Jurors hear voicemails Read left O’Keefe

Read’s seething anger and accusatory tone were captured in eight voicemails that investigators recovered from O’Keefe’s phone and prosecutors played to jurors in Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham. The evidence was presented a few days after angry text messages from O’Keefe, a Boston police officer, and Read were presented, offering a rare glimpse into the couple’s relationship.

At 12:59 a.m., Read said: “Nobody knows where the f*** you are, you (expletive) pervert.”

At 1:18 a.m., Read left a message on his voicemail: “It’s 1 a.m. I’m with your niece and nephew. You’re a (expletive) pervert. … You (expletive) loser. (expletive) yourself.”

Nicholas Guarino, a state police detective, said Read called O’Keefe more than 50 times between 12:30 a.m. and 6 a.m. There is no indication that O’Keefe answered any of those calls, Guarino said.

Witnesses have testified that Read, who had consumed nine alcoholic drinks, had no memory of driving O’Keefe to Fairview Road. But witnesses have also testified that Read pointed to O’Keefe’s snow-covered body before the two women she was with saw anything, suggesting she already knew he was there.

Guarino said location data on O’Keefe’s phone showed he had left the Waterfall Bar in Canton at 00:12 and arrived in Fairview at 00:24

Data from Read’s phone showed that it automatically connected to the password-protected Wi-Fi network in O’Keefe’s home at 12:36 a.m.

Earlier this week, jurors were shown text messages exchanged between Read and O’Keefe just hours before her death, suggesting that their difficult relationship had taken its toll and O’Keefe had had enough.

An argument on the morning of January 28, 2022 spilled over into their text messages that afternoon.

Read wrote in a text message that she felt she was doomed to “failure,” while O’Keefe said he was tired of always being the “bad guy.”

“You really hurt me” and “said horrible things,” Read wrote. O’Keefe told her he apologized and that things between them had been difficult “for some time.”

“I’m sick of all the arguing and fighting,” O’Keefe wrote. “It’s been happening every week for several months now.”

After calling him more than a dozen times, Read wrote: “Oh my God!! Stop calling.”

Prosecutors allege the couple’s relationship was strained and Read, 44, was drunk when she dropped O’Keefe off at an after-party on Fairview Road. She alleges she intentionally drove her Lexus SUV into O’Keefe during a U-turn, leaving him for dead as a snowstorm rolled in.

Read, of Mansfield, has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter, first-degree murder and other charges.

Read’s lawyers insist that she was framed and that O’Keefe entered the Fairview Road home, which at the time belonged to a Boston police officer who was out drinking with the couple and others. They claim that O’Keefe was beaten inside the house before his body was left on the lawn in freezing temperatures.

Under cross-examination, Trooper Guarino explained that just because a phone’s health data records steps taken, it does not necessarily mean that physical steps were taken.

Guarino testified that health data on O’Keefe’s phone showed he was “moving and taking steps” when in reality he was in Read’s vehicle a half-mile from Fairview Road.

The discrepancy is significant because Read’s defense argued that the data showed O’Keefe walking up and down the stairs in the house.

Users do not have to move “physically” for steps to be recorded in health data, Guarino said.

Witnesses testified that his phone was found under his body.

Dr. Renee Stonebridge, chief of the division of cardiology and neuropathology for the state’s medical examiner, told jurors that O’Keefe’s injuries included a subarachnoid hemorrhage and bruising to the front of the brain.

She said the brain injuries were due to “some type of trauma” and “some type of force” that “could be consistent with a collision with a vehicle.”

A second state medical examiner, Dr. Irini Scordi-Bello, said she performed an autopsy on O’Keefe’s body. She said she concluded that O’Keefe’s cause of death was “blunt force trauma to the head and hypothermia” and that the manner of death “could not be determined.”

She said there were “multiple” fractures in “multiple chambers and parts of the skull.”

O’Keefe’s toxicology report showed that his blood alcohol level was 0.21 at the time of the test and was higher at the time of his death, Scordi-Bello said.

The testimony will continue on Friday.

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