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I needed a break from the horror of the Lindsay Clancy trial, and this blog is the perfect outlet for my rage. I'd rather give my thought on the Commonwealth charging her and the disgusting opening and questioning of Patrick Clancy (that has thankfully gone to the lunch break, but I've completely lost my appetite. But I want to get through the Voss article, so onward I plug.  We're to the point in the article where the first in the "Canton Coverup" series has just been published, and we learn that Aidan Kearney is apparently THE most effective journalist in the entire state. Is this what has Gretchen so jealous? The Hos Defendants start getting calls, DMs, and make sad faces. Turtleboy makes a happy face.  Turtleboy did a live stream in which he showed a court document (a public record) that had addresses of the witnesses. If this should have been redacted and wasn't, that isn't his problem. Voss blames the defense - but it's a Canton PD incident repor...

So yesterday we learned that when Turtleboy first heard the news story about John O'Keefe's death, he gasp! - thought Karen was guilty of running over him. (And as we discussed, Gretchen doesn't mention that he - along with everyone else who watched or read the news - was told it was open and shut because of ring camera video of the incident.) No, instead, in her next paragraph, Gretchen says that Aidan thought Karen was guilty BEFORE Read and her team started giving him access to info about the case to report for them. She does this by linking the two things together without providing insight into what OTHER SOURCES Turtleboy had access to between his "she's guilty, moving on" live stream on FEBRUARY 10,2022 and the time of his first CANTON COVERUP ARTICLE, April 18, 2023. These sources include: Steve Scanlon, a former cop who was a friend of John's, and the Boston Globe's October 3, 2022 (6 months earlier!) article by Travis Anderson and John K. Elle...

We ended yesterday talking about how Voss states that the federal investigation into the death of John O'Keefe "ultimately went nowhere." Anyone who has watched the second trial knows this not to be true. Information used in both trials came from the federal investigation. Witness testimony from the federal grand jury was addressed in cross examination. Changing stories (and outright lies!) came from the federal investigation and were discussed at trial. Even if the public or the jurors didn't know this type of information was gleaned directly from the feds - since it wasn't allowed to be directly discussed - it did, and it was. So, the federal investigation did, in fact, go somewhere.  Of course, the federal investigation lent legitimacy to Karen Read's defense. This is a no-brainer. But public perception and the presentation to the jury are two different ways in which it did so. Voss now gives us a salacious tidbit - the Hos Defendants (I can no longer refer...

 Voss opens her politically motivated hit piece on Karen Read, Adam Deitch and Aidan Kearney with a strong statement of opinion in her lede paragraph: it wasn't a movement of true believers. The "it" calls back to the title - the "it" is "the campaign that acquitted Karen Read." So, according to Voss, the Free Karen Read movement - thousands who donated and spoke out and wore pink - and asked for the truth - were the equivalent of little December children who didn't really believe. (But unlike the kids who aren't "True Believers," we didn't get coal in our stockings. On June 18, 2025: we got an acquittal for Christmas.) Let's look at the Voss article piece by piece, to unwind the spin until it's threadbare. We open on the Lacrosse game, where "blogger" Aidan Kearney (not journalist, of course - just a "blogger") has a ten-minute interaction wherein Jen McCabe smiles uncomfortably, and Matt McCabe doesn...

A blog I haven't used in 2 years seems to be gaining traction again (presumably thanks to the Anti Karen Read crowd) so what I'm hearing is that you, XTwitterverse, may want to hear from me.  Let me tell you a moderately long-winded story about how I came to engage with the elephant in the room - the utter circus of the investigation into the death of Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe.  I know there's been some controversy around the Crime Junkie podcast, but it's one that actually changed my life. I'd never listened to a single podcast before 2018, when my friend Miranda recommended it. I listened from the first episode up to the, I don't know, the 40th or something. Host Ashley Flowers said, "If you haven't listened to the Serial podcast yet, turn this off. Run over there, listen, and come back."  And so I did.  For the next several years I deep dove into the case against Adnan Syed and tried, with other internet sleuths, to figure out who k...

Here is a nearly sentence-by-sentence reconstruction of Brett and Alice's most recent episode of their podcast "The Prosecutors" - titled Adnan Syed is Guilty. I will not be utilizing the strikethrough in every sentence but will do so when I am compelled and will try to bold sections I've added. I've highlighted some of my favorite and most poignant edits.  I've tired and failed to stay away from a bit of snark. This endeavor was exhausting.  My work will illustrate how Brett Talley and Alice LaCour use narrative spin to bring you their version of events that they want to, for whatever reason, call "facts." I start just before the 4 minute mark.  Transcript So,, Adnan Syed and Hae Min Lee dated for quite some time  when they were in high school, starting around March 1998. They’d stay together for the next 9 months or so, though they broke up twice during that period.   They were on-again off-again until around Halloween and broke up for good before...