Canton Coverup Part 512: Karen Read Trial Day 7 – Jennifer McCabe Cross Examination Reveals She’s “Just Like A Normal Mom” Who Lied To FBI

 

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I didn’t get a chance to live tweet Jennifer McCabe’s disastrous cross examination in court on Wednesday, but I rewatched it today and here’s my thoughts:

• The fact that the FBI surprised Jennifer McCabe with a visit on April 10 is wild, but the way she handled it is peak Jennifer McCabe. She told them she was Nicole Albert, thinking they would go away, but of course they’re FBI and they’re not stupid so they didn’t go anywhere. Instead they called her on the phone and sat down for an interview with her.
• Before the interview McCabe said she needed 10 minutes to get ready. When she was finally ready they asked her if she called anyone on the phone and she said Kerry Roberts and Matt McCabe, even though they told her it was a crime to lie. Matt McCabe told her to tell the truth, so she admitted that she lied to them. In fact, she had also called Peggy O’Keefe, the DA’s Office, and Brian Albert.
• She called Peggy O’Keefe because manipulating the O’Keefe family is how she’s gotten this far to begin with. She also needed to make sure Peggy hadn’t been talking to the feds.
• She called the DA’s Office to see if they knew anything about the FBI investigation. They didn’t.
• She called Brian Albert and didn’t tell the FBI about that because he was a co-conspirator in John O’Keefe’s murder and she wanted to see if he had been visited as well.
• Jen ended the interview early because she wasn’t comfortable with the questions. She was perfectly comfortable answering questions from friendly officers like Michael Lank and Michael Proctor though.
• When asked why she called Kerry Roberts, Jen said that she didn’t do so to find out what they had asked Kerry. This is impossible to believe after listening to Kerry’s testimony.
• Jen constantly looked at the jury during her testimony, especially when she was lying. She does this because she thinks that she can fool anyone with her “I’m just a suburban soccer Mom act” if she looks them in the eyes.

• The funniest part about the FBI visit was that Jen testified that “we’re just like, normal Moms, we’re not used to this.” Nothing about being visited by FBI agents or Googling “hos long to die in cold” at 2:27 AM is normal. But Jen thinks that if she can convince the jury she’s just a regular white suburban wine soccer Mom, then she’s not capable of murder.

• Jen conceded that she didn’t tell the truth to the FBI agents about who she spoke with, but said that this wasn’t a lie.
• Auntie Bev saved her over and over again. One egregious time was when she allowed Jen to explain why her lie wasn’t a lie, and then went on a rant about how she had just dropped her kids off at school. Once again reminding the jury that she’s just a normal soccer Mom, and not the kind of person who would ever be a suspect in a murder investigation.

• Jen actually said, with a straight face, that she called Brian Albert, Steven Nelson, and Peggy O’Keefe, but says she forgot to tell the FBI agents and then had an “epiphany” after they left.
• Jen invited Brian Albert to her house for the friends and family “interview” with Michael Proctor.
• She testified that Proctor’s report does not contain what she actually said about the location of Karen’s car.
• Jen has distanced herself from her previous testimony where she said that Karen Read’s car was still outside at 12:45. This is incompatible with the Commonwealth’s newest theory that John was struck at 12:31. You can tell they’ve had conversations about this and have tailored her testimony to frame Karen Read.
• Jen says that there was no reason to separate the witnesses, and went into great detail to explain why it wasn’t abnormal not to separate them. 

• Jen claims that Chloe never barked and she didn’t see her in the house, even though she had to yell to wake up Brian and Nicole, who testified that Chloe was in their room.
• In another example of tailoring testimony from the first trial, Jen went out of her way to make it seem like the chaos on the lawn was far away from Brian Albert’s bedroom. She knows how problematic this was last trial.

• Alan Jackson spent about 15 minutes trying to get Jen to answer a simple question about what time a screenshot from Julie Nagel says Ryan Nagel pulled up to 34 Fairview Road. By the time she finally answers the question I worry that the jury won’t remember what the question was.

• Like Timothy Nuttall, Jen says her memory got better over time which is why her story has changed. 
• Jen didn’t see or hear anything suggesting a car accident.
• She could see tire tracks but not the body on the front lawn. “I wasn’t looking at the ground.” This is another huge part of the problem for the Commonwealth, and they’re trying to tighten it up.
• For me, Jackson’s biggest point was when Jen said that she didn’t notice a body it was because she wasn’t looking for one. Jackson pointed out that she wasn’t looking for tire tracks either but she did see those in the street.
• She said John wasn’t a big boy.
• Just like last trial, she said she didn’t see John’s body when they drove by because they were talking about peanut butter sandwiches, and reiterated that Julie Nagel didn’t mention anything about a black blob on the lawn.
• It took another 15 minutes of questioning for Jackson to get McCabe to admit that she told police “Did I hit him” instead of “I hit him.” She admitted she told the grand jury the same thing, but her response to that was that she was 100% sure she remembered Read saying “I hit him.”
• McCabe says that she called Michael Lank back to Brian Albert’s house at 9 AM because she suddenly started remembering things. She claims she told Lank that Karen said “I hit him” but that wasn’t in Lank’s report. She asked to see the report, even though by this point she knows damn well what’s in the report. This is yet another delay tactic designed to get the jury to forget what the question was.
• Auntie Bev abruptly cut off Jackson and ended the day before 4 PM while he was grilling McCabe what she told Sean Goode.