Kerry Roberts, a close friend of John O’Keefe’s who was with Karen Read and Jennifer McCabe the morning they found him dead in a snowstorm, admitted during cross-examination Wednesday that she did not hear the defendant ask McCabe to make a Google search about hypothermia after they found the body.
“Hos long to die in cold” is the infamous Google search, typo included, at the heart of the 45-year-old Read’s claim that she is being framed by Massachusetts police for the death of her Boston cop boyfriend three years ago.
Roberts, when asked in 2022 in front of a grand jury that would indict Read on a second-degree murder charge, testified that she heard Read ask McCabe to “Google hypothermia” while they were praying near a police car as paramedics lifted O’Keefe out of the snow.
“Yeah,” she said.
“Except it’s not true, is it?” Read’s attorney, Alan Jackson, followed up.
“I did not hear her ask that,” Roberts said.
Roberts testified that she did not intentionally lie but rather misunderstood the question when she appeared before the grand jury.
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