Read Karen Murder Process Livestream Video: Tuesday, May 6th

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The retired police -Lt. Paul Gallagher said on Monday that she used a sheet blower and red solo cup to process the crime scene outside the 34 Fairview Road.

By Abby Patkin

Updated on May 6, 2025 | 12:29 p.m.

7 minutes to read

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtffcdombcs

Livestream via NBC10 Boston.

On the stand:

• Soldier Nicholas Guarino, state police from Massachusetts

Previously:

11 a.m. Update: The retired canton policial body says that he did not give Brian Albert a special treatment

When he returned to the booth on Tuesday on Tuesday, the retired Canton police contested. Paul Gallagher firmly intends to give the homeowner Brian Albert a special treatment during the early examination of the death of Boston police officer John O'keefe.

Gallagher was the highest ranking officer in front of Albert's house in the 34 Fairview Road, where O'keefe was no longer reacted to the snow on January 29, 2022. Previously, he testified that he tried to search the snow lawn with the jurors with broken cocktail glass investigators with a sheet blower.

Defender Alan Jackson noticed that the investigators of the cantonal police found O'keefes hat or a missing shoe in the snow. The state police in Massachusetts found the baseball cap and the sneaker at the crime scene during a later search.

“You didn't see a single piece of bright red plastic material, right?” Asked Jackson.

“No, sir, not in this area,” replied Gallagher.

“Indeed, you did not see 46 pieces of rear light material – either clear or bright red plastic – in part of the area you were looking for?” Jackson continued.

“No, the only thing we discovered was the blood sample and the glass that is right,” said Gallagher.

When he answered a follow -up question from Jackson, he said that he was not looking for in the 34 Fairview Road to see whether cups with the broken cocktail glass were tailored to the lawn. While Gallagher confirmed that he entered the house at one point, he explained that he hadn't searched it. When asked by Jackson, he later confirmed that he saw no dog in the house.

“Is the reason why you have not searched for a search order or have separated the witnesses or asked one of the potential witnesses to join them at the train station. Does this have something to do with your knowledge that the homeowner was a policeman?” Asked Jackson and grilled Gallagher about his actions during the early examination.

“Absolutely not,” replied Gallagher. “In the past, I have carried out arrest warrants about the police officers' houses, including police officers with whom I personally worked, and had to invoice some of their children. So that would not take any reason into account.”

Jackson asked whether Albert, a police officer in Boston, received a special treatment of investigators.

“Not from me. Absolutely not,” replied Gallagher and added: “I can only speak with my personal knowledge.”

Jackson turned his attention to the home monitoring camera in front of the nearby house of the deputy police chief of Canton, Thomas Keleher, and Gallagher said that he was not looking for a film material from Keleher. He told the jury that he could not remember whether he had spoken to Keleher about the film material, but claimed that the camera had not held the scene in the 34 Fairview Road anyway.

Jackson asked if it would have been the best practice to apply for the film material: “Only for having [a] Belt and braces. “Gallagher said he didn't think it had been practical to do this from Jackson, he also denied Keleher.

Gallagher's friendship with the witness Brian Higgins-one federal agent with the office for alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives that had a satellite office in the Canton police station was also under the microscope during the cross-infection. Gallagher said he looked at Higgins for a close friend, but found that the canton police had withdrawn from the examination of O'keefes Death before learning that highgins was connected to the case.

Higgins had exchanged flirting texts with Karen Read during her relationship with O'keefe and was present in the 34 Fairview Road shortly after midnight on January 29. Read's lawyers tried to get involved in their third-party theory, and Jackson emphasized on Tuesday.

He showed the jury a number of photos, including pictures of SUV from Read and a paper stop & shop food bag with red solo cups that contained blood samples from the crime scene. Jackson questioned the custody chain for the solo cups and emphasized that they were neither sterile nor had it been sealed against possible cross contamination.

Gallagher introduced him that O'keefe had ever been in a fight, if the special prosecutor Hank Brennan has questions after the detour test.

