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Podcast: Mind Behind The Crime | The Psychology Of Killers
Episode: Karen Read: The Psychology of Guilt, Gaslighting & a Public Meltdown
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Karen Read: The Psychology of Guilt, Gaslighting & a Public Meltdown
In this episode of Hidden Killers, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott takes us deep inside the emotional undercurrents of the Karen Read trial — not the legal motions, but the behavioral and psychological breadcrumbs that might say more than any piece of evidence ever could.
We explore the psychology of guilt through the lens of Read’s alleged statements like “Could I have hit him?” before O’Keefe’s body was even found — and ask, is that the voice of panic, or pre-loaded guilt? Shavaun breaks down the power of gaslighting...