Connor Keefe

Key Points

• Keefe established that Jennifer McCabe and Kerry Roberts surrendered their phones voluntarily via consent forms — not under warrant — and that he personally performed the GrayKey forensic extraction, though his role ended at copying the data, with all subsequent analysis handled by Proctor.
• Keefe explained that evidence bag timestamps can lag behind actual discovery times when multiple items are being processed simultaneously, a detail relevant to the defense's timeline arguments about when physical evidence was collected at the scene.
• Keefe identified Proctor as the lead investigator and said Proctor wrote the Sarah Levinson interview report without Keefe's input into that report's wording. He separately testified that he and Bukhenik retrieved surveillance video from C.F. McCarthy's and the Waterfall, while Proctor analyzed the videos and wrote reports. Yannetti used those role distinctions to advance a broader investigative-control theory.
• Keefe confirmed that no defense attorney or independent expert was present at O'Keefe's autopsy, a point Yannetti used to underscore the one-sided nature of the post-mortem examination.
• Keefe said he did not recall a joint Sarah Levinson interview with Michael Proctor; after reviewing Proctor's report, he said his recollection was refreshed. He testified that he had no input into how Proctor wrote the report and that he obtained, but did not analyze, surveillance video—testimony Yannetti used to advance a broader theory of investigative control or bias.