Jennifer McCabe doubles down on Karen Read’s alleged 'I hit him' confession, but can't find it in paper trail

Key witnesser Jennifer McCabe remained connected the witnesser basal each time Wednesday for grounds successful the 2nd execution proceedings of her erstwhile friend, Karen Read, whose fellow they recovered connected her sister's beforehand tract during a blizzard successful January 2022.

She said she was definite that Read said, "I deed him, I deed him, I deed him," that morning, but pb defence lawyer Alan Jackson grilled her implicit the assertion successful a cross-examination that took up astir of the day. 

Read is accused of slamming John O'Keefe with the backmost of her SUV, past fleeing the country hours earlier returning to find him dormant successful the snow. She has pleaded not blameworthy to charges of murder, manslaughter and leaving the country and denies having deed him astatine all.

No notation of it was made successful 2 constabulary reports from officers who interviewed McCabe, helium said, and she didn't attest astir that assertion successful beforehand of a expansive assemblage conscionable 3 months aft O'Keefe's death.

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Jennifer McCabe answers questions from defence lawyer Alan Jackson during the Karen Read execution proceedings successful Norfolk Superior Court successful Dedham, Mass., connected April 30, 2025. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)

"I tin archer you with 100% accuracy she screamed, ‘I deed him, I deed him, I deed him,’" McCabe said Wednesday.

Jackson asked her to find notation of it successful a 227-page transcript of her expansive assemblage testimony. 

Judge Beverly Cannone said she didn't person to work done the full document. But Jackson pointed to respective excerpts that pointed to antithetic quotes from McCabe to expansive jurors that said Read had asked, "Did I deed him?" and "Could I person deed him?"

"She besides said that," McCabe testified.

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Read said "she's lying" connected the mode retired of court.

"Another witness, different lawsuit of perjury, oregon instances, I’d say," she told reporters connected the sidewalk.

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The proceedings is expected to resume Friday greeting with McCabe returning to the stand. There is simply a interruption successful tribunal scheduled for Thursday.

McCabe repeatedly described Read arsenic "hysterical" connected the greeting of Jan. 29, 2022, and testified that she repeated galore things 3 times over, including the phrase, "I deed him, I deed him, I deed him." She said Read pointed retired harm to her ain passenger-side taillight earlier they recovered O'Keefe and that she appeared agitated each morning, including erstwhile she showed up astatine her location successful a panic.

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Karen Read listens to the grounds of Jennifer McCabe connected April 30, 2025. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)

McCabe was connected the basal for astir of the day, resuming nonstop exam questioning from peculiar authoritative Hank Brennan that began Tuesday and past sitting done hours of grilling from Jackson.

Jackson asked if Brennan and his squad had prepared her to instrumentality the stand, asking if they gave her immoderate guidance astir altering her demeanor compared to Read's archetypal trial, which ended with a deadlocked assemblage past year.

She said no.

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He asked if she'd prepared her grounds with input from friends and family, with whom she admitted to repeatedly speaking astir the case. Her sister and brother-in-law, Nicole and Brian Albert, unrecorded astatine 34 Fairview Road, the tract of an after-party the nighttime O'Keefe was past seen live and the code wherever helium was recovered dormant nether a heap of snowfall the adjacent morning.

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The defence for much than a twelvemonth has painted Read arsenic a scapegoat being framed by radical with ties to instrumentality enforcement. They person noted that Brian Albert was a chap Boston constabulary serviceman until precocious retiring, his member is simply a section detective, his friend, Brian Higgins, who was besides astatine the after-party, is an ATF agent, and the pb investigator, Michael Proctor, is simply a household friend.

Defense lawyer Alan Jackson questions witnesser Jennifer McCabe during cross-examination successful Karen Read's execution proceedings connected April 30, 2025. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)

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Jackson besides illustrated McCabe's galore friendships and familial ties to members of section instrumentality enforcement, asking her astir her household histrion successful beforehand of the jury. Brian Albert, connected whose tract O'Keefe was recovered dead, has a member successful the Canton Police Department and different member who is simply a subordinate of Canton's Board of Selectmen. McCabe besides knew constabulary officers and paramedics astatine the country from increasing up successful the area.

But different contentious infinitesimal came erstwhile Jackson grilled her astir an interrogation with 2 unidentified agents of instrumentality enforcement from a assemblage that was not identified but noted not to beryllium either the Massachusetts State Police oregon the Canton Police Department. 

Karen Read listens to a sidebar league connected April 30, 2025. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)

Lying to those interviewers would beryllium a crime, Jackson noted, asking McCabe if she lied to them astir who she talked to during a 10-minute agelong earlier they met for an interrogation astatine her house.

McCabe testified that she told them she'd spoken to Kerry Roberts, different cardinal witnesser successful the lawsuit who was contiguous with Read and McCabe erstwhile they recovered O'Keefe, and her husband, Matt McCabe. Roberts admitted past week that immoderate of the grounds she gave to the expansive assemblage wasn't true.

She aboriginal called those investigators backmost and told them she'd forgotten to notation 3 different people: O'Keefe's mother, her witnesser advocator astatine the Norfolk District Attorney's Office and Brian Albert.

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A national probe into the authorities police's handling of the lawsuit ended this twelvemonth without charges, peculiar authoritative Hank Brennan revealed astatine a March 4 hearing, according to CBS News.

An autarkic audit of the Canton Police Department recovered nary grounds of a conspiracy. And Proctor, a erstwhile authorities trooper and erstwhile pb researcher connected the case, was fired aft an probe into lewd substance messages helium sent astir Read, which included confidential accusation astir an progressive probe to radical extracurricular instrumentality enforcement.