252. Karen Read and the Death of John O'Keefe Part 1 of 9 -- Dirty Water

The Prosecutors

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True Crime

4.3 • 9.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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When Boston cop John O'Keefe was found dead in the snow in the midst of a blizzard, suspicion immediately fell on his girlfriend, Karen Read. But did she hit him with her car and leave him there? Or was she framed?

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Ravi Achaudhry. I invite you to join me every Tuesday for new episodes of
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0:31.6	This episode of the prosecutors is brought to you by Huggy's Little Movers.
0:35.0	Get your baby's butt into Huggy's Little Movers. We got you, baby. I'm Brett and I'm Alice and we are the prosecutors.
0:47.0	I'm Alice and we are the prosecutors. Today on the prosecutors. Today on the prosecutors, when a Boston police officer was found dead in the snow,
1:08.0	an apparent victim of a hit and run, suspicion fell on his girlfriend, Karen Reed.
1:13.4	But did she do it?
1:14.9	Or was she framed? Oh, Hello everybody and welcome to this episode of the prosecutors I'm Brett and I'm
1:46.6	joined as always by my divisive co-host Alice.
1:52.4	Well there you go.
1:55.0	At least it wasn't homely.
1:56.0	That's all I have to say.
1:58.0	That would be divisive.
2:00.0	That would be divisive.
2:02.0	But maybe I'm not the divisive one, but boy, oh boy is this case divisive.
2:08.3	I will confess, Brent. When this case started going to trial, very recently everyone was asking us our opinions and I was like, you know, we cover a lot of cases, we prosecuted, I did, you do, a lot of cases, I read about a lot of cases, and upon first glance I was like,
2:27.0	why is everyone focusing on this particular case?
2:30.5	It did not strike my fancy to begin with, which is why we didn't cover it in real time.
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