How Strong Is The O'Keefes' Civil Case? | Vinnie Politan Investigates Podcast
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🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are simply that. |
| 0:04.8 | Opinions. |
| 0:05.8 | All are presumed innocent until proven otherwise in a court of law. |
| 0:09.8 | Sensitive topics are discussed. |
| 0:11.8 | Discretion is advised. I'm Ted Rollins in for Vinipolitan. |
| 0:29.6 | The subject of our investigation is the case against Karen Reed, this time playing out in civil court. |
| 0:36.6 | As the family of John O'Keefe has turned their attention now to a different arena. |
| 0:44.3 | Here's the story. |
| 0:49.3 | She celebrated the victory, but another battle looms ahead for Karen Reid. |
| 0:54.6 | She and her attorneys were emotional after her second trial when a jury acquitted her |
| 0:59.8 | in the death of her boyfriend Boston police officer John O'Keefe, culminating a years-long |
| 1:05.9 | public saga that sparked support across the nation for an accused killer. Free car and read! |
| 1:12.6 | Free car and read! |
| 1:14.6 | Free car and re! |
| 1:16.6 | The prosecution presented mountains of evidence trying to prove that Reid drunkenly backed her SUV |
| 1:22.6 | into O'Keefe and killed him outside of a party in 2022. |
| 1:33.9 | We saw statements from first responders, surveillance images, intricate, tail-late forensic analysis, |
| 1:38.4 | hotly contested GPS data, and statements from the defendant herself. |
| 1:43.9 | The defense raised questions about all of it, and poked holes in the investigation, questioning the actions |
| 1:45.6 | of investigators and raising alternate theories of what caused John O'Keefe's tragic death. |
| 1:51.9 | Now O'Keefe's family has brought the case back into a Massachusetts courtroom filing |
| 1:56.9 | a civil lawsuit against Karen Reid and the two bars where she drank with John O'Keefe earlier that night. |
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