Sometimes, Karen Read might take things into her own hands, like when she got a “weak pour” at a bar the night her boyfriend died.
Not satisfied with the alcohol content, she decided to add extra shots by herself, as revealed in an interview she did in 2024 for a documentary airing on Investigation Discovery.
The clip aired in court Thursday as part of her retrial on murder charges in the death of her boyfriend, John O’Keefe.
“The drinks they were serving me at McCarthy’s, where I mainly had the alcohol, were very diluted vodka tonics,” she explained on camera. “It was basically like drinking soda water with a hint of lime, not that I was expecting a strong martini, but at least a little more vodka in it would have been nice.”
At around 8 p.m., before Read and O’Keefe’s meeting for drinks, she informed him that she had called a plumber over because her hot water supply had stopped. He responded by saying he would attend to it either on Sunday or Monday.
That could support the defense theory that O’Keefe did not sustain his injuries in a collision with Read’s SUV but rather from a possible altercation with another man at the party who had shared his own romantic texts with the defendant, Kenney Baden told Fox News Digital.
Brennan played the ID clip after Guarino finished reading the texts. After that, Judge Beverly Cannone said, due to some confusion with the witnesses, the jury could go home for the day.
They are expected to hop on a bus for an in-person viewing of the crime scene when the trial resumes Friday.
