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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

College Instructor "Sweetheart" Mows Down Cop-Boyfriend

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Boston police officer John O'Keefe dies after being hit by a car and left outside during a snowstorm.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I distinctly remember the first time I was told mum wasn't going to pull through when I was about 13 and it's it's very very tough as it happens she did but it was part of life it was part of what I guess

0:16.4

gave me some of the character stuff because my mum was hugely courageous as she was going through she would head towards it completely determined every time she had an operation every time she was nearly

0:29.7

tonne out she got back up determined to walk and she had this incredible thing where she never moaned about it you know if anything was given me determination and courage will run towards a problem run towards a challenge and overcome it's that's all come from that

0:45.6

steely resolved from my mum curious darmer on the past and perfect forecast paid for by the labor party

0:52.8

crime stories with Nancy Grace

1:01.3

do you love country music because I love country music I'm forever singing to the twins will burn that bridge when we get there they call the thing the rodeo

1:19.0

man what a great song this would make but sadly it's not just a song it's not just lyrics to a country music ballad it's real and it includes a dead body love gone bad is certainly putting perfume on the pig

1:40.7

I've got to exploit I got to figure out why a Boston business school finance professor is charged with homicide for running over her cup boyfriend

1:56.1

and leaving him to freeze to death in a 23 degree nori star and sadly I've got a list of similar transactions as long as my arm I'm Nancy Grace this is crime stories thank you for being with us here at Fox nation and

2:16.8

series six m 111 why not just get a divorce why do you have to run him down and in one case I've got put it in reverse and back over him

2:29.9

first of all let's just start with this take a listen to our cut one events again reporter Ted Daniel Boston 25

2:38.4

we've been working our sources to find out what may have happened this weekend the cause of officer keys death has not been officially determined but this is important

2:46.6

25 investigates has learned okeyf had a serious head injury he suffered some sort of trauma the case is being handled by detectives assigned to the Norfolk County DA's office 25

2:58.6

investigates has learned they're looking at the possibility okeyf may have been struck by a vehicle I asked the Norfolk DA's office about that a spokesperson was

3:08.1

unable to comment because of the ongoing investigation that's pretty standard in a case like this officer okeyf spotty was discovered outside a home

3:16.0

on fairview road in Canton around six o'clock Saturday morning the home belongs to another Boston police officer it was snowing hard at the time and temperatures were in the teens overnight according to the DA's office okeyf appeared to have been in the cold for some time

3:32.4

before I introduce you our whole panel and what a panel it is let me get first to daughter Tim Gallagher the medical examiner for the entire state of Florida

3:41.6

first of all breathe easy just to mom and Gallagher because this time it's not Orlando this time it's not Florida so uh dr. Tim Gallagher you can find it pathcare mad dot com listen to this university of Florida medical school forensic medicine professor founder and host of the international forensic medicine death investigation conference which again I just can't say enough to a lot of people they go to me that sounds like

4:10.7

just Jackie how great would that be international forensic medicine death investigation conference it just doesn't get much better than that okay dr. Tim Gallagher did you hear what investigatory reporter Ted Daniel Boston 25 said right there at the end according to the district attorney's office okeyf who was in great health he is a cop appeared to have been in the cold for some time

4:39.6

what does that mean well that means that when we uh acquire his body and again Nancy you're absolutely right I'm in Florida we don't get a lot of these hypothermia deaths but occasionally we do sometimes it gets down to about 70 in Miami and we get a few but

4:54.0

in Gallagher rubber in what does that mean you look at a body and you automatically know he's not just cold he's been out there a long time you do because there's such a thing as rigour mortis and that's the stiffening of the body

5:10.4

but that happens to everybody no matter what the temperature when they're dead and sure does but it dissipates after a certain amount of time but if the body is cold and it's been on the cold for a very long time

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