Inside The Karen Read Civil Lawsuit And The Alleged Cover-Up Part 2

0:00 Welcome everyone to Podcast 69 South, where we cuss and discuss true crime, code cases, current events, and hot topics, along with our state of society today. This is your trigger warning. Our podcast content is produced for adult listeners 18 years of age and older. We discuss situations that may be offensive and triggering to some listeners. Sit back, relax, and enjoy. Welcome back, everybody, to 69 South, where we cuss and discuss, and I'm Chop, your host, and riding shotgun is Julie. How are you doing today? I'm freezing.

0:41 It's cold outside. It is cold. And snowing and icing and all that stuff kind of gives you a good wintery Christmassy feeling, though. I like it, kinda, in a way. I only like snow on Christmas Day. I wish it would like snow like a shitload on Christmas and then the day after Christmas, or maybe like two days after Christmas, fucking spring. Yeah, I can deal with that. Instantly. Definitely. This is part two of the Karen Reed Civil case. I don't know about you guys. I know this case is a little bit old, but I just can't get enough of it. I was up today watching the microdots shit.

1:22 I don't know if you guys watched that on YouTube or not, but it's it's interesting. And I just figured out a whole nother world of information. I didn't realize all this stuff was going on with Turtle Boy. I mean, I knew that he was causing a commotion and a stir. But my goodness, I'm gonna have to do a deep dive on this Lindsay chick because the shit I seen today was this world. It was juicy T. So let's get back into this civil trial. We're at the part where Brock, Proctor, Buchanick, and Tully engage in corrupt and biased investigation by not investigating inside the house and interviewing the house defendants as friends rather than suspects.

2:13 So let's jump right back into it. So Proctor, Buchanick, Tully, and the MSP never searched for DNA evidence inside the house, never looked for rigid surfaces that could have caused the gash on the back of Mr. O'Keeffe's head, never inspected the house defendants' bodies for indication of bruises or cuts that resulted from an altercation, and did not search the house defendants' cell phones. This allowed potential evidence to be destroyed, disposed of, removed, or simply just become unrecoverable. Proctor, Buchanick's, and Tully's interviews of the house defendants were also outside of the normal protocol.

2:56 They were all interviewed either at their home, their family members' home, their lawyer's home, that was the case of Brian Higgins, their lawyer's office, in the case of Brian Jr. and Caitlin Albert, which are the children of Brian and Nicole Albert, their place of employment, or over the phone. The interviews were each untimely, unrecorded, and fundamentally designed to protect the house defendants. And the house defendants took full advantage of it. Yeah, most cases they'd be bringing you down to the station, putting you in a room, recording you audio and video to get your statement.

3:40 That's more than odd. Yeah, in hindsight, it's 2020. Me and you were on this shit. We knew it smelled bad from the gate. But now, especially looking back on all of it, it really fucking stinks. But as far as the house defendants taking advantage of it, specifically Jennifer McCabe became the point person for the House defendants in providing their false narrative to investigators. She managed and communicated details about the House defendants, messaging and the investigation itself, including visiting proctors and other investigators private residences, mapping out timelines to coordinate statements with other witnesses, leading group text message change that were partially deleted, and planning private meetings at all hours of the day and night.

4:32 Indeed, these were never the acts of innocent witnesses seeking to help an investigation concerning the death of an alleged friend. Rather, they were predicate acts of conspiracy among a group of people with a shared goal of deflecting their criminal exposure onto someone else. The remaining group texts that were not deleted or that were recovered later reveal some of their planning. For instance, on the evening of January 29th, Jennifer McCabe texted with her sister, Nicole Albert, that Carrie Roberts, who was present when Mr.

5:13 O'Keeffe's body was found, talked to the cops and kept it simple. And that's in quotes. Of course, there would be no reason to report back to other House defendants about Roberts, quote unquote, keeping it simple, unless what really happened was more complicated. Procter, Buchanac, and the MSP never sought these communications. Rather, they were obtained by Karen Reed's defense attorney's repeated motions to compel access to data on Miss McCabe's iPhone. And later, in group text with Jennifer McCabe and Brian and Nicole Albert, Matthew McCabe suggested having Chris Albert publicize their crafted story to a reporter saying, Ask Chris to ask someone questions.

6:01 Tell them the guy never went into the house. As an endorsement of the plan, Brian Brian Albert responded Exactly. Importantly, the text messages from the House defendants' phones that were ultimately recovered and that provided a window into their conspiracy and misconduct as well as MSP's unlawful investigation were not the product of Canton Police Department or Massachusetts State Police investigative work. Rather, based on media reports raising serious concerns and questions about MSP's investigation and the House defendant's role in Mr.

