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The Rise and Fall of Ruby Franke

Law&Crime | Wondery

Society & Culture, Ruby Franke, #Jodi Hildebrandt, True Crime

3 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

A stormy evening in January 2022 begins as an innocent night out for drinks with friends for a local couple in Canton, Massachusetts. But by daybreak, Boston police officer John O’Keefe turns up under six feet of snow and his girlfriend, Karen Read, is immediately suspected of striking him with her SUV - leaving him for dead.

As the investigation into John’s curious death unfurls, rumors of a police cover-up captivate the town of Canton and beyond. Is Karen Read being framed? This question soon begs answers from onlookers far and wide as Karen’s ten week trial is catapulted into the national spotlight.

Law and Crime presents the most in-depth analysis to date of this sensational case – exploring the divisive theories and more by taking you behind the scenes of both the trial of Karen Read and the investigation into John O'Keefe's mysterious death in KAREN.

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0:00.0	On a January night in 2022, a powerful Nor'easter was blowing into the town of Canton, Massachusetts.
0:10.0	But come morning, the fierce blizzard paled in comparison to the headline that would soon take the world by storm.
0:17.0	She struck him with her motor vehicle. She had been under the influence that she left him there.
0:21.0	Local woman Karen Reed had been implicated
0:24.8	in the mysterious death of her boyfriend,
0:26.9	Boston police officer John O'Keefe,
0:29.6	the apparent murder weapon, her SUV. But this isn't your typical hit and run.
0:36.4	The motive basically appears to be jealousy combined with drinking.
0:41.6	The theory is that she had nine drinks that night and that she was heavily
0:45.8	intoxicated. There's some evidence to support it, but there's also a whole bunch of evidence
0:50.0	to counter it. It was alleged that after an innocent night out for drinks with friends,
0:54.8	Karen and John got into a lover's quarrel and route to the next location. A house party
1:00.4	hosted by another Austin police officer Brian Albert. What happens next?
1:05.2	Depends on who you ask. If you believe the prosecution it's because the
1:09.7	evidence was so compelling this was clearly an intentional act and his cause of death was blunt force trauma with
1:16.5	hypothermia. Did you hear her say could I hit him? I heard I hit him I hit him.
1:20.8	That's what you believe this one. That's what I heard.
1:23.0	If you believe the defense theory, however, this was all a cover-up to prevent one of their own from going down.
1:30.0	Was it a cold-blooded crime of passion or a corrupt cover-up?
1:34.7	The suggestion here is basically that the Alberts have really strong connections to police.
1:40.4	They're sort of presented as this connected powerful family that really didn't like
1:46.6	outsiders they didn't like the people who were not part of that world which
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