A jury found Karen Read not guilty of murder in a case that accused her of fatally killing her boyfriend using her SUV. Her boyfriend, a Boston cop, John O’ Keefe was found dead outside Boston on a day when his cop friends were hosting a house party in the vicinity. The case considered two aspects: Either it was a love story gone wrong, or it had a hint of major cover up.
Prosecutors claimed that Read was a scorned lover, and she rammed her SUV into her cop boyfriend and left him out in the snow to die. The incident is from 2022, and this high-profile case dragged on through the years, with Read’s lawyers claiming that she was being framed for a crime she did not commit.
She was charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and leaving the scene, but a jury declared that the main charges against her did not hold substance. While the courtroom saw the jury reading the verdict, loud cheers could be heard from the crowd inside, and Read departed from the place with her friends and family, assisted by her attorneys.