6:42 O'Keeffe's death, another quote unquote separate law enforcement agency began its own subsequent investigation. That investigation and not Massachusetts state police's resulted in obtaining the House defendant's phones, taking statements from the House defendants, and conducting a separate proceeding, all of which MSP refused to do itself. Indeed, the evidence procured by this quote unquote separate law enforcement agencies investigation demonstrates the House defendant's conspiracy and lawful conduct as well as MSP biases and corruption.

7:25 And they're talking about the this quote unquote separate law enforcement agency being the FBI. Because the FBI came in and they started an investigation into some of this stuff. I'm not exactly sure, but sometime after this incident happened. As they should have.

8:19 Yeah, well, you know, I've seen people have to learn the hard way. Yeah, we get these probable cause affidavits and we read them or court documents, you know, that you get. And at times, law enforcement officers or people's attorney, they blatantly lie in these documents. So even when we're reading through them, we have to read through them really with a fine-toothed comb and be like, is this reasonable? And you know, if it's not, we really need to talk about it. Absolutely. What sucks is there is law enforcement people. I mean, that's completely honest.

9:02 They want to follow the law, they want to protect and serve. And then you have shit like this that goes on and it throws shade over everybody, all the law enforcement officers, man. And I know I know a couple of good cops, man, that are honest as the day is long. I really do. One of your best friends has been a cop for 20 plus years, and he's the coolest guy ever. Yeah, shout out to Terry Sibbs, man. He's the head of the Spencer Police Department, man. He's honest. I mean, even as a friend, he's honest, and I've seen his police work. I mean, he wouldn't he wouldn't lie for me. And I expect that from somebody. I respect that. You know what I mean? Because he has integrity. Absolutely. But Proctor and Bukinick initially interviewed the McCaves and Brian Albert on January 29th at the McCabe's home on 12 Country Lane in Canton, at which time they again falsely stated that Mr.

9:53 O'Keefe never entered the Albert's home. Buchanick and Proctor did not interview Nicole Albert and Brian Higgins until February 3, 22, and did not interview Chris and Julie Albert until February 10th, nearly two weeks after Mr. O'Keeffe's death, and more than a week after Miss Reed was arrested and charged. Before both interviews, the McCaves and Alberts continued to coordinate their stories as evidence in evidenced in group text. Proctor, Bukinek, and Tully likewise failed to conduct a meaningful investigation into Brian Higgins' involvement. Now this was the alcohol, tobacco, and firearms agent that had an office at the Canton Police Department who was best friends with Brian Albert.

10:45 Now, when Proctor and Bukinick interviewed Higgins on February 3rd, Higgins presented the troopers with a select set of self-curated text between himself and Karen Reed. They learned that Higgins and Miss Reed had been exchanging flirtatious text and that Higgins reported at least one instance in which Miss Reed and Higgins had kissed while at Mr. O'Keeffe's house mere weeks before his death. Rather than pursuing Higgins as a possible suspect, Proctor, Bukinick, and Tully neglected to investigate this matter further.

11:28 They never interviewed Higgins again. Even after surveillance video revealed Higgins was suspiciously hiding his face in the halls of the parking lot and in the building of the Canton Police Department at 1 30 a.m. on January 29th. This video contradicts Higgins' statements about his actions that night. However, not only did Procter, Bukinick, Tully, and MSP not investigate what Higgins was doing or what was in the bag, but they went so far as to hide this video from Karen Reed and her criminal defense attorneys for years. Reed's defense did not receive these videos until after Karen Reed's did trial for the first time.

12:16 And even after the quote unquote separate law enforcement agencies investigation revealed late-night phone calls between Brian Albert and Brian Higgins, MSP failed to pursue either witnesses further or seek a full forensic extraction of Higgins' phone or even a simple call log from his cellular provider.

13:23 When it was revealed that Mrs. Reed's defense team requested the preservation of Brian Albert's and Higgins' phone in order to forensically image them, this request was allowed by the court. Both men got rid of their cell phones within days of one another. Higgins went so far as to drive to a military base on Cape Cod, remove the SIM card from his phone, cut the SIM card with scissors he brought with him, and destroy and dispose of the phone and card separately in two different dumpsters, and then drove back home. Their destruction of the phones eliminated potentially incriminating communications between them and was a direct result of Proctor's Bukinics and Tully's intentional refusal to collect important investigative evidence that would be exculpatory to Miss Reed.

14:17 Even after learning about the destruction of both witnesses' cell phones, Massachusetts state police investigators had other avenues they could have used to pursue evidence such as cellular toll records or simply interviewing Brian Higgins and Brian Albert to inquire about the nature of the late night communications. They intentionally ignore these avenues as well. I mean, if you're innocent, why in the fuck would you drive way out of your way? I'm not even sh exactly sure how far it was away that he drove, but to a place, take the SIM card out of the phone, cut it up with scissors.

