged time of collision from beginning to end also changes. Once again, the defense proves that after John sustained his injuries, he would have been immediately incapacitated. But John's Apple health data records him taking 36 steps, covering a distance of 86ft after the alleged collision. So once again, the prosecution's timeline doesn't fit. By the way, if you're curious, yes, this is the distance from the sidewalk to the door of 34 Fairview. Next, Proctor conveniently misses a key witness, the plow driver, Brian Lucky Loughren. But when the defense team brings Lucky up to the stand, it becomes clear why he was overlooked. According to Lucky, the body was not there during his first pass around 2:30am however, when he returned to plow the road again around 3:30am he saw a dark SUV parked where the body was later discovered. He says that he specifically remembers this because plow drivers are supposed to report cars parked on the road during a snowstorm. But he decided to make an exception since he knew the Albert family and knew that Brian Albert was a first responder. Curious that there were all these butt dials and butt answers at 2:22am and there was no body. But at 3:30am there is a car parked directly in front of where John's body was found. So when you add this all up, it's clear that the investigation wasn't handled very well. But it still doesn't answer the question at the root of everything. What happened to John o'? Keefe?
