Canton Cover-Up Part 348: Commonwealth Bar Witnesses Praise Karen Read, Show Michael Proctor Lied In Charging Documents Used To Indict
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Today might be the best day Karen Read has had in her murder trial and the defense hasn’t even had a chance to call their witnesses yet. The Commonwealth witnesses today were all people present at CF McCarthy’s or the Waterfall Bar prior to Karen Read driving John O’Keefe to Brian Albert’s house. It was an extremely boring day, as Adam Lally has found a way to make the most riveting murder trial in the country into an absolute snoozefest. He grilled the witnesses one by one about what kind of beer they were drinking, what sports their kids played, and whether or not they knew someone named Sully.
It was heartbreaking to watch Michael and Katherine Camerano struggle holding back tears as they talked about that fateful morning and their last encounter with O’Keefe. Both of them described John and Karen’s relationship as “normal,” their interactions as “caring and affectionate,” and neither heard any of them talk about breaking up.
It was disgusting to watch Lally put them through hours of testimony with an unclear motive. At the end of the day all Lally seemed to was debunk his own theory that Karen killed John because she was angry and on the verge of a breakup. This shot of her arriving at the Waterfall Bar was particularly telling.
John and Karen had been together for two years. Most people I know who have been together for that long greet each other with such love and happiness.
Curt Roberts, the husband of Kerry Roberts, was also CF McCarthy’s with John. He had nothing to add at all and the only woman he had a bad word to say about was his wife, who apparently likes to “come home in a mood” if he doesn’t shovel the driveway.
Kurt knows all about that from his domestic violence arrest, after Kerry slapped him in the face and he said in front of his young children that he was going to “bash your mother’s skull in.”
He was followed by a bartender who said that Karen didn’t appear drunk. It’s notable that you can only see Karen drinking one drink at CF McCarthy’s – not the 9 that we’ve been told she had.
After the bartender were the real MVP’s – Nicholas and Karina Kolokithas. The couple, whose children play sports with the McAlberts, testified that they were at the Waterfall Bar when John and Karen showed up close to 11 PM. According to Michael Proctor’s report Karina told him that Karen was complaining about John’s mother, and John’s children were interfering with private time for vacations.
It turns out this was a complete lie. Karina actually said the opposite – Karen told her how much he admired John’s close relationship with the children, how much John sacrificed for them, and how Karen wished that other members of the O’Keefe family stepped up and helped him with the children. The only mention of a vacation was how she was looking forward to an upcoming vacation that they had booked, indicating they had no plans to break up.
Proctor didn’t include any of that when he testified in front of the state grand jury, leading to Read’s indictment for murder.
Karina’s husband Nicholas was even more enamored with John and Karen’s relationship, telling Alan Jackson that they were affectionate and loving towards each other to the point when his wife asked “why aren’t you like that with me?”
He and his wife couldn’t have possibly been a better witness for Karen Read.
Nicholas also testified about observing Brian Albert and Brian Higgins play fighting just a few minutes before leaving the bar.
What kind of 50 year old men put up their fists at a bar like the Notre Dam mascot, pretend to fight, play wrestle, hump each other from behind, and then kiss and grab each other’s asses?
They were literally crashing into one of the tables, causing the barstools to move. Almost as if they were warming up for what was about to happen. Albert and Higgins, who was jealous of John because he had the hots for Karen, stared down O’Keefe as last call approached.
Finally, Karina testified that Jen McCabe was INSISTENT that John and Karen come over after the bar, telling them in a drunken stooper, “Come with meeeee, it’ll be fun, it’s a suprise!”
Almost as if the whole thing was a setup. Certainly they wouldn’t plan to murder a Boston cop inside Brian Albert’s home, but perhaps they wanted to tune John O’Keefe up a little to remind him of his place in the Canton hierarchy.
Oh, and remember the “bombshell” still image of Karen Read’s Lexus in the driveway, showing what appears to be a broken tail light?
Yea, they just never brought that up.
Traditionally state’s witnesses are supposed to help the state convict defendants. But it looks like the “bombshells” the McAlbert Mafia have been insisting would come at trial appear to be nothing more than knockout punches for the defense.
The testimony was beneficial to Karen today, but I saw the hurt that many were feeling.
They MISS John, they miss Karen and they loved them both.
Today was a great day for Karen. I believe that her smiles were accompanied by tears.
