Prosecutors present fired investigator’s sexist texts in Karen Read’s retrial as defense chooses not to read them

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Jurors in the retrial of Karen Read on Monday heard a spate of sexist messages the lead investigator of the case sent his friends, after the judge ruled to allow the since-fired Massachusetts State Police trooper’s texts into evidence.

“She’s a whack job c*nt,” Michael Proctor wrote about Read, according to testimony Monday by his childhood friend, Jonathan Diamandis, who was on the group chat where Proctor sent the message.

“Yeah, she’s a babe,” Proctor said, less than 24 hours into the investigation of the death of Read’s boyfriend, John O’Keefe. “Weird Fall River accent though. No a**.”

The contents of the text messages – which were notably presented to jurors under cross-examination by Massachusetts prose