Kelly Dever denies seeing key figures near Karen Read’s vehicle in 'disaster' testimony: expert

Karen Read's defense squad enactment a hostile witnesser connected the basal Monday successful the signifier of a Boston constabulary serviceman who was moving for the Canton Police Department the greeting Karen Read and 2 friends discovered John O'Keefe dormant nether a heap of snow.

Kelly Dever, who was connected work that greeting but did not play immoderate relation successful the investigation, antecedently told the FBI that she saw 2 cardinal figures successful the lawsuit lasting adjacent Read's SUV successful the sallyport astatine Canton's constabulary office for "a wildly agelong time." They were ATF Agent Brian Higgins — who was carrying connected a flirtatious narration with Read down O'Keefe's backmost — and then-Canton Police Chief Kenneth Berkowitz.

They would person been placed adjacent to the conveyance earlier different investigators recovered fragments that matched Read's taillight astatine the transgression scene.

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Boston Police serviceman Kelly Dever, formerly with Canton Police, testifies during the execution retrial of Karen Read successful Norfolk Superior Court, successful Dedham, Mass., Monday June 2, 2025. (Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool)

Dever testified that she retracted that connection instantly due to the fact that the FBI agents showed her a timeline that indicated she near enactment good earlier Read's Lexus arrived. Then she accused Read's defence squad of trying to coerce her into lying astir it connected the stand.

"You threatened to complaint maine with perjury during our telephone telephone anterior to the archetypal proceedings if I didn't prevarication connected the basal close now," she told defence lawyer Alan Jackson, from the witnesser stand. "I'm telling you, I did not spot anything. Factually, I've been provided grounds by a timeline that it is not correct."

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Read denied that her squad pressured Dever successful remarks to reporters extracurricular the courthouse Monday afternoon.

"We subpoenaed her to attest to what she told different authorities and conscionable wanted her to beryllium arsenic honorable with america arsenic she was with them," she said. "And contiguous she's present telling america that was a lie."

She aboriginal claimed that Dever seems similar "a compromised person."

Dever was visibly frustrated astatine times, huffing connected the basal and astatine 1 constituent snapping astatine Jackson for mispronouncing her name. 

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Karen Read sits with her defence team, from left, Robert Alessi, Elizabeth Little, Alan Jackson, and David Yannetti during her execution retrial successful Norfolk Superior Court, successful Dedham, Mass., Monday June 2, 2025.  (Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool)

"Like you can't retrieve my name, I don't remember," she said. 

The defence is trying to amusement jurors that determination is tenable uncertainty successful the investigation's findings — noting that the pb detective was fired for sending inappropriate texts and that Canton police made a bid of sloppy missteps aboriginal successful the investigation, earlier authorities constabulary arrived.

Their presumption is that her SUV ne'er struck O'Keefe, and thing oregon idiosyncratic other caused his fatal injuries. In her archetypal trial, they besides alleged that constabulary framed Read.

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

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"[Dever] illustrated perfectly the defence mentation — that sketchy cops are lying to assistance the prosecution," said Mark Bederow, a New York City-based transgression defence lawyer who is pursuing the case. 

He called her grounds "a disaster" and questioned whether she had been pressured by colleagues successful instrumentality enforcement into recanting her story, alternatively than the defense.

"It was a risky determination to telephone her, but her demeanor was truthful atrocious that combined with what she admitted telling the feds, it apt helped the defense," Bederow told Fox News Digital.

Karen Read during her execution proceedings astatine Norfolk Superior Court, Tuesday, May 27, 2025, successful Dedham, Mass. (Matt Stone/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)

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Retired Massachusetts Superior Court Judge and Boston College professor Jack Lu called Dever "a illustration successful courage" and that putting her connected the basal suggests desperation from the defense.

"She’s retired of cardinal casting, says that she has confirmed her anterior representation is factually, irrefutably wrong," helium told Fox News Digital. "If they accidental she has damaged her aboriginal quality to attest that is laughable."

She's besides facing blowback. Lu pointed to a Facebook radical called Free Karen Read with much than 40,000 members, wherever a idiosyncratic urged others to telephone the constabulary commissioner's bureau if they "believe Kelly Dever should beryllium fixed the axe."

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Dever could not instantly beryllium reached for comment.

It's up to the jurors to determine whether she was truthful connected the basal oregon erstwhile she archetypal made her statements to the FBI.