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John O'Kefe did not hit the back of his head and suffered fatal injuries in the grass where Karen Read found him the morning after prosecutors claim that he cut it with his SUV Lexus and let him die in a snowstorm, according to an expert in defense.
“If you fall on a flat surface, many times the breakage you put on the scalp can be more like a star because you only reach a part, and then the tears go and a kind of pattern of stars,” Dr. Elizabeth Lamosata testified, pointing to a photo of evidence that is not shown in the video current of the court.
“And also, because it would not have that vertical and discreet vertical scraping of the skin, you would tend that if you would fall on the grass, you would tend to see, you may see the grass in the wound, or you would tend to see an irregular type of grass pattern of the flattened grass. And that is not what we have here in Mr. O'Keefe.”
She said that her head must have beaten on an unequal surface.
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Dr. Elizabeth Laposata defines a specific head injury for defense during the murder trial of Karen Read in the Superior Court of Norfolk, on Monday, June 9, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (Pat Greenhouse/Boston Globe through AP, Pool)
“But that crest was not soft either,” he testified. “I had some small granulated and granulated things that appeared it.”
While he agreed that the trauma of the forceful force at the head killed O'Keefe, he also said he did not see signs of hypothermia, contradicting the second cause of death in his official autopsy.
The testimony of Loposata contradicts the testimony of Dr. Aizik Wolf, a cerebral surgeon who took the position for the prosecution previously at the trial.
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Karen Read listens to the testimony of the expert Daniel Wolfe, when he returns to the stand in his new trial in the Norfolk Superior Court, on Monday, June 9, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (Pat Greenhouse/Boston Globe through AP, Pool)
“The only way in which this type of injury could be contracted was to fall back, hit the back of his head and then the resulting energy forces that go to his brain, at the base of his skull,” said Wolf, who testified that he had seen numerous injuries, often fatal, from the falls back in the Minnesota climate at the beginning of his career.
“This is what happens when the soft tissue touches solid terrain,” he testified.
Read's defense scored a minor victory before the jury arrived at the Court on Tuesday during the 30th of his trial for murder in the death of O'Keefe, his ex -boyfriend and a Boston police officer.
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Officer John O'Keefe poses for his official head. O'Kefe's girlfriend, Karen Reed, is currently in a murder trial after being found dead outside a Massachusetts house in January 2022. (Boston Police Department)
The lawyer Alan Jackson asked Judge Beverly Cannone to reconsider and order yesterday to block the Laposata defense witness to testify about dog bites.
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After a contentious round trip with Brennan, who saw the two talk about each other and raising their voices, Cannone denied the request, but also offered a commitment.
“In his experience, Mr. Jackson, you have to sit down in his experience saying animal bites,” said Cannone. “This is consistent with what you have seen in an animal bite.”
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Karen Read arrives at the Superior Court of Norfolk County, on Tuesday, May 20, 2025, in Didham, Massachusetts. Reading is accused of killing her Boston police boyfriend in intentionally driving his SUV with him. (Hans Pennink for Fox News Digital)
Laposata is a Forensic Pathologist and a professor at the Faculty of Medicine at Brown University, whom Jackson described as “absolutely without equal”, although he resigned from his previous role as the main forensic doctor of Rhode Island in the middle of an audit that found that his office let hundreds of incomplete autopsies languished under his surveillance, according to local reports of the time.
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He returned to the stand once the jury members arrived, and explained the internal injuries to O'Kefe's brain and said that the pressure on the brain comes from internal swelling and bleeding as a result of the fracture is what killed him.
However, the cut on your right eye was caused by a different impact. She said she didn't seem to have been inflicted by the spoiler on the back of the READ SUV.
