Karen Read, accused killer of cop boyfriend, showed no emotion until jury deliberations: documentary

Karen Read, accused of sidesplitting her Boston Police serviceman boyfriend, is anxious for the time erstwhile she won’t person to sojourn a courtroom oregon deterioration a suit.

The Massachusetts pistillate is speaking retired successful an Investigation Discovery (ID) docuseries, "A Body successful the Snow: The Trial of Karen Read." It’s a behind-the-scenes look astatine Read and her ineligible squad arsenic they effort to beryllium her innocence successful her 2024 trial. It features a lengthy sit-down with Read and different cardinal voices.

Fox News Digital reached retired to a spokesperson for the Boston Police Department for comment.

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Karen Read is the taxable of a caller Investigation Discovery true-crime docuseries, "A Body successful the Snow." (Unsolved Productions Inc.)

Terry Dunn Meurer, the co-creator of "Unsolved Mysteries" and manager of the series, told Fox News Digital determination was 1 cardinal infinitesimal during filming that stood retired to her.

"I retrieve Karen was looking astatine her computer," Meurer recalled. "She’s looking astatine the video of the past evening earlier John O’Keefe died. She goes, ‘Oh, mediocre John. He’s not with america anymore. I utilized to consciousness bittersweet erstwhile I would look astatine this. But present … I’ve got to prevention myself.’

Karen Read and her supporters hold for a verdict successful her execution proceedings connected time 4 of deliberations astatine Norfolk Superior Court successful Dedham June 27, 2024. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger/IMAGN)

"Karen is simply a precise aggravated [person]," Meurer added. "She was precise aggravated and progressive with her defense. … We didn’t spot a batch of emotion retired of Karen until it became clip for the deliberations. Then we started to spot immoderate emotion and immoderate trepidation, immoderate anxiousness astir what the verdict mightiness be."

Karen Read reconnected with John O'Keefe during the pandemic. (Courtesy of Karen Read)

Before Read was charged with murder, she had a palmy vocation arsenic a fiscal expert and adjunct prof astatine Bentley College. She dated O’Keefe concisely successful her 20s earlier they reconnected during the pandemic.

O’Keefe had moved to suburban Canton to instrumentality attraction of his niece and nephew aft their parents died. Read said she admired her beau for stepping up for his family. She helped with the kids, staying implicit frequently.

Karen Read (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger/IMAGN)

"By each accounts, successful speaking to Karen’s friends and family, everybody truly liked them arsenic a couple," said Meurer. "They thought that they were a beardown couple. … But immoderate conflicts had emerged that they might’ve been going done astatine the time, starring up to John’s death."

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Karen Read said she admired John O'Keefe, who stepped up to attraction for his niece and nephew aft their parents died. (Courtesy of Karen Read)

"Karen didn’t speech overmuch astir her narration with John," Meurer clarified. "She said that determination were conflicts due to the fact that of their antithetic parenting styles successful presumption of the kids that John was raising. And she gave maine the content that the narration had tally its course."

What should person been a fun-filled travel to Aruba for the mates successful December 2021 was marred by animosity with aggravated words and an accusation of cheating. O'Keefe's niece and nephew testified astir the couple's arguments.

Dashcam video of Karen Read, right, aft uncovering John O'Keefe successful the snow. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger/IMAGN)

On their past nighttime unneurotic successful 2022, the brace went barhopping with pals. O’Keefe had planned to spell to his person and chap Boston Police Officer Brian Albert’s home, Boston Magazine reported. A tempest had rolled into town. 

Signs of friction betwixt Karen Read and John O'Keefe began to look arsenic the narration began to sour. (Karen Read)

According to the outlet, O’Keefe was anxious to support the enactment going, but Read was tired, buzzed and hungry. She agreed to springiness him a ride. Read dropped O’Keefe disconnected and past went home.

In the aboriginal hours of Jan. 29, Read said she woke up unsocial wearing the aforesaid apparel from the nighttime earlier astatine O’Keefe’s house, the outlet reported. Worried, Read called respective friends, trying to find retired wherever O’Keefe was.

State Police Lt. Brian Tully testifies portion holding a sneaker recovered connected Fairview Road. It matches 1 taken from John O'Keefe astatine Good Samaritan Medical Center successful Brockton. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger)

The 46-year-old was adjacent the location wherever Read past saw him. His assemblage was connected the crushed covered successful snow. He had aggregate injuries and humor astir his chemoreceptor and mouth. Read and 2 communal friends discovered O'Keefe unconscious successful Albert's beforehand gait during their hunt for him. 

O’Keefe was pronounced dormant astatine a hospital.

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John O'Keefe was a 16-year seasoned of the Boston Police Department erstwhile helium was recovered dormant Jan. 29, 2022. He was 46. (Brendan Kane)

Read was accused of ramming into O’Keefe with her Lexus SUV and leaving him to dice successful the snowstorm aft a drunken argument. She was charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and leaving the country of a crime. She pleaded not guilty.

Prosecutors suggested O’Keefe was looking for a mode retired earlier their past nighttime together. They pointed retired that moments aft Read allegedly reversed her car into O’Keefe, she near him a voicemail, 1 that was replayed for the jurors, saying, "John, I (expletive) hatred you."

Karen Read and John O'Keefe supporters basal extracurricular Norfolk Superior Court successful Dedham, Mass., Feb. 25, 2025. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger/IMAGN)

Read’s attorneys argued she was framed arsenic "a convenient outsider" to support different instrumentality enforcement officers progressive successful O’Keefe’s death. Read said she believed the existent killers were different members of instrumentality enforcement O’Keefe got into a combat with aft she dropped him off.

