Ian Whiffin spilled the beans on Monday about how Jennifer McCabe Googled “hos long to die in cold” on Jan. 29, 2022. Seems like a chilling search, right?
Whiffin, hailing from Vienna, VA, is a digital forensics pro from Cellebrite. He spilled the beans on Monday during Karen Read’s murder retrial. The drama continues on Tuesday as Whiffin is expected to take the stand again.
The real deal is about a contentious piece of evidence in Read’s case. McCabe swears she made the spooky search hours after finding Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe unresponsive in the snow. Read’s lawyers claim the search is timestamped at 2:27 a.m., but McCabe says otherwise.
Whiffin dropped a bombshell, saying that the 2:27 a.m. timestamp is when McCabe opened the Safari tab for the search. He pointed out that the search and another hypothermia-related query came shortly after 6:20 a.m. on that fateful day.
Now, let’s dive deeper into Read’s world. She stands accused of hitting O’Keefe with her SUV in a drunken fit. The incident went down shortly after midnight on Jan. 29 at a house party in Canton. The prosecution claims she left O’Keefe to perish in the snow, but her defense paints a different picture.
Her legal eagles argue she was framed in a conspiracy involving law enforcement and party guests. They even suggest that O’Keefe was attacked after stumbling into 34 Fairview Road. But Whiffin isn’t buying it.
According to Whiffin, O’Keefe’s phone data shows that he never strayed far from the flagpole on the home’s front lawn. Those three flights of stairs logged on the device? Probably just a glitch as he rode in a moving vehicle.
Read’s first trial ended in a mistrial, leading to a whirlwind of legal battles. Her lawyers pushed to drop two of the charges, claiming the jury was on her side all along. They took the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, but luck wasn’t on their side. The appeal got shot down, closing this chapter of the saga.
So, what’s next for Read? Only time will tell as the drama unfolds in Norfolk Superior Court. Stay tuned for more updates on this nail-biting murder case.
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And that’s a wrap on the latest chapter of the Karen Read murder case. Who knows what twists and turns await in the next installment? Stay tuned for more jaw-dropping revelations and legal showdowns.
