DEDHAM, MASS. (WHDH) - Trooper Yuriy Bukhenik, one of the state police homicide detectives working the case, displayed several items for the jury.
All articles of clothing victim John O’Keefe wore the night he died.
The Nike sneaker O’Keefe still had on when he was taken to the hospital, his tropical t-shirt showing a beach, palm trees, and a sunset, as well as the two toned grey hooded sweatshirt he was wearing.
The jury could see O’Keefe wearing that outfit on tape, as he drank at two Canton bars with Karen Read the night the state claims she killed him.
Bukhenik provided commentary of the drinking at C.F. McCarthy’s as the couple socialized with friends.
“The bartender hands over another cocktail glass, so that’s drink number four,” said Bukhenik.
Special Prosecutor Hank Brennan used this witness to display videos of Read’s Lexus, with what appears to be a broken right rear tail light in the hours after she dropped him off at the party on Fairview Road.
The commonwealth says it was shattered when Read backed into O’Keefe, causing him to fall and hit his head on the frozen ground.
The jury then saw a picture of Read’s Lexus sitting at the Canton police station.
“It’s missing a large red portion of lens,” said Bukhenik.
“It that consistent or inconsistent with the damage when you first saw that car?” Brennan asked.
“It is 100% consistent,” Bukhenik responded.
The defense claims the light was cracked, but not broken, when Read pulled her car out of O’Keefe’s garage and lightly tapped his car parked in the snowy drive way.
Read says she was upset O’Keefe had not come home and wanted to meet up with Jennifer McCabe and Kerry Roberts the next morning to look for him.
The prosecution had Bukhenik read a few of the texts he got from Trooper Michael Proctor, who has since been fired for misconduct.
Bukhenik testified he was working a traffic detail at Logan Airport when a series of texts came through on his Apple watch.
“I glanced at it, took part of the information that came through and acknowledged it with a thumbs up emoji, indicating that I read it,” said Bukhenik.
Bukhenik testified Proctor was texting about going through Read’s phone and one message he read to the jury said “no nudes so far.”
Bukhenik reported he was not demoted, but lost five vacation days for failing to properly supervise Proctor and failing to write an accurate quarterly performance review.
Read was asked if she thinks the state will call Proctor to the stand.
“I don’t believe so, but you [saw] this afternoon how much evidence has not been shown to this jury,” said Read. “And we’ve had to work really hard, Alan’s had to work really hard, to organize it so they can be presented the actual evidence in this case.”
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