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before you knew we were coming here did you know this case I did not know it like intimately but the headline like
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the headline like I had remembered so this case happened in January late January
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2022 which for those of you that don't know you and I were having children like literally birthing children at that time
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so postpartum like I remember in those weeks after you know when when my son is sleeping like hours a day right and
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there's nothing to do I remember just kind of like peeking into the real world and being like what happening and this
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headline was one that stood out probably on Twitter or probably on X or something
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like that and I just remember being like what that seems really like wonky so I didn't have like anything but like truly
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the sheer headline which is really interesting and the headline is breaking news Karen Reed Karen Reed Karen Reed is
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her name charged with murder in January 2022 death her boyfriend Boston police officer John
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o' so Karen Reed this woman in Boston is accused of killing her boyfriend John O'Keefe who was a Boston police officer
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and it's interesting when you're talking about the headlines cuz actually one of
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the first things that I read when I was really diving into this was a piece that
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was written by one of Jon O'Keefe's friends and it was all about the family's perception of this because this
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case has really grown Beyond just what are the facts or that the fact that she's going to trial it has taken on
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life of its own the conspiracy theories are wild in this case and the thing she said is she said this has become about
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Karen and it is about Karen she's the one who's going to trial but she said John has gotten lost in all of this her
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friend has gotten lost and people are forgetting the real family that is behind this tragedy and they do believe
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that Karen's responsible they think the right person is going to trial and whether I agree with that or not one of
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the things I took away from the article is this woman said everyone reads the headline maybe they read a little bit
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beyond that but very few people actually have read the court documents and can speak to it that way and are forming
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their own opinions and so that's what I wanted to do coming into this is thanks to the Boston Globe they actually have
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been the ones who have been going out requesting so many of these records these Court proceedings these filings
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these motions and they've made all of that available online so everything we're going to talk about today doesn't
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come from a flashy headline it comes directly from these very long very legal court documents but I want to try to put
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it all in a way that people understand