'20/20' features Karen Read speaking out fully and exclusive personal video.
Karen Read reflects on trial, details what she says happened the night Boston PD officer found deadMeghan Mariani, Keturah Gray, Emily Whipp, and Edward LopezRead told ABC News she "felt like I had alcohol" the night her boyfriend John O'Keefe died. "I felt like I had a buzz, but I did not feel it was unsafe for me operating my vehicle," Read said.
"This is no life. I'm not in prison, but this is no life. I'm stressed every day. I'm waiting for the next shoe to drop," Read, who has maintained her innocence, told ABC News. "It just feels like a kind of purgatory." Read said she felt fatigued, so she claims she dropped O'Keefe off outside Albert's residence on Fairview Road. Read said she then drove in her black SUV to O'Keefe's house and fell asleep.
Read said she set back out in her car to canvas the 2 square miles where the couple spent the night before. Read says she drove around Canton for 20 minutes before meeting up with McCabe and Kerry Roberts, another friend of O'Keefe's. The three women returned to O'Keefe's house, thinking he might have made his way home."I had told both Jen and Kerry that I cracked my taillight. And I said, 'I just hit my car on top of everything,' but I didn't look at the damage. And both women said, 'It's cracked. It's cracked. Calm down, you cracked your taillight.
As she pulled up to the front of the house where she said she had dropped him off earlier for a party, Read said she saw John O'Keefe's body on the front snowbank. Despite the extensive efforts of countless medical professionals, O'Keefe succumbed to the injuries he sustained, and was pronounced deceased that morning. An autopsy found O'Keefe died of hypothermia and blunt force injuries to the head."I hung up and I lost it," Kerrigan told "20/20." "I remember pounding on my dresser and just literally screaming, 'Not John O'Keefe,' over and over.
Karen Read was released from the hospital later that day. She said she and her dad went to see O'Keefe's family at his house. Once at O'Keefe's home, Read said she showed her dad the damage to her taillight.O'Keefe's mother seemed to keep her distance, according to Read. On June 9, 2022, a Norfolk County grand jury indicted Read, upgrading her charges to second-degree murder, manslaughter while operating under the influence of alcohol, and leaving the scene of a collision causing death. Read was arraigned on the new charges, entering a not guilty plea in the Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, MA.
MSP Trooper Bukhenik, one of the primary homicide investigators in this case, testified about security footage pulled from the two bars Read and O'Keefe visited the night of the blizzard, counting each drink for the jury. Trooper Bukhenik clocked her alcohol consumption on Jan. 28, 2022 at roughly nine drinks consumed within three hours.
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