The Last Hours of John O’Keefe: What Really Happened?

I Wish You Were Here

Michelle Cuervo

True Crime

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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On a snowy January night, Boston police officer John O’Keefe ended up dead in the front yard of a house he never walked into — and his girlfriend, Karen Read, became the center of a case that tore an entire community apart. In this episode, we break down the investigation, the rumors, the mistrial, and the verdict that shocked the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.9	Ladies and gentlemen, there was a cover up in this case, plain and simple.
0:34.7	It's not that it could happen.
0:36.3	It's that every single one of those things that I just
0:39.0	mentioned did happen, right in front of you. When you stare the truth down, you will see that the
0:45.7	Commonwealth has not proven its case beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty, not even close.
0:52.7	Ladies and gentlemen, Karen Reed is innocent. Do justice and find her
0:57.6	not guilty. Karen Reed was accused of ending the life of her boyfriend, John O'Keefe, a Boston police
1:04.1	officer, after his body was found lying deceased in the snow on the front lawn of a fellow Boston police officer.
1:12.5	This trial was insane.
1:14.4	Actually, there were two.
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