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I'm Rebecca Lervoy and this is crime writers on. Crime writer's on is on is the original True Crime Review

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edition I'm talking Karen Reed and we're dropping it here.

It's a special drop of a conversation I had on the Boston Globe's

outstanding opinion podcast, say more.

About a case we're following very closely

here in New England and I guess now other places.

Joining me to get that done and more at least the intro part is my true crime co-author

co-pondcaster a longtime journalist and yes the love of my life Kevin Flynn hi Kevin

hello Rebecca I hope this is interesting because I interrupted my bowl of

pistachio ice cream I need it to come down to Studio C.

Listen, it's breaking news.

We needed to drop it.

So Kevin, as you know, Karen Reed is on trial for killing her boyfriend, a police officer

from outside of Boston, a suburb of Boston, named John O'Keefe.

She's on trial for hitting him with her car in the early morning hours of January 29, 2022.

The thing is, in the town where this happened, Canton, Massachusetts, again, a

suburb of Boston, people seem to think that Karen may be being framed by the cops, because Karen's boyfriend's body was found outside of a

cop's house and the investigation itself is being questioned not just by the

public but by the feds who are also conducting a parallel investigation

into the investigation. So it's like the prosecution story is that Karen and John left a bar and went to this other police

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