Prosecutors said Karen Read and John O’Keefe had been drinking heavy earlier she dropped him disconnected astatine a enactment astatine the location of Brian Albert, a chap officer. They alleged she deed him with her SUV earlier driving away. Read denied this claim. (Courtesy of Karen Read)

"I was intrigued by the information that determination were 2 truly beardown sides to this story," said Meurer. "It seemed that determination was suspicious behaviour connected some sides of the story. … And having produced ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ for decades, I deliberation that caught my eye. … It was a precise intriguing mystery.

"As the documentary presents, Karen, astatine first, talked astir however she was confused for the archetypal 3 days. She didn’t cognize what had happened. … But then, a fewer days later, her Boston lawyer got a telephone telephone from an informant who said, ‘Take a look astatine the radical who were successful that house.’ I deliberation that was the turning point. One of the reporters we interviewed said we wouldn’t adjacent beryllium present if that feline hadn’t called."

A Google hunt that was shown during the proceedings that said, "Ho[w] agelong to dice successful cold."  (Greg Derr/USA Today Network/IMAGN)

Read’s defence attorney, David Yannetti, claimed O’Keefe was beaten up wrong Albert’s location during the after-bars gathering, People mag reported. Yannetti claimed O’Keefe was past attacked by a canine and near to die, Boston mag shared.

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"I’ve got to prevention myself now. … I'm warring for my beingness here," Karen Read said portion filming, according to filmmaker Terry Dunn Meurer. (Unsolved Productions Inc.)

Yannetti besides claimed that grounds showed idiosyncratic wrong Albert’s location had searched that evening "Ho[w] agelong to dice successful cold," People mag reported.

Hospital aesculapian records showed that O'Keefe's injuries included eyes swollen unopen and achromatic and blue, a chopped connected his close eyelid, a chopped to the near broadside of his nose, a two-inch laceration connected the backmost of his head, aggregate skull fractures and six bloody cuts of varied magnitude connected his close forearm. There were besides claw-like marks.

Massachusetts State Trooper Michael Proctor faces a pugnacious cross-examination by lawyer Alan Jackson. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger/IMAGN)

The prosecution stuck with its mentation of events, arguing the injuries were accordant with blunt unit trauma. As for the Google search, the prosecution said it was done aft O’Keefe was discovered unresponsive.

The defence argued that investigators focused connected Karen Read due to the fact that she was a "convenient outsider" who saved them from having to see different suspects, including different instrumentality enforcement officers. (Karen Read)

Text messages from Michael Proctor, a pb researcher successful the case, besides emerged.  In the texts, helium called Read a "wack job," a "babe… with nary a--" and a "c---." He besides wrote that helium wished she would termination herself and joked astir looking for nude selfies portion searching her phone. He was aboriginal suspended without pay.

Meurer is doubtful we’ll ever cognize what happened that night.

Karen Read awaits the jury's verdict successful her execution lawsuit successful Norfolk Superior Court aft 9 weeks of grounds June 26, 2024. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger/IMAGN)

"We person bits and pieces and varying stories and versions of stories that person emerged," Meurer explained. 

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Police acknowledged utilizing reddish integrative cups to cod humor grounds and a leafage blower to effort to wide distant snowfall to uncover evidence.  (Brendan Kane)

"At first, Karen said she didn’t adjacent retrieve dropping John disconnected astatine the house. Now, successful our film, she said, ‘I saw him spell into the house.’ So, determination person been respective versions of what happened. [But] the different happening that plays a immense portion successful this lawsuit is intoxicant and however inebriated everyone was — Karen, John, the witnesses — everyone."

"I don’t cognize astir memories erstwhile it comes to having consumed that overmuch alcohol," Meurer acknowl. 

Hundreds of Karen Read supporters stitchery successful beforehand of Norfolk County Superior Court earlier her appearance.  (Matt Stone/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images)

"I privation I was much hopeful that determination would beryllium a clear-cut reply to what happened. I [also] deliberation there’s a definite portion of the assemblage successful Boston and astir Boston … determination person been a fig of corruption cases and scandals. … I deliberation radical judge there’s a accidental that corruption was progressive and that Karen was framed. There’s this feeling of ‘We’re not going to instrumentality this anymore.’"

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In July 2024, a mistrial was declared. A retrial is scheduled for April.

Fox News Digital reached retired to Read's attorneys.

Meurer described Read arsenic exhausted but conscionable arsenic determined to beryllium her innocence. She would often accidental during filming, "I’m warring for my beingness here." 

She hopes to beryllium acquitted and instrumentality to a backstage life.

Flags, flowers and remembrances flank the headstone of John O'Keefe, a Boston Police officer, astatine Blue Hill Cemetery June 27, 2024, successful Braintree, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Meurer believes it’s improbable anyone volition afloat recover.

Filmmaker Terry Dunn Meurer hopes viewers won't hide that John O'Keefe, a "good guy," was murdered. (Courtesy of Karen Read)

"This concern has divided the community," she said. "Friendships person been destroyed implicit this. There’s nary in-between here. And I anticipation [people] won’t suffer show that there’s a bully feline here, John O’Keefe, who is dead. 

"There is simply a execution unfortunate here. He was, by each accounts, a bully bull and a bully dada to the kids. I deliberation John has gotten mislaid successful each of the sound astir the case. I conscionable anticipation viewers volition retrieve John."