Karen Read is speaking out for the first time after her murder trial ended in a mistrial ABC She is facing a new trial for the killing of her boyfriend John O’Keefe AP Read is accused of running over O’Keefe before leaving him for dead in a snowbank ABC
Read and O’Keefe were out drinking with friends in Canton, Massachusetts , in January 2022, according to prosecutors.
Afterward, Read dropped O’Keefe at a friend’s house where an after-party was taking place.
However, they alleged that an intoxicated Read reversed into O’Keefe with her SUV before leaving him in a snowbank.
Read has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and manslaughter.
During the interview, Read recalled speaking to a friend on the phone after discovering O’Keefe’s body and admitting: “I think I’m gonna get arrested.”
But that wasn’t the only admission Read made in the new interview.
When asked if she had been upset with O’Keefe on the night of his death, Read answered, “Yes.”
“Could you have been angry enough and slightly drunk, because he had annoyed you, that, in a fit of rage, you just backed up…” asked ABC’s Matt Gutman.
“Never,” Read interrupted.
Gutman asked if Read “tried to tap” O’Keefe with her car instead of intending to kill him.
“To tap him with my 6,000-pound full-size SUV?” Read asked.
“To hit John’s body with my car? No.”
However, Read says she last saw O’Keefe after dropping him at the house party before going back home to sleep.
She said she woke up in the middle of the night and called a friend when she didn’t find O’Keefe.
“Now I have an immense sense of dread,” Read told Gutman.
“Like a fright in me that I have not experienced before.”
Read said she was “worried he might’ve gotten hit by a plow” that night.
A timeline of Karen Read's case
Karen Read, the Mansfield woman accused of fatally striking her cop boyfriend with her SUV in January 2022, will face a retrial on January 27, 2025.
A judge declared a mistrial on July 1, 2024, after a jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict after five days of deliberation.
January 29, 2022 : O’Keefe’s body is found outside of a friend’s home.
February 1, 2022 : Read was arrested and charged with manslaughter, motor vehicle homicide, and leaving the scene of a vehicle homicide.
February 2, 2022 : Read pleads not guilty in Stoughton District Court.
June 9, 2022 : A state grand jury indicts Read on upgraded charges of second-degree murder, manslaughter, and leaving the scene.
April 12, 2023 : Read’s attorneys publicly release court documents they say contain “bombshell exculpatory information,” including Jennifer McCabe’s Google search.
Nov. 20, 2023 : Residents of the divided community vote 903-800 to audit the Canton Police Department over the case.
May 23, 2023 : During another pre-trial hearing, the defense says that the murder of John O’Keefe is a massive cover-up involving members of law enforcement and their friends and family members.
Feb. 22, 2024 : Prosecutors unveil long-awaited results of crime scene evidence tests, alleging that O’Keefe’s DNA was recovered from the broken taillight of Read’s vehicle.
April 12, 2024 : Read’s defense attorneys say in court that Brian Albert, his son Colin Albert, and Brian Higgins could have each killed O’Keefe at the party that night.
April 16, 2024 : Read’s trial began in Massachusetts Superior Court.
May 17, 2024 : Jennifer McCabe, who was with Read when she discovered O’Keefe’s body, testifies that during their search, Read repeatedly said: “Did I hit him? Could I have hit him?” She also says Read later said when emergency workers were on the scene: “I hit him.”
June 3, 2024 : The defense accuses police of planting the shattered fragments of taillight from Read’s car at the scene of the crime.
June 24, 2024 : The defense rests their case.
July 1, 2024: A judge declared a hung jury after five days of deliberation
July 22, 2024 : Karen Read’s retrial was set for January 27, 2025.
CHILLING DISCOVERY
Read said she found O’Keefe’s body after meeting up with his friends and returning to the home that held the after-party.
“His eyes were shut and he had spots of blood in different areas on his face,” she said.
“And he was still. Not stiff, but still. It was cold.”
O’Keefe was later pronounced dead with an autopsy later ruling that the cause of death was head trauma and hypothermia.
Prosecutors argue that Read purposely hit O’Keefe with her car after the two had been arguing the whole day.
Pieces of her damaged tail light were found at the scene and emergency workers reportedly said that Read repeatedly stated “I hit him.”
However, Read’s defense team argued that O’Keefe’s injuries were consistent with being hit by a car and claimed that their client was the victim of a cover-up.
“There are people in that house that are actually responsible for his death and who murdered him,” Read’s attorney, Alan Jackson said.
“And there are others in the house who are covering up that murder.”
In addition to the upcoming retrial, O’Keefe’s family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Read and two bars in Canton.
Read’s full interview is available to stream on Hulu.
Read’s lawyers say that someone at the house party killed O’Keefe and that she was the victim of a cover-up AP Read has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and manslaughter AP
THAT DRUNK 🥴 IS GUILTY AS HELL LOL, SHE GOT LUCKY WITH THE STORM AND CRAZY CIRCUMSTANCES CREATING DOUBT, THOSE COPS AINT BEATING HIM AND THROW HIM OUTSIDE AND FRAME HERE LOL, TURTLE BOY IS A CUCK ALSO ,JUST TRYING TO GET IN THE DRUNKS PANTS
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