{"id":2232986,"date":"2024-04-29T18:11:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T22:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/karen-read-is-on-trial-for-allegedly-killing-her-cop-boyfriend-but-is-she-being-framed\/"},"modified":"2024-04-29T18:14:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T22:14:21","slug":"karen-read-is-on-trial-for-allegedly-killing-her-cop-boyfriend-but-is-she-being-framed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/karen-read-is-on-trial-for-allegedly-killing-her-cop-boyfriend-but-is-she-being-framed\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Karen Read being framed for the alleged murder of her cop boyfriend? Her trial unfolds"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkaren-read-is-on-trial-for-allegedly-killing-her-cop-boyfriend-but-is-she-being-framed%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2232986&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The case of Karen Read, a professor\u200b and girlfriend of a cop, takes a\u200d dark turn as she stands trial for the death of her boyfriend. Allegations, investigations, and suspicions swirl around this \u200btragic\u2064 event, leaving many questions unanswered. The courtroom drama unravels \u2063a\u200c web of complex relationships, conflicting stories, and a quest \u200dfor justice. The courtroom drama\u200b surrounding \u200bKaren \u2062Read, a professor and girlfriend\u2064 of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-sheriffs-tell-newsom-they-wont-enforce-covid-curfew\/\" title=\"California Sheriffs Tell Newsom They Won't Enforce COVID Curfew\">police officer<\/a>, intensifies as she faces trial for her boyfriend&#8217;s death. Amid allegations, investigations, and \u2063suspicions, a tangled web of intricate\u2062 relationships and conflicting narratives unfolds, highlighting the \u2062pursuit\u2063 of justice in this tragic\u200b and mysterious case.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Karen Read is an adjunct professor, a financial analyst, and girlfriend to a well-liked cop in Massachusetts, but is she also a murderer?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That\u2019s the question jurors will have to answer now that Read\u2019s trial for allegedly killing her cop boyfriend, John O\u2019Keefe, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/2024\/04\/29\/karen-read-john-okeefe-officer-death-massachusetts\/d6651944-05de-11ef-b60b-a512fc749f9b_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has begun<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">O\u2019Keefe was a Boston police officer who lived in Canton, MA, since 2014 to raise his niece and nephew, who had been orphaned after O\u2019Keefe\u2019s sister died of a brain tumor and her husband died of a heart attack shortly after. Read, an adjunct professor at Bentley University, lived in Mansfield, MA, but had been dating O\u2019Keefe since 2020 and regularly staying in Canton to help O\u2019Keefe with the children, Boston Magazine <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonmagazine.com\/news\/2023\/09\/27\/canton-karen-read\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On January 28, 2022, Read and O\u2019Keefe traveled to the Waterfall Bar &#038; Grille in Canton after drinking at another pub. At the Waterfall, O\u2019Keefe saw some of his friends and joined them with Read in tow. Chris Albert, O\u2019Keefe\u2019s neighbor and the town selectman, along with Chris\u2019 brother Brian, another Boston Police Department officer, and Jennifer McCabe, Brian\u2019s sister-in-law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The five chatted and drank until midnight, when the bar was about to close and Brian suggested they all go to his house. O\u2019Keefe wanted to go, but Read was tired and tipsy and unsure about continuing the party. She agreed to at least drive O\u2019Keefe to Brian\u2019s house. After dropping him off, she decided to go home, but has said that she woke up alone at 4:30 a.m. and worried about where her boyfriend was. She didn\u2019t have McCabe\u2019s number, so she woke up O\u2019Keefe\u2019s then 14-year-old niece to ask her to call McCabe\u2019s daughter, with whom she was friends. McCabe said she didn\u2019t know where O\u2019Keefe was, and called Chris Albert\u2019s wife to see if O\u2019Keefe had passed out at their house, but she said he hadn\u2019t. At the same time, Read called O\u2019Keefe\u2019s friend Kerry Roberts, who also had not seen O\u2019Keefe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read, McCabe, and Roberts met up to look for O\u2019Keefe, with Read in the backseat of Roberts\u2019 car screaming about how O\u2019Keefe was missing, Boston Magazine reported. A blizzard had rolled through town the night before, and it was still snowing as the women drove in the darkness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They drove to Brian Albert\u2019s home, and Read immediately said she saw O\u2019Keefe and jumped out of the car to rush to his side, even though it was completely dark outside. O\u2019Keefe was lying in the snow, ice-cold, and Read began performing CPR. He had blood on his face and a black eye, while his hat and shoes were missing. McCabe brought blankets to warm him up and called 911. It was 6:04 a.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read cried and repeatedly asked if she had hit O\u2019Keefe. An ambulance took O\u2019Keefe to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:50 a.