The new prosecutor within the Karen Learn case seems to have been fairly excited by a tv particular aired final 12 months during which the accused assassin’s household was interviewed — and thinks it might bear much more fruit.
Particular prosecutor Hank Brennan on Friday requested two items of fabric he says may very well be useful in his prosecution of the Mansfield lady accused of hanging her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, along with her automobile and leaving him to die within the chilly on Jan. 29, 2022.
The motions stem from an Aug. 7, 2023, Boston 25 Information section during which Learn’s father William Learn, her mom Janet Learn, and her brother Nathan Learn have been interviewed by reporter Ted Daniel.
Learn, 44, of Mansfield, was charged in Norfolk Superior Court docket on June 9, 2022, with second-degree homicide, motorcar manslaughter and leaving the scene of a collision inflicting loss of life.
The primary is a movement to compel Verizon handy over all of the cellphone information of Learn’s father for the day of O’Keefe’s loss of life to the subsequent day, and the decision element information of the interval of Dec. 30, 2021, to Jan. 30, 2022.
The second is to compel the keeper of information at WFXT-TV, referred to as Boston 25, to show over all the video of the interviews for info not contained within the five-minute and 40-second information section.
“Through the evening and morning of the victim’s death, the defendant made numerous calls to various people providing varying and sometimes conflicting statements about the whereabouts of the victim,” Brennan writes within the Verizon movement. “The defendant’s phone call records identify calls to both William Read and Janet Read and texting between William Read and Karen Read.”
Brennan says that he intends to name William Learn to the stand in Karen Learn’s second trial scheduled for January. William Learn was a fixture within the courtroom throughout his daughter’s first trial, which ended with a hung jury, earlier this 12 months alongside along with his spouse and son.
“His phone records must be made available to use as potential impeachment evidence depending on the testimony,” Brennan writes. He provides that, “A review of William Read’s media statements, statements and conduct at court hearings, and other public engagements relative to this case, show that William Read is hostile to the Commonwealth regarding his daughter.”
He provides elsewhere that he’s requesting the data-rich smaller time frame request with the decision element information for the longer interval “to compare the timing and frequency of Karen Read’s calls to her father on the night of the victim’s death as compared to the frequency, or lack thereof, on dates not involving this alleged crime.”
“The records are reasonably likely to establish a pattern or common occurrence between the defendant … regularly calling her parents in the middle of the night after consuming large quantities of alcohol and engaging in a domestic dispute with her boyfriend,” Brennan wrote.
It is a growing story.