By far, the best part of today was when Fat Albert was trying to mount Higgins from behind in the bar. Pretty soon Higgins is gonna be the one doing the screwing 😂
Repulsive couple those two…all day driving to New York (for an officer’s funeral) and back THEN the bar scene in Canton while one would thing they should have been in bed thanking their lucky stars they weren’t the Officer in NY whose funeral they attended…then after getting plastered in Canton THEY opt to prey on Officer John O’Keefe….they were dialed UP and READY to GO…
DREGS of the earth!
I hope the testimony of the Kolokithas couple was able to lighten the strain of this travesty of a trial for Karen. The were an articulate couple who looked very professional and “ normal” for a Cantonite.
Lally has to be the dullest knife in the drawer. His questions are truly inane at times and his delivery smacks of a dull mind.
If there is any justice these people who murdered O’Keefe will pay the ultimate price. These townies are really the lowest dregs of society.
With respect to, that hot bag of wind Lally, he has the personality of an ashtray full of cigarettes
The truth is coming out of my butt and I can’t hold it in any longer!
The Proctologist strikes again. Brian Albert must be Maura Healy’s crack dealer or something to get all thees people to be so willing to take the fall. Seems very organized crimey
Yes. Yes it does.
The Sohardos
If we believe this is a conspiracy to protect the McAlberts up to and including the DA’s office, isn’t it in their interests to passively concede defeat. Even if the DA’s office were conned by the McAlberts and Proctor it still does not benefit them to push a loser case to the limits. The harder they push the more will get exposed by Read’s legal team. The prosecution had no choice but to go to trial with the feds looking over the shoulder. By moving forward with a sham trial they can say “at least we tried”. They have adopted a lose the battle but win the war mentality. For those who are expecting bombshell revelations regarding what really happened and identification of the true perpetrators you will be disappointed. Remember too the very same folks protecting the McAlberts are those who will decide what and who is pursued after Read’s exoneration. The fix is in. Norfolk County DA’s office is rolling over and tapping out.
Yes, when KR is found not guilty the DA will whine that “the jury got this wrong”. Then never spend another minute doing any “investigating”.
It’s all about money. A pathetic sham. They can’t afford it.
I hate these cops so much so, that even *IF* Karen actually did it, I’d vote NOT GUILTY if I was on the jury!!!!!!!!
I do have a question though, that no one has ever addressed regarding the “Hair” that they “found” on the taillight and are dna testing (I KNOW and BELIEVE it is NOT human!)
Which leads me to my question, WHY would the corrupt, framing, conspiratorial cops:
– NOT pluck a hair from John’s head while he’s laying in the snow
– NOT pluck a hair from John’s head while he’s on the gurney
– NOT pluck a hair from John’s head while he’s in the ambulance
– NOT pluck a hair from John’s head while he’s at the hospital
– NOT pluck a hair from John’s head while he’s in the Medical Examiner’s table
And then take *THAT* hair, and say they found *THAT* hair on the taillight?
It doesn’t make sense that they would instead:
-Pretend they might have a hair
-Pretend it’s human
-Hope to god the dna comes back as Johns
Please don’t come up with some lame excuse like the JodiAriasIsInnocent fan club would do.
The whole problem that they all had, was that it was never supposed to go this far.
Karen was supposed to roll over like a good little PATSY, plea to the manslaughter charge and do her sentence quietly so THEY could get on with THEIR Lives!!
Karen refused!!
So then they upped the charges to murder hoping that would force her hand ….again she refused to play their game and hired more attorneys to aid in her defence.
Never for one minute did they think that Karen would be believed, let alone have people donating to her Defence Fund to fight back.
The “hair” was the Commonwealths bargaining chip to keep the case going with Aunty Bev as ‘evidence’ of a crime …..simple as that. They never thought it would get this far.
Lally also told Aunty Bev that he had Karen on video admitting seeing Brian and Colin Albert smashing Johns head into the tail light …..he had no idea she would make him play it in court and we all witnessed for ourselves that it was a BLATENT LIE!!
Lally also told her that he had video evidence at 08:22 of Karens tail light being smashed with pieces missing and left us with the Cliffhanger of the squad car parked behind Karens car …..then yesterday he made ZERO reference to it!! That video didn’t show anything……he was simply using that cop to say that there was no tail light next to Johns car!!
However, he has spent almost 2 weeks telling us about whiteout conditions and zero visibility and how much snow had fallen ….even though we all have eyes and can see for ourselves that visibility was fine.
He also neglected to mention that at the time the cop went to the house….they hadn’t even pulled the Ring cam footage showing Karen had reversed into Johns car at just after 05:15ish …..so how would the cop know to go and search around Johns car for pieces of tail light …..at 11:00 Berkowitz was still saying it was a DV and that Karen attacked him with the glass!!
