Man Dead In Front of Powerful Family Home After “Blizzard Party” -Everyone Inside Has Motive To Kill

Rotten Mango

Stephanie Soo

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 25.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

It’s a blizzard party. A group of friends at a house, getting drunk, before they all drive back home. By 2AM, the snow is coming down hard and the party goers have left for their own homes. Only the residents of 34 Fairview Road remain. At least that’s what they say. Within just a few hours, the frozen body of John O’Keefe is found outside on their lawn. Laying in the snow. The best way to figure out what happened to John O’Keefe is to talk to every single person inside the house for the ‘blizzard party'. But ‘hos’ can authorities have a proper investigation if all of them are evasive? Nobody wants to answer any of the questions directly and their stories aren’t adding up. Most importantly, what about the allegations that every single person inside of the house that evening may have a motive to harm John? Are they telling the truth? Could it really just’ve been John’s ‘jealous’ girlfriend Karen? Did she really run him over in a fit of rage like all the party goers say? The authorities seem to think so. They take the residents of 34 Fairview and the partygoers at their word despite the mountains of evidence that point in a completely different direction. So the real questions are: Is Karen Read actually guilty or is it just because the residents of 34 Fairview are the most well-connected and powerful family in Canton? Full show notes at rottenmangopodcast.com

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0:00.0	They're calling it white out conditions.
0:05.0	That means you get in your car, you put the windshield wipers to the max speed, and you start driving.
0:11.0	But you still cannot see what is in front of you.
0:14.0	A giant pickup truck could be 30 feet in front of you, and you can't see it because the snow is coming down so heavy and the wind is so fast.
0:22.6	These snow flurries are just shooting straight at your car.
0:26.6	But this is the Boston, Massachusetts area.
0:28.6	They get an average of 45 inches of snow every single year.
0:31.6	That's like more than half of my height.
0:34.6	They should be used to it.
0:36.6	But January 29th, 2022, it's getting pretty bad.
0:40.3	There have been more than 100,000 power outages reported in the area. Some areas are experiencing
0:46.0	wind gusts of 90 miles per hour. I mean, thankfully, that's only a few spots, but just to give
0:50.9	you an idea, an average person can be knocked over, moved over by 67 mile per hour
0:57.2	winds. 90 miles per hour? I mean, you're fighting against the wind as you're walking. Thankfully,
1:02.8	most areas are 35 mile per hour winds, but it's still not great. This is a proper blizzard. One weather
1:08.9	forecaster warns the residents.
1:10.9	The storm emergency has been declared.
1:13.2	Boston residents need to be prepared for this one.
1:15.4	This is likely going to be an intense, dangerous storm with heavy snow, high winds and white
1:19.5	out conditions.
1:21.0	This has a potential to be a historic storm, a huge one.
1:25.4	This is likely to be an intense, dangerous storm with heavy snow, high winds,
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