The trial of a woman charged in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend is set to begin. Forty-four-year-old Karen Read of Mansfield is facing charges including second degree murder in the death of Officer John O’Keefe during a nor’easter more than two years ago.
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00:00This case involves a woman who was accused of striking her Boston police officer boyfriend
00:16with her SUV and leaving him for dead in a snowbank.
00:19The case has garnered national attention because her defense attorneys have suggested a vast
00:24conspiracy to frame her.
00:26A blogger has joined the cause, sowing doubts about the case and attacking everyone from
00:30prosecutors to witnesses, which has raised questions about the integrity of the case
00:34and garnered her strong support.
00:36I submit to you at that time, that second time, is that the only true and just verdict
00:40based on that is that the defendant Karen Reed is guilty of murder in the second degree,
00:45striking the victim, Mr. O'Keefe, with her car, knocking him back onto the ground, striking
00:50his head on the ground, causing the bleeding in his brain, swelling, and then leaving him
00:54there for several hours in a blizzard with temperatures in the teens, winds swirling
00:59around, snow piling up on his body until she comes with Mrs. McCabe and Mrs. Roberts just
01:04after 6 a.m.
01:07And that she is also guilty of vehicular manslaughter, operating under the influence of liquor, and
01:13that she is also guilty of leaving the scene.
01:15Karen Reed was framed.
01:19Her car never struck John O'Keefe.
01:22She did not cause his death, and that means that somebody else did.
01:28You will learn that it was no accident that John O'Keefe was found dead on the front lawn
01:32of 34 Fairview Road in Canton on January 29th of 2022.
01:39You will learn that at that address lived a well-known and well-connected law enforcement
01:45family in Canton, the Alberts.
01:50Because the Alberts were involved, and because they had close connections to the investigators
01:56in this case, Karen Reed was framed for a murder she did not commit.