A second expert in smartphones criminalteistic testified in Karen Read’s trial on Wednesday that the Google research by Jennifer McCabe on hypothermia occurred after the remains of John O’Keefe were found, not before, as the defense argued.
Jessica Hyde testified that she could say with a scientific certainty that McCabe used her iPhone to search for the “Hos (sic) sentence to die in the cold” at 6:24 am
The defense claims that the search occurred at 2:27 am – A few hours before the investigators say that Read, McCabe and Kerry Roberts found O’Keefe dead in the snow in 34 Fairview Road – is incorrect, she said. The previous horoding has no connection to research but is actually assigned when McCabe opened the Browser tab on his phone.
This testimony supported the previous testimony of Ian Whiffin, a digital forensic expert from the firm Celled, which manufactures certain software and hardware that investigators use to search for information on phones and other devices.
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Karen read discussions with his lawyer, Alan Jackson, during his trial for murder before the Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, Mass., May 7, 2025. (Greg derr / Patriot Ledger via AP / Pool)
Hyde testified using specific terms – “hexadecimal publishers”, “hash values” and database files, being part of the technical details on how the telephone data is extracted, preserved and interpreted. Even inexperienced analysts can find it difficult to give meaning to things, she said.
David Gelman, a defense lawyer from the Philadelphia region who followed the case, questioned the decision to accusing the expert witness for such a technical testimony to take a stand before the court break.
“For an expert, you want them to have a meaning for a 5-year-old child,” he told Fox News Digital. “They failed today. Add that it was an incredibly boring subject, I would bet that the jurors just looked at the clock all the time thinking about what they will order for lunch.”
John O’Keefe (Boston police department)
After lunch, the defense lawyer, Robert Alessi, managed the counter-examination, raising the same technical terms and Grillé Hyde on his testimony during the first law enforcement, of which he was not part.
Last year, the trial ended with a jury in the impasse, bringing the state to call on the Hank Brennan special prosecutor to try the case again.
Without the present jury, Alessi asked the court permission to reference a recent Maryland affair which, according to him, showed that Hyde was an unreliable witness. Judge Beverly Cannone was linked with the Brennan team and said that he could not make the judge’s decision in this case, but she said he would be free to oppose Hyde on the methodology she used to make her conclusions.
Witness Jessica Hyde, an analyst of digital forensic data, talks about data on the mobile phone of Jennifer McCabe during the trial for murder of Karen Read on May 7, 2025. (Greg derr / Patriot Ledger via AP / Pool)
In counter-examination, she testified that the O’Keefe phone was not ensured in alignment with the “best practices” established after the police recovered it on the scene.
She was disputed with Alessi, often using the same technical terms that may have alienated the jury on direct examination, Gelman said.
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“The jurors do not want to sit for the days and days,” he said. “They want to enter meat and potatoes.”
Read pleaded not guilty of murder, of involuntary homicide guilty and to flee the premises. She could incur life imprisonment if she is found guilty of the first accusation.
Massachusetts prosecutors allege that she supported her SUV Lexus and fatally struck O’Keefe before leaving after a drinking evening in Canton, a suburbs of Boston.
Lawyer Robert Alessi speaks during the Karen Read murder trial on May 7, 2025. (Greg derr / Patriot Ledger via AP / Pool)
Through her defense lawyers, she denied hitting him at all.
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Earlier in the procedure on Wednesday, the soldier of the State of Massachusetts, Connor Keefe, spoke to discuss how he collected evidence in the case, including McCabe and Roberts phones as well as broken pieces of a rear fire and a sneaker of O’Keefe of the crime scene.
At one point, he opened a bag of evidence in front of the jury, and there were three pieces of broken plastic inside, not the two expected.
The soldier of the State of the Massachusetts, Connor Keefe, presents fragments of rear fire in evidence during the trial for murder of Karen Read on May 7, 2025. (Greg derr / Patriot Ledger via AP / Pool)
“Do you know if the other piece in the bag is a piece that has broken?” Asked Brennan. “Do you know how it happened there?”
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“I don’t do it,” said Keefe.
Brennan asked that the documents be transmitted to evidence, but after an objection from the defense of Read, the court asked Keefe to place the third piece in a bag of separate evidence.
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Karen read, on the left, listens to the lawyers Robert Alessi and Hank Brennan during his trial for murder on May 7, 2025. (Greg derr / Patriot Ledger via AP / Pool)
But Keefe’s testimony helped the prosecutors establish a closed calendar of when and where the police found broken rear fire fragments: in the snowy street in front of 34 Fairview Road, where O’Keefe and Read had been seen in the previous night.
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The testimony should resume shortly after 9 a.m. on Thursday.