14:59 Who what man carries scissors with them? Nobody carries scissors unless you're trying to cut up some weed or something. They got grinders for that shit now. I'm just saying, though. If you're an ATF agent, you're innocent. Wouldn't you want to offer every fucking piece of evidence that you had to help the investigation go forward? Well, absolutely, you would think so. If you had shit to hide, what would you do? Cut your SIM card up, fuck the phones up. I mean, come on. And this all supposedly happened within a day or two of the preservation order being granted. So they got wind down the pipeline that this preservation order was going to be granted, supposed allegedly.

15:43 No, they were tipped off 100%. And by the time it was actually granted, they said, Oh no, we don't have those anymore. We just got rid of them. But not only did Proctor fail to probe his friend's stories, he coordinated with them through his sister. Proctor spoke to Courtney multiple times a day and knew she was in close contact with and providing information to Julie Albert. Julie Albert is Chris Albert's wife. Now Julie and Courtney called each other many times before February 1st and 2nd, and at least 67 times between February 1st, 2022, and September 6th, 2022.

16:32 For example, as he prepared to question Chris and Julie Albert on February 10th, Proctor told his sister Courtney that the interview was not, quote, not a big deal. Courtney told Proctor that Julie Albert had been nervous and wanted to give him a thank you gift after the interview. To avoid scrutiny, Proctor instructed Courtney to tell Julie to give the gift to his wife, Elizabeth Proctor. Proctor shared invest investigatory details with Courtney before they were public. In the same instance, referenced above, when his sister informed him that Julie Albert had been, quote, so nervous before the interview, instead of investigating further, he shrugged it off, laughed, and asked, quote, why?

17:18 But Proctor knew exactly why Julie and Albert were nervous. He sought to reassure her by telling Courtney that, quote, it was fine, just a quick combo. And then after the interview, Proctor spoke to Julie on his personal cell phone in an unreported conversation. Proctor never treated the Alberts as witness in a murder investigation. He treated them like the family friends that they were. At one point leading up to some of the interviews, Jen McCabe asked Nicole Albert if she had heard anything more about the investigation. Confident that she would learn more from Julie Albert, again through Courtney, Nicole Albert responded, We'll get more info tomorrow.

18:04 Don't want to text about it. If that doesn't scream suspicion, I don't know what does. It was all a big conglomeration of fuck Karen Reed is what it was. So the house defendants did not want to text about their activities and communications because they tried to hide andor lie about them. For instance, it was discovered in the second criminal trial that Miss McCabe had lied in her sworn testimony in the first trial about not visiting 34 Fairview with Carrie Roberts on January 30th on their way to Michael Lenck's house. However, while they did not text about this meeting, Jen McCabe's cell phone location data obtained later by Reed's defense team reveals that she did in fact visit 34 Fairview just one day after O'Keefe's death and then lied about it.

19:05 The McCabes, Alberts, and Higgins all told the same false story to investigators in their interviews, and Procter, Buchnick, and Thule accepted their coordinated statements without making efforts to corroborate their stories. Now rather than investigate their friends and brethren, Proctor, Buchnick, Tully, and the Massachusetts State Police targeted Karen Reed. Instead of taking routine, objective, and necessary steps of investigating the McCaves, Higgins, and the Alberts, Proctor, Buchanick, and Tully focused exclusively on Miss Reed and suspect from the start of the investigation, despite substantial evidence exonerating her and implicating others, just as the House defendants intended.

19:57 That's how you know it was a messed up investigation from the start. As a good investigator or detective, you start at zero and you collect evidence, you look at clues, you start to form an opinion. You don't start with you know what you think or what's going to protect your brethren or your your cop buddies or your neighborhood friends or who your sister or wife grew up with. I mean, it's all you know, you start at zero. Or just to go by their word, regardless if they're uh a police off officer, a detective, um, uh an important public official, anybody.

20:41 You you always look at the evidence and let that lead you to where you need to go. Right. He didn't start at zero. Like we said earlier, 16 hours in, he was already throwing shade over to Karen Reed. He completely believed all the house defendants' bullshit. Do you think he believed it? I don't even think he fucking believed it. Maybe at first he did, but I can just see maybe him owing.

22:11 Now this is speculation. I can just see maybe him owing Albert, Brian Albert, you know, a favor, or Chris Albert a favor. He was on the Canton Select board, you know, in politics. And I'm assumed maybe he didn't know the truth from the beginning, but he was pulled in to it very quickly and realized, oh well, hey, I gotta do this favor for him because he did me a solid one time or some shit like that. They knew each other very well, they were all close friends. So, you know, maybe he did know from the beginning, but I have no idea.

