Hi everyone. I'm Ashley Banfield and this is Drop Dead Serious and today I'm talking about a case that has really

captivated the nation. I don't think that's hyperbole. If you have been following, and I think you have,

Karen Reed and everything she's been going through for the last few years, your head is probably spinning with the last few developments and the upcoming big development.

If you're just coming into the case, let me just give you a recap with a timeline.

Sometimes it really helps put everything

in perspective. Let me start with January 29th of 2022. In a nutshell, Karen Reed had this boyfriend,

John O'Keefe, he was a police officer in Massachusetts. They are out drinking with another

female friend at one point in the evening and Karen drops John O'Keefe

off at a party of other cops, a house party. She's hammered, he's hammered, she's fighting with him

and doesn't want to go into the party. He gets out of the car. Her story is she then drives away,

and unfortunately, the story from police officers and the state

of Massachusetts is that you did not drive away. You put it in reverse and you drove over him and

killed him because John O'Keefe's battered body was found dead in a snowbank outside the house party.

February 1st, 2022, Karen Reed, again, John O'Keefe's girlfriend, is arrested, and she is charged

with second-degree murder.

But she's also charged with manslaughter motor vehicle homicide and leaving the scene of a deadly

crash.

On April 29th, in 2024,

trial begins opening statements are delivered. July 1st, 24. After about 25 hours of deliberation, the jury reports they're stuck. It's an impasse, and that leads the judge in the case, Judge Beverly

Canone, to declare a mistrial in Karen Reed's case. After the trial, and this is where it gets weird,

reports from jurors suggest that they were actually leaning towards an acquittal on two of the most serious charges against Karen Reid.

And you know what's most important about that?

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