Talking Dateline: The Night of the Nor’easter

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🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Blayne Alexander and Andrea Canning discuss Andrea’s episode, “The Night of the Nor’easter.” In 2022, Karen Read was charged with killing her Boston police officer boyfriend, John O’Keefe, by drunkenly backing her car into him in blizzard conditions. She says that never happened, and her defense – that she was being framed as part of a police cover up – gained national attention and sparked demonstrations and protests at the courthouse. Andrea talks about covering Read’s high-profile trial this summer, and what it was like interviewing Read’s defense attorney, Alan Jackson. Later, Andrea shares a podcast-exclusive clip from her conversation with one of John O’Keefe’s family members. And Dateline producer Sue Simpson stops by to answer viewer and listener questions from social media. Listen to the full episode of "The Night of the Nor'easter" here: https://link.chtbl.com/dl_thenightofthenoreaster

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0:00.0	Hi everyone I am Blaine Alexander and we are talking Dateline. I'm here today with Andrea Canning.
0:14.3	Hi Andrea, Hey Blaine.
0:16.0	So this episode is called The Night of the Norreaster.
0:18.3	If you haven't seen it, it's the episode right below this one on your Dateline
0:22.0	podcast feed so you can go there listen to it or
0:24.8	stream it on Peacock and then come right back here. So for this episode of talking Dateline,
0:29.1	Andrea has an extra clip that didn't make it into the show, then Dateline producer Sue Simpson
0:34.2	will join me to answer some of your social media questions about the episode.
0:38.2	But here's a quick recap of the story. The trial of Karen Reed in Canton, Massachusetts was among the biggest and most divisive cases of 2024.
0:46.2	She's 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
0:54.6	2022. Now Andrea takes us through Reed's trial this summer which ended in a hung
0:59.5	jury and what to know before Reed's retrial in January.
1:03.6	Okay, Andrea, let's talk Dateline.
1:05.6	Let's do it.
1:06.6	Okay, so there were so many things about this story that stood out to me.
1:09.8	I think one of them, though, is the fact that we hear so much from Karen Reed herself and really up top in the story and I think I mean it's rare that we actually get to hear from a suspect the person on trial as much as we do in this episode, right?
1:23.3	Yeah, it was interesting because usually defendants don't do interviews before trial.
1:29.6	It's very rare.
1:30.8	In this case, they just wanted to lay it all out there. That was clearly part of the strategy for the defense was to be like, look, this is our truth. We're going to put it out there.
1:41.3	Karen has nothing to hide.
1:43.2	She really didn't hold back.
1:44.3	There wasn't much that was timid about her or anything.
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