Karen Read and John O'Keefe: Inside evolution of Boston murder mystery since July mistrial

Karen Read, the pistillate accused of sidesplitting her Boston bull fellow during a January nor'easter, is acceptable to spell connected proceedings for a 2nd clip this week aft her archetypal prosecution ended with a hung jury.

Read, 45, is charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and leaving the country of a deadly mishap successful transportation with John O'Keefe's decease connected Jan. 29, 2022. He was 46 and recovered successful the snowfall extracurricular different constabulary officer's location hours aft a radical of radical went determination for an after-party to headdress disconnected a nighttime retired drinking.

She was primitively charged with manslaughter – emblematic successful a deadly hit-and-run lawsuit – but authorities aboriginal tacked connected the execution charge.

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Karen Read and John O'Keefe are shown successful an undated household photo. Read is accused of fatally striking him with her SUV aft a nighttime of drinking, but her defence has argued she is being framed by a radical of his erstwhile constabulary colleagues. (Courtesy of Karen Read)

Through her archetypal proceedings and successful aggregate media interviews afterward, she maintained her innocence and claimed idiosyncratic other killed O'Keefe.

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Joseph Giacalone, a erstwhile NYPD sergeant and a transgression justness prof astatine Penn State-Lehigh Valley, told Fox News Digital helium thinks prosecutors volition person a hard clip getting a condemnation aft the archetypal lawsuit fell apart.

The archetypal proceedings saw allegations of a constabulary cover-up, the apprehension of an online blogger accused of intimidating witnesses, the firing of the pb researcher and lingering questions astir however O'Keefe died.

The Waterfall Bar and Grille is shown successful Canton, Mass., connected March 29, 2025. This is wherever Karen Read, John O’Keefe, Jennifer McCabe and friends visited earlier O’Keefe's decease successful January 2022. (Richard Beetham for Fox News Digital)

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Prosecutors allege that Read backed into him with her Lexus SUV, past drove away, leaving him to dice successful the snowstorm.

An autopsy recovered the origin of his decease to beryllium blunt-force trauma to the caput and hypothermia. O'Keefe had skull fractures, encephalon bleeding, swollen achromatic eyes and cuts to his close arm, but the forensic pathologist held disconnected connected calling it a homicide, leaving the mode of decease undetermined.

Dr. Daniel Wolfe, an adept witness, testified that the harm to the rear extremity of Read's conveyance was not accordant with striking a quality caput oregon arm. Prosecutors are seeking to person his grounds precluded the 2nd clip around.

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Karen Read stands successful the doorway arsenic she waits to permission Norfolk Superior Court.  (John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

His sanction remained connected a 150-person witnesser database unveiled Monday, on with that of Michael Proctor, the erstwhile pb researcher who was fired from the Massachusetts State Police this month.

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The pursuing is simply a timeline of cardinal events successful the case:

Jan. 28, 2022

Read and O'Keefe went retired successful Canton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston astir 15 miles from the city.

Although substance messages introduced astatine proceedings amusement they had argued that morning, they went retired unneurotic astir 9 p.m. astatine C.F. McCarthy's, an Irish bar. Around 11, they met friends and acquaintances astatine the Waterfall Bar and Grille. The barroom closed astatine midnight.

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C.F. McCarthy’s successful Canton, Mass. (Richard Beetham for Fox News Digital )

Jan. 29, 2022

Then-Boston Police Officer Brian Albert invited a radical of radical to his location connected Fairview Road for an after-party erstwhile the barroom wrapped up service. This could beryllium the past clip O'Keefe was seen live successful public.

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Early hours of Jan. 29

• 12 a.m.: O'Keefe and Read are invited implicit to Albert's location and fixed directions. But witnesses person testified they ne'er came inside.
• 12:37 a.m.: Read allegedly leaves a voicemail with an expletive for O'Keefe, saying, "John, I … hatred you." She was aboriginal accused of hitting him astatine astir 24 mph aft backing up 60 feet successful her vehicle.
• 2:27 a.m.: Jennifer McCabe allegedly looks up connected Google however agelong it takes to dice successful the cold. She aboriginal testified that she did the hunt astatine Read's request.
• 6 a.m.: Read returns to the Alberts' location with McCabe and different person, and they telephone 911 from outside, wherever O'Keefe was recovered dead, according to a synopsis from CourtTV, which streamed the archetypal trial.
• 6:23 a.m.: McCabe uses her telephone to hunt for accusation connected dying successful the acold for a 2nd time.

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Karen Read appears successful Norfolk County Superior Court for a pre-trial hearing. She is charged with fatally moving implicit her boyfriend, John O'Keefe, whose limb is shown with scratches and cuts connected a poster successful court. (John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Feb. 2, 2022

Read was arrested connected hit-and-run and manslaughter charges.

June 9, 2022

A superseding indictment accused Read of second-degree murder.

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Judge Beverly Cannone presides implicit assemblage enactment during the Karen Read proceedings astatine Norfolk County Superior Court, Thursday, April 18, 2024, successful Dedham, Mass. (David McGlynn/New York Post via AP, Pool)

April 16, 2024 to July 1

Read's archetypal proceedings stretched connected for weeks and ended with a hung jury. Judge Beverly Cannone declared a mistrial.

Prosecutors accused Read of a drunken hit-and-run. Her defence argued that O'Keefe had been attacked wrong the location and suffered injuries to his limb caused by a canine earlier being carried extracurricular and near successful the storm.

Officer John O’Keefe (Boston Police Department)

March 19, 2025

After a months-long interior probe into the lewd substance messages helium sent astir Read successful the archetypal investigation, Proctor was fired from the Massachusetts State Police aft a 12-year career.

March 31 

On the eve of assemblage enactment for Read's 2nd trial, Cannone released respective impactful rulings connected the case.

She rejected the defense's effort to person a erstwhile FBI cause attest astir failures to conscionable constabulary protocol with the archetypal probe and constricted the scope of arguments the defence would beryllium allowed to rise regarding imaginable third-party culprits, including Albert and ATF Agent Brian Higgins, some of whom were contiguous astatine some the Waterfall barroom and Albert's location the nighttime O'Keefe died.

ATF Agent Brian Higgins speaks astatine the Karen Read execution proceedings astatine Norfolk Superior Court, May 28, 2024, successful Dedham, Mass. (Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald via AP/Pool)

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The witnesser database besides revealed Proctor would instrumentality the stand, adjacent aft his firing, and truthful would Aidan Kearney, a section blogger and salient Read protagonist who has been accused of witnesser intimidation.

April 1

Jury enactment successful Read's 2nd proceedings kicked disconnected successful Dedham, Massachusetts.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.