Karen Read Murder Case Verdict Reached After Deadlocked First Trial

Jurors person reached a verdict successful Karen Read's retrial successful nan execution of her Boston constabulary serviceman fellow John O'Keefe, who prosecutors allege she killed successful a drunken hit-and-run during a blizzard connected Jan. 29, 2022.

The proceedings saw much than 30 days of grounds and 4 days of deliberation.

Read faced charges of second-degree murder, drunken driving manslaughter and fleeing nan segment of a deadly accident. Her first proceedings connected nan aforesaid charges ended without a verdict past twelvemonth erstwhile jurors deadlocked.

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Karen Read listens to nan cross-examination by Robert Alessi of master mishap witnesser Dr. Judson Welcher while seated astatine nan defense array pinch her attorneys, Alan Jackson and David Yannetti, during her retrial astatine Norfolk Superior Court, Wednesday, May 28, 2025, successful Dedham, Mass. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)

This clip around, nan commonwealth appointed a typical prosecutor, high-powered defense lawyer Hank Brennan, and Read added New York defense lawyer Robert Alessi to a squad that included Los Angeles' Alan Jackson and Boston's David Yannetti.

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Officer John O’Keefe poses for his charismatic headshot. O’Keefe’s girlfriend, Karen Reed, is presently connected proceedings for execution aft he was recovered dormant extracurricular of a Massachusetts location successful January 2022. (Boston Police Department)

Read recovered O'Keefe astir 6 a.m. lying successful nan snowfall and unresponsive. She was pinch 2 different women – Jennifer McCabe and Kerry Roberts, some of whom testified against her during nan trial.

They said Read called them successful a panic that greeting and said she couldn't find O'Keefe.

McCabe testified that connected nan greeting successful question, Read repeated 3 times, "I deed him."

Paramedic Timothy Nuttall, nan first witnesser to return nan guidelines successful nan trial, said he overheard Read saying nan aforesaid point – 3 times again.

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Peggy O'Keefe, nan mother of deceased Boston constabulary serviceman John O'Keefe, looks up astatine defense lawyer Alan Jackson, right, during nan Karen Read execution proceedings astatine Norfolk Superior Court, Tuesday, May 27, 2025, successful Dedham, Mass. (Matt Stone/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)

The mates and different friends and acquaintances, including McCabe, had been retired drinking successful downtown Canton earlier they were invited to an after-party astatine nan location of Brian Albert, who testified successful nan first proceedings but not nan second.

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O'Keefe was recovered connected Albert's section hours later.

Witnesses said they saw Read's car extracurricular but neither she nor O'Keefe went into nan gathering. She did not attest successful her ain defense – but she told reporters extracurricular tribunal that she saw O'Keefe spell wrong earlier she drove away.

Prosecutor Hank Brennan during nan Karen Read retrial, Tuesday, June 10, 2025, successful Dedham, Mass. (Matt Stone/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)

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Throughout nan trial, Brennan played clips of Read's televised interviews, giving jurors a chance to perceive not only her type of events, but different commentary she gave journalists, including really she was spiking her ain drinks astatine nan barroom earlier O'Keefe's decease and an brushwood pinch O'Keefe's mother afterward.

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Prosecutors allege Read deed O'Keefe and drove to his location without him. Read's defense has based on she ne'er deed him, blaming his injuries connected a canine onslaught and an altercation pinch different men astatine nan party.