Hi, everyone. I am Blaine Alexander, and today we are talking Dateline. I am joined by the one and only

Andrea Canning. Hi, Andrea. Hey, Blaine. So this episode is called Center of the Storm. If you haven't

seen it, you can find it in the Dateline podcast feed. So make sure to go there and listen to it or stream it on Peacock and then come right back here.

Here's a quick recap.

Karen Reed was accused of killing her boyfriend, John O'Keefe, a Boston police officer,

by drunkenly backing her car into him on a snowy January night in 2022.

But Reed and her many supporters argued, that's not true. They said that she was framed

as part of a police cover-up and that O'Keefe was actually killed by his fellow officers at a house

party. Andrea's latest episode on the case takes us through the retrial after Reed's first trial in

2024 ended in a hung jury. Andrea shares how the jury

finally reached a verdict this time around, and she also talks to the former state trooper

right at the heart of this case. The man Karen Reed has accused of coordinating the cover-up,

Michael Proctor. For this talking dateline episode, Andrea's got two extra clips that didn't make it into the show,

one from her interview with Proctor and a second clip from her interview with one of John O'Keefe's

family members after the verdict.

All right, Andrea, so let's talk Dateline.

Let's do it.

So I have to say that in my brief time at Dateline, I've gotten

texted about a lot of stories, but there are none that people have reached out to me more about

than Karen Reed. I think people who aren't even interested in true crime or court cases are really,

really fascinated by this story. So I'm very excited to talk to you about this today.

Yeah, I know. It's been a wild one as far as just people, you know, wanting to give you their

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