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_730353\" style=\"width: 874px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-730353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Braintree, MA \u2013 February 6: Hundreds of Boston Police officers line up to attend the wake for Boston Police officer John O\u2019Keefe, III at St. Francis of Assisi Church in Braintree, MA on Feb. 6, 2022. (Photo by Matthew J. Lee\/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/they-kissed-and-touched-for-a-few-minutes-more-than-two-years-later-she-accused-him-of-sexual-assault\/\" title=\"They Kissed And Touched For A Few Minutes. More Than Two Years Later, She Accused Him Of Sexual Assault.\">court documents reviewed<\/a> by Boston Magazine, said that she spent the next three days traumatized at her parents\u2019 house, even asking her doctor for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagon-spends-2-years-investigating-former-wh-physician-finds-hes-a-bad-boss-drinks-beer-sleeps-on-planes\/\" title=\"Pentagon Spends 2 Years Investigating Former WH Physician, Finds He\u2019s A Bad Boss, Drinks Beer, Sleeps On Planes\">prescription sleep medication<\/a>. She hired attorney David Yannetti and cooperated with police when they questioned her about the night O\u2019Keefe died.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read then returned to her home in Mansfield and was soon arrested and taken to jail. She was charged with manslaughter for allegedly hitting O\u2019Keefe with her Lexus when she dropped him off at Brian\u2019s house. The original charges stemmed from the belief that Read accidentally hit O\u2019Keefe with her car. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But four months later, the charges were increased to second-degree murder. Part of the change came from the allegation that Read admitted to hitting O\u2019Keefe on the morning she found him, which was overheard by first responders and police.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_730361\" style=\"width: 820px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-730361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karen Read. Courtesy WCVB-TV\/ABC, Boston.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/karen-read-denies-killing-boston-police-officer-john\/story?id=102165997\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">told<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  ABC News last year, however, that she was questioning whether she could have hit him by accident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI said, \u2018I hit him\u2019? It was preceded by a \u2018Did,\u2019 and preceded by a question mark,\u201d she said. \u201cWhat I thought could have happened was that, did I incapacitate him unwittingly, somehow, and then in his drunkenness [he] passed out?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read\u2019s attorney, Yannetti, reviewed the charging documents with her and questioned whether Read really could have caused all the injuries to O\u2019Keefe just by backing into him with her car. A medical examiner found that O\u2019Keefe had abrasions on his right arm, two black eyes, along with cuts on his face and a laceration to the back of his head, CNN <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2023\/12\/10\/us\/john-okeefe-boston-police-death-cec\/index.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. He also had several skull fractures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The charging documents also contained interviews with McCabe and Roberts. McCabe told police that Read had told her she had gotten into a fight with O\u2019Keefe at the Waterfall and didn\u2019t remember driving him to Brian\u2019s house. Roberts said Read told her she was so drunk she didn\u2019t remember the night before. Roberts also told police that O\u2019Keefe showed her and McCabe her cracked taillight and said she didn\u2019t know how that happened.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Police found red and clear bits of plastic near O\u2019Keefe\u2019s body, consistent with Read\u2019s broken taillight. When police seized the vehicle, they found damage to the right rear tailgate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This information led police to believe Read was intoxicated and backed into O\u2019Keefe before driving away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Soon, a tipster called Read\u2019s attorney, Yannetti, and claimed that O\u2019Keefe was \u201cbeaten up by Brian Albert and his nephew.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThey broke his nose, and when O\u2019Keefe didn\u2019t come to, Brian and a federal agent dumped his body on the front lawn,\u201d the tipster added, Yannetti told Boston Magazine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An attorney for that tipster, however, denied Yannetti\u2019s version of the tip to the outlet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After this call, Yannetti and Read began looking into whether O\u2019Keefe could have been killed at the party and left out in the cold to die.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read believed that Brian\u2019s nephew, Colin, could have been behind the attack, since, she told Boston Magazine, he and O\u2019Keefe were in a feud dating back a couple years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then Read saw the photos of O\u2019Keefe\u2019s body and believed it looked like he had been beaten up and possibly even attacked by a dog. Brian Albert\u2019s family had a German Shepherd.