Prosecutors say Karen Read drunkenly hit her police-officer boyfriend with her car. Her defense has accused the authorities of orchestrating a massive cover-up.
sprawled frozen on his friend’s lawn. Bloodied and severely bruised, John O’Keefe — a Boston police officer — had ostensibly spent hours lying outside in a blizzard. Law enforcement pinned his death on Read, whose two-month trial went to jury deliberations on Thursday.of O’Keefe’s death: According to prosecutors, a drunken Read backed into O’Keefe while dropping him off at a fellow cop’s house after a night at the bar, knocking him out and leaving him to freeze in a snowstorm.
On the night of January 28, 2022, Read and O’Keefe hit two bars in Canton, Massachusetts, with a group of their friends, according to; after several hours and several drinks, Read drove O’Keefe to the home of another police officer, Brian Albert, for an after-party. She didn’t go inside. Citing a voice-mail Read left for O’Keefe around 1 a.m.
Bolstering the frame-job proposition, the defense pointed to the unorthodox investigative methods deployed by officers collecting evidence from the scene: According to, they got red plastic cups from Albert’s neighbor to sample the bloody snow around O’Keefe’s body and brought those back to the station in a paper bag from Stop & Shop.
— has been posting about the so-called “Canton Coverup.” Kearney appears to have authored over 360 articles on the case, coming down firmly on the side of conspiracy. Last October, he received charges of his own for the alleged intimidation of witnesses. Kearney hasof confronting people involved with the case in person and sometimes on-camera.
“She was unjustly charged and we are hoping she can go home today,” one of the defendant’s local champions, Vicki Walkling,following closing arguments. “This case has enraptured everybody because it’s unfair. It could happen to any one of us. Any one of us could be framed for a murder we did not commit.
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