Karen Read Trial 'Turtleboy' Blogger Says He's Overjoyed by Jury Verdict

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Aiden Kearney, the citizen journalist intensely focused on the Karen Read retrial, says he was ecstatic when he heard "not guilty" three times when the jury verdict was read yesterday ... and while the trial is finally over, he says his connection to Karen is not.

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00:00aiden first off your reaction uh it was uh i've been dreaming about this day for a long time when

00:09you've invested so much of yourself into one particular story and you know it's coming to an

00:13end and i i knew this day was going to come eventually and you know a lot swings on it if

00:18if you hear the word if you don't hear the word not before guilty it's it's just a horrible

00:23depressing feeling and i've thought about that too but i've thought about how good it would feel

00:28what it if i heard the words not guilty and i heard them three times and it was just overjoyed with

00:33uh emotions and happiness for the reid family and for her lawyers there are lots of cases uh in america

00:40what what drew you not only to this case but to become so passionate and involved in it well it's

00:50a local story so i'm from uh worcester massachusetts about an hour west of boston and i write a lot

00:55about a you know uh stories involving corruption in new england i've broken a lot of major stories

01:00i've been doing it for about 11 years i used to be a high school teacher i quit my job to do this

01:04and uh this one when it first happened in february of or january of 2022 uh you know i looked into it

01:11at first i saw a boston police officer killed that always gets your attention but then i saw it was the

01:16girlfriend who accidentally did it and it just seemed like a horrible accident and so i really didn't have

01:21like a take on it it's it honestly seemed like an open and shut case they claimed there was ring

01:25camera video of it i mean what was i even going to say about that and i i honestly forgot the name

01:30karen reed and then 15 months later i read this thing about a google search that appeared in a

01:35court filing uh that somebody in the house had made uh at 227 for how long to die in cold and that kind

01:42of led me down the rabbit hole where i started reading all the court filings and i saw the plethora

01:48of evidence showing that not only was karen reed under undeniably innocent of this but it appeared

01:54as if john o'keefe went inside brian albert's house was beaten up killed and then left on the lawn

02:01to make it look like karen or someone else had done it so uh when i when i first read about it i said

02:07holy crap i'm sitting on the story of the of the century here you were with karen reed at mastro's

02:13last night for this big celebratory dinner take us inside the room what was that like what was she

02:18saying uh it was amazing in there uh just being uh karen and reed and i have had you know a relationship

02:25where you know they've come after both of us and i've you know been charged myself and and done 60

02:30days over this um and and they've tried to link my journalism has been so successful at getting this

02:37this out that they've reframed it as uh witness intimidation and they're trying to link karen to

02:43me so and they tried to indict her last march on conspiracy to commit witness intimidation charges

02:49because she was friends with me they took both of our phones they so they saw how much time we spoke

02:54on the phone together so we've had to lay low about our you know partnership and working in this uh so

02:59it was really good last night to be able to go there to take that picture with her which colin albert

03:04had previously posted a very similar picture like that and we we had said years ago that when we when

03:10she's acquitted we're going to post this picture right here with the same caption that colin albert

03:14used but being in that room with karen's parents with her uh team of paralegals who are amazing people

03:20from bc and harvard and her four very talented attorneys uh was an honor and it was a privilege to

03:26be in there and it was just felt like we were celebrating this this thing that we all worked on

03:31together to get justice speaking of partnership are you working on a movie with her i don't know

03:36if karen is going to be involved in that but i have signed a deal with uh compelling pictures

03:40they've been doing a documentary uh they've been following me around it's kind of like

03:44the camera recase through the eyes of turtle boy how we started this you know reporting on this and

03:49kind of blew it up into a phenomenon um and then we're going to be doing a movie after that uh if karen

03:55wants to get involved her and i haven't had time to talk about anything about this so we're going to

03:59have to have conversations moving forward about you know what she wants to do what i want to do

04:03uh but as of right now you know it hasn't even been 24 hours so i would imagine her phone's blowing

04:09up obviously i haven't had time to return many messages on my phone uh so i can just imagine what

04:14what it's like for her

04:15what it's like for her

04:17what it's like for her

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