Karen Read says in an interview that her long-running murder case has left her “purgatory” and ”stressed every day.' Read is accused of ramming into her Boston police officer boyfriend John O’Keefe with her SUV and leaving him for dead in a January 2022 snowstorm.
Karen Read listens to her attorney, Martin Weinberg, who was making motions to dismiss two charges against her, at Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, Mass., Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. BOSTON — Karen Read’s months-long murder case left her in “purgatory” and ”stressed every day,” she said in an interview set to air Friday night.
Prosecutors said Read, a former adjunct professor at Bentley College, and O’Keefe, a 16-year member of the Boston police, had been drinking heavily before she dropped him off at a party at the home of Brian Albert, a fellow Boston officer. They said she hit him with her SUV before driving away. An autopsy found O’Keefe died of hypothermia and blunt force trauma.AP Top 25 Reality Check: No.
After the mistrial, Read’s lawyers presented evidence that four jurors had said they were actually deadlocked only on a third count of manslaughter, and that inside the jury room, they had unanimously agreed that Read was innocent of second-degree murder and leaving the scene of a deadly accident. One juror told them that “no one thought she hit him on purpose,” her lawyers argued.
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