Karen Read murder trial ended in mistrial as the jury failed to agree whether she deliberately killed Boston cop boyfriend with SUV

John O’Keefe, a 46-year-old Boston cop was found dead 6am on January 29, 2022, outside a house where Read dropped him off for an afterparty about 12.45am

On the evening of O’Keefe’s death, he and Read had been drinking with a group of friends at the Waterfall Bar and Grill in Canton, around 14 miles south of Boston, and were invited to his friend Brian Albert’s home for an afterparty

After finding O’Keefe’s body outside Albert’s home, which party attendees claimed he never entered, first responders on the scene alleged that Read repeatedly told them she hit him while in a panicked state

The significant trove of contradictory evidence has defense pointing to police attempt at a deliberate coverup, or mismanaged investigations

Vehicle data also found that Read reversed her SUV for 62 feet at 24mph near to Albert’s home

O’Keefe’s cause of death was listed as blunt force trauma and hypothermia, with pieces of Read’s taillight found around his body, prosecutors said

Read claims she’ was being framed for her Boston police attempting to coverup the misdeeds of their officers who beat up their friend

Under cross examination on the stand, the firefighters who responded to the scenes recanted their earlier claims, admitting that injuries on O’Kefee pointed to his having been bashed to death

Karen Read [center], saw her high-profile trial end in a mistrial as jurors were deadlocked over her guilt. High powered defense team is led by Alan Jackson [right], the same lawyer who secured actor Kevin Spacey’s acquittal in the profile sexual assault charges

The high-profile murder trial of a Boston woman accused of murdering her police officer boyfriend has ended with a mistrial.
Karen Read, 44, was told Monday that jurors were unable to agree on whether she’d deliberately killed Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe with her SUV in January 2022.
The summation marked the end of a contentious nine-week trial where prosecutors accused Read of running over O’Keefe to end their toxic relationship before leaving him for dead in the snow.
Read in her defense claimed that she was the victim of a wide-ranging blue wall plot to frame her.  

Boston police officer John O’Keefe, [photo], was found dead 6am on January 29, 2022, outside a house where Read dropped him off for an afterparty about 12.45am at a home of a friend Brian Albert, also cop, in Canton, MA

On the evening of O’Keefe’s death, he and Read had been drinking with a group of friends at the Waterfall Bar and Grill in Canton, around 14 miles south of Boston, and were invited to his friend Brian Albert’s home for an afterparty.
Albert is also a cop as were several other persons present at the home.
Read, who prosecutors say drank several alcoholic drinks beforehand, decided to drop her boyfriend at the afterparty before she went to his home – that O’Keefe shared with his orphaned niece and nephew – to sleep at around 1am.
Court documents revealed that the couple had been bitterly arguing for weeks beforehand, and on the night O’Keefe died, Read left him a voicemail calling him a ‘f****** loser’, and telling him: ‘John, I f****** hate you.’
The couple had been dating for two years at the time of O’Keefe’s death. He had been serving on the Boston Police Department for 16 years.
According to Read’s version of events, she woke up at 4am to find that O’Keefe never returned home, leading her to frantically drive out to try and find him.  

Read [photo], and John O’Keefe had been dating for two years at the time of O’Keefe’s death. on the night, the couple been drinking with a group of friends at a bar in Canton, and were invited to his friend Brian Albert’s home for an afterparty

After finding O’Keefe’s body outside Albert’s home, which party attendees claimed he never entered, first responders on the scene alleged that Read repeatedly told them she hit him while in a panicked state. 
Vehicle data also found that Read reversed her SUV for 62 feet at 24mph near to Albert’s home. O’Keefe’s cause of death was listed as blunt force trauma and hypothermia, with pieces of Read’s taillight found around his body, prosecutors said.
In his closing argument on Tuesday, Norfolk County Assistant District Attorney Adam Lally trying to debunk the claims that Read was framed, described it as little more than ‘rampant speculation.’ 
Lally also pointed to hair and DNA from O’Keefe found on the rear end of Read’s SUV. 

Read and O’Keefe [photo], had been out drinking on the night of his death, before she drove him to an afterparty in Jan 2022, then she went home to sleep. O’Keefe was found dead on the snow bound lawn of the afterparty home hours later the next morning

Beaming Read [right], faces the media with her attorney Alan Jackson [left], following Monday’s decision. She claims she’s the victim of a wide-ranging conspiracy to railroad her for a death that happened with several people connected to law enforcement present 

In a counter argument, the defense said that the taillight was actually broken by Read when she left in a panic to find O’Keefe when he never returned home. 
This defense introduced security video showing Read clipping O’Keefe’s vehicle as she backed out of her home to search for him. 
Read claimed that attendees at the afterparty beat him to death, and her attorneys presented phone data that showed O’Keefe’s phone climbed dozens of steps at the time he was allegedly struck. 

This video from scene of the alleged crime doesn’t appear to support the prosecution allegation that fragments were found near O’Keefe’s body and are proof that Read backed her SUV into O’Keefe. She says it was broken as she left her home that morning in a panic to look for him

Her attorney, Alan Jackson, claimed that these steps could have been the basement of Albert’s home. Albert was never charged with any wrongdoing. 
Read’s attorneys added that although first responders claimed Read spoke of hitting O’Keefe at the scene, they claimed this evidence was falsely given at a later date and not said at the time. 
A forensic engineer was brought in to evaluate the case, who testified that if O’Keefe had been struck by a vehicle at over 20mph he would expect to see more severe injuries. 

Karen Read’s story drew wide support from the public who camped outside the courthouse with signs reading ‘Free Karen Read’ 

Through the trial a judge issued an order barring Read’s supporters from coming within 200 feet of the courthouse or wearing supportive colors of pink, due to her rampant support 

When her trail began, Read received a slew of support from members the public who camped outside the courthouse with signs mostly saying ‘Free Karen Read.’
Many took to wearing pink as a show of support for Read, leading a judge to issue an order barring any clothing or accessories that could be perceived as encouraging, and banning them from coming within 200 feet of the courthouse.