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read then learned that the lead detective on the case, State Trooper Michael Proctor, was friends with the Albert family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read already believed O\u2019Keefe was actually beaten up at the party, but now she believed Proctor was helping to frame her, including an alleged period where Proctor had access to Read\u2019s vehicle and may have planted evidence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read hired another attorney \u2013 famous criminal defense attorney Alan Jackson, who had once represented Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Once Jackson joined the defense, they learned that Brian had gotten rid of his dog and sold his house after O\u2019Keefe\u2019s death. Months later, they found that McCabe had Googled \u201chos [sic] long to die in cold\u201d at 2:27 a.m. \u2013 hours before she, Roberts, and Read found O\u2019Keefe\u2019s body. She made the same search again at 6:23 a.m. and 6:24 a.m. Roberts told police that Read asked her to make the searches.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A massive campaign began to support Read, reportedly dividing the town among those who believed she was innocent and those who believed she was guilty.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_730343\" style=\"width: 874px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-730343\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Rinaldi\/The Boston Globe via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In September of last year, the prosecution requested Read\u2019s cellphone data, data they had been denied because it contained privileged communications with her attorney. The Prosecution argued that the cellphone could explain why Read\u2019s arrival back at O\u2019Keefe\u2019s house wasn\u2019t captured on his Ring camera system, or explain how surveillance footage showed Read driving toward the Waterfall bar at 5:11 a.m. and then away from it at 5:15 a.m. That surveillance data further showed Read driving toward Brian Albert\u2019s house before going to McCabe\u2019s home in the morning, leading to questions that she had already looked for and found O\u2019Keefe\u2019s body before going to McCabe\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the prosecution also has other evidence that pokes holes in the idea that Read was framed, Boston Magazine reported. For starters, the \u201cframed\u201d concept relies on a feud between O\u2019Keefe and Brian Albert\u2019s nephew Colin, but sources told Boston Magazine that the issue that led to the alleged feud that Read pointed too actually involved O\u2019Keefe and a different teenager, and that he never had any issue with Colin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As for the Alberts getting rid of their dog and selling their home, a source told the outlet that Brian got rid of the dog after it fought with another dog, and that they had contacted a real estate agent to sell his house before O\u2019Keefe died.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The idea that Proctor planted evidence in Read\u2019s car also has issues. The district attorney says the time discrepancy in police reports was just an error and was corrected in later reports and filings. These reports, and the DA, show that Proctor was never alone with Read\u2019s car, according to Boston Magazine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Further, microscopic pieces of Read\u2019s taillight were found on O\u2019Keefe\u2019s shirt, and the timestamp on McCabe\u2019s Google search can be explained by a technicality. McCabe made the search on a search bar of a tab that was opened at 2:27 a.m., which is why it appeared she made the search before she ever heard from Read.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A medical examiner also testified to a grand jury that the injuries from O\u2019Keefe weren\u2019t from a fight and that data from Read\u2019s car showed that it had reversed at high speed before striking O\u2019Keefe, continuing to reverse, and then leaving.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">O\u2019Keefe\u2019s niece also told police that Read\u2019s story about her night changed multiple times the morning she went to look for O\u2019Keefe. Read also reportedly told Proctor that she dropped O\u2019Keefe off but never saw him enter the house, but she told Boston Magazine that she saw him enter the house and waited for him to tell her it was okay for her to join his friends. When she didn\u2019t hear from him, she left.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The prosecution has also argued that evidence from O\u2019Keefe\u2019s phone showed Read called him around 50 times the night he died and left him angry voicemails telling him she hated him. It also appears that the \u201cfederal agent\u201d referred to by the tipster who originally started the framing theory may have had a romantic relationship with Read.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nevertheless, there is a federal investigation into whether there was a police cover-up in the case, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2024\/04\/09\/metro\/karen-read-federal-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">according to The Boston Globe<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sources told the New York Post that the FBI had interviewed everyone at Brian Albert\u2019s house that fateful night, and that at least one said O\u2019Keefe had been there. If that person is correct, it could corroborate Read\u2019s story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even with everything known in the case, the prosecution has said it has evidence that has not been released yet, and will only be revealed during the trial. That evidence could sway the jury toward finding Read guilty, but only time will tell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Read, an adjunct professor and financial analyst, faces trial in Massachusetts for the murder of her cop boyfriend, John O\u2019Keefe. 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