22:52 I truly don't I don't know if he owed the Alberts or if he was maybe doing some preemptive strike for maybe he would need a favor in the long run. I think that it was just an unwritten rule. I mean, you fucking protect your brothers in blue at any cost. The bad thing about it is there was another brother in blue laying on the yard beat to fucking death. And you know how how good and cool and fucking to the point would Proctor have been if he would have stood up, be a stand-up motherfucker and did the right thing and did the right thing. He the possibilities would have been endless for him.

23:35 I don't think that would have happened because he was in several investigations before this where he got his hands dirty, didn't go the right way about the law, and all kinds of alleged dirty shit. That's a fucked up deal. So Proctor seized Miss Reed's cell phone and her SUV within 30 minutes of interviewing her on January 29th. He arrested her 72 hours later before reviewing any surveillance from the bars or ring camera footage, before interviewing exculpatory witnesses, and before the medical examiner's official conclusion that the manner of death could not be determined, and that there were no injuries to Mr.

24:26 O'Keeffe's body consistent with the vehicle strike. Much to Proctor's surprise, through the separate law enforcement agency's investigation, his contemporaneous text messages were discovered. Among them, Proctor texted with his high school friends on the evening of January 29th, the day that he began his investigation. He told them that the Massachusetts State Police had already determined the Alberts were not going to receive any scrutiny about Mr. O'Keeffe's death, even though the MSP had not at that point visited the crime scene or been in the Alberts home and had performed only a cursory interview of the McCabes and Brian Albert.

25:13 Proctor told his friends that Mr. O'Keefe had been hit by a car and had not been in a fight, despite the fact that Mr. O'Keefe had suffered no injuries consistent with the vehicle strike, but he did have injuries consistent with a fight and dog attack. Proctor rejected a friend's belief that Brian Albert, the homeowner of the property where Mr. O'Keefe's body was found, would receive some shit. Instead, agreeing with another friend's assumptions that you guys are out to make it cut and dry since it involves cops. Proctor revealed that he had already decided he was going to put serious charges on Miss Reed and that she was quote unquote fucked and that there was zero chance she skated.

26:07 From the outset, Proctor was determined to pin it on the girl. Proctor's supervisors were aware of his bias and conflicted relationships in this investigation. They didn't have to guess, Proctor told them. He told them he knew the Alberts. Text messages from Procter to Buchanick and the other MSP troopers show Proctor had decided to focus suspicion on Miss Reed to the exclusion of everyone else. He told the troopers that Mrs. Reed was quote unquote retarded and that he was searching her phone for quote unquote news of her. In the text chain, Sergeant Buchanick liked Proctor's text describing Miss Reed as retarded.

26:50 Bukinick received Proctor's text and never reprimanded Proctor or addressed his improper bias and conduct. Because he was determined to put serious charges on Miss Reed, Proctor ignored the fact that the Commonwealth's medical examiner could not conclude that Mr. O'Keefe's death was a homicide, determining instead that the manner of his death could not be determined. The medical examiner also refused to conclude that Mr. O'Keeffe died as a result of being struck by a vehicle and later testified at trial that his injuries were not consistent with the car strike. Proctor later admitted that in his entire career he had never seen a homicide investigation where the medical examiner could not determine the manner of death, but he remained undeterred in his quest to charge Miss Reed.

27:47 As he later admitted, the medical examiner's refusal to rule the death a homicide did not matter to him. Because either way, Miss Reed was going to be charged. And you know it's not rocket science to tell if a dude was run over by a car by accident or even by purpose. He didn't even have like one bruise on his body where they say the car hit him. Not one bruise. The poor dude's head was basically squashed. Not squashed, but his eyes were beat shut, swelled shut, gash on the back of his head. I mean, no tire imprints on his skin, no rubber imprints. I mean, I've seen some fucking dudes hit by and run over by no broken skin from the force of the any type of impact.

28:32 No, and of course Road rash. Right. If these if the Alberts would have been cops and Higgy Higgins wouldn't have been there, the ATF agent, they would have run these dudes through the ringer and they would have found the truth from the get-go. Absolutely. 100% they would have. So Procter and Buchanac plant certain evidence and make false statements in court and other legal documents to frame Karen Reed. Proctor made this investigation cut and dry by manufacturing a case against Miss Reed. A crucial first step was to ensure that the crime scene and evidence was not secured.

29:15 This was in violation of MSP policy and well-established best practices for critical incident investigations. Specifically, the MSP crime laboratory requires proper processing of evidence at major crime scenes, including crime scene photography and evidence processing and recovery of latent fingerprint, footwear, and tire track evidence. Neither the MSP troopers involved in the investigation nor the CPD police officers on the scene secured the Alberts home or the area where Mr. O'Keefe's body was found.

