A murderous romance or a frame job? Latest look at Karen Read murder trial

The defense is expected to wrap up their cross-examination of ATF agent Brian Higgins when the trial resumes on Tuesday -- the only day that the Karen Read trial will be in session this week.A highly publicized trial in Massachusetts involving a woman accused of striking her Boston police officer boyfriend with her SUV and leaving him for dead in a snowbank finished its fourth week on Friday.

Brian Higgins, who was at 34 Fairview Road the night before John O'Keefe's body was found outside, answered questions Friday about flirtatious texts with O'Keefe's girlfriend, Karen Read, at her murder trial.Prosecutors have put up several witnesses who recalled hearing Read say she hit O’Keefe as well as those who say the couple had a stormy relationship and that O’Keefe was trying to end it at the time of his death.

Brian Higgins, a special agent for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, read a series of text messages in which they both said they were attracted to each other, and Read said her relationship with O’Keefe had “deteriorated.”Higgins said he was trying to “suss out” Read’s intentions.

Attorneys for Karen Read wrapped up their cross-examination of Jennifer McCabe, pointing to a phone extraction showing she searched "Hos long to die in cold" hours before John O'Keefe's body was found.Read’s lawyers have alleged that O’Keefe was beaten inside the home, bitten by a family dog and then left outside.

“The truth of the matter is you’ve manufactured this new story for this jury because you think it helps you out,” Jackson said.McCabe has said Read also asked her to Google how long it takes for someone to die of hypothermia moments after the body was discovered. But on Wednesday jurors saw cellphone data that suggested McCabe also did a similar search four hours earlier and later deleted it.

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