True Crimecast

In April 2025, Karen Read returned to Norfolk Superior Court facing a second murder trial for the death of Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe. With lead investigator Michael Proctor officially fired and a complete roadmap from the first trial, both sides delivered an explosive replay of contested digital evidence, accident reconstruction, and claims of corruption. Also, who and what is a Turtleboy?

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Amber Kaset is a criminal defense investigator and mitigation specialist with more than 20 years of experience and over 1,000 cases. She spent seven years as an investigator with the Public Defender's Office in Nashville before founding AK Investigations in 2010. Today she leads a team of investigators and mitigation specialists working with defense attorneys nationwide on serious felonies, drug cases, complex federal cases, wrongful convictions, death penalty cases, and large civil matters.
https://www.akinvestigations.com/

True crime usually follows the investigation that leads to an arrest. But what happens when the defense starts investigating the case all over again? Amber joins True Crimecast to take listeners inside the defense investigation: retracing police work, interviewing witnesses, finding evidence that may have been missed, and, in death penalty cases, investigating a client's life generations back. She also talks about wrongful convictions, mitigation, and what more than two decades on the defense side have taught her about the people we label "bad guys" and about recognizing the humanity of everyone a case touches, victims included, in a system that falls hardest on people who are poor, people of color, and people the other systems failed first.

Amber consults with public defender leadership on how their offices investigate cases and how their teams work together, and she has taught investigations to innocence projects, law schools, university programs, and at legal conferences. She is also the creator of the Investigative Expert Method, an online training program for people who want to become criminal defense investigators and those already doing the work in private practice and in public defense.

https://investigativeexpertmethod.com 

Connect with Amber: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amberkaset/

Free course in investigations: https://investigativeexpertmethod.com/inside-backgrounds-records-and-case-research/

How to think like an investigator, Amber's talk for Entrepreneurs' Organization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u5DwZ-PgZE 

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A (Florida, of course) man is caught at a construction site hiding a weapon in his unmentionables, and a would-be robber in Scotland gets himself in a pickle. 

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Can one person give consent to another person to shoot them? If not, what would justify throwing a bucket of feces on another human?

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Did Karen Read strike her boyfriend with her vehicle, or was she framed by a tight-knit circle of local law enforcement? The death of John O'Keefe sparked one of the most divisive criminal cases in modern New England history. In Part One of our two-part series on True Crimecast, we examine O'Keefe's legacy as a dedicated officer and guardian, the timeline of the night at the Waterfall Bar, the controversial 2:27 a.m. phone search, and the investigative missteps that ultimately led to the lead trooper's termination.

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When cornered by the police, you have a few options: drive away, turn yourself in, or...swamp. What would you choose?
And a girl finds an extra special gift in her Barbie box. 

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What is worse:

Pretending to be an NFL player to defraud women of over $1 million?
Or being a former govorner charged with not supporting your adoption son?

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How does the legal system weigh moral awareness against severe psychiatric delusion? The tragedy of the Yates family forced a national reckoning on the M'Naghten legal standard, the vital distinction between postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis, and medical accountability. In this episode of True Crimecast, Jamie and John examine the years of psychiatric breakdown leading to June 20, 2001, the coercive religious teachings of street preacher Michael Woroniecki, the commonalities with the Lindsay Clancy case, the false television testimony that overturned Andrea's original conviction, and the enduring legacy of five young lives lost in a quiet Houston suburb.

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A man gets locked in a car (that he's trying to steal), and we find out what happens when you streak on a sports field/court/pitch.

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A truckload (literally) of cinnamon rolls go missing, and a college football locker room turns into a crime scene.

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