29:56 The MSP did not take any photographs of the house, including any part of the yard where O'Keefe's body was found until February 1st, more than three full days later. No photographs were ever taken of the inside of the garage of 34 Fairview. This intentional departure from established protocols permitted Proctor and Buchanick to generate false incriminating evidence against Miss Reed and give the House defendants time to destroy the actual evidence. Could you imagine how fucking frustration frustrated Karen Reed must have been?

30:37 I couldn't imagine. I think I probably would have had a heart attack or I would have been so stressed out that my I probably would have had a brain aneurysm or something. Because I'm a worry word anyway. I mean, forget the fact that maybe she wasn't being a hundred percent honest with John O'Keefe. Maybe her and Brian Higgins was flirting around as the text messages shown. Right. But she still they kind of still were together, and from her own mouth, they weren't paying a mortgage together, they weren't married to each other, they didn't have kids together. I get all that. Yeah, she had her own house in another town. But her knowing that she didn't fucking run the dude over, she had no animosity.

31:17 Yeah, she was pissed off because she thought he went into the fucking house and started partying without her. Right. I think she didn't want to go in there because Brian Higgins was in there and they were kind of flirty, flirty, and she just didn't want that fucking smoke coming up, you know what I mean? Right. So she was mad at him for that. But could you just imagine her knowing that she didn't do that shit, how obvious his injuries were, and that the fucking police and the investigators did nothing of protocol. Or their due diligence to check shit. She's going crazy. Well, thank God she had the resources to be able to um defend herself like she did. She's in millions of dollars of legal debt.

32:00 Alan Jackson's a beast. I ain't talking about the country singer. If y'all ain't followed this shit, Alan Jackson's her attorney out of California. He's good. He's got X-ray vision. He saw through the MSP and Procter's bullshit. Shit just aggravates the piss out of me. But by approximately 2.30 PM on January 29th, before he even had met or interviewed Miss Reed or seen her Lexus SUV, Proctor had already ordered seizure of the vehicle at her parents' home in Dyton. By 4 17 PM, the vehicle was in MSP's physical possession. The vehicle was then towed to Canton Police Department's quote unquote Sallyport, even though MSP has at least two closer barracks and Massachusetts was in the middle of a historic Nor'easter.

32:51 Proctor knew he had more leeway to manipulate the evidence regarding the SUV at the Canton Police Department than at the state police facilities, and he knew he needed to have the evidence in close proximity to the crime scene at 34 Fairview Road. Before the vehicle arrived at the garage, Miss Reed's Lexus Tell Light had a minor crack, but was intact. The crack occurred when Miss Reed backed into Mr. O'Keeffe's car at 5 a.m. that morning as she was leaving to go search for him. This incident was captured on John O'Keeffe's security cam footage.

33:32 Bukinick and Proctor followed the vehicle from Dyton and arrived at CPD at 5 35 PM. Just moments after the tow truck with the Lexus. At some point after the vehicle arrived at the Sally port, the rear right taillight was almost entirely destroyed. Video taken from different angles in the Sally port shows Bukinick, Proctor, and Canton police chief Ken Berkowitz and other individuals near the taillight. But notably, no video captures the taillight's appearance at the precise time it arrived at the Sally port.

34:13 How convenient. The available surveillance video from the Sally port as well as the CPD access card swipe log obtained by separate law enforcement agency revealed seemingly unfettered access to the Sally port by a miriad of individuals throughout the evening of January 29th, including just before and after 5 30 p.m. One or more of them destroyed the taillight, secretly took the pieces of it into their possession, and then planted some of them in various places at 34 Fairview and on Mr. O'Keefe's clothes. And folks, remember when they were searching for evidence with the fucking snowblower in the snow?

34:59 That morning. These videos were manipulated in two significant ways.

35:40 First, a critical 42-minute portion was deleted from the footage from the Sallyport quote front wall camera, the portion from 5.08 to 5 50 p.m. which included the exact time Mrs. Reed's Lexus arrived in the garage. This footage would have shown that the taillight was intact. Second, footage from the Sallyport back wall camera was inverted, which made the right side of Mrs. Reed's vehicle appear to be the left side, and vice versa. Another camera, main driveway side exterior, captured the back end of the Lexus as it arrived at CPD, but was too granny to decipher the condition of the passenger taillight.

36:24 The videos from inside and outside the Sally Port and Proctor's request for Buchanic to obtain it was intentionally hidden from Karen Reed and her defense attorneys for more than two years to avoid scrutiny. The video was then sprung on them immediately before and during the first criminal trial. One driveway cameras footage was not revealed to the defense until just prior to the start of the second trial. In fact, Bukinick presented one part of the video during his direct testimony under questioning questioning by the assistant district attorney Adam Lally.

