John O'Keefe

As the start of the retrial of Karen Read approaches, prosecutors and defense attorneys are sparring through a series of motions — with Read’s team raising questions about an embattled Massachusetts State Police trooper’s actions during the first trial.

With the retrial just six weeks away, footage of Karen Read’s vehicle at the police headquarters in Canton is the subject of a defense motion.

The Karen Read case was back in the courtroom Thursday for a motions hearing that handed the defense a significant victory.

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Karen Read returned to court Thursday for a motions hearing that handed a victory to the defense. Read is accused of hitting her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, with her SUV in January 2022 and leaving him to die in a snowstorm. She faces second-degree murder and other charges. Read has maintained her innocence and claims she is the...

Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe died in Canton on Jan. 29, 2022, and as Karen Read awaits retrial, questions continue to surround the case.

Wednesday marks the anniversary of Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe’s death. His girlfriend, Karen Read, was charged with his murder, but the controversial case ended in a mistrial last summer and continues to cause division, all while his family awaits justice....

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Wednesday marks three years since the death of John O’Keefe, the Boston police officer who was found dead outside the home of another officer in Canton on a snowy morning in January of 2022. O’Keefe’s death was a tragedy to his family, and marked the start of the ongoing case against Karen Read, his girlfriend who has been accused...

A 24-hour vigil to remember John O’Keefe on the third anniversary of his death was held Tuesday into Wednesday at Canton Police Headquarters, though it was not attended by his friends or family. “The reason we’re not participating is because it’s not a genuine honoring of John O’Keefe. It’s not,” said John Jackson, a friend of O’Keefe’s and his...

A group of people were holding a 24-hour vigil in front of the Canton Police Department in support of slain Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe and his former girlfriend, Karen Read, who denies allegations she killed him. The O’Keefe family was not part of the vigil. 

The Karen Read murder case judge granted prosecutors’ request for access to off-the-record interviews and other documents from interviews with Boston Magazine reporter Gretchen Voss.

The judge presiding over the Karen Read murder trial has ruled that interview materials from two local news outlets must be turned over to lawyers ahead of her retrial. 

The Massachusetts State Police have disciplined the former head of a unit that investigated Karen Read, making him forfeit six days of accrued leave after an internal investigation. Col. Geoffrey Noble announced Tuesday evening that Det. Lt. Brian Tully, who formerly led the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office’s detective unit, was found to have violated department rules and regulations....

Ahead of the retrial of Karen Read, Massachusetts prosecutors are asking for records of an interview she did last year with Boston Magazine. Read is facing multiple charges, including murder, in the 2022 death of Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe in Canton. Prosecutors say she hit O’Keefe, her boyfriend, with her SUV and left him for dead, while Read...

As prosecutors prepare for Karen Read’s second murder trial, they are asking for records of an interview she did last year with Boston Magazine.

Karen Read was in Massachusetts’ highest court Wednesday where her lawyers argued why two of the charges against her should be dropped or at least reexamined following outreach from jurors saying Read would have been acquitted. 

We asked legal expert Michael Coyne how the court might rule, and talked to Read’s father outside of court.

Karen Read’s defense team has called on the highest court in Massachusetts to drop two of the charges against Read in the death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe.

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Karen Read’s defense team is calling on the highest court in Massachusetts to drop two of the charges against her in the death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe in Canton in January 2022.

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Karen Read’s defense team has called on the highest court in Massachusetts to drop two of the charges against Read in the death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe.

Karen Read will not be deposed in a civil case against her until the conclusion of her second criminal trial, which is scheduled to begin in January, a judge ruled Thursday.

Part 2 of Vanity Fair’s Karen Read profile was released Wednesday morning. Here’s what we learned.

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