Two of the Cops Who Testified Against Karen Read Are Still Being Investigated, and it's Not Looking Good for Them
Every time I think I'm out of the Karen Read posts, some law enforcement agency pulls me back in.
It's been months since disgraced MA State Police Trooper Michael Proctor got fired over his texts about Karen Read's leaky balloon knot that leaks poo and how there are no nudes on her phone or how she ought to just kill herself. And weeks since he dropped his appeal intended to get his job back. But by no means did the story end there. Not for Proctor. And not for an member of the Canton PD, who we'll get to.
First, Proctor has been the subject of some actual investigative reporting by local journos. Who've been a lot more curious about his activities than he was about who in the house at 34 Fairview the night John O'Keefe turned up dying on the lawn and what might have gone on at the party O'Keefe was going to when Read dropped him off.
As a refresher, the house was owned by Nicole and Brian Albert, he of the Boston PD. His brother Kevin was a Canton Police detective, who uncoincidentally enough, was good friends with none other than Proctor, the lead investigator in O'Keefe's death. With that as preamble, I'll let the journos take it from here:
Source - The Massachusetts State Police spends nearly $70,000 a month on a sophisticated GPS tracking system designed to enhance accountability and public safety. But 25 Investigates discovered a loophole: hundreds of cruisers are equipped with a “kill switch” that allows the tracking to be disabled.
Investigative Reporter Ted Daniel learned about the feature while reviewing disciplinary records about former State Police detective Michael Proctor, who was fired for conduct revealed in Karen Read’s first murder trial.
Proctor was being investigated for an overtime shift where he and Canton Police detective Kevin Albert stated they traveled to Cape Cod to work a “cold case”. Documents from State Police and Canton Police show the two stopped for beers at Treehouse Brewery in Sandwich before having dinner and more drinks in Hanover on the way home.
The following day, “Albert texted Proctor a picture of two alcoholic drinks with a message ‘It’s bad!!! I was hungover for sure today!!!,’” according to a Canton Police Investigative Report about the incident.
Albert contends the text was a joke.
25 Investigates filed a public records request for Proctor’s GPS records from that day. The data shows Proctor’s unmarked cruiser drove a total of eight seconds and never left his hometown of Canton. The rest of his travels were never recorded because Proctor’s tracking device had been shut off.
To be fair, there are perfectly legitimate reasons for some MSP vehicles to have kill switches on their tracking devices. If, say, you're visiting a confidential informant or an undercover cop and don't want to give away their address or whatever. But no reason you can come up with involves the taxpayer-funded cruiser driving "a total of eight seconds and never [leaving] Canton" when it's actually at Treehouse Brewery on the Cape, followed by hitting some watering hole in my old hometown of Hanover on the way back to Canton. And the worst possible reason for hitting the switch is to hide the fact the "cold case" you're working is a cold case of New England IPAs.
Even if Kevin Albert was joking, the fact remains the two of them were booze-cruising in a State Police cruiser with the kill switch engaged, lying about themselves doing police work, and clearly hung out with each other enough that Proctor should've been conflicted out of the investigation into O'Keefe's murder the second the body was found. This kind of crack sleuthing is enough to make you wonder why Proctor would ever have dropped his appeal.
But the good news for the ones who testified against Read didn't stop there this week. You might remember Canton Sgt. Sean Goode. He managed to get himself involved in the investigation in a number of different ways. And always seemed to be making mistakes in his reports that in every instance, made it harder to connect the crime scene to the Alberts:
… "police narrative" sections, it was corrected to be 34 Fairview Rd.
It seems that they didn't not want Brian Albert's address on the initially reporting. In fact, they didn't even want Albert's full name on the report. They listed his name as "Albert, B".
Yannetti deserves all the credit for having to walk Goode through the reporting process, who did the reporting, showing Goode his own report and then having Goode admit that it was in fact incorrectly reported.
And he now finds himself on "administrative leave," which is Massachusetts government worker talk for "not having to show up to work, but still getting paid the same.":
Source - The Canton Police Department confirmed that Sgt. Sean Goode, a veteran officer who was working the night of John O'Keefe's death and testified during the first Karen Read trial, has been placed on administrative leave while the department investigates allegations of misconduct.
I-Team sources say the allegations of misconduct involving Sgt. Goode stem from an investigation into former Massachusetts State Police Trooper Michael Proctor. The I-Team learning the state police are also investigating Proctor's text messages for possible misconduct involving troopers who were on the text message chains. …
The town said that the alleged misconduct was discovered "during an investigation into a former member of a different law enforcement agency." No additional details were provided about what Goode is accused of.
Long time fans of Commonwealth v. Karen Read trials will remember frequent uses of the phrase "a different law enforcement agency." Then, we all knew the acronym for those words was "FBI." And there's no reason to think otherwise now. I mean, it's a safe bet we're not talking about Police Squad.
And since the Feds wouldn't put their mirrored aviators on just to go after a local police sergeant for the crime of being on the receiving end of a text because it had the word "cunt" in it, it's a very safe bet they're after a lot more. Like, for instance, how Goode conducted his business back in 2021.
… quit on him. What we do know is that he was incredibly involved in the early hours of John O'Keefe's murder investigation, had direct contact with Karen Read, and is lifelong friends with Proctor's sister and Colin Albert's godmother. Oh, and he also intentionally put the wrong address in his report while leaving Brian Albert's name out of it, and then played dumb when asked about it at the first trial
… call and Jen McCabe's 6am 911 call when they found O'Keefe on Brian Alberts front lawn at 34 Fairview Rd.
Goode called Kelly Dever to take over for dispatch so he could go to the scene. He also called Lank and Gallagher regarding McCabe's 911 call.
He was the third officer on the scene. He claimed to have brought Karen Read to his cruiser to warm up and briefly questioned her (this is when McCabe claimed Read told her to google "hos long to die in cold").
Goode was welcomed into Albert's home with Lank for an interview.
Goode supplied the leaf blower.
He changed the image on his report from a photo taken 1/29/22 of the road berm to a photo taken 2/4/22 of a taillight piece over a shoeprint (the same piece Chief Berkowicz found as he was "driving by" the Alberts).
He was named the primary investigator for Canton PD by the Massachusetts State Police CARS (reconstruction) unit.
Sgt Sean Goode's name is all over the murder investigation of John O'Keefe .. and not enough people are talking about it.
All of which is unconfirmed. Mere speculation. There's no proof. Innocent until proven guilty, and all that. Before you jump to conclusions and insinuate this investigation was not on the level, remember this: Anyone involved in determining whether or not Karen Read murdered John O'Keefe is entitled to the exact same presumption of innocence she was.
But at the same time, you can't help but notice this list is getting longer by the week:
So stick around. Even after two trials and a Not Guilty verdict, this thing is far from over.