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Karen readThe woman accused of killing his boyfriend’s police officer in Boston during January Nor’easter, should be tried for the second time this week after her first prosecution ended with a hanged jury.
Read, 45, is charged with second -degree murdermurder and abandonment of a deadly accidental accident regarding the death of John O’Keeefea 29 January 2022. He was 46 years old and found in the snow in front of the house of another police officer for hours after a group of people went there for a party to go to a night out.
Originally accused of murder-artic, in a deadly case, but the authorities later handed over the allegations of murder.
Karen Read and John O’Keefe are shown on a undated family photo. Reading was accused of fatally hitting him with his SUV after a night of drinking, but her defense claimed that she was framed by a group of his former police colleagues. (Karen’s kindness read)
Through her first trial and after several media interviews, she retained her innocence and claimed that someone else killed O’Keefe.
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Joseph Giacalone, a former NYPD sergeant and a penalty professor at Penn State-Lehigh Valley, told Fox News Digital that he thought prosecutors would have a hard time a condemnation after the first case had fallen apart.
The first trial recorded allegations of concealing the police, the arrest of an internet blogger accused of intimidating witnesses, shooting the chief investigator and long -term questions about how O’Keefe died.
The waterfall bar and grid are shown in Canton, Massachusetts, March 29, 2025. Karen read here, John O’Keefe, Jennifer McCabe and friends visited O’Keeefe’s death in January 2022 before O’Keeefe. (Richard Beetham for Fox News Digital)
Prosecutors claim that he read the drawn into him with his Lexus SUV and then drove himself, leaving him to die in a snowstorm.
An autopsy found that the cause of his death was on his head and hypothermia. O’Keefe had a fracture of the skull, bleeding in the brain, swollen black eyes and cutting on his right hand, but the forensic pathologist gave up on calling him murder, leaving a way to death indefinite.
Dr. Daniel WolfeA skilled witness, testified that the damage to the rear end of the vehicle Reada was not in line with the impact of a human head or hand. Prosecutors seek to prevent his testimony for the second time.
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Karen Read stands at the door as he waits to leave Norfolk Superior Court. (John Tlomakki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
His name remained on the list of witnesses of 150 people, discovered on Monday, along with that of Michael Proctor, a former chief investigator who was discharged from the Massachusetts State Police this month.
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Following the time line of key events in case:
28 January 2022
Read and O’Keefe came out in Kanton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, about 15 miles from the city.
Although the text messages presented at the trial show that they claimed that morning, they went out together at about 9pm at CF McCarthy’s, Irish Bar. For about 11 years, they met friends and acquaintances in the waterfall and grids. At least he closed at midnight.
Juror in Karen Mistrial joins his defensive team for a re -path
CF McCarthy in Canton, Massachusetts. (Richard Beetham for Fox News Digital)
29. January 2022
Then police officer Boston Brian Albert invited a group of people to his house on Fairview Road on Afterparty when the at least finished service. This could be the last time O’Keefe was seen in public.
Juror in Karen Mistrial joins his defensive team for a re -path
Early hours on January 29
- 12:00: O’Keefe and Read were invited to Albert’s house and gave instructions. But witnesses testified that they never walked inside.
- 12:37 AM: Read allegedly leaves a speech mail with O’Keefe, saying, “John, I … I hate you.” She was later accused of hitting him about 24 mph after she raised 60 feet in her vehicle.
- 02:27: Jennifer McCabe reportedly looks up to Google how much time to die in the cold. She later testified that she searched for Read’s request.
- 6:00: Read Return to the Alberts Home with McCabe and another person, and they call 911 on the outside, where O’Keefe was found dead, it is stated in the synopsis with Courttvwhich flowed the first trial.
- 6:23: McCabe uses his phone to seek information about dying in the cold for a second time.
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Karen Read appears in a higher court of Norfolk district at hearing before the trial. She was accused of fatally overruning her boyfriend John O’Keefe, whose hand was shown to scratches and cuts on a poster in court. (John Tlomakki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
2. February 2022
Read was arrested for accusations of hitting and murder.
9. June 2022
Thought -up indictment charged with reading about second -degree murder.
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Judge Beverly Cannone chairmanship by choosing a jury during the trial of Karen Read at a higher court of Norfolk County, Thursday, April 18, 2024, in Dedham, Massachusetts. (David McGlynn/New York Post by AP, Pool)
April 16, 2024 to July 1
The read first trial stretched for weeks and ended with a jury hanged. Judge Beverly Cannone declared a injury.
Prosecutors accused read a drunken blow. Her defense claimed that O’Keefe was attacked inside the house and sustained an arm injury caused by a dog before taking him outside and went to the storm.
John O’Keefe officer (Police Directorate in Boston)
March 19, 2025
After a months -long internal investigation of casual text messages he sent to read in an initial investigation, Proctor was discharged from Massachusetts state police After a 12-year career.
31. March
On the eve of the jury selection for the second trial of Reat, Cannone published several impressive judgments about the case.
She rejected the attempt to defend that the former FBI agent testifies to the failure to fulfill the police protocol with the initial investigation and limited the scope of arguments that the defense would be allowed to be raised to raise the potential culprits of third parties, including Albert and ATF Brian Higgins, both of which were present and in the deceased house with water.
ATF -AA Brian Higgins speaks at the Karen murder trial at Norfolk Superior Court, May 28, 2024, in Dedham, Massachusetts. (Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald via AP/pool)
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List of witnesses He also revealed that Proctor would take an attitude, even after his shooting, as well as Aidan Kearney, a local blogger and a prominent reader of reading who was accused of intimidating witnesses.
April 1
Choosing a jury in Read’s Another trial Started in Dedham, Massachusetts.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
