Karen Read was found
in her high-profile Massachusetts murder retrial in June 2025.
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Read → find → June
In their fourth day of deliberations, jurors acquitted Read of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the death of her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O'Keefe.
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jurors → acquit → boyfriend
She was convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol.
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She → convict → alcohol
Read's first trial, which started
at Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, ended months later in a due to a hung jury.
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which → start → jury
After months of additional pretrial hearings following the mistrial, jury selection in Read's second trial began on April 1, 2025.
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selection → follow → April
The jury got the case and began deliberations on June 13, 2025.
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jury → get → June
Read was accused of hitting O'Keefe with her SUV in 2022 and leaving him to die.
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Read → accuse → him
Defense attorneys argued she was the victim of an elaborate cover-up and was being framed by a group of people that included law enforcement.
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that → argue → enforcement
January 29, 2022 – the night John O'Keefe died
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O'Keefe → die → ?
Shortly after midnight: Karen Read, John O'Keefe and a group of friends went to the Waterfall Bar and Grill in Canton on the night of January 28, 2022.
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Read → go → January
According to prosecutors, Read consumed several alcoholic beverages.
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Read → accord → beverages
Read drove O'Keefe to the home of Boston police officer Brian Albert.
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Read → drive → Albert
That is where police said people from the bar were meeting back up.
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people → say → bar
Court documents later revealed that in the weeks before and even the hours leading up to the night out, text messages between Read and O'Keefe as well as voicemails showed a strained relationship.
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messages → reveal → relationship
Investigators said that around 1 a.m. on January 29, Read allegedly left O'Keefe a voicemail that said "...you are a f------ loser, f--- yourself" and "John, I f------ hate you."
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I → say → you
4-5 a.m. – At 4:23 a.m. while heavy snow was falling, O'Keefe's niece called Jennifer McCabe, Brian Albert's sister-in-law and a friend of O'Keefe's.
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niece → fall → O'Keefe
She said Read was "distraught" because O'Keefe had not come home and was not answering his cellphone.
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O'Keefe → say → cellphone
According to court documents, McCabe said she heard Read screaming "John didn't come home.
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John → accord → documents
We had a fight."
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We → have → fight
Around 5 a.m. Read called another woman whose husband was friends with O'Keefe.
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husband → call → O'Keefe
Prosecutors alleged that Read said while they searched "What if he's dead? What
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he → allege → ?
a plow hit him?
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plow → hit → him
I don't remember anything from last night, we drank so much I don't remember anything."
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I → remember → anything
5:07 a.m. – Read, McCabe, and the third woman went to look for O'Keefe.
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Read → go → O'Keefe
Prosecutors said Read mentioned to the women that she had a crack in her tail light and wondered if she could have hit O'Keefe.
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she → say → O'Keefe
At 5:07 a.m., a surveillance camera at O'Keefe's house shows Read's SUV coming "extremely close" to O'Keefe's SUV in the driveway.
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SUV → show → driveway
Prosecutors say no tail light pieces were found in the driveway.
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pieces → say → driveway
Read's defense argues the vehicle did strike the SUV, breaking the tail light and providing an explanation for damage to SUV
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vehicle → argue → damage
6 a.m. – Around 6 a.m., Read sees O'Keefe lying in the snow outside Brian Albert's home.
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O'Keefe → see → home
An emergency responder said that while hysterical and inconsolable, Read repeatedly says "I hit him.
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I → say → him
I hit him."
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I → hit → him
The defense argues that one of the first responding officers from Canton police gave "false and deceptive testimony" to the grand jury that would later indict Read.
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that → argue → Read
Prosecutors and defense attorneys agree that at some point the morning O'Keefe was killed, someone googled "hos (sic) long to die in cold."
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someone → agree → cold
The sides disagree on when the search was made.
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search → disagree → ?
Prosecutors say the search happened at 6:23 a.m. and 6:24 a.m. after O'Keefe's body was found.
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body → say → a.m.
The defense says a federal forensic expert determined the search was made at 2:27 a.m., before police were alerted that O'Keefe's body had been found.
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body → say → a.m.
How did John O'Keefe die?
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O'Keefe → die → ?
January 29, 2022 – Police say they found a broken cocktail glass and pieces of tail light at the scene.
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they → say → scene
A forensic toxicologist estimated that Read's blood alcohol content (BAC) would have been around .13-.29 around 12:45 a.m., more than the legal limit.
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content → estimate → limit
Prosecutors said the medical examiner ruled the cause of death was blunt impact injuries to the head and hypothermia.
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cause → say → head
…and 273 more, not listed.
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