First responders' accounts can be compared with Read's later description of her own words.
January 29, 2022; testimony in 2025
Nuttall and McLaughlin's accounts
They described hearing affirmative statements that Read had hit O'Keefe.
August 2023 interview
Read's public account
Read described asking whether she could have hit him rather than confessing to a collision.
Documented difference
The disagreement is between attributed words and her later account. It is not two independently recorded admissions by Read.
Limits and disputed context
The sources do not provide a conclusive contemporaneous recording resolving the exact phrasing. The distinction was contested at trial.
S17: Nuttall and Roberts testify on the opening day
Nuttall and Roberts testimony
Open publisher sourceS18: Gallagher: initial search; McLaughlin: reported statements
Scene collection and first-responder testimony
Open publisher sourceS15: Read's Nightline interview: arrival and morning statements
Arrival at the house and statements after discovery
Open publisher source