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COURT AUDIO: AZ VS LORI DAYBELL DAY 2 JURY SELECTION PART 1

Jury selection begins in the Lori Vallow Daybell trial, revealing surprising moments of calm, unexpected personal stories, and a defendant confidently questioning the people who may decide her fate. As the courtroom fills with potential jurors, the stage quietly sets for one of the most anticipated trials in recent memory.

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Jury selection begins in the Lori Vallow Daybell trial, revealing surprising moments of calm, unexpected personal stories, and a defendant confidently questioning the people who may decide her fate. As the courtroom fills with potential jurors, the stage quietly sets for one of the most anticipated trials in recent memory.

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Juror Turned Defender: A Karen Read Plot Twist No One Saw Coming

A fired state trooper. A hung jury. And now, a juror turned defense attorney. The Karen Read case just added another chapter that feels more like an episode of Law & Order than real life.

Just days before Karen Read is set to stand trial for the second time, a new name showed up on her defense team roster: Victoria George. She's not just any attorney. She's a Massachusetts lawyer who sat through the first trial as an alternate juror—and walked away so disturbed by what she saw, she switched sides. Literally.

George filed her notice of appearance on Wednesday. She’s a Princeton grad who earned her law degree from Northeastern in 2020, and according to an interview she did with Vanity Fair, the first trial shook her faith in the Massachusetts justice system. Her words, not mine.

"If as a lawyer I was too afraid to stand up for what I believed in, who would?" she said. That’s not just courtroom rhetoric—that’s a real quote from a lawyer who once sat quietly in the jury box, now sitting beside the defendant.

Karen Read, 45, is facing charges of second-degree murder, manslaughter, and leaving the scene of a deadly accident after her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, was found dead in the snow outside a fellow officer’s house in January 2022. Prosecutors say Read hit him with her Lexus SUV during a drunken argument and drove away. She says she’s being framed—and that the real killer was at the after-party that O’Keefe never made it home from.

The first trial ended in a deadlock. A mistrial. Jurors couldn’t agree, and frankly, who could blame them? The case was messy, the timeline was fuzzy, and then there was the lead investigator—Michael Proctor.

Proctor, a Massachusetts State Trooper at the time, led the investigation against Read. But last week, he was fired. Why? Well, let’s just say his texts didn’t exactly reflect professionalism. In court, messages were read aloud where Proctor called Read a “wack job,” joked about hoping she’d kill herself, and fantasized about finding nude photos on her phone. You don’t need a JD to figure out that’s going to be a problem when your job is supposed to be objective law enforcement.

George didn’t hold back when talking about Proctor’s involvement, either. “Based on his own words, he had a pretty strong personal bias against the person in the defendant’s chair,” she said. “How do you ever trust the evidence coming from his investigation?”

And let’s be clear—this isn't some PR stunt from Read's defense team. Legal experts are chiming in, too. David Gelman, a former prosecutor turned defense attorney, said this is the first time he’s ever heard of a juror becoming part of the defense in a retrial. And he thinks it bodes well for Read.

“Usually retrials don’t go well – that’s why a hung jury is a win for defendants,” Gelman said. “Since the last case, you have an officer involved who has been terminated for bad conduct, evidence will be suppressed that would benefit the prosecutor, and there is more media attention that makes Read look better. The prosecutor has screwed the pooch.”

This time, the case will be prosecuted by Hank Brennan—a special prosecutor with a heavyweight background, best known for defending mobster Whitey Bulger. And that’s not the only legal battle Read is facing. O’Keefe’s family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against her as well.

But back to George, because that’s the wild card here. She wasn’t some high-profile hire or flashy courtroom shark. She sat quietly, listened to every word, and when the trial ended in mistrial, she didn’t walk away. She switched sides.

Karen Read’s second trial starts today (Tuesday). And now, the defense team includes someone who not only knows how the first jury thought—but knows how the system works from both sides of the bar.

#KarenRead #TrueCrimeUpdate #MichaelProctor #JusticeInQuestion

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Could the DNA under the victim’s fingernails point to an alternate suspect, or is it just another Hail Mary from the defense? In the latest dive into the Bryan Kohberger case, Tony Brueski and attorney Eric Faddis unpack the significance of multiple unidentified DNA samples found under one of the victim’s nails. Is it reasonable doubt or just the reality of college life and crowded social spaces? The defense seems to be throwing everything at the wall, but does that mean they don’t have a single strong strategy? And what about those Amazon searches—why would the defense be so adamant about keeping them out? If there’s nothing to hide, why fight so hard to keep them buried?

