Karen Read says she poured extra shots into her cocktails before John O'Keefe's death

Sometimes, Karen Read mightiness instrumentality things into her ain hands, similar erstwhile she got a "weak pour" astatine a barroom the nighttime her fellow died.

Unhappy with the intoxicant level, she added other shots connected her own, according to a 2024 interrogation she gave for a documentary connected Investigation Discovery.

The clip aired successful tribunal Thursday arsenic portion of her retrial connected execution charges successful the decease of her boyfriend, John O'Keefe.

"The drinks that they were pouring maine astatine McCarthy's, which was wherever I consumed astir of the alcohol, was the weakest vodka tonic," she told the camera. "It tasted conscionable similar each soda h2o with lime, not that I request it to beryllium a martini, but it mightiness person a splash of vodka successful it."

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Karen Read listens to grounds during her proceedings Thursday, April 24, 2025, successful Norfolk Superior Court successful Dedham, Mass.  (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, Pool)

She said she complained astir it to O'Keefe, and helium suggested ordering different changeable and dropping it successful herself.

"So each portion was being counted arsenic a double," she continued. "I would get a vodka tonic, and past I would determination a changeable into it."

Read recounted drinking astatine CF McCarthy’s barroom successful Canton, wherever she said she drank "most of [the] alcohol" she'd consumed connected Jan. 28, 2022.

Read described however she poured aggregate shots into her solid due to the fact that the barroom was serving anemic drinks, complaining her vodka soda "tasted conscionable similar each soda h2o with lime."

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"The guys that we were with ordered a circular of shots and gave maine 1 that I didn't drink, but I poured it successful my drink," Read said. 

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Massachusetts State Police Det. Nicholas Guarino reviews cellular telephone logs portion testifying during the Karen Read proceedings successful Norfolk Superior Court Thursday, April 24, 2025, successful Dedham, Mass.  (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, Pool)

"So, that's present my 5th and sixth drinks, with the seventh, which is simply a changeable that each the men did, and I poured it. So, that’s 1 solid that I’m holding." She added that the cocktail had "three drinks successful it."

Special authoritative Hank Brennan had Massachusetts State Tpr. Nicholas Guarino work jurors a bid of texts betwixt Read and O'Keefe from passim the time earlier helium died. 

Guarino work done some the past of telephone calls betwixt Read and O’Keefe and their texts passim the day, opening with that morning. O'Keefe appeared frustrated implicit arguments, penning that helium was "sick of ever arguing and fighting."

By afternoon, the speech turned toward aboriginal evening plans. At 2:38 p.m., Read called O’Keefe, and helium rejected the call, sending it to voicemail straight alternatively than conscionable letting it ringing unanswered.

Ten seconds later, Read texted, "Can you pls answer??"

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Prosecutor Hank Brennan asks a question during the Karen Read proceedings successful Norfolk Superior Court Thursday, April 24, 2025, successful Dedham, Mass.  (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, Pool)

O’Keefe waited astir a infinitesimal earlier helium replied, "No Karen. Not definite wherefore you request to denote that you’re grabbing a portion but person fun."

She asked him to telephone again. He told her helium was engaged taking attraction of his niece and nephew, who were successful his attraction aft his sister and brother-in-law some died wrong months of each other.

"Have to instrumentality them to the [doctor]," helium wrote. "He has practice."

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She called backmost twice. He fto the archetypal 1 ringing and rejected the 2nd 44 seconds later.

Karen Read and John O'Keefe unneurotic successful an undated photo. (Courtesy of Karen Read)

For the adjacent 20 minutes, helium continued to disregard her calls earlier calling her backmost conscionable earlier 3 p.m. Nine minutes later, she texted him, "Why don’t you conscionable maine astatine the hillside astatine 4:30/5."

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After a fewer follow-up texts, O'Keefe replied, "Like I said, [doctor] now, and helium has signifier til 6. If you privation to spell commencement drinking past spell for it." 

Read said she didn't cognize what clip signifier was but that she wanted to conscionable him retired alternatively than astatine his location to springiness him "space."

C.F. McCarthy’s astatine 614 Washington St., successful Canton, Mass., wherever Karen Read and John O'Keefe met up connected the nighttime of his death. (Richard Beetham for Fox News Digital )

After much back-and-forth, O'Keefe texted her astatine 3:39 p.m., "You're similar jonesing to drink. So go!"

At different constituent successful the conversation, she indicated she'd alternatively conscionable successful municipality "for drinks" than bent retired astatine his house. 

When O'Keefe said his friend, Mike Camerano, was coming over, helium suggested Read driblet by too.

"Mike doesn't privation to spell retired for a bit?" she replied. "I would similar to, been a s--- time from the jump."

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Guarino work texts the 2 sent from that greeting until astir 8:35 p.m.

The Waterfall Bar and Grill astatine 643 Washington St., successful Canton, Mass., March 29, 2025, the 2nd barroom Read and O'Keefe visited earlier his death. (Richard Beetham for Fox News Digital)

While Brennan's lawsuit highlighted Read's drinking, experts said jurors mightiness broadside with Read implicit O'Keefe's responses.

"I thought this presumption backfired successful that it looked similar a mates with mean issues, and it was like, she volition aftermath up and permission this narration wherever you were being used, not arsenic a motive to murder," said Linda Kenney Baden, a New York defence lawyer whose past clients person included Phil Spector, Casey Anthony and Aaron Hernandez.

"Plus, the texts showed a jealous John O'Keefe to me, similar the plumber," she added.

Officer John O’Keefe poses for his headshot. O’Keefe’s girlfriend, Karen Reed, is connected proceedings for execution aft helium was recovered dormant extracurricular a Massachusetts location successful January 2022. (Boston Police Department)

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Around 8 p.m., earlier Read and O'Keefe met for drinks, she told him she was having a plumber halt by due to the fact that her blistery h2o had tally out. He told her helium would hole it Sunday oregon Monday. 

That could enactment the defence mentation that O'Keefe did not prolong his injuries successful a collision with Read's SUV but alternatively from a imaginable altercation with different antheral astatine the enactment who had shared his ain romanticist texts with the defendant, Kenney Baden told Fox News Digital. 

Brennan played the ID clip aft Guarino finished speechmaking the texts. After that, Judge Beverly Cannone said, owed to immoderate disorder with the witnesses, the assemblage could spell location for the day.

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They are expected to hop connected a autobus for an in-person viewing of the transgression country erstwhile the proceedings resumes Friday.