37:06 Bukinick narrated the video to the jury who correctly identified that Proctor was at the rear of the vehicle, but claimed that he had never approached the right rear taillight of the vehicle. That testimony, however, was entirely false. As he well knew the video that Bukinick authorized as fair and accurate was actually neither fair nor accurate because it had been inverted. Proctor was actually behind the right tail light for a significant period because it was inverted.

37:48 It appeared in the video that he was behind the left taillight. They hoped this would allow Buchanick to lie about the issue at trial without detection. With the video and Buchinick's false testimony, the MSP, Proctor, and Buchinick attempted to mislead the jury in order to conceal the tampering with and planting of the tail tail light material. It was pretty cool how they caught this because Alan Jackson, as you know, they just watched the video over and over and over again. And he noticed there was like an old time police cruiser also in the Sally port.

38:28 Right. It was like an old fairy lane. It was pretty cool, actually. And what caught his eye is that the police on the car was spelled backward in this video. And he was like, What the hell? Why is that spelled backward? It's not, he's like, it's gotta be an inverted. And come to find out, whoever doctored up this video inverted it to make it look like these troopers weren't where they actually were in reference to the damaged vehicle. Man, could think about how many people have been fucking railroaded because you go into court, you don't have million-dollar attorneys, you don't have the money to pay investigators and expert witnesses?

39:18 If the jury only sees police officers, ATF officers, and everybody that you're supposed to give 51% of the truth to because they, you know, up uphold the law and their positions in the community and their professional positions. How many people have been fucked by this shit? If Karen Reed was some I mean She was a college professor, right? But if she was just some fucking crackhead off the street, she'd be she'd be doing life in prison right now. She probably took a plea deal just to get it over with. I mean, right, she'd be like, I'm fucked. I can't I can't fight these people because they have 51% of the law.

40:01 You know what I'm talking about. Right, and then you know, they paid one expert, what, was it half a million dollars almost to come and testify the guy who dressed up in the blue paint and it was crazy what they paid people to do this shit. They they paid him hundreds of thousands of dollars just to come in and say, Yeah, I think Karen hit him with the car, and here's the test that I did. Yeah, like a half a million dollars. I mean, that just shows you the links that these people will go through to protect their own people. Um these these are the fucking cops that are putting people in prison, maybe innocent, maybe not, you know, maybe guilty. But when they go fucking do something wrong, the links that they will go through to protect themselves and to get their asses out of trouble.

40:49 It's it's disgusting. It just fucking pisses me off. I'm sorry. I've been a victim of this shit before, so I know. Sorry, man, shit just gets me fired up. Proctor and Bukinick also took tail light pieces from the Sallyport, took them to 34 Fairview, and planted them in the location where Mr. O'Keeffe's body was found, and then falsified various documents in an attempt to hide their conduct. In warrant applications to the Stoughton District Court and Norfolk Superior Court for searches of Google electronic records, ring videos, Mrs. Reed's phone, Miss Reed's vehicle, Cell Tower Records, and other sources of information, Proctor swore he seized Miss Reed's vehicle from her parents' home at 5.30 p.m.

41:39 on January 29th, 2022, and had the vehicle towed to CPD. Reports show by the Dighton Police Department in 2023 revealed that the Lexus was towed from Dyton at 4.17 p.m. Proctor's assertion that he seized it at 5.30 wasn't initially false to hide the fact that the car was in police custody for 73 minutes longer than the indicated in his own sworn affidavits. Proctor maintained that false narrative because it would hide the exact time frame when he had the opportunity to remove pieces of the taillight from Miss Reed's vehicle and bring them back to the house so that he could later claim the pieces had been there since approximately 12 30 a.m.

42:28 on January 29th. However, unbeknownst to him, driveway video from the Reed residence in Dighton and their report written by the Dighton police revealed Proctor's lie and revealed the true and accurate time the Lexus SUV came into Massachusetts State Police possession. Proctor also deposited the SUV tail light pieces that he and the others removed from the vehicle in the Sally Port on Mr. O'Keeffe's clothes. Proctor retrieved Mr. O'Keeffe's clothes from the floor of the hospital where he was pronounced deceased.

43:08 Instead of securing the clothes in a sealed container or bag, as protocol requires, Proctor and Buchanick drove them around in his car all day and then placed them in the Norfolk County District Attorney's Office for at least six days where they were accessible to Proctor, Buchanick, and any other MSP troopers. Procter and Buchinick failed to create a log to document the chain of custody of that clothing. Therefore, and by design, there is no record of when or how many times and under what circumstances Proctor and Buchanick touched, manipulated, handled, or otherwise tampered with that clothing.