#BryanKohberger #IdahoMurders #DNAEvidence #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #ReasonableDoubt #AmazonSearches

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Could the real killer actually be out there, framing Bryan Kohberger like some kind of criminal mastermind? Well, that's the latest twist in this case, and let’s just say—it’s a wild one. The defense seems to be running out of options, and now they’re throwing out the idea that someone carefully planted Kohberger’s DNA on a knife sheath at the crime scene. But let’s break this down for a second: How exactly does one go about sneakily transferring just the right amount of touch DNA onto an object they can’t even see? And what are the odds that the actual murderer would go through all this effort just to point the blame at Kohberger instead of, say, grabbing any random weapon off a store shelf?

Jennifer Coffindaffer, retired FBI Special Agent, joins Tony Brueski to unravel the plausibility of this theory, why the defense is fighting tooth and nail to keep Amazon purchase records out of court, and whether or not this last-ditch effort will actually hold up in trial. If someone was really out there planting DNA, wouldn’t they have left behind just a little bit of their own?

#BryanKohberger #IdahoMurders #TrueCrime #CrimeNews #HiddenKillers #DNAEvidence #LegalDrama

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Bryan Kohberger’s alleged digital footprint is coming back to haunt him. In newly filed court documents, prosecutors say they will use evidence of an apparent knife purchase and a selfie they believe link him to the murders of four University of Idaho students.

Kohberger is charged with the brutal slayings of Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen, and Kaylee Goncalves—four college students who were stabbed to death in the early hours of November 13, 2022, inside their off-campus rental home in Moscow, Idaho.

At the time, Kohberger was a criminology PhD student at Washington State University in Pullman, just ten miles from where the killings took place. Now, nearly two years later, prosecutors are laying out the digital evidence they claim ties him directly to the crime.

Two key pieces of evidence have now been made public: a smiling selfie taken by Kohberger and his Amazon purchase history.

The selfie, believed to have been taken just hours after the murders, shows Kohberger appearing calm, collected, and even smug—a chilling contrast to what had just unfolded inside the King Road home.

Then there’s his Amazon history. According to prosecutors, back in March 2022—eight months before the murders—Kohberger purchased a Ka-Bar knife, a matching sheath, and a sharpener. And in the days after the killings, he allegedly searched for a replacement knife and sheath.

Investigators say this matters because a Ka-Bar knife sheath was found at the crime scene, right next to one of the victims. Touch DNA on that sheath allegedly came back as a “statistical match” to Kohberger. The actual murder weapon? Still missing.

But prosecutors argue that his online activity is enough to establish a pattern—one that puts him on a direct path from purchase to crime scene.

Kohberger, who was arrested in December 2022 at his parents’ home in Pennsylvania, has pleaded not guilty. His trial is set to begin in August, where he faces four counts of first-degree murder—and, if convicted, the death penalty.

#IdahoMurders #BryanKohberger #TrueCrime #JusticeForTheVictims

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Michael Proctor's Career of Alleged Cover-Ups In Memoriam
Michael Proctor had everything a cop could want—respect, power, and a reputation that, for years, seemed untouchable. But by March 2025, he wasn’t just out of a job—he was a liability. Fired. Disgraced. Publicly humiliated in a way few law enforcement officers ever are. And it all comes back to one thing: the way he handled the Karen Read case. Or rather, how spectacularly he mishandled it.

Proctor’s downfall wasn’t a quick and clean dismissal. This wasn’t one of those “effective immediately” situations where a cop gets caught doing something catastrophic and is gone by the next morning. No, this was a slow-motion train wreck. A case study in watching someone who thought they were untouchable get tangled in their own arrogance, their own bias, and their own mistakes.

It started with a mistrial in July 2024—a high-profile, publicly scrutinized moment where Proctor didn’t just look bad on the stand, he became the story. His testimony wasn’t just shaky; it was an unmitigated disaster. Prosecutors must have known it was coming because the moment his text messages came out, it was game over.

These weren’t just any texts. Proctor, the lead investigator in the Karen Read case, the man responsible for gathering evidence and ensuring a fair and unbiased investigation, repeatedly called the defendant a "wack-job ct," openly mocked her, laughed about digging through her phone for nude photos, and, in one of the most damning moments, said he hoped she would kill herself.**

Think about that for a second. The guy responsible for finding out what actually happened had already made up his mind before the investigation even started. And he wasn’t keeping that bias to himself—he was texting it to people. Joking about it. Making it impossible to argue that he had conducted an objective investigation.

And that wasn’t even the worst of it.

Proctor had undisclosed personal connections to key people involved in the case. His own sister was friends with members of the Albert family—the same family that owned the house where John O’Keefe was last seen alive. His family knew them socially. And yet, he never disclosed this. He took the case, took control of the evidence, and built a case against Karen Read while having direct ties to the very people who could have been alternative suspects.

Then there was the taillight evidence. The prosecution’s whole theory hinged on the idea that Karen Read backed into John O’Keefe with her SUV, breaking her taillight and leaving him outside to die in the snow. But the glass fragments that allegedly proved this theory didn’t make it to the crime lab for six weeks.

Six weeks.

And guess who was in charge of that evidence? Michael Proctor.

