
Aidan Kearney
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Oct 30, 2026
How To Spot a Psycho
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44:36Lynette CarollaHOST
And the Massachusetts Police Department.
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44:37Lynette CarollaHOST
And it's all goes all the way up to Morrissey, the D.A. Like it's all dirty all the way down like they and Turtle Boy covered Sandra Birchmore's murder like a year before Sandra before Karen Reed.
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44:49Lynette CarollaHOST
And then but he didn't have a lot of.
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44:51Lynette CarollaHOST
you know, he didn't have a lot of followers, but then he starts the Karen Reid movement and, and these cops.
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44:56Lynette CarollaHOST
Now Karen Reid comes along a year later, John O'Keefe's dead.
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45:00Lynette CarollaHOST
And now there's more coverup and Turtle Boy's like, walk, walk, walk, like, ba-beep, ba-beep on the air three nights a week, like hammering at home that these are fucking dirty cops.
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45:10Lynette CarollaHOST
And they arrest him and put him in jail.
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45:11Lynette CarollaHOST
I mean, it's all just so obvious, you know, it's just, crazy the corruption and it's ironic like i follow melanie little if you guys want to watch the case i highly recommend her she's an attorney she's great she reads the transcripts and she i like her opinion she's like she's like this guy's fucking going down he's fucking horrible and um she said the other day little sandra birchmar felt so unloved that she just like had affairs with anybody that would listen to her, you know, and really wanted Matthew to be, you know, just felt so in love and then died feeling alone.
Love is Blind Boston + Bravo Fan Fest
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51:11Rob SchulteHOST
I mean, I can tell that all of these photos have like the hipstamatic, uh, filter on them so he did go way back to get this stuff
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51:23Molly McAleerHOST
totally and then also like you know i mean sorry like your average non-famous county person who posted opinion on facebook very well could have these things, but that doesn't mean that the person that's going to email this to Turtle Boy because they think that they should have the racist mascot is any better than her.
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51:54Rob SchulteHOST
Yeah, absolutely.
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51:56Molly McAleerHOST
So the article says, despite moving far away and living the glamorous life, she's still actually involved in townie politics from back home and has been one of the people leading the charge to force Braintree High School to change its mascot from the Womps because it's racist against Native Americans.
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52:12Molly McAleerHOST
It was never an issue before a couple months ago, but apparently a black guy being killed in a non-racially motivated incident by a cop means that high schools can't have Indian mascots anymore.
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52:22Molly McAleerHOST
So I want to apologize to everyone, but this is exactly what I have been trying to tell you about Turtle Boy emphatically for three years.
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52:32Molly McAleerHOST
Insane.
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52:33Molly McAleerHOST
I know.
252: INSIDE THE PROSECUTION OF AIDAN KEARNEY aka TURTLEBOY
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5:08Mel BarrettHOST
To understand the sheer scale of the Commonwealth's overreach in this case, you must first accurately define the defendant.
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5:14Mel BarrettHOST
Aidan Kearney is not a conventional figure, and he does not fit neatly into a single box.
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5:19Mel BarrettHOST
He operates simultaneously as an independent journalist, a grassroots activist, and a relentless satirist.
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5:25Mel BarrettHOST
Outside of his coverage of the Karen Reed case, Carney's investigative track record is substantial.
7 MINS LATER
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12:54Mel BarrettHOST
Yet, in its presentation to the grand jury, the Commonwealth stripped Carney's voicemail of all context, scrubbed the element of parody, and presented the recording as a literal, terrifying threat of physical violence.
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13:05Mel BarrettHOST
Now, let's be clear.
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13:07Mel BarrettHOST
Aidan Kearney is unapologetically brash.
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13:10Mel BarrettHOST
He is frequently offensive, and he operates comfortably on the absolute fringes of polite society.
Journalist Grant Smith Ellis on the Matthew Farwell_Sandra Birchmore Federal Trial!
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13:27Grant Smith EllisGUEST
Same one that framed, allegedly, Karen Reed.
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13:31Grant Smith EllisGUEST
Same one that charged up Turtle Boy for looking into John O'Keefe's death.
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13:34Grant Smith EllisGUEST
Same one that charged Rob Thompson.
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13:36Grant Smith EllisGUEST
Same DA's office.
30 MINS LATER
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43:49Grant Smith EllisGUEST
That's all they look at.
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43:50Grant Smith EllisGUEST
And while the murder of Sandra Birchmore is very, very central to this investigation, Sandra's revenge is bringing down the machine that enabled the cover up to begin with.
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44:01Grant Smith EllisGUEST
And hopefully out of it, Karen Reed, Turtle Boy and others will get justice as well.