43:55 That's what makes it so scary. They were fucking sloppy doing this shit. That's scary because they were so comfortable hiding and manipulating evidence and lying. That's scary because that means it wasn't their first time. It was it was normal to these guys. They never thought in a million years that all this would come out. No, they sure didn't. They were so comfortable, like I said, it's scary. The MSP evidence submission handbook dictates that chain of custody begins at the time of collection and that the collector seal evidence packages as soon as possible after collection to ensure integrity of evidence items and limit loss of transient evidence.

44:41 Here, in violation of MSP's stated policies, the chain of custody for all of John O'Keefe's clothing, as well as dozens of pieces of taillight material, does not begin until March 14th, 2022. So about a m nearly two months after it was collected when Proctor finally submitted it to the MSP Crime Lab. At some point before providing those clothes to the crime lab, Proctor and or Buchanick placed pieces of the SUV TEL Light on them, where they were identified by the crime lab in 2023.

45:27 Proctor also planted pieces of the glass on the bumper of Mrs. Reed's SUV while it was in his possession at the Canton Police Department Sallyport garage, which he then claimed to have, quote, recovered later on February 1st. Proctor planted this evidence to make it look like these shards originated from a cocktail glass that Mr. O'Keeffe was holding when he exited the waterfall bar. Evidently, Proctor did not plan on Karen Reid's defense attorneys insisting on the forensic testing on the glass shards, which showed that they did not match the cocktail glass in Mr. O'Keeffe's possession. In fact, the five glass pieces originated from multiple different sources.

46:11 One shard of glass on the bumper did match another piece of the glass that had been in Procter's possession during the investigation. The only way for the glass to have ended up on the SUV bumper is that Proctor planted it there in an attempt to connect the vehicle to the death of Mr. O'Keefe. Yeah, so we got this little piece of glass from this cocktail glass that John O'Keeffe was supposed to have that night. And this little piece of glass rode all, if Karen Rain did it, rode all the way from, you know, where she hit him at, all the way back to John's, then on the drive looking for him, and then all the way to her dad's house, and then back on the tow truck all the way back to Canton Police in the middle of a nor'easter.

47:00 It's not possible. Bullshit. What I thought was fucked up is that they literally took her vehicle. Proctor lied about the time that he picked it up so he could have the extra time, and they drove past two state police posts to the Canton Police Department to the Sally Port where they could enter her Lexus into evidence where they would have more control over. Where they could control it, where him and Higgins and everybody else could manipulate and control the evidence. If he would have taken that shit to a state police post, all Massachusetts state police ain't motherfuckers like Proctor is. All of them didn't grow up in Canton. All of them wasn't buddies with everybody. You know what I mean?

47:40 I mean, that's obvious why he did that. So other aspects of the conflicted and corrupt investigation, Proctor, Buchanick's, and MSP's investigation was rife with other examples of corruption and bias. For example, despite evidence that Brian Albert may have had video surveillance at the house, neither Proctor nor Bukinick nor any other member of the MSP issued subpoenas to Ring or any other home surveillance company, and no one questioned any other member of the Albert family about the presence of video monitoring.

48:23 That's another thing. We have never seen any video evidence from the Alberts house, inside or outside zero. I heard that, you know, when all this was going on, Jen McCabe in the early stage of this was like, oh yeah, they got it on video that she hit him, she hit him, she that's what she was allegedly out there telling people, and then they proved that false. If they would have had it on video, it would have been the first thing up in. They would have been throwing that up there left and right, which he had a ring camera. It was active, it was working. If she was parked right in front of the house, why didn't it catch it? That would have been the first thing they showed the police when they come up when poor dude was laying there fucking dead.

49:06 Along with, you know, Sergeant Lang lived at Caddy Corner across the street, and he also had, you know, uh door camera, ring footage, stuff like that. Now Procter and the MSP also failed to track down other important witnesses and evidence. For example, Brian Lowron, a town of Canton snowplow operator, turned out to be one of the most significant witnesses in the entire criminal trial. Now, this is lucky. Lucky, gotta love Lucky Man. Proctor and his colleagues never spoke to him during their investigation and only did so once Loran was interviewed by a separate law enforcement agency and provided statements inconsistent with the MSP's narrative eighteen months after Mrs.

49:53 Reed was already indicted and awaiting trial. Specifically, Lucky drove his snow plow by the house multiple times in the early morning hours of January 29th, including at 2 30 a.m. and at 3 30 a.m. He reported that there was nobody on the lawn at 34 Fairview, nor cars on the street in front of the house at 2 30 a.m. Lucky believes he would have seen a body had it been on the lawn where Mr. O'Keeffe's body was found several hours later. Instead, the second time he drove by the house around 3 30 a.m., Lucky saw a Ford Edge in the front of the Albert's home that had not been there an hour before, but which was then parked where Mr.

