Karen Read's Google Timeline Derailed Again As 2nd Expert Disputes Defense Claims

A 2nd master connected smartphone forensics testified Wednesday successful nan Karen Read proceedings that Jennifer McCabe's Google hunt astir hypothermia happened aft John O'Keefe's remains were found, not before, arsenic nan defense has argued.

Jessica Hyde testified that she could opportunity pinch technological certainty that McCabe utilized her iPhone to hunt nan building "hos (sic) agelong to dice successful cold" astatine 6:24 a.m.

The defense declare that nan hunt happened astatine 2:27 a.m. – hours earlier investigators opportunity Read, McCabe and Kerry Roberts recovered O'Keefe dormant successful nan snowfall astatine 34 Fairview Road – is incorrect, she testified. The earlier timestamp has nary relationship to nan hunt but is really assigned to nan clip McCabe opened nan browser tab connected her phone.

That grounds supported earlier grounds from Ian Whiffin, a integer forensic master from nan patient Cellebrite, which makes immoderate of nan package and hardware that investigators usage to look for accusation connected phones and different devices.

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Karen Read talks pinch her attorney, Alan Jackson, during her execution proceedings successful Norfolk Superior Court successful Dedham, Mass., connected May 7, 2025. (Greg Derr/Patriot Ledger via AP/Pool)

Hyde testified utilizing circumstantial position – "hex editors," "hash values" and database files, wading into method specifications astir really telephone information is extracted, preserved and interpreted. Even inexperienced analysts tin person problem making consciousness of things, she testified. 

David Gelman, a Philadelphia-area defense lawyer who has been pursuing nan case, questioned nan prosecution's determination to person an master witnesser for specified method grounds return nan guidelines earlier nan court's midday break.

"For an expert, you want them to make it make consciousness to a 5-year-old," he told Fox News Digital. "They grounded today. Add successful that it was an incredibly boring subject, I would stake nan jurors were conscionable looking astatine nan timepiece nan full clip reasoning what they will bid for lunch."

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John O’Keefe (Boston Police Department)

After lunch, defense lawyer Robert Alessi handled nan cross-examination, bringing up nan aforesaid method position and grilling Hyde astir her grounds astatine Read's first trial, which he was not portion of.

The proceedings past twelvemonth ended pinch a deadlocked jury, starring nan authorities to bring successful typical charismatic Hank Brennan to retry nan case.

Without nan assemblage present, Alessi asked nan tribunal for support to reference a caller Maryland lawsuit that he said showed Hyde was an unreliable witness. Judge Beverly Cannone sided pinch Brennan's squad and said he could not bring up nan judge's determination successful that case, but she said he would beryllium free to cross-examine Hyde connected nan methodology she utilized to make her findings.

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Witness Jessica Hyde, a integer forensic information analyst, talks astir information connected Jennifer McCabe's cellphone during nan Karen Read execution proceedings connected May 7, 2025. (Greg Derr/Patriot Ledger via AP/Pool)

Under cross-examination, she testified that O'Keefe's telephone was not secured successful alignment pinch established "best practices" aft constabulary recovered it from nan scene.

She sparred pinch Alessi, often utilizing nan aforesaid method position that whitethorn person alienated nan assemblage connected nonstop examination, Gelman said.

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"Jurors don’t want to beryllium done this for days and days," he said. "They want to get into nan nutrient and potatoes."

Read has pleaded not blameworthy to charges of murder, manslaughter and fleeing nan scene. She could look life successful situation if convicted of nan apical charge.

Massachusetts prosecutors allege she backed her Lexus SUV into and fatally struck O'Keefe earlier driving distant aft a nighttime retired drinking successful Canton, a suburb of Boston.

Attorney Robert Alessi speaks during Karen Read's execution proceedings connected May 7, 2025. (Greg Derr/Patriot Ledger via AP/Pool)

Through her defense lawyers, she has denied striking him astatine all.

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Earlier successful Wednesday's proceeding, Massachusetts State Trooper Connor Keefe took nan guidelines to talk really he collected grounds successful nan case, including phones from McCabe and Roberts arsenic good arsenic surgery pieces of a taillight and O'Keefe's sneaker from nan crime scene.

At 1 point, he opened an grounds container successful beforehand of nan jury, and it had 3 pieces of surgery integrative inside, not nan expected two.

Massachusetts State Trooper Connor Keefe presents taillight fragments into grounds during Karen Read's execution proceedings connected May 7, 2025. (Greg Derr/Patriot Ledger via AP/Pool)

"Do you cognize if nan different portion successful nan container is simply a portion that collapsed off?" Brennan asked. "Do you cognize really that arrived there?" 

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"I do not," Keefe said. 

Brennan asked for nan pieces to beryllium moved into evidence, but aft an objection from Read's defense, nan tribunal instructed Keefe to spot nan 3rd portion successful a abstracted grounds bag.

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Karen Read, left, listens to lawyers Robert Alessi and Hank Brennan during her execution proceedings connected May 7, 2025. (Greg Derr/Patriot Ledger via AP/Pool)

But Keefe's grounds helped prosecutors found a patient timeline of erstwhile and wherever constabulary recovered surgery taillight fragments: successful nan snow-covered thoroughfare successful beforehand of 34 Fairview Road, wherever O'Keefe and Read had been seen nan nighttime before.

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Testimony is expected to resume soon aft 9 a.m. Thursday.