When asked about the delay, there was no good answer. No chain of custody explanation that made sense. No reasonable justification for why a critical piece of forensic evidence in a high-profile murder case sat around for over a month before it was analyzed. The defense didn’t even need to prove that the evidence had been planted—they just had to point out how incompetent and sloppy the investigation was. And Proctor had done all of their work for them.

The mistrial was a disaster. But the fallout was worse.

Within hours of the decision, Proctor was suspended. That was the first clue that even his own department knew he was a problem. The Massachusetts State Police don’t just throw their own under the bus. It takes serious misconduct for them to cut someone loose. And by this point, they had no choice.

Because once Proctor went down, he took a whole lot of other cases with him.

One of the first dominoes to fall? The Ana Walshe murder trial.

This was another major case where Proctor had been deeply involved—investigating the disappearance and presumed murder of Walshe by her husband, Brian. But after the Read mistrial, prosecutors dropped Proctor from their witness list.

They weren’t even willing to put him on the stand.

Think about what that means. Prosecutors, who normally go to great lengths to protect their investigators, decided it was better to move forward without their lead detective rather than risk having him testify.

Then came the defense attorneys lining up to challenge other convictions.

Proctor had worked on multiple murder cases, and now, anyone convicted in those cases had a potential argument for appeal. If Proctor had lied, manipulated evidence, or acted with bias in the Read case, who’s to say he hadn’t done it before?

By late 2024, the Massachusetts State Police were scrambling.

They launched internal investigations not just into Proctor, but **into his superiors—**the people who had allowed him to operate without oversight.

They needed to figure out who knew what and when. And once they started digging, it became clear that Proctor wasn’t the only problem.

The truth is, he was never operating alone.

And that brings us back to Sandra Birchmore.

Sandra Birchmore was 23 years old, pregnant, and terrified. She had been manipulated for years by a man with a badge—Officer Matthew Farwell, a cop she had known since she was a teenager, a man who had groomed her since she was 13 or 14 years old under the guise of a police mentorship program.

By 2021, she was pregnant with Farwell’s child. Days later, she was found dead in her apartment.

The official cause? Suicide.

The police wasted no time shutting the case down. No suspicious circumstances. No deep dive into her relationship with Farwell. Just a quick, convenient conclusion that kept everything under wraps.

And guess who oversaw that investigation? The same Massachusetts State Police unit that Michael Proctor worked for.

It would take three years for the truth to come out.

When federal investigators finally stepped in, they re-examined the crime scene, the autopsy, and Birchmore’s relationship with Farwell. What they found contradicted the original ruling completely.

Sandra Birchmore hadn’t died by suicide.

She had been strangled.

Her death had been staged. The scene manipulated to look like something it wasn’t. And when that became undeniable, Matthew Farwell was arrested and charged with murder in August 2024.

This should have been the moment when the Massachusetts State Police admitted failure. But instead, they scrambled to explain how they had gotten it so wrong.

And that’s where things start to look uncomfortably familiar.

The same people involved in burying the Birchmore case had direct ties to the Read investigation.

Lieutenant John Fanning, Detective Brian Tully, and Sergeant Yuri Bukhenik—all senior officers **in Proctor’s chain of command during the Read case—**had connections to the Stoughton Police Department, the same department where Farwell worked.

This wasn’t a coincidence.

By the time Proctor was fired in March 2025, it wasn’t about just him anymore. It was about all the people who had allowed him to operate unchecked for years.

And the fallout was just beginning.

Because once people started asking who had protected Proctor, they started realizing he was just one piece of a much bigger problem.

A problem that wasn’t going away.
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COURT AUDIO: MA v. Karen Read Murder Retrial - Motions Hearing Day 2 PART 1

The final pretrial hearing took place before the murder retrial of Boston woman Karen Read. Her defense team had filed a motion to dismiss the case, citing what they described as "extraordinary governmental misconduct" by the prosecution.

Read had faced charges of second-degree murder and other offenses in connection with the death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe. He was found deceased in the snow outside a friend’s home after a night of drinking.

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COURT AUDIO: MA v. Karen Read Murder Retrial - Motions Hearing Day 2 PART 2

The final pretrial hearing took place before the murder retrial of Boston woman Karen Read. Her defense team had filed a motion to dismiss the case, citing what they described as "extraordinary governmental misconduct" by the prosecution.

Read had faced charges of second-degree murder and other offenses in connection with the death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe. He was found deceased in the snow outside a friend’s home after a night of drinking.

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COURT AUDIO: MA v. Karen Read Murder Retrial - Motions Hearing Day 2 PART 3

The final pretrial hearing took place before the murder retrial of Boston woman Karen Read. Her defense team had filed a motion to dismiss the case, citing what they described as "extraordinary governmental misconduct" by the prosecution.

Read had faced charges of second-degree murder and other offenses in connection with the death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe. He was found deceased in the snow outside a friend’s home after a night of drinking.

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