Karen Read innocent of cop John O’Keefe’s murder: The adjunct lecturer accused of murdering her Boston police officer boyfriend during a historic nor’easter in 2022 is actually innocent, and another Boston cop’s cell phone evidence will prove it, defense attorneys said in a “bombshell” motion this week.
Attorneys for Karen A. Read, 42, asserted that the defense motion filed Wednesday “completely undermines the prosecution’s theory of the case” and, in fact, supports their third-party culpability theory about what happened to 46-year-old John O’Keefe in Canton, Massachusetts between Jan. 28, 2022 and Jan. 29, 2022. The lawyers asked the trial court to permit additional discovery relating to Boston police officer Brian Albert’s phone and the phone of Jennifer McCabe, Albert’s sister-in-law.
Karen Read innocent of cop John O’Keefe’s murder: Defense
In February 2022, Read was accused of leaving O’Keefe to die in the snow after a car collision outside of Albert’s home.
Authorities claimed that Read and O’Keefe had gone to at least two bars on the Friday before the incident, after which point they went to Albert’s home. Read claimed she wasn’t feeling well and went home – leaving O’Keefe at that residence.
Read allegedly told investigators she later tried to contact O’Keefe but was unsuccessful. The next morning, the defendant allegedly told police, she noticed that her vehicle had a broken taillight.
“Could I have hit him?” Read allegedly said upon returning to where she dropped off her boyfriend, according to prosecutors. “Did I hit him?”
Read’s lawyers suggest that there’s a reason other than booze as to why Read didn’t have any recollection of hitting O’Keefe: It didn’t happen.