So getting back to the ‘hair’, they had an incompetent lab technician saying it was a human hair so he ran with it and insinuated it was Johns for months ….he never in a million years thought the Defence would check the certifications.
So it was tested again and found to not even be human!! Then finally Lally did the myochondrial testing giving all kinds of excuses why it wasn’t back from the lab. Then on the Friday before trial he claimed once again that it was a match with Johns dad’s DNA but couldn’t provide a report on what they actually said …..because they were waiting for CERTIFICATION!!
Lally is hoping he puts on that good of a case that he won’t even have to mention the ‘hair’ ….don’t forget they wanted to charge Karen $21,000 just to have a witness to watch that the collection had been done properly ….which clearly she couldn’t afford!!
The whole case has been about smoke and mirrors making claims that Lally cannot back up!! In other words he just LIES and misrepresents the evidence!!
It must be part of the course with Defendants that don’t have the money to defend themselves and they have crooked judges that will stop the likes of getting phones etc claiming Fishing expeditions…..they never ever counted on the Feds getting most of the evidence that Aunty Bev blatently refused to let them have!!
The Defence have had her rulings overturned at the SJC and then when the Feds found the texts and calls from Brian Albert and Brian Higgins she had no option other than to give the defence the access to their phones because she could no longer claim a fishing expedition!!
I agree with a lot of what you’re saying. Just want to clear up a couple points:
You stated that: “Lally also told her that he had video evidence at 08:22 of Karens tail light being smashed with pieces missing and left us with the Cliffhanger of the squad car parked behind Karens car …..then yesterday he made ZERO reference to it!! That video didn’t show anything……he was simply using that cop to say that there was no tail light next to Johns car!!”
I noticed that Lally didn’t make any mention of it, other than to use the cop to say there was no tail light next to John’s car ….
But did the Defense take the opportunity to say anything about it? And if not, why not?
Ummmmmmmmn well?
Did you see the evidence bag with solo cups full of blood right next to the car in the Sally port? They smeared some on and to there luck problems had hair in it.
Oh yeah they blew their chance at a conviction a long time ago. Now the goal is to stay out of jail themselves.
So BA and Higs drive to a funeral of an NYC cop they didn’t even know just to drive back and beat a Boston cop to death from the same dept he works for. Seems more like the NYC funeral was just an excuse to go on a booze ride/pub crawl or whatever 50yo cops do these days
Gotta put on their Class A’s and be “thanked for their service” while everyone else in the bar(s) pays for their substances.
An excuse to go on a drug run perhaps.
Brian Albert and Brian Higgins drive to NY to a funeral for a NY Cop that they didn’t know but yet when John O’Keefe is murdered they could not have been bothered to go to his funeral.
All the way to NY for a stranger but can’t be bothered to pay respects for your “friend”.
Let that sink in
What stands out to me is no BPD presence in the courtroom typically there would be uniformed officers there daily for support. Just strange
This
I’d like to know how much cocaine was involved …
I’m guessing that is the reason why they went “all the way to NY for a stranger” then came back to party all night. How much cocaine depends on who the kingpin is.
Maybe after all of this the jurors can sue the commonwealth for wasting their fucking time. Never mind wasting the taxpayers dollars. Jesus wept Lally get to the fucking point already.
Hahahaha I’d support this cause. Make the State pay, that’s the only wayyy
That was a huge waste of time listening to Lunchbox asking these people questions for hours it was also sad making some of them cry what was the point of all that. Then he’s finally done and not even a few minutes goes by Karen’s lawyer goes to question and aunt Bev interrupts and says it’s time for lunch. She is the most ignorant person too I can’t believe the way treats her lawyers she’s an ignorant person!!
Lally’s next victims to traumatize are those two children who lost 4 adults in their lives and have been used as pawns. He can’t just leave them alone… can’t prove murder without this Aruba fight. He’ll make them feel responsible.
OJ did a better job finding the real killers.
Two big, gruff, salty meatheats sparring at the bar is a great way to get kicked out… unless you “know a guy.”
Or you’re a cop in Canton.
*drives over pedestrian in reflective vest*
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Are these witnesses for the prosecution or witnesses for the defense?
The 2 overweight off duty LE’s wrassling is a little scary and probably annoying for the staff. They are paid taxpayer $ to actually control and break up this type of shit. There’s plenty of Greco-Roman gayness and sizing each other up. They wanted to fight each other for fun but got a pleasant semi surprise when O’Keefe showed up
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