Commonwealth vs Karen Read - 2024 Trial (Part 1)

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🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

After Boston police officer John O’Keefe was found dead on a front lawn in January 2022, his girlfriend, Karen Read, was arrested. At her 2024 trial, prosecutors accused Karen of hitting John with her car and then leaving him to die in the cold. The defense, however, told the jury that Karen was framed and that there was a massive coverup.

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0:00.0	In today's episode, I'm taking you back to the Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, Massachusetts,
0:07.3	to April 2024, when Karen Reed went on trial for second-degree murder.
0:14.2	Prosecutor Adam Lally gave opening statements for the Commonwealth,
0:18.1	and the following is what he told the jury.
0:24.1	He said on the night of January 28,
0:31.8	2008, 2002, there was a significant snowstorm in the Canton, Massachusetts area. Also that day,
0:39.2	John O'Keefe, who was a Boston police officer, received some news about his niece, whom he was the guardian of.
0:44.3	She and her best friend had been accepted into a private high school they had applied to.
0:50.1	John was with some of his friends that night at a bar called C.F. McCarthy's celebrating,
0:55.8	when his girlfriend, Karen Reed, then joined him just before 9 p.m.
1:08.2	According to Prosecutor Lally, John and Karen had met sometime in 2004, dated briefly, and then reconnected in March 2020 during the pandemic shutdown.
1:11.7	In the months leading up to John's death,
1:14.6	Prosecutor Lally said their relationship soured.
1:18.2	He told the jury they would see text messages to that effect.
1:24.0	On January 29, 2022, he said just after 6 a.m., the Canton Police Department responded to a 911 call. John O'Keefe had been found dead in the snow,
1:31.8	outside a residence at 34 Fairview Road. There was a blizzard outside, with heavy snow and
1:38.8	temperatures in the teens. First responders and officers responded to the scene. When they arrived, they saw three women off to the left side of the property, Karen Reed, Jennifer McCabe, and Carrie Roberts. Prosecutor Lally described some of the injuries to John O'Keefe's body, swollen eyes and abrasions, scratches, redness from the cold.
2:04.8	You'll hear the testimony from these firefighters of Timothy Nuttall, Anthony Fermati, Nathan Kelly,
2:10.9	Francis Walsh, Katie McLaughlin, and Greg Woodbett.
2:14.9	At least from three of those firefighters, you hear testimony I anticipate
2:18.6	detailing statements that the defendant made too much when they had asked about the origination
2:23.2	of some of those injuries. The defendant stated repeatedly. I hit him, I hit him, I hit him.
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