“In this special case, we have developed scenarios that John may have brought to this place, and we focused on finding it out,” he said.

“Was that something beyond the presumption or speculation of detective, or did this information come from a witness?” Asked Brennan.

“No, we were – I think you would call it a pointed bus for opportunities,” replied Gallagher.

Gallagher again contested traces of foot, dog traces or visible signs that indicate that just outside the 34 Fairview Road had been pulled through the snow. He also found that the part of the canton police of the front garden was originally searched.

Gallagher answered additional questions from Jackson and confirmed that he was neither looking for neither in the 34 Fairview Road, nor was he looking for Albert's approval or an arrest warrant for an search.

“You do not get into difficulties … or are being beaten or will receive fines if you are looking for a search order that is rejected, right?” Asked Jackson.

“In this special situation, I would have to articulate facts, certain circumstances and testimony,” replied Gallagher. “What I had was, nobody could bring O'keefe to the house – including Ms. Read – and that we had a glass in which they came from a bar, and I had three separate police officers, including me, who had been in this house on three separate occasions.”

He found that law enforcement officers have a good obligation to present a judge in the search for a search command the truth and could end up on a brady list of officers with a history of misconduct or dishonest if they do not.

After Gallagher left the stand, Brennan played a clip from one of the media interviews by Read, in which she explained that O'keefe had taken a cocktail glass with him when he left her car outside the 34 Fairview Road.

In another interview clip that was shown to the jurors, Read said, she first wondered if she could have hit O'keefe with her car because she had drunk late, and O'keefe was “in the general surroundings where I last saw him.”

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A retired canton -policialutnant returns to the Karen Read Mord on Tuesday after using his testimony to use a leaf blade and red solo cup to process the crime scene outside the 34 Fairview Road.

The retired Lt. Paul Gallagher said about the search for evidence on the snow -covered lawn, where the police officer of Boston, John O'keefe, was cold on January 29, 2022.

Read, 45, is accused, drunk and deliberately secured her SUV in O'keefe, her friend of two years, while he breaks him off at another Boston Officer that morning at home. The public prosecutor claims that she had read her friend to die in a snowstorm, but her lawyers claim that reading is a “comfortable outsider” who was framed in a huge conspiracy with law enforcement authorities and post -person. You have suggested that O'keefe actually wounded during an argument in the house and finally thrown out in the snow outside.

However, Gallagher said on Monday that he saw no evidence or footprints in the 34 Fairview Road to suggest. The special prosecutor Hank Brennan played video clips from the cantonal police with a blower to move the upper snow stories, and Gallagher pointed out a piece of a seemingly naked floor on which O'keeefe's body had been.

He also testified that the Canton police had found a broken cocktail glass in the snow and thought the glass for the jury. When they exposed apparent blood waste in the snow, the investigators collected the rehearsals in red solo cups, which was won by the deputy chief of police Thomas Keleher, who lived in a neighboring house, Gallagher explained.

“The same type of solo cups that we all see at Backyard grills?” Defender Alan Jackson asked about the cross -question.

“Yes, they keep them fluid,” replied Gallagher.

“You are not sealed either, right?” Jackson continued.

“You are not,” confirmed Gallagher.

“You are also not used normally … for the recording of evidence, right?” Jackson demanded.

“Oh, absolutely not,” Gallagher agreed.

Jackson gave Gallagher about his decision not to send an officer back to the police station to create proper evidence materials and appear skeptical when Gallagher had claimed the 15 minutes that would have had in the first examination of the crime scene.

On Monday, the jurors of Katie McLaughlin, a firefighter and paramedic, who runs in the same social circles in the same social circles as the daughter of Brian and Nicole Albert, the homeowners of 34 Fairview Road. McLaughlin said she heard a “disturbed” reading with the total amount “I hit him” while spoke to first aiders at the crime scene.

Three more said on Monday what they saw after midnight on January 29th outside the 34 Fairview Road: Sarah Levinson, Heather Maxon and Ryan Nagel. The ongoing process is the second of Read after her first murder trial ended in July last July with a suspended jury.