Karen Read, center, departs Norfolk Superior, Tuesday, June 25, 2024, in Dedham, Mass. Karen Read is on trial, accused of killing her boyfriend Boston police Officer John O'Keefe, in 2022. Jury deliberations began in the trial Tuesday afternoon.
What first might have seemed to be an open-and-shut case has drawn outsized attention, fueled by true crime fanatics, conspiracy theorists and Read’s pink-shirted supporters. Rather than Read deliberately reversing her SUV into O’Keefe, the defense argued that he was beaten up in the house of another Boston police officer and thrown outside in the snow.
But Assistant District Attorney Adam Lally told jurors there was no conspiracy or cover-up. He asked them to follow the evidence -- including pieces of Read's broken taillight found at the scene and a hair from O'Keefe's found on her car. He began his closing argument with the words four witnesses reported hearing Read say after O’Keefe was discovered on the snow:
He also scoffed at defense suggestions that O'Keefe may have been beaten up at Albert's house party by Brian Higgins, a federal agent who had exchanged flirty texts with Read, and that Albert and others helped cover up the crime.
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