Karen Read smiles following a brief conversation with blogger Aiden Kearney, also known as Turtleboy, ahead of a March 18, 2025 pretrial hearing. (Pool/Court TV)
Read is charged with the murder of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, whose body was found in the snow outside of a friend’s house after a night of drinking in Jan. 2022. Her first trial, in which her defense claimed she was the victim of a wide-ranging cover-up, ended in a mistrial in July.
Following the mistrial, Read filed an appeal seeking to dismiss the most serious charges she was facing after jurors came forward saying they had been unanimous in wanting to acquit her on those charges. Massachusetts’ highest court de