Karen Read’s 2nd Trial Ends With Not Guilty Verdict on Murder Charge

The verdict in the highly watched case was handed down almost a year after a mistrial.
Karen Read’s 2nd Trial Ends With Not Guilty Verdict on Murder Charge
Karen Read watches jurors leave the courtroom to resume deliberations during her trial at Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, Mass., on June 18, 2025. Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool
Bill Pan
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A Massachusetts jury on June 18 found Karen Read not guilty in the death of her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O'Keefe, almost a year after a closely watched trial ended in a mistrial.

Read had been accused of killing O‘Keefe, who died on Jan. 29, 2022. Prosecutors alleged that after a night of drinking, Read dropped O’Keefe off at a house party hosted by another Boston police officer and then struck him with her SUV as she drove away, allegedly leaving him in the snow where he later died.