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44:06Grant Smith EllisGUEST
Well,
But Reading Subtitles Keeps Me Off My Phone!
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29:39Lynette CarollaHOST
While they have all...
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29:40Lynette CarollaHOST
So Turtleboy's covering it.
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29:41Stefanie Wilder-TaylorHOST
[laughs]
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29:42Lynette CarollaHOST
So they got all these, and Turtle-
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29:44Stefanie Wilder-TaylorHOST
Enter Turtleboy.
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29:44Lynette CarollaHOST
Enter Turtleboy.
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29:45Lynette CarollaHOST
So they have, um, Turtleboy had on his show last week the, there's a reporter guy that was, has been in the courtroom, uh, because it's not televised, and he has been watching everything, and he knows the, the case inside and out.
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30:01Lynette CarollaHOST
And it was the same cops, including Kevin Albert, who's the owner of 34 Fairview, where Karen Read's boyfriend died on the lawn.
251: MONDAY SHOW: The Farwell Trial - Will Sandra Birchmore Get Some Kind of Justice?
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29:22Mel BarrettHOST
I agree with you, and I just want to also say people do this to us all the time.
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29:26Mel BarrettHOST
They expect us to answer for Turtle Boy.
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29:28Mel BarrettHOST
I am not Turtle Boy's keeper.
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29:30Mel BarrettHOST
You guys know this.
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29:31Mel BarrettHOST
Can you imagine being his mother or his keeper? No, I would not sleep.
Mega Edition: The Overlap In The Karen Read And Sandra Birchmore Cases (10/12/26)
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14:37Bobby CapucciHOST
Her lawyers and the Free Karen Read adherents say that O'Keefe was instead beaten inside the home and that his attackers put him on the lawn.
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14:46Bobby CapucciHOST
Largely as a result of the investigations by independent journalist Aidan Kearney, the case has gained national prominence.
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14:53Bobby CapucciHOST
He writes under the name Turtleboy.
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14:55Bobby CapucciHOST
Turtleboy, huh? Okay, I guess.
29 MINS LATER
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43:44Bobby CapucciHOST
Read's defense team and thousands of local supporters, both in person, near the courthouse, and on social media, argue that authorities framed Read.
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43:53Bobby CapucciHOST
Her lawyers and the Free Karen Read adherents say that O'Keefe was instead beaten inside the home and that his attackers put him on the lawn.
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44:02Bobby CapucciHOST
Largely as a result of the investigations by independent journalist Aidan Kearney, the case has gained national prominence.
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44:09Bobby CapucciHOST
He writes under the name Turtleboy.
Karen Read and the death of John O'Keefe
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53:52Sammy PetersenHOST
People debate Chloe the dog.
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53:55Sammy PetersenHOST
And then there is another blogger, Aidan Kearney, known online as Turtle Boy.
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54:01Sammy PetersenHOST
Hey, Turtle Boy, great to have you enter the chat is what I'd say to Turtle Boy if he was here.
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54:06Sammy PetersenHOST
Kearney becomes one of the most prominent public supporters of Karen Read.
Healey Covered for Corruption, Plus The Public Execution | 10.09.26 - The Howie Carr Show Hour 3
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4:32Howie CarrHOST
I call him Double Dip, uh, Triple Dip Cosgrove, uh, for, uh...
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4:36Howie CarrHOST
He's trying to pr- prosecute or persecute Turtle Boy and, uh, uh, and Karen Read.
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4:42Howie CarrHOST
And, uh, you know, it's, it's just, it's just a scam.
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4:45Howie CarrHOST
I mean, uh, and these, these, uh, these, these, uh, assistant, uh, attorneys general, I mean, they're not doing very much in terms of crime.
Ryan Reynolds & Blake Lively ARE AWFUL, Halle Berry's Daughter Speaks, Cornell, Roseanne, Roloff Fam
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19:03Dana BowlingHOST
You have so many more cooks in the kitchen, so many more eyes on every case that partially that's good 'cause you're gonna figure stuff out that maybe you wouldn't have seen before, but also...
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19:13Dana BowlingHOST
And then you'll get, like, a Turtle Boy who brings Karen Read's case to light, which I think was a huge, huge, um, you know, uh, I should say, privilege for Karen, like, that she had someone like a Turtle Boy.
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19:29Dana BowlingHOST
B- because if not for that Turtle Boy push, not for, like, a layman like us, just a random journ- citizen journalist that went out there and decided to take that case on and make it their mission, Karen Read most likely would've just been thrown in the slammer, and it was do- it would've been done.
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19:44Dana BowlingHOST
And we all know that she ended up being acquitted.
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19:47Dana BowlingHOST
The point is, is that this is a really, really interesting, um, conversation to have just as we're kind of waiting for another trial to cover.
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