Karen Read

The first installment in Vanity Fair’s long-awaited profile of Karen Read dropped on Tuesday morning. Part 2 is scheduled to be released on Wednesday. Karen Read is ready to speak. This summer, after her first murder trial ended with a hung jury, Read spoke to VF about her late boyfriend John O’Keefe, and what she and her legal team allege...

Prosecutors in the Karen Read case have filed their response to the defense’s request to dismiss two of the three charges against her in the death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe. The Norfolk District Attorney’s Office opposes the motion, saying in a court filing Friday it’s “premised upon hearsay, conjecture, and legally inappropriate reliance as to...

Karen Read is moving to dismiss two of the three charges against her, including murder, with her attorneys saying they’ve heard the jury had unanimously concluded she was not guilty of either charge. Read filed the motion to dismiss in Norfolk Superior Court on Monday, a week after a mistrial was declared in the murder case against her, leaving...

Massachusetts State Police Trooper Michael Proctor, the lead investigator in the Karen Read murder case, has been suspended without pay after a duty status hearing Monday. Interim Police Superintendent Col. John Mawn accepted the recommendation from the duty status hearing board, a body of three commissioned officers who heard evidence in the matter, according to a police representative. Proctor had…

Thursday marked a third day of jury deliberations in the Karen Read murder trial without a verdict. Read is charged with second-degree murder in the January 2022 death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe. She’s accused of dropping him off at another officer’s house party in Canton, Massachusetts, after a night of drinking, and then hitting him with her...

Eyes across the nation have turned to Massachusetts as jurors decide the fate of Karen Read. The weeks-long murder trial is now in its final moments, but no verdict was reached Wednesday. Judge Beverly Cannone sent the jury home for the day at about 3:40 p.m. They’re due back Thursday. Shortly after deliberations resumed Wednesday morning, jurors sent a...

The jury’s deliberations in the Karen Read murder trial will continue into a second day. Closing arguments were delivered Tuesday, and the jury began deliberating shortly before 1:30 p.m., after receiving instructions from Judge Beverly Cannone. The jury was sent home for the day about 4:23 p.m. with no verdict reached. While the jury deliberated, a throng of Read’s...

Karen Read, the woman charged with second-degree murder in the death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, was back in court for a new hearing Tuesday, where the case’s rising media attention became a part of the legal arguments. Read is accused of killing O’Keefe on Jan. 29, 2022, after a night out at the bar. Police...

The controversial Karen Read murder case will be featured on an upcoming episode of NBC’s “Dateline,” the “TODAY” show revealed Monday.