Massachusetts woman Karen Read, accused of second-degree murder in the death of her boyfriend, a Boston Police Officer, has been alleged to funnel confidential details to a blogger. Court documents unsealed this past Wednesday point to a direct line between Read and Aidan Kearney, also known as "Turtleboy," with claims that he received sensitive information including witness details and autopsy photos, NBC10 Boston reports.
Not just a few brief exchanges, Read and Kearney's lengthy 189 phone calls cover over 40 hours of conversation, according to a Massachusetts State Police affidavit. The particulars disclosed during these calls are now the subject of serious legal scrutiny. While Read's camp has made it clear that she's under the pressure of a murder charge and clinging to her constitutional rights in an assertion of innocence, Ken Mello, a special prosecutor, suggests that this communication saga could open the door to witness intimidation charges, as reported by NBC10 Boston.
The ties between Read and Kearney don't end at phone chatter, with the Signal app and an intermediary also playing roles in their connection. This intermediary, a college friend of Read's, turned state's cooperator, paints a picture of a well-orchestrated effort to push content to Kearney's blog that might sway public perception or potentially intimidate witnesses, all in the close fabric of an encrypted digital whisper network, as detailed by Boston 25 News.
In a counter-movement to this mounting stack of allegations, Attorney Timothy J. Bradl, defending Kearney, offered a denouncement of the charges. "The only crime here is the robbery of privacy," he stipulated, as part of a broader criticism of taxpayer dollars fueling an "investigation without a crime," according to the report by Boston 25 News. Kearney himself, faces his own legal battle, having been indicted on witness intimidation and, aside from his own declarations of innocence through vigorous blog and social media defenses of Read, is tangled up in allegations that might robe him in the same cloth of conspiracy paradoxically aimed at unraveling Read's murder charge. Meanwhile, attorneys for Read have keep their lips sealed, declining to make any statement on the recent findings.