50:44 O'Keeffe's body was later found. Brian Albert drove a Ford Edge at this time. However, the Ford Edge was gone by the time Miss Reed arrived to the house around 6 a.m. and in its place she discovered Mr. O'Keeffe's body. Proctor, Bukinick, and Tully never made any effort during the actual investigation to track down Lucky or any information relating to the Ford Edge. Proctor also secretly made efforts to protect other Albert family members during the investigation who may have also had a role in Mr. O'Keeffe's death. Witness Julie Nagel told Proctor that Colin Albert, Brian Albert's nephew, had been present at the house the night of the 28th to 29th, but Proctor omitted his name from his official summary of Mrs.

51:35 Lagle's interview, even though he's listed on all others who had been present at the house with Colin. When Mrs. Reed's attorneys filed a motion to obtain Proctor's notes, his handwritten memorizations of Julian Nagel's interview mirrored almost exactly what was typed up in his police report, except for the words Colin Albert. Now Colin Albert, his father is Chris Albert, a Canton Select Town member, board member, and his uncle is Brian Albert. Right. Now, Proctor's interactions with Kelvin Kevin Albert, Brian Albert's brother, along and he is a detective at the Canton Police Department.

52:19 Okay, now during the investigation, also demonstrate his close relationship with the Albert family, as well as his propensity for violating MSP rules and Massachusetts criminal laws. Repeatedly, Proctor used his personal cell phone to speak with Kevin, a CPD officer, instead of official channels when he coordinated interviews of witnesses, even though CPD was recused from the investigation. Further, in the middle of Procter's investigation in the summer of 2022, it was discovered that Proctor and Kelvin Albert were out together drinking alcohol and driving in Procter's cruiser on Cape Cod.

53:05 At the end of the night, Kelvin Albert forgot to bring home his gun and badge and left them in Procter's cruiser. Oh shit. Their drinking and driving in Proctor's MSP vehicle vehicle violated both MSP policies as well as various Massachusetts criminal statutes and further highlights the conflicted nature of the MSP's investigation. Well, we was talking about an episode or two ago. Matter of fact, it was the fucking the dude who the DoorDash chick was taking pictures and we was like, you know, you never know how you're gonna wake up. Can you imagine this dude waking up and not knowing where his gun and badge and shit is?

53:49 Like, holy shit. Oh, he knew he was cool because he was with Procter and Proctor would lie for him. Yeah, he's not quote unquote fucked. That's right. I bet his balloon knot was leaking when he woke up and didn't know where his pistol was that though. Oh, I guarantee if somebody gets a hold of that and commits any crime, they're gonna be some big shit for that. Oh yeah. This this story, there's a lot to it, folks, and we appreciate you sticking with us. I personally can't get enough of it. It just goes to show just how fucked up the justice system can be from the police all the way up to the judicial system. Is Lady Justice really blind?

54:31 Not in Massachusetts, is that she just got her fucking sleep in masks on her damn eyes. You know, the little furry things. That's what she's doing. Now, moreover, because of their close relationship, Proctor, Bukinick, and Tully worked together with CPD in hiding certain videos from Karen Reed's criminal defense team. Specifically upon information and belief, MPD and CPD collaborated to keep exculpatory surveillance video from Karen Reed's criminal defense team in preparation for the first trial. Those videos captured Brian Higgins' activities in the CPD parking lot and inside the police station shortly after the physical altercation at the house that led to Mr.

55:23 O'Keefe's death. They demonstrated that Higgins' statements about his post-house party activities on the night of Mr. O'Keefe's death were not accurate. Upon information and belief, CPD knew it had this evidence and worked with MSP to keep it from misread. Additionally, upon information and belief, CPD set its auto-delete function for saving certain surveillance videos from the Sally port to 30 days, therefore assuring the immediate destruction of likely additional exculpatory evidence. The 30-day auto-delete setting conflicts with the fact that CPD videos were shared with the defense over the course of three years.

56:12 Therefore, either the setting was changed to prevent a defense expert from auditing the footage, which is when the 30-day setting was discovered, or the footage was obtained within 30 days of January 29th and withheld from the defense. Shoo, can you believe our time is up already for this episode? That went quick. Hey, listen, though. This is gonna be a three-parter. I just can't get enough of it myself, for one, because I'm nosy AF. Listen, though, just imagine this in your head. So before they was about to get screwed and everybody was figuring their bullshit out, I could see Proctor and the Alberts and all them getting drunk at 34 Fairview